Technical Specialist, Wildlife Trade

5 months ago

London, United Kingdom ZSL Full time

**Purpose of the role**:
**Purpose of the role**:
The purpose of this role is to provide targeted technical support to ZSL’s work on combatting the illegal trade in wildlife, and efforts that seek to promote sustainable, traceable, and legal use. The post-holder will work in close collaboration with staff in ZSL’s country programmes and in the UK, and especially the law enforcement advisor and the programme lead for aquatic species and policy. The role will involve a significant amount of co-ordination with partners working on wildlife trade projects throughout Asia and Africa, in particular. The post holder will be responsible for maintaining a particularly close working relationship with the Chair/Co-Chairs of the IUCN SSC Pangolin Specialist Group (PSG) and Freshwater Eel Specialist Group (FESG), which ZSL hosts.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Provide technical expertise and input on designing, implementing, and monitoring conservation projects that aim to address the illegal trade in wildlife and/or support the legal, traceable, and sustainable use of wildlife.
- Identify and pursue opportunities for collaboration, networking and information exchange between programmes and partners, especially in support of ZSL work on specific taxa, with a particular focus on pangolins, but also sharks and rays, freshwater eels, herps, timber trees, and other species.
- Oversee the monitoring and evaluation aspects of ZSL's wildlife trade-related work, ensuring our activities are being efficiently tracked and outcomes appropriately reported, in close coordination with the Project, Design and Implementation team.
- Work with country programmes to collate, interrogate, analyse, and synthesize project results, and to format and present results to national agencies and decision-makers.
- Communicate ZSL's conservation work in the wildlife trade and sustainable use space through relevant channels, both internally and externally.
- Support capacity
- and skills-building efforts within ZSL regional programmes and partner organisations on approaches to addressing the illegal wildlife trade and sustainable use of wildlife.
- Represent ZSL and engage with various external stakeholder groups (e.g., media, general public, researchers, conservationists, zoo visitors, policymakers) to increase awareness and generate support for ZSL, and our partners', efforts to address issues relating to wildlife trade.
- Support ZSL policy engagement on matters relating to wildlife trade, including in international fora (such as CITES)
- Work closely with the Chairs/co-chairs of the FESG and PSG, to achieve strategic aims of groups, including: development of position statements and implementation of specific projects; representing group interests nationally and internationally; provision of technical advice; and managing group finances.

**About You**:
**Person Specification**:

- Demonstrated experience working on wildlife trade-related topics or issues with a species focus;
- Experience with project design, including with developing theories of change, and with fundraising, proposal writing, and donor reporting;
- A robust understanding of international biodiversity conservation issues, in particular those relating to wildlife trade and sustainable use;
- In-depth knowledge of different approaches to preventing and combatting the illegal wildlife trade;
- Strong organisational skills with an ability to manage competing priorities;
- Excellent written and spoken English;
- Skills in quantitative statistical analysis;
- Excellent interpersonal skills, with an ability to work in different cultural settings with tact and diplomacy
- Proven ability to work effectively and collaboratively with multiple stakeholders;

**About Us**:
We’re ZSL, an international conservation charity. Through our unrivalled animal experts in our two zoos (London Zoo and Whipsnade Zoo), the work of our pioneering scientists, our dedicated conservationists, our purpose is to inspire, inform and empower people to stop wild animals going extinct. Our vision is a world where wildlife thrives and we’re working every day to achieve this. From investigating the health threats facing animals, to helping people and wildlife live alongside each other, we are committed to bringing wildlife back from the brink of extinction.

**What do we offer?**

At ZSL, we are proud of our approach to employee benefits. Our benefits include:

- Our vision and purpose - you’ll work alongside colleagues who are passionate about science-led conservation, knowing that you will help us to inspire, inform and empower people to stop wildlife going extinct
- Pension scheme - we offer a generous pension scheme with up to 12% contributory pension
- Flexible working - talk to us about your flexible working requirements and we will do everything we can to make sure you work in a way that suits you
- Holidays - 25 days annual leave allowance, plus UK bank holidays
- Wellbeing - access to a blended prog

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