People and Conservation Manager
Table Mountain National Park Key Tasks and Responsibilities:
• Promote and build the partnership between SANParks (TMNP) and the City of Cape Town, our principal partner.
• Promote partnerships with the citizens of Cape Town by launching community programmes that advance conservation.
• Create effective mechanisms for ongoing communication with stakeholders, including the management of the Park Forum.
• Provide leadership to the three People and Conservation Officers within the park.
• Provide strategic guidance to the Communications Manager.
• Provide guidance to Park Management as to the nature of the different communities of Cape Town.
• Develop an effective community education and environmental awareness strategy.
• Develop a network of support for the Park amongst the schools and hiking clubs of Cape Town. primarily on the Cape Flats, to promote links between youth of different backgrounds.
• Develop programmes that promote the relationship of the different cultures of Cape Town to nature, to enable people to take responsibility for conserving their bio-and-cultural diversity.
• Develop mutually beneficial partnerships with communities and interest groups to promote empowerment of neighbouring poor communities.
• Promote socio-economic upliftment through tourism opportunities.
• Provide leadership in the development of systems for procuring contract labour for social development opportunities to the Park.
• Devise and lead a program of contractor development and training.
• Developing programmes that advance indigenous knowledge of the region and its direct relationship to the cultural heritage resources within the TMNP.
• Devise a strategy and procedures to implement the Heritage Resources Management Plan.
• Compile and implement a training program to ensure that staff at all levels are fully conversant with the requirements of the Heritage Resources Management Plan. This will include a continuous updating of the information layers as well as advising on the Heritage impact assessments as required.
Requirements:
• A Diploma in Nature Conservation, Environmental Education or Degree in Social Sciences with 5 years practical experience, or a minimum of 10 years relevant practical experience (in the absence of a Degree or Diploma).
• Computer literacy with a working knowledge of Microsoft Office, especially MS Word, Excel and Power point.
• Code 08 driver’s license.
• Good written, communication skills and liaison skills.
• Own accommodation is essential (no staff housing is currently available in the Park).
SANParks subscribes and is committed to the principles of employment equity and equal employment opportunities and appointments will be made in terms of SANParks Employment Equity Policy.
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