International Internship to Support Integrated Mangrove Shrimp Development and Communication in Ca Mau Province

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International internship to support integrated mangrove shrimp development and communication in Ca Mau Province

Country: Vietnam
Organisation: SNV - Netherlands Development Organisation
Project: Scaling up Mangrove EbA in the Mekong Delta (MAM2 project)
Location: Ca Mau province
Duration: 1 July, 2018 – 31st December, 2018

I. Background to the assignment

SNV Netherlands Development Organisation has been working in Vietnam since 1995. Using market-based approaches and SNV’s Balancing Benefits framework for
gender equality promotion, SNV is committed to reducing poverty by catalysing environmentally sustainable solutions for low-income people in agriculture, energy, water & sanitation, and REDD+.

Southeast Asia has lost half its mangroves over the past 30 years, primarily as a result of clearing for shrimp ponds. This has serious consequences, as mangroves
protect against tidal waves and storm surges. They are vital fish nursery-grounds, provide timber, honey, and other products and raise land levels by trapping sediment. They also sequester carbon faster than any other forest type. Healthy mangroves thus make important contributions to both climate change adaptation and mitigation and form the basis of coastal ecosystem-based adaptation.

The “Scaling up Mangrove EbA in the Mekong Delta” (MAM2) project is funded by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety (BMU), and implemented by SNV and IUCN in coordination with Ca Mau, Tra Vinh, Ben Tre Provincial People’s Committee (PPC). This project builds capacity of local stakeholders (Aquaculture/forestry sectors, local authority, private companies, and farmers), improves livelihood of mangrove – shrimp farmers on degraded mangroves by promoting shrimp certification and restoration, provides policy recommendations on Payments for Ecosystem Services on Aquaculture and creates enabling conditions for accessing climate change funds. The project’s focus sites are in Ca Mau, Ben Tre and Tra Vinh.

The MAM project, SNV-Vietnam Agriculture programme has been cooperating with Ca Mau Provincial People’s Committee/Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, seafood enterprises, Forest Management Boards and shrimp households in Ca Mau since 2012.

II. Key responsibilities:

The MAM2 project is now seeking an international intern to support integrated mangrove shrimp development and communication in Ca Mau Province. The intern will support and work together with the MAM project members in both Ca Mau and HCM office for these tasks, largely based in Ca Mau city.

• Assist in project farmer awareness raising, capacity building program conservation, communication at local levels (community, district and province);
• Assist in conducting shrimp farming surveys (socioeconomic/financial analysis for business case) at project sites;
• Assist with Communication activities by developing key promotional messages/news/newsletters and stories based on project information, results, events and success stories, with support from the SNV Vietnam Communications Officer;
• Assist in developing, editing and commenting on project documents in English for consultants and the SNV Ca Mau team.

III. Candidate profile

• At least a Bachelor’s degree in Natural resources, environmental economics, Aquaculture, Community and/or another relevant degree;
• A­bility to work in the field for monitoring environment/aquaculture experiments, study; and work with farmers for assisting them in practices;
• Ability to work with the community in supporting training and practices;
• ­Ability to develop communication materials for projects in consultation and collaboration with the project manager and advisors for project needs, writing, designing communication products;
• ­Ability to take appropriate photos, video clips at project events (workshops, meetings);
• Strong ability with Microsoft Office required; knowledge of design software is highly desirable;
• Ability to work in a team and to sometimes tight deadlines;

Contract Duration:

3-6 months contract that based on performance and budget availability.

Reporting: the position will report to MAM project manager based in HCM’s SNV office and will receive support from the SNV Communications Officer in relation to Communications materials.

Desired start date: as soon as possible.

How to apply? Please send CV, together with samples of technical work, written communication products that you were the main author for developing, designing and producing. The cover letter should explain how your qualifications and experience meet the job requirements, and provide 2-3 referees of program/project managers that you have worked with, to [email protected] by 26th June, 2018.