ASC are seeking a passionate animal health & welfare expert focused on improving Aquaculture standards!
Fish Health & Welfare - Standards Coordinator
Remote role based in UK / Netherlands / Europe. However, candidates from ASC payrolled countries may also be considered.
Circa 50,000 to 60,000 Euros p/a varying based on location/region, experience, and skills. Plus enhanced benefits such as Pension & life assurance (dependant on regional offerings), 25+ days holiday per year, well-being & workstation grants, paid time off to volunteer for other NFP organisations and a free coffee on us every week!
Aquaculture Stewardship Council (ASC) https://asc-aqua.org/ is driving the world’s leading certification programme for responsibly farmed seafood.
The role:
We are looking for a proactive Health & Welfare Standards Coordinator who would like to join our global Standards & Science team to support growth across our ASC standards of certification and further promote and develop a wide range of Aqua Health and Welfare topics.
You would directly support the ASC Health & Welfare Standards Manager (and surrounding teams) to centrally facilitate technical working groups focused on all topics related to fish health and welfare across the aquaculture space.
- Can you lead and engage various stakeholders to interpret scientific data and analyse this in detail to suggest improvements for future revision of our standards?
- Are you passionate about driving improvements and better understanding of best practice Aqua Health & Welfare concepts and principles across the seafood Industry?
- Can you pro-actively link these principles to develop guidance that supports our ASC Farm Standard so requirements are clear and demonstrate the value they bring?
- Do you have experience working with and supporting Aqua farms and producers to foster a culture of continuous learning on health and welfare topics?
- Want to work for an organisation that is at the forefront of Setting the Standard for Seafood, globally?
Then this may be the role for you!
Person Profile:
We need someone with strong moderation and professional influencing skills to lead stakeholder engagement as well as managing differing opinions within working groups. You will need to effectively lead lively discussions and provide expert guidance to improve fish health and welfare to various stakeholders, boosting our ASC certification standards worldwide!
Critical thinking is a must.. to be able to centrally interpret and present feedback, data & research to translate complex technical topics into practice. For example, the feasibility of farm level applications and risks of implementation of fish health and welfare improvements (best responsible practices for daily operations at Aqua farm, handling, slaughter and use of therapeutants).
We are looking for someone who can demonstrate:
- Relevant education in the context of veterinary medicine and/or animal welfare & health (fish and crustaceans related would be an advantage)
- Conversational leadership, development and management of topic discussions across various settings i.e. briefings, working groups, projects, reports, presentations etc.
- Scientific influencing skills to enhance complex technical fish health & welfare topics
- Strong adaptability and engagement to various stakeholders, internally and externally i.e. producers, farms, NGOs (environmental and social), retailers, scientific researchers and other invested parties.
Working on your own initiative, you should have good understanding of health & welfare issues and their impact on making the aquaculture sector more responsible. Ideally you will enjoy developing technical metrics, guidance, papers and reports for the development of Health and Welfare research and standards.
To Apply:
Apply to this advert with your CV and Cover letter application, in English. Your application will be considered and we will make a shortlist of candidates to invite to interview. Sometimes you may be asked to prepare additional written materials, past work examples and a presentation. Interviews will generally be held remotely via Teams.
Want to know more? Find out about joining our growing global team who are Setting The Standard for Seafood at our careers page: https://asc-aqua.org/about-asc/careers/
ASC take data protection seriously. We will only use any personal information in connection with your application for this position. If your application is unsuccessful, we will keep your personal information for 6 months. For more information, please read our privacy policy which can be found here: https://www.asc-aqua.org/privacy/
We want to be a fully inclusive and diverse employer of choice, reflecting the global community and therefore particularly welcome applications from all underrepresented groups.
