Job ad: Program Officer, Wadden Sea World Heritage Conservation

Common Wadden Sea Secretariat

Program Officer, Wadden Sea World Heritage Conservation

Wilhelmshaven

The focus on the incumbent’s task within the small Conservation Unit of the CWSS will be on all aspects the TWSC is involved in, but predominantly related to the bird topics at large.

The Program Officer’s general objectives are to implement and support the execution of tasks assigned by the Wadden Sea Board to the CWSS. Within this general framework the following tasks are to be fulfilled, in close cooperation with the TWSC and other partners:

  • Act as the focal point for all activities related to the Wadden Sea Flyway Initiative.
  • Support all respective trilateral task groups/working group(s) e.g. actually salt marshes and dunes and alien species
  • Prepare, coordinate, and organise the planning, implementation and evaluation processes of all bird activities the CWSS is participating and/or leading in, e.g. the further development within the WSFI and the Breeding Bird Action Plan