The UK Committee of IUCN is a partnership comprising representatives of the UK Government, the Statutory Agencies and various NGOs, working to encourage cooperation among all IUCN members in the UK sand to facilitate their contribution to the programme and governance of IUCN internationally.  The IUCN UK Committee is inviting tenders for the provision of a secretariat services for, in the first instance, a three year period running from April 2009 to March 2012.

A detailed specification for the provision of these services is attached as Annex A.  In inviting tenders, the Committee would hope that the successful candidate would provide a fertile ground for fostering the development of the UK Committee's work, complementary to the provision of a straightforward Secretariat service. Such characteristics in the service provider might include the following and would provide a means of adding value to the work of the Committee:

• a high-level of prestige and credibility in the conservation world, ideally demonstrable through their work within the IUCN network;
• regular easy access to small meeting room facilities (with advance booking);
• easy access to larger meeting spaces for workshops and conferences (with advance booking);
• video-conferencing and telephone-conferencing facilities;
• office workspace for initially one person with potential for accommodating the development of a small team of two or three;
• a competent individual(s) to oversee the administrative work of the UK Committee work practices which could provide benefit for the UK Committee, for example, the support of project interns and vocational experience workers;
• occasional access to complementary resources within the organisation, such as legal and marketing expertise.