This Regional Project is under implementation through a Cooperative Agreement between the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) signed with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), as prime and legal partner, GOAL International and other local sub-award partners, the Agency for the Development of the Muskitia (MOPAWI), Defenders of Nature Foundation (FDN), Wildlife Rescue and Conservation Association (ARCAS), and the Salvadoran Ecological Unit (UNES).

The Regional Coastal Biodiversity Project’s purpose is to address threats and conserve biodiversity in targeted coastal marine areas and associated upland ecosystems throughout Central America, to decrease the degradation of forest and mangrove landscapes, to enhance climate-smart economic opportunities that are economically, environmentally, and socially sustainable using natural resources (“biocommerce” ), while increasing ecosystem and community resilience to climatic variability. The RCBP is implemented in three bordering side ecosystems of high biodiversity, the Karataska Lagoon, in Honduran Muskitia, and Motagua River Basin (Honduras-Guatemala) and Paz River Basin (El Salvador-Guatemala).
●Objective 1 Improved livelihoods through promotion of climate-smart biocommerce activities that reduce threats to biodiversity
●Objective 2 Increased sustainable land use practices that target key opportunities to improve the economic and environmental sustainability of land.
●Objective 3 Strengthened governance and regulatory framework for biodiversity conservation
●Objective 4 Increased education and scientific capacity for evidence-based biodiversity conservation

•The Fisheries Technician will assist the Project in the design and implementation of strategies to implement the fisheries ecosystem management approach in coastal marine border ecosystems in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
•Design, plan and implement the biological monitoring processes for the Regional Project, guaranteeing the design of the collection, optimal frequency, collection, and quality of data, as well as the analysis of information in accordance with the monitoring protocol established by the project.
•Provide technical assistance to the Small Grants Program coordination team in the technical,economic, and social aspects of the fishing projects that are implemented within this program.
•Provide data analysis relevant for the approval of fishing effort limits. The scientific data generated to support the fishing effort limits proposals for the fisheries in the Guatemalan Pacific and manjúa anchovies and shrimp fisheries in the Guatemalan Caribbean in coordination between the Project and Guatemalan fishing authorities.
•Accompany the Project management team in coordination with fishing authorities and technical teams for the approval of the fishing recovery zones (FRZ) through the generation of scientific data that supports the FRZ proposals in the different project sites in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.
•Promote synergies with other projects by strengthening the generation of information that considers social, economic, and environmental sustainability.
•Design, execute, facilitate, and document sessions on the analysis and validation of results with the project team and relevant actors.
•Maintain and update databases with biological monitoring information.
•Attend meetings and events related to the subject with prior authorization from and in coordination with the Regional Project Coordination team.
•Train and provide technical assistance to those responsible for gathering field data and implementing the monitoring protocol and ensure quality of the information.
•Train and guide the project partners in all aspects related to the biological monitoring of fisheries, as well as on the fisheries management mechanisms that are promoted by the project.
•Implement and follow up with the environmental monitoring and mitigation plan designed for biological monitoring.
•Prepare and guarantee the final review of the biological monitoring reports or scientific articles and papers for the project, as well as any information requirements that arise from any party involved with the project.
•Work together with the Project communications specialist and the monitoring and evaluation specialist in linking the work in fisheries as a tool for knowledge management and the achievement of project results.
•Any other task or assignment required by the COP or the Regional Programme Coordinator of IUCN ORMACC