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Hey there,
We hope you’ve had a good month. Our newsletter this month will focus on something a little different: Our new careers page.
In it, we talk about various openings we either have currently or expect to have in the future:
- International Knowledge Worker, for types of roles that often involve part in-person and part remote knowledge work.
- Field Manager, for on-the-ground management roles in India.
- Data Collector, for on-the-ground data collection and farmer liaison roles in India.
While two of these roles are open just to Indian nationals, the International Knowledge Worker application also includes roles open to other nationalities as well.
If you’re interested in the sort of impact-driven and fast-paced work that FWI engages in, we encourage you to check out our new page:
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Lastly, below we also include a list of other promising aquatic animal advocacy organizations, a tip for how you can get involved with them, and a blurb on a recently launched organization that advocates for less harmful angling practices.
P.S. For those who recently joined our newsletter after EA Global London: welcome!
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Have a great week!
Haven King-Nobles
Executive Director
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Our team, pictured here at an FWI retreat held last December.
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Open Application #1: International Knowledge Worker
Our International Knowledge Worker roles could be a great fit for someone with strong generalist skills, and with interest in living in India and/or China for part of the year. While Indian applicants are encouraged, applicants of all nationalities are welcome. Roles of this type include management (people and projects), research, operations, communications, and leadership.
Note that this is a brief common application/expression of interest for a larger group of roles, so if we identify a role that would be a good fit for you, we will likely send you a role-specific application to complete over the coming months or years.
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Open Application #2: Field Manager
Field managers join our team under various titles, such as Program Coordinator, Farmers Program Manager, and Fish Welfare Officer. These are mid-level positions that oversee our various field teams and operations in the field in Andhra Pradesh, India. Only Indians are eligible; Telugu-speaking individuals are preferred but other applicants are welcome.
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Open Application #3: Data Collector
Data Collectors are vital to all our on-ground work in Andhra Pradesh, India. This job is ideal for someone who enjoys being on the road, interacting with rural farming communities, and helping us collect data to improve the lives of farmed fishes. Only Telugu-speaking Indians are eligible.
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Other Organizations Advocating for Aquatic Animals
Fortunately, there are an increasing number of other organizations also working to improve the welfare of farmed and wild-caught aquatic animals. If you’re interested in a career in aquatic animal welfare, we encourage you to check out some of these organizations (note that many work to support other animals as well):
For even more animal advocacy roles, check out Animal Advocacy Careers.
Job Hunting Tip: Even if the organization doesn’t have any current openings that seem like a good fit for you, why not just email them anyway? Many open positions often go unpublished for various reasons, and sometimes the best-suited candidates are the ones that have the audacity to cold email an organization, introduce themselves, and explain exactly how they can add value to the organization's mission. This is in fact how we hired our very first Communications Lead, Sophia!
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New Promising Organization: Upstream Policies
We’re excited to tell you about an organization launching in the fish advocacy space: Upstream Policies.
Upstream Policies is a new organization, also incubated by Charity Entrepreneurship (just like FWI), that advocates for bans on the use of live bait fish in recreational fishing. This cruel practice, in which living fishes like minnows are impaled on hooks and used as bait for larger fishes, affects a staggering 1 to 10 billion farmed bait fishes each year.
Upstream’s current bottlenecks include:
- Funding (they are just getting started, and we understand that additional funding will go a long way)
- Early-stage staff, particularly individuals from the US
- Advisors and volunteers
If you are interested in learning more or supporting Upstream Policies in any of these ways, we encourage you to contact them.
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Other News in Fish Welfare
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Fun fish fact: Scalloped hammerhead sharks, Sphyrna lewini, are the first species of fishes found to be capable of holding their breath.
Photo by ErikvanB/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Know of other upcoming events or interesting news? Feel free to send them over, and we’ll include them next time!
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