Location: Belize City, Belize

Closing date for applications: 21st October 2024

Contract Status: National, full time

Start date: As soon as possible

Contract duration: 1-year fixed-term contract

Remuneration $35,247 - $45,602 gross per annum 

We rebuild tropical fisheries with coastal communities.

Blue Ventures is a marine conservation organisation that puts people first. We support coastal fishers in remote and rural communities to rebuild fisheries, restore ocean life and build lasting pathways to prosperity. Our work began two decades ago in Madagascar’s remote coastal communities and is growing globally. Across a dozen countries, we’re partnering with traditional fishers and community organisations to design, scale, strengthen and sustain fisheries management and conservation at the community level. We bring partners together in networks to advocate for reform and share tools and best practices to support fishing communities across the globe.

Summary job description

This position is an integral part of Blue Venture’s global conservation programme, and its functions also allow for technical input and advice on strategy, policy formulation, programme design, development, and implementation. Overall responsibilities will include developing and implementing monitoring and evaluation frameworks to assess the effectiveness and impact of programmatic and project work within the Belize programme. This consists of collecting, preparing, and analysing data, preparing reports, and providing actionable insights to enhance program performance. The Monitoring and Evaluation Senior Officer will collaborate with local colleagues and other country teams to ensure alignment with organisational goals, support capacity building, and facilitate learning initiatives. 

The Data Science Senior Officer plays a crucial role in supporting our team, partners and communities in Belize to use monitoring and evaluation tools that support learning and adaptive management, providing guidance, training and support across key areas of monitoring and evaluation, data analysis, data collection, data capture tools, visualisation and interpretation. The Data Science Senior Officer will support the data science workaround measuring fisheries, social, and ecological data by using BV-developed tools and surveys and measuring programme performance and success metrics linked to the organisations’ Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). 

Reporting to the Programme Manager, the Data Science Senior Officer is responsible for ensuring quality in the delivery of all activities related to tdatacollection, generation, and storage

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