Weekly Environmental Jobs List - November 4

I'm Giacomo Abrusci, and welcome the weekly environmental jobs list brought to you by SEVENSEAS Media. Here you'll find land ecosystems jobs that cover biodiversity, air, climate, and everything in between. Ocean jobs and announcements appear in a different edition of this same newsletter. If you would like to contribute jobs or announcements, email them to [email protected].

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New Opportunities

1. Mubadarat Officer – Mediterranean CSO Programme,?International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ),?Malaga, Spain

2. Asistencia Administrativa: Programa Enlazando el Paisaje Centroamericano,?International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN),?San José, Costa Rica

3. Executive Assistant/Office Coordinator,? The National Association of Conservation Districts ,?Washington, DC

4. Research Associate, M.S. Level,? The Jones Center at Ichauway ,?Newton, GA

5. United States Connectivity Conservation Program Director,? Center for Large Landscape Conservation ,?Bozeman, MT

6. Flood Management Evaluation Manager (Manager V),? Texas Water Development Board ,?Austin, TX

7. Temporary Lecturer in Human Dimensions of Endangered Species,? The School for Field Studies ,?Kimana, Africa

8. Water Quality Program Analyst,? Merrimack River Watershed Council ,?Lawrence, MA

9. Bluegrass Region Natural Areas Manager,?Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves,?Frankfort, KY

10. Regional Flood Planning Manager (Manager V),? Texas Water Development Board ,?Austin, TX

11. State Lands Forester,?Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation,?Rutland, VT

12. Consulting Utility Forester,? Eocene Environmental Group ,?Tawas City, MI

13. TNC-GCF Project Development Manager,? The Nature Conservancy ,?Arlington, VA (Remote)

14. Idaho Conservation Manager,? Greater Yellowstone Coalition ,?Driggs, ID

15. Senior Conservation Horticulturist,? Atlanta Botanical Garden ,?Atlanta, GA

16. Associate Dir Development II,? The Nature Conservancy ,?Seattle, WA

17. Senior Specialist – Development,? Pacific Institute ,?Remote

18. Executive Director,? National Speleological Society ,?Huntsville, AL (Hybrid Position)

19. Senior Ecologist,? Sydney Water ,?Sydney, Australia

20. Senior Environmental Scientist,? Sydney Water ,?Sydney, Australia

21. Principal Scientific Officer (Air Quality),? Environment Protection Authority South Australia (SA EPA) ,?Adelaide, South Australia

22. Communication Officer,? Conservation International ,?Luanda, Angola

23. Chief Field Officer,? Conservation International ,?Nairobi, Kenya

24. Associate Scientist,? Conservation International ,?South Africa

25. Advocacy Officer,?World Wide Fund ( WWF ),?Brussels, Belgium

26. Global Director, Communications,?World Wide Fund ( WWF ),?Gland, Switzerland

27. Ecologist,? Van Oord ,?Rotterdam, Netherlands

28. Policy & Research Officer,? Ocean Energy Europe ,?Brussels, Belgium

29. Principal Sustainability Expert – Land & Agriculture,? Quantis ,?Lausanne or Zurich, Switzerland

30. Consultant (Biodiversity & Nature),? EcoAct ,?London, United Kingdom

NEWS ? REPORTS ? ANNOUNCEMENTS

Amid Flood Cleanup in Spain, Residents Try to Make Sense of the Disaster Mari Luz Sánchez’s body lay on top of an overturned refrigerator in a corner of her kitchen when her family found her. A wave of water in the village of Chiva, in southeastern Spain, had deposited her there after devastating flooding across the region on Tuesday night. "The torrent of water took her away,” said Ms. Sánchez’s daughter-in-law, Pilar Zahonero. “Nothing like this has ever happened before.” Never had locals in Chiva seen their streets turn into such furious surges of muddy water that tore through their homes. Not in the 1983 floods, nor in the ones in 2019, had waves over six feet high trapped people inside their cars and homes and taken so many lives. Read more...

Study warns that loosened legislation is driving deforestation in Bahia’s Cerrado Since 2010, loosened state legislation has contributed to the spread of authorized deforestation in western Bahia, where municipalities like S?o Desidério stand out among Brazil’s most aggressive deforesters. ?The scenario is described in the book entitled Desmatamento e apropria??o da água no Oeste da Bahia: uma política de Estado [Deforestation and Water Appropriation in Western Bahia: a State Policy]. The publication explains how between September, 2007 and June, 2021, INEMA (the Institute of the Environment and Water Resources) emitted Vegetation Removal Authorizations (ASV) excusing environmental licensing requirements for agrosilvopastoral activities and allowing for the deforestation of 992,587 hectares of land—an area 32 times the city of Salvador. Read more...