Job Description

We are looking for professional hunters with a marine focus to work in the 8+ fjord area in the municipalities of Stenungssund, Kungälv, Orust, Tjörn, and Uddevalla.

The role is operational and involves the implementation of wildlife management measures in coastal environments.

You will work closely with coordinated professional hunters and be responsible for the practical execution of hunting, scaring, and other predation-reducing measures across the 8+ fjord area.

You will be a key person in a targeted government assignment regarding the field-based execution of a study on the reduction of seal and cormorant predation to benefit predatory fish. The work is conducted in close and ongoing collaboration with researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, who are responsible for the scientific design and follow-up of the measures. The study is also conducted as a measure within the Marine and Water Authority's action program for the marine environment. The predation-reducing study will last for 5 years.

As a professional hunter, you will lead and participate in practical fieldwork, often by boat and under varying seasonal and weather conditions. You are responsible for ensuring that measures are carried out safely, systematically, and in accordance with hunting and animal ethics, following given instructions and permits. The role includes translating methodology and study design into practical fieldwork, as well as contributing to data collection, documentation, and quality assurance of implemented measures.

An important part of the assignment is to build and maintain local contacts, such as with hunting rights holders, landowners, local residents, and other stakeholders. The assignment includes work in areas where access to hunting rights is a prerequisite for implementation, which requires a good ability to work trust-building and long-term in collaboration with local interests.

The work also involves ongoing documentation, reporting, and participation in the development of scaring and plans for predation reduction.

The work entails flexible working hours and may, if necessary, include work outside regular office hours.

The employment is governed by the needs of the operation over a framework period of one year. This means that you will be offered work opportunities as needed. Each work opportunity is a separate employment that you have the right to accept or decline. You are therefore only employed on the days you have accepted work.

We are always developing our operations, and you need to be open to the possibility that your tasks may change over time.

The Fish Function is part of the County Administrative Board's Nature and Water Department. At the Fish Function, we work long-term for sustainable fish stocks and for sustainable fishing in both inland waters and the sea. This includes distributing financial support for fish management and liming activities, managing fish management areas, conducting fishing supervision, monitoring fishing interests in community planning, processing applications for permits and exemptions under fishing legislation, and protecting and preserving endangered species in water. The function also participates in various projects related to water and fish. Additionally, the Fish Function assists other departments and units within the authority in various projects and in the work of distributing grants and EU support within the water area and fishing industry.

Location: Fieldwork is carried out within the 8+ fjord area. Other work is based from home.

Travel is included in the position.

Qualifications

Requirements

• Documented experience of practical wildlife management work in a marine environment.
• Extensive experience in hunting seals and cormorants.
• Good local knowledge of the 8+ fjord area.
• Good knowledge of harbor seals, great cormorants, and their look-alike species.
• Good boating skills.
• Good ability to document and report implemented measures.
• Access to your own boat suitable for hunting seals and cormorants.
• Hunting license and training in seal hunting.
• Driver's license (B).

Meritorious

• Relevant education in wildlife management or equivalent as assessed by the County Administrative Board.
• Experience in coordinating hunting or field activities.
• Experience working within or in collaboration with authorities or municipalities.
• Experience working in research-related projects or in collaboration with universities.
• Good knowledge of harbor seals, great cormorants, and their look-alike species.
• Good knowledge of various scaring and trapping methods for seals and cormorants.
• Established good contacts with local hunters and hunting rights holders.
• Experience with GIS.

Personal qualities

As a person, you are responsible, practical, and confident in fieldwork. You have a good ability to work independently and make decisions within given frameworks, while also collaborating well with others.

You work in a structured manner, are meticulous and safety-conscious, and have a professional approach to hunting ethics and authority work.

You are social, attentive, and communicative, and have a good ability to build trusting relationships. You enjoy working closely with local actors and are skilled at creating good collaboration with ornithologists, officials, researchers, local hunters, and hunting rights holders, which is an important prerequisite for the assignment to be carried out in a long-term and effective manner.

We place great importance on personal suitability and see it as obvious that you contribute to a good work environment. As an employee at the County Administrative Board of Västra Götaland, you should also live up to the state value base.

We believe in equal opportunities for all, and one of our main missions is to promote diversity and a staff composition at the County Administrative Board that reflects the population of the county. So, last but not least, we hope that you, as an applicant, with your background and competence, can contribute to increasing our diversity.

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Number of advertised job opportunities: 2-7

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