Job: Healthy Islands, Healthy Reefs Programme Manager

Location: Work from home

Hours: 0.5FTE 

Salary: £15,625 per annum

Benefits: Pension, 25 days annual leave pro rata

Contract: October 2021 – June 2023

The Chagos Conservation Trust’s large-scale island rewilding programme, Healthy Islands, Healthy Reefs, is based on sound science highlighting the significant linkages between the health of the islands of the Chagos Archipelago and their surrounding coral reefs.

It aims to rewild the 30 ecologically degraded islands of the outer atolls of the Chagos Archipelago, returning them to refuges for native species and supporting coral reefs.

The seabirds and corals of the Chagos Archipelago are inextricably linked. Seabirds provide nutrients that help the corals survive but, on some islands, because of the presence of invasive rats that eat seabird eggs and chicks, seabirds have disappeared, breaking this important link.

We are now in a position to recruit a programme manager to lead on the delivery of a Darwin Plus funded “Filling knowledge gaps to enable rewilding of the Chagos Archipelago” project, which is a vital component of the Healthy Islands, Healthy Reefs programme.

The aim of this project is to collect data to fill knowledge gaps and inform a robust and effective Rewilding Operational Plan to eradicate ship rats Rattus rattus, restore native habitat and ultimately boost biodiversity across the archipelago.

This role, reporting to the CCT Director, will be responsible for expedition planning, logistics and management, reporting and strategy development and ultimately, managing and updating the Rewilding Operational Plan.

Full job description and person specification here.

Please send a CV and one-page cover letter to info@chagos-trust.org

Closing date: 21st July 2021
Interview date: 28th July 2021

Please contact helen.pitman@chagos-trust.org with any questions.