The Institute for Market Ecology (IMO) announces the vacant position as National Coordinator / Facilitator
for establishing the FairWild Standard in Azerbaijan
The Institute for Marketecology (IMO) is one of the first and most renowned international agencies for inspection, certification and quality assurance of eco-friendly products and social accountability monitoring. In cooperation with other institutions IMO has developed a series of guidance documents and standards for wild collected products; the most recent work is the FairWild Standard (http://www.fairwild.org ).

Project outline
In the Southern Caucasus IMO implements a project in cooperation with the Azerbaijan Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources with the aim to establish value chains for wild collected products which are sourced under ecologically and socio-economically sound conditions.

Focus of work: To facilitate the establishment of the FairWild Standard and certification system in the target countries by supporting all aspects of the Project, especially:
• To help identifying and evaluating national stakeholders in the sector of sourcing and processing of wild collected plant products
• To organise and coordinate meetings, workshops, conferences and to establish contacts to private and public institutions
• To assist and conduct workshops for collectors of wild plant products, the processing and export units who transform the wild collected raw materials, and further stakeholders in the value chains
• To translate technical documents from English into the relevant national language

Qualifications
• Academic degree in agricultural sciences or rural development or biology with focus on field botany; alternatively an academic degree in social sciences with focus on rural population and rural economics
• At least five years experience in project management, organising and conducting workshops, trainings and seminars. Preferably experience in the fields of botany, social sciences, fair trade issues and/or organic certification
• Good knowledge of English in speaking, reading and writing, plus native speaker of either Azerbaijan language; good knowledge of MS Office
• Willingness to work in an Interdisciplinary project

Work place: Azerbaijan.
Duration: Beginning 1st March 2010 for 15 months
For submitting your application documents in English please contact Mr Heiko Schindler until February 28th 2010: Email: hs@imo.ch Tel: 0041-71-626 0 621

The Institute for Marketecology is looking forward to a good and fruitful cooperation!