Vacancy: Head of Participation at GBIF. Copenhagen, Denmark

The Head of Participation (HoP) post is an exciting opportunity to work in a multi-cultural environment on a global initiative playing a leading role in increasing our understanding, use and sustainable management of biodiversity. This strategic role encompasses both growing the awareness of, and participation in GBIF, amongst countries, organisations and others and coordinating ongoing Secretariat-Participant interactions, particularly needs analyses and provision of services to GBIF Participants as GBIF moves to a more distributed network model dependent on fully functional Participants. This is a senior-level post reporting to the Director, with an initial contract of up to five years and an attractive salary benefiting from the diplomatic status of the Secretariat. The 19-staff Secretariat is located in Copenhagen, Denmark.

For full details, please see the GBIF website.

Closing date for applications: Monday 16 February 2009