Katya is an accomplished non-for-profit professional and biologist with over 13 years of managerial experience in East Africa. She brings to BCSS a wealth of knowledge on legal and institutional compliance, operational and administrative management, and financial controls.
Besides her managerial skills, Katya has a strong conservation background possessing MSc in biology. Her professional aspiration is cetaceans research, and she has been collecting data on humpback whales’ ecology in Tanzania since 2017.
Two peer-reviewed papers published today document eight years of systematic ocean monitoring and the associated open-access datasets by The Bazaruto Centre for Scientific Studies (BCSS) in Mozambique, providing critical insight into the Western Indian Ocean The Observatory has collected over
For Maria da Graça, diving was never just a recreational pursuit — it became a way of life. Today, she is a highly respected Mozambican dive instructor and ocean advocate working between the Bazaruto Center for Scientific Studies (BCSS) and
BCSS is looking to appoint an experienced, passionate, and highly motivated PADI Dive Master/ Instructor to support its daily diving operations, research support diving, and educational programs. Strong preferences will be given to Mozambican nationals. This is a field-based position