RESPONSIBILITIES:
Direct and enable the development and integration of knowledge, planning and monitoring systems to advance the practice of biodiversity conservation and integrated catchment management
- To contribute to the development of strategic plans focusing on areas of high conservation value, which requires compliance action to achieve the necessary conservation objectives.
- To contribute to the development of biodiversity plans and strategies as well monitoring and assessment reports.
- Contribute to the development of systems, decision-making processes, models, policies, strategies, and protocols to support the implementation of strategic adaptive management.
- To facilitate the implementation of compliance strategies by CapeNature to ensure and regulate the sustainable use of biodiversity, mitigate, and curb the impact of unsustainable and harmful activities on biodiversity.
Develop and integrate effective conservation, biodiversity legislation, policies, procedures, and guidelines
- Contribute to the development of biodiversity legislation and policies.
- Provide specialist recommendations on applications and enquiries.
- Review and recommend compliance reports and submissions.
- Review and recommend compliance designations.
- Comments on legislation and policies.
- To enable development and integration of knowledge systems, planning systems and monitoring systems to improve compliance.
- To assist with the implementation of biodiversity legislation and to support the implementation of biodiversity policies by CapeNature.
- To ensure activities for CapeNature at the Ports of Entry for all legislation delegated to CapeNature are compliant.
Generate compliance impact through the enablement, development and integration of leading-edge technologies, practice, policy, science, and innovation
- Contribute to the generation and dissemination evidence-based knowledge.
- Coordinate, consolidate and compile technical reports.
- Draft and provide statements in terms of the Criminal Procedure Act and additional witness statements after plant species are identified.
- Testify in court.
- Contribute to, develop, expand, maintain, and improve inventories, collections, and databases.
- Conduct, facilitate, evaluate, and report on surveillance, monitoring, and research.
- Contribute to biodiversity mainstreaming and formal stakeholder engagements in line with organisational strategy.
- Report on results of research, surveillance and monitoring in technical and formal reports, conference presentations, public or institutional lectures, debates and panels, and information leaflets.
Engage, collaborate and direct engagement with strategic partners for advancing, securing and enabling the development and deployment of biodiversity compliance capabilities
- Liaise and collaborate with international / domestic environmental authorities as well as tertiary education institutions, NGOs and other relevant stakeholders on compliance and enforcement capacity-development initiatives.
- Engage with institutions, stakeholders, and partners in the landscape to investigate a voluntary compliance approach, build capacity and to ensure a pro-active compliance and enforcement service in operations.
- Contribute to the development of collaborative partnerships to leverage optimal output including the development of funded projects to support the strategic objectives of CapeNature.
- Maintain collaborations and partnerships to augment capacity and capability.
- Develop partnerships aimed at harnessing unique expertise or capabilities which exist in partner organisations, and which are rare or unique in South Africa.
- Attract funding (investment, collaboration, or sponsorship) or secure partnerships through the provision of technical and specialist expertise in the preparation of proposals or agreements, networking and lobbying with appropriate partners to generate appropriate funds/co-funding/support to pursue the strategic objectives of CapeNature.
- To develop strategic partnerships aimed at harnessing unique compliance expertise or capabilities.
- To engage across sectors to promote and improve biodiversity regulatory compliance of mandated legislation to improve biodiversity conservation.
Development of biodiversity compliance capability, capacity and the integration of innovation and technology
- Provide decision, advisory, regulatory and liaison support functions.
- Increase biodiversity crime compliance capacity within CapeNature and amongst external law enforcement partners.
- Provide appropriate support to CapeNature personnel and external law enforcement role-players, related to compliance procedures and policies involving compliance related activities.
- Provide capacity development support to operational projects of national, provincial, and municipal EMIs and other compliance role-players.
- Facilitate, and participate in national and provincial environmental compliance and enforcement (both basic and specialized) capacity-building programmes for key role-players, including national, provincial, and municipal EMIs, prosecutors and other compliance and enforcement role-players.
- Provide strategic support to CapeNature personnel related to compliance procedures, guidelines, and policies.
- Develop compliance training curriculum.
- Provide training, mentoring and skills development of CapeNature staff and stakeholders in the landscape to ensure compliance.
- Deploy innovation to develop human and knowledge capital towards achieving the strategic objectives of CapeNature.
- Develop human capital: self, personnel, interns and post-graduate students through coaching, mentoring, work assignment, structured training, and appropriate supervision to maximise human capabilities in line with the needs of CapeNature.
- Develop, adopt, and implement improved (innovation, technology) ways of working and guide change.
- Develop and improve lateral succession and progression through broadening skills sets and technical and specialist competencies.
- To devolve internal and external compliance capacity and capability.
- To raise awareness within the regulated community regarding applicable legislation and how it relates to environmental management and biodiversity conservation.
REQUIREMENTS:
Mandatory: Qualifications and Experience
- A national diploma in the field of Nature Conservation and / or and / or Environmental Management (NQF 6).
- At least three years’ experience working in the field of nature conservation and environmental management compliance monitoring and enforcement.
- Environmental Management Inspectors (EMI) Course (Grade 2 or higher)
- Excellent communication in English both written and spoken.
- In possession of a valid driver’s license
- No criminal record
Closing Date: 27 April 2026
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