slashpine:

I decided I'm tired of seeing great-looking jobs that aren't in my area or field or whatever, and just passing on by instead of sharing the info with my fellow fans! Especially because some of my flist are, like me, looking for a better job (or *a* job) or might be. So I created a free comm called fandom_jobs for us to share info when it comes our way, or ask about the kind of job we're looking for, or whine about the one we have. I'm also posting it to ecofans as it's an environment-related job.

Besides, wouldn't it be neat if all the best jobs were held by fans? :D *visualizes the Obama family at a con, in costume*

The job announcement below came my way via a posting to the "Environmental Communication Network" list-serve by Eric Eckl. Eric is a good guy, who has an env'l communications consulting business in the D.C. area. It's one of his clients doing the hiring, as he says, so he might well be able to give some additional info, but certainly the CPB/ACB groups mentioned would have good info online that would be the best place to see more about who they are, and what they might be looking for.

Deadline: Jan 29. Location: region of Washington, D.C., USA. Other aspects of note: it seems they may only want a cover letter, CV/resume, and two work samples (much less than a lot of job apps require!)

Eric wrote: One of my clients is hiring a senior level position for conservation communicators! Please feel free to apply or forward.

The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay seeks a qualified individual to plan, implement and coordinate all aspects of communication for the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP). The CBP is the federal/state partnership responsible for leading the Chesapeake Bay restoration effort.

The Director of Communications is responsible for and oversees the operation of the Communications Office (staff of two), including strategic planning, media relations, event planning, internal communications, outreach and website activities and other communications needs for the CBP partnership. The CBP is a partnership of federal and state agencies responsible for leading the Chesapeake Bay restoration effort. The director will coordinate and centralize public communications, ensuring that stakeholders and the public receive consistent and coherent messages about the partnership's effort.

For the complete job announcement, point your browser to:
http://www.chesapeakebay.net/jobopenings.aspx?menuitem=14893#comm

The Director of Communications position is located at the CBP office in Annapolis, Maryland. The salary is competitive and includes a full benefits package. Interested candidates should e-mail a resume, cover letter and two work samples to mail@acb-online.org no later than Friday, January 29, 2010. Please include “Director of Communications” in the subject line.

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Eric Eckl
Water Words That Work, LLC
PO Box 2182
Falls Church, VA 22042
703.635.4380
eric.eckl@waterwordsthatwork.com
http://waterwordsthatwork.com
AIM/LinkedIn: ericeckl

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http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=49948

BIODIVERSITY: 'Pious Words Won't Save Endangered Species'

By Julio Godoy

BERLIN, Jan 12, 2010 (IPS) - Less than a month after the world's heads of governments failed to sign an international treaty to address climate change at Copenhagen, they are back at making pious speeches, this time in favour of protecting biodiversity, endangered by global warming and other causes.

Meeting in Berlin on Monday, leaders of international organisations, such as the United Nations and environmental groups, and high ranking officials of governments warned again that the present global environmental crisis is decimating biodiversity.

They came to Berlin to officially launch the "International Year of Biodiversity" and celebrate "life on earth and of the value of biodiversity for our lives," as the official line goes.

At the ceremony, the leaders repeated the well-known mantra that the variety of species biodiversity represents constitutes an essential condition for human life, which needs to be preserved.

But biodiversity faces severe man-made dangers. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the world's largest coalition of environmental organisations, well over 17,000 species - out of the 47,677 the group has registered in its list as endangered - face immediate extinction.

IUCN affirms that the number of the endangered species rises by the day. At the ceremony in Berlin, the German head of government Angela Merkel called for "a reversal of (this) trend.’’ Merkel emphasised: ‘’Immediately and not some time later."

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon, who attended the ceremony in Berlin, also warned that "species and ecosystems are disappearing at an unsustainable rate. Our lives depend on biodiversity, which we take for granted," he said.

Merkel admitted, however, that the objective of halting the extinction of species by 2010, set at different international conferences on the issue during the past decade, is now illusory.

This is precisely why environmental activists urge governments to end their pious speeches and finally take significant action. Referring to Merkel's speech at the U.N. event, and the lack of policies by her government to protect species in Germany, Magnus Wessel, of the German Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union, said: "Enough has been said, it is time to act."

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