About the Position
WorldFish is looking for an internationally recruited a Post-doctoral Fellow specialist in Environmental Economics to be based in Penang, Malaysia.
This position will be responsible to support the achievement of the work package 2 [Integrated Multitrophic Aquaculture (IMTA): seawater Farming of Finfish-Bivalves-Seaweed] in Nigeria, Kenya and Bangladesh. This position will manage and implement the environmental economics research activities related to IMTA in Africa and Asia, under the direction of the work package 2 lead, who will be based in Malaysia.
The successful candidate will focus on conducting high quality applied research on environmental economics related to IMTA, with emphasis on assessing coastal aquaculture and mariculture technologies, practices and environmental impacts, establishing socioeconomic baseline of target communities, and analysing the current constraints and the opportunities for private sector involvement in the aquaculture value chains and markets.
The successful candidate will work in an interdisciplinary team of experts from different backgrounds, including aquaculture, fish nutrition, production systems, gender, climate change, scaling of innovations, science communication, rural development, and bioprocesses.
The successful candidate will:
- Take primary responsibility for environmental economics research implementation, data collection, data validation, quality assurance and analysis to achieve the research outcomes of BlueTech Project Work Package 2 Superhighways in Nigeria, Kenya and Bangladesh.
- Support the design and implementation of research and developments activities in Africa, Asia, and the Pacific
- Work collaboratively with the work package lead, the Project Leader, and other senior experts. This includes engaging with WorldFish and partner scientists across other geographies to learn from, and contribute to, a growing body of work on IMTA.
- Mentor BSc/MSc and PhD students and interns from national and international universities and organization based in Nigeria, Kenya and Bangladesh.
- Ensure strong communication and coordination with local partners and build productive relations with investors and development partners from the public and private sectors for scaling out research results.
- Under the guidance of senior team members, including the work package lead, produce high-quality scientific publications from project findings.
- Represent the project and WorldFish in national and international fora.
- Ensure timely reporting of project activities and outcomes per WorldFish and donor requirements.
- Contribute to resource mobilization for further feed work in Africa, Asia and the Pacific.