Full time post, one year duration
Salary range £30,735 - £43,907 per annum

UNEP-WCMC is currently seeking an experienced, qualified and dynamic individual, who will help the Centre to identify and respond to new opportunities for supporting decision-making processes.

This enthusiastic individual will work in close collaboration with colleagues across the Centre to support them in developing new projects and programmes, and to facilitate the identification of resources necessary for their implementation. The successful applicant will have an excellent grasp of the international biodiversity conservation and sustainable use landscape, and a demonstrated ability to write clearly and succinctly on scientific issues for a lay audience. They will have worked with organizations in biodiversity, conservation and/or development sectors, and have significant experience of proposal preparation and presentation.

The salary is negotiable within the Centre's existing bands. Applicants who meet the requirements are invited, by 15 February 2010, to complete and send an application form attaching their CV, and a covering letter explaining why they are suitable for this role, to recruitment@unep-wcmc.org. For further information on this role, including the application form, please visit the jobs page on our website www.unep-wcmc.org

Who We Are: The UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), based in Cambridge UK, is the specialist biodiversity information and assessment centre of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), run cooperatively with WCMC 2000, a UK charity. UNEP-WCMC's mission is to evaluate and highlight the many values of biodiversity and put authoritative biodiversity knowledge at the centre of decision-making. Since its establishment in the 1970s, it has been at the forefront of the compilation, management, analysis and dissemination of global biodiversity information, and has an outstanding record of achievement.

Prospective candidates should note that this is not a UN post. The post is being offered for one year in the first instance, with a possibility of an extension. For more information on UNEP-WCMC see vacancies at www.unep-wcmc.org