FW: Job Opportunity
Elisabeth Whitebread
The Chagos Conservation Trust (www.chagos-trust.org) is now seeking an experienced and adaptable communications professional to develop and implement a communications strategy for the Trust to support our environmental conservation work in the Chagos. With a track record of securing a wide range of press coverage for voluntary sector organisations, the successful applicant will be a strategic thinker with talents based on excellent communication, creative, organisational and writing skills.
The successful applicant will be self-employed, willing to assist on a fee-paid basis, able to commit to the equivalent of about 1,000 hours of work a year (or 21 hours a week), working from their home or business address. Fees paid will be subject to a maximum of £17,000 per annum (£30,350 pro rata), depending on experience. The initial contract is for one year.
The consultant will attend periodic meetings of the CCT’s Executive Committee and other meetings in London as necessary. On such occasions and for gaining initial familiarisation with the Trust’s work, temporary office space may be used in the headquarters of a partner organisation in central London (subject to availability).
For more information please download the job description (http://chagos-trust.org/news/communications-specialist-job-opportunity) If you have further questions please email our Secretary Simon Hughes on secr...@chagos-trust.org.
The deadline for applications is before Tuesday 27th November, 2012.
Elisabeth Whitebread
Senior Associate, Global Ocean Legacy | Pew Environment Group | The Pew Charitable Trusts
Studio 10, Tiger House, Burton Street, London WC1H 9BY, UK
tel: +44 (0)20 7388 5370 ex 2802 | email: ewhit...@pewtrusts.org | web: http://www.pewenvironment.org
twitter: @pewenvironment | facebook: http://www.facebook.com/PewEnvironmentGroup
From: L. Harris [mailto:lh...@hermes.cam.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Lisa Harris
Sent: 30 October 2012 20:10
To: ne...@cambridgeconservationforum.org.uk
Subject: CCF Updates
CCF Update: Events, Talks and Jobs
CCF Working Party in Hayley Wood Saturday 3 November
We have nearly 50 people coming to the working party at Hayley Wood so we’re not able to take any more bookings. We are very short of lifts to the site from WCMC so if you’re coming and your plans change or if you have any last minute enquiries, please contact Pamela Abbott: pamela...@naturalengland.org.uk Anyone with access to a Zipcar or minibus, please also get in touch.
CCF Extraordinary Meeting Monday 5 November 1-2.30pm Natural England office, Eastbrook, Shaftesbury Road
Just a reminder that this meeting to discuss and shape the direction CCF should take over the next 5 years takes place on Monday 5 November. Everyone is welcome and please let Pamela Abbott know if you’re coming.
*NEW* CCF Policy Debrief: Friday 9th November 1-2pm The 11th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 11), UNEP-WCMC, 219 Huntingdon Road
CBD COP 11 took place in Hyderabad, India, 8th-19th October. The meeting took stock of progress in global biodiversity policy two years after the adoption of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 with its ambitious Aichi Biodiversity Targets and the Nagoya Protocol on Access and Benefit-sharing. At this CCF event, speakers of BirdLife, IUCN and UNEP-WCMC – who attended COP 11 - will present the key results of COP 11 and provide their views on the status of implementation of the global biodiversity agenda and the relevance of the Convention on Biological Diversity. All welcome.
*CHANGE* CCF Pub night is now 12th November **
The date for the next CCF Pub Night is changed from 5th to 12th November to avoid a clash with Bonfire Night. Do come along for a drink and chat with other CCF Members and Friends. We meet upstairs at The Castle Inn, Castle Street, Cambridge, CB3 0AJ, UK from 19.00 to 23.00.
Jungle fever: the Trials and Tribulations of Running a Research Project in the Rainforest Wednesday 31 October 7.30pm Church Hall of St John the Evangelist, Hills Road. (opposite Homerton College)
The Stability of Altered Forest Ecosystems (SAFE) Project, based in Sabah, Malaysia, is one of the largest ecological experiments in the world. In this talk I will explain why the project was started, mention a few of the challenges we faced in setting it up (there have been many), introduce some of the amazing species of animals and plants that we encountered, and, finally, discuss how this unique rainforest ecosystem can be conserved.
Dr Ed Turner is Academic Director and Teaching Officer in Biological Sciences, Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge
Website: www.how-science-works.co.uk All welcome. Members £2 Non-members £3 Refreshments provided in the interval.
Corporate Values: The Mountains to Climb Friday 9 November, 6:15 – 7:15pm JBS, Lecture Theatre 1
Wang Shi is one of China’s most renowned business leaders. The company he founded in 1984, China Vanke Co. Ltd, is China’s largest residential real estate developer, and one of the most respected companies in the country. In July 2012 Wang Shi was elected Chair of the China Entrepreneurs Forum.
Wang Shi is also a passionate mountaineer, and has reached the summit of Everest from both the North and South ramps in 2003 and 2012 respectively. He is also one of only 11 people in the world to have accomplished ‘7+2’ – reaching the peaks of the 7 highest mountains in the world in 2004 as well as reaching the North and South Poles in 2005.
His adventuring spirit has inspired his vision of global environmental sustainability – something that he is well placed to contribute to given his position at the helm of one of the world’s leading real estate construction companies. He has led numerous environmental initiatives in China, particularly in the areas of natural habitat preservation, recycling and forest conservation. In 2004 he co-founded the Society of Entrepreneurs and Ecology, China’s largest environmental network. He also now sits on the board of the World Wildlife Fund US, and the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Governance for Sustainability. He is currently a visiting research fellow at Harvard University, specialising in business values and ethics.
Wang Shi will speak about the development of his own vision of global corporate values, in particular addressing issues of bribery and corruption in the real world of business.
Register at: www.cr.jbs.cam.ac.uk/event/wang
Job Opportunities
Executive Secretary of the Cambridge Forum for Sustainability and the Environment.
Closing date: 2nd November
http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/-21692/
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Lisa Harris
Co-ordinator
Cambridge Conservation Forum
Judge Business School
Trumpington Street
Cambridge
CB2 1AG
Tel: 01223 330757
E-mail: l.ha...@jbs.cam.ac.uk
Website: www.cambridgeconservation.org