Program Director, US
This is a Permanent, Full Time vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.
The Vacancy
Are you looking for your next leadership opportunity in sustainable seafood?
We’re looking for an enthusiastic and driven Program Director to lead the US team, and deliver the MSC’s over-arching aims and objectives in the region. You’ll be responsible for managing a high-perfoming, dynamic team across our key work areas of fisheries, supply chain and markets, and communications ensuring strategic oversight and delivery of the US country plan. Building awareness, trust and understanding across a broad range of stakeholders and consumers will be core to success in this role.
To be successful in this role:
You like to be in charge, lead and direct others, and keep the team focused on objectives. You also enjoy promoting and negotiating and find it easy to persuade others. You present yourself as confident and self-assured even in unfamiliar situations and feel at ease during presentations and formal events. You are perceived as engaging and sociable and have a wide network of contacts. You are team-oriented and considerate. You are very interested in others' behaviour and like to observe and analyze others' motives and reactions. You also enjoy working with concepts, models, and strategies as well as like and seeking intellectual challenges. You also set ambitious and demanding targets for yourself and your team.
Key attributes for this role include:
• Visionary, optimistic and creative leader
• Outstanding communicator and recognized leader in sustainability and ocean conservation
• Excellent knowledge of the US seafood industry, supply chain, sustainable development and resource sustainability issues
• Results-oriented, analytical and customer-focused
• Work well under pressure and a good collaborator, demonstrating empathy for different views but finding ways to reach consensus.
Application Process: Interested candidates should contact Perrett Laver: Program Director, USA
This is a recruitment agency supporting us with this role.
- Jehivian Hernandez (Senior Research Associate)- jehivian.hernandez@perrettlaver.com
- Mary Hungerford (Senior Project Manager) – mary.hungerford@perrettlaver.com
Please ensure that they are sent as Word or PDF documents with the titles “your name cover letter” and “your name CV”. The subject of your email should read: Program Director, US.
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We look forward to hearing from you!
We’re an international organisation and our employees all demonstrate a level of cultural awareness, and value the diverse views and approaches relevant to the MSC program.
The MSC is committed to flexible working. The successful candidate will need to work from the office for a minimum of 50% of their working time each month The remaining time can be worked from home.
Working at the MSC
The MSC’s vision is for the world’s oceans to be teeming with life, and seafood supplies safeguarded for this and future generations. Today, the impacts of overfishing and climate change pose an even greater threat to the ocean and fish stocks. Through our internationally recognised certification and ecolabeling program, well-managed sustainable fisheries are recognised and rewarded throughout the seafood supply chain. Over 700 fisheries around the world, representing 19% of the annual global marine catch, are now engaged in the MSC program and MSC certified and labelled seafood products are now available in over 66 countries. Through partnerships and collective endeavour, we are on a mission to end overfishing.
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