Deputy Secretary

Last date for application: Fri 26 Mar 2010
OSPAR Commission

Position vacant from: November 2010

Closing date for applications: 26 March 2010

The OSPAR Commission is seeking an experienced graduate preferably with a background in natural/ environmental sciences and with approximately 5 years’ work experience to join its small professional Secretariat based at offices in central London.
Applicants should demonstrate knowledge, experience and understanding of:

  • environmental policy and its scientific basis, with particular reference to the marine environment
  • environmental regulatory processes and their administrative and economic contexts
  • practical, legal and institutional aspects of intergovernmental organisations

and ideally specific knowledge of environmental monitoring and assessment (including marine chemistry) and/or the protection of marine biodiversity and ecosystems.

Applicants should possess excellent presentation skills, written English and document drafting capabilities and IT competences in a suite of office applications. Applicants must be nationals of one of the 15 OSPAR Contracting Parties or of any other State which is a Member State of the European Union.

For further details and instructions how to apply, please consult the OSPAR website www.ospar.org or telephone the Secretariat: +44 207 430 5200.

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