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Temporary Economics Programme Officer
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The economics component of GESSP aims to help people identify, measure and value the economic costs, values and opportunities associated with biodiversity and ecosystem services. Increasingly, environmental economic arguments in favour of conservation and more sustainable land use and ecosystem management consist of identifying social costs and benefits and guiding incentives to encourage more sustainable, equitable development. IUCN Economics aims to build a bridge between environment and development through nature-based solutions to local and global development challenges. By increasing our knowledge of the economic value of ecosystems and ensuring that this information is appropriately guiding decision-making at all levels, IUCN Economics aims to anchor people and ecosystems within a green economy.
The Economics Programme Officer will undertake analytical work at the interface of economics, development, and the environment. The main tasks will involve the application of economic tools and analysis, valuation and/or modelling techniques to understand biodiversity and ecosystem service issues. Contributions will be in the form of applied research (data collection and analysis), drafting of reports for knowledge uptake, and providing economic insights throughout IUCN programmes and projects. Broad thematic areas of work include:
• Apply economic tools and analysis to issues affecting biodiversity and its management by private and public sector entities
• Explore mechanisms to integrate natural capital/ecosystem values into decision-making
SPECIFIC DUTIES
1. Support the process of pilot testing the Natural Capital Protocol in the extractives sector
• Develop a thorough understanding of the Natural Capital Protocol currently being developed by the Natural Capital Coalition to provide a standardised framework for business to measure and value impacts and dependencies on natural capital.
• Work through the stages of the Natural Capital Protocol at site level with an extractive company to quantify impacts and dependencies and natural capital
• Apply economic valuation methodologies to provide monetary estimates of impact/dependency to provide decision support to business
• Feed back piloting experience to NCP
2. Support knowledge uptake in IUCN
• Help build improved understanding and application of natural capital measurement and valuation within IUCN and externally, in both the public and private sector
• Participate in core work on the measurement and valuation of the social costs and benefits associated with changes to biodiversity and ecosystem services as a result of specific interventions and policies at national, regional or project/site level, e.g. corporate ecosystem valuation, landscape restoration, sustainable land management
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• A Ph.D. or Master’s degree with equivalent professional experience in environmental, ecological and/or natural resource economics; • Demonstrated experience (with written outputs) of applied economic analysis, including economic valuation of biodiversity and/or ecosystem services; • At least 2-5 years of relevant professional work experience including field experience in Africa, Asia-Pacific or Latin America; • Organizational experience, including a proven ability to work on a variety of tasks simultaneously and to perform well under pressure; • Proven ability to work in an interdisciplinary manner, both independently and in a team; • Fluent English. Knowledge of Spanish and/or French is an asset; • Excellent interpersonal and networking skills, especially in multi-stakeholder contexts; • Effective communicator (in writing and speaking) to a wide range of audiences; • Must have the right to live and work in Switzerland and hold a valid C or B permit or be an EU or Swiss Citizen. |
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IUCN is a membership Union uniquely composed of both government and civil society organisations. It provides public, private and non-governmental organisations with the knowledge and tools that enable human progress, economic development and nature conservation to take place together.
Created in 1948, IUCN is now the world’s largest and most diverse environmental network, harnessing the knowledge, resources and reach of more than 1,400 Member organisations and around 16,000 experts. It is a leading provider of conservation data, assessments and analysis. Its broad membership enables IUCN to fill the role of incubator and trusted repository of best practices, tools and international standards.
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