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title: "An employment opportunity to work with BirdLife Marine Programme’s Seabird Tracking Database"
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# An employment opportunity to work with BirdLife Marine Programme’s Seabird Tracking Database

[BirdLife International](http://www.birdlife.org) is seeking to hire a Marine Technical Officer with expertise in GIS (and a familiarity of R) to assist with managing its [Seabird Tracking Database](http://www.seabirdtracking.org/), undertake analysis of data for varied regional projects, and provide technical inputs to submissions to a range of international agreements.

 The successful applicant will work as part of the BirdLife Science team (based in Cambridge, UK in the new [Cambridge Conservation Initiative](http://www.conservation.cam.ac.uk/) [Sir David Attenborough Building](http://www.conservation.cam.ac.uk/news/cci%E2%80%99s-future-home-named-after-sir-david-attenborough)) and will have frequent contact with the wider [BirdLife Marine Programme](http://www.birdlife.org/worldwide/programme-additional-info/marine) as well as the Information Management and Policy teams.

 ![](https://www.acap.aq/images/stories/acap/Birds/Albatrosses/B/Black_Browed_Albatross_closeup_marion_by_genevieve_jones.jpg) 

 Black-browed Albatross on Marion Island, photograph by Genevieve Jones

 “Contract duration: 9 month fixed term contract with potential to extend subject to funding availability”.  Closing date: 07 December 2015.  Read more [here](http://www.birdlife.org/job/marine-technical-officer).

 *John Cooper, ACAP Information Officer, 01 November 2015*