Scientist – Environmental Geoscientist at Council for Geoscience (CGS)

Overall Job Purpose : To contribute towards geoscience projects in areas of environment, co-existence and sustainability in the field of geoscience and mining. Assist with environmental requirement and applications for strategic projects. Participate in project management and project implementation under guidance of more senior scientific staff.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Undertake moderate geoscience research which includes project management and project implementation under guidance of more senior scientific staff;
• Conduct moderate geoscience research and conducts geoscience data collection, quality control, analyses and interpretation under guidance;
• Compilation of maps under guidance of more senior scientific staff;
• Compile reports on research findings in line with specific disciplines under the guidance of more senior scientific staff
• Resolves simple to moderately complex problems in a variety of geoscientific fields in line with large parts of SOP/research methodologies under the guidance or supervision;
• Participates in geoscientific statutory and occasionally commercial projects and publishes research findings internally and/or externally;
• Auditing of existing geoscience data and gathering of new geoscience data;
• Data processing and interpretation toward establishing solutions towards mandated research objectives;
• Give inputs to the development of project proposals;
• Implement tasks under guidance or supervision;
• Manages work allocated to self and junior staff under supervision;
• Conducts formal presentations of work outputs or scientific results through technical presentations internally and externally at conferences;
• Gives limited scientific information and recommendation to the public and private sector organisations under and supervision of a senior staff;
• Publishes research finding in peer-reviewed journals or internal publications (at least one paper in line with the project cycle);
• Gives inputs to the development of operating manuals for work procedures in line with scientific standards (i.e. ISO);
• Checks the work done by self and junior scientist, interns and experiential learners before it is submitted to senior scientist;
• Mentors, co-supervises and facilitates skills transfer to junior staff members and interns;
• Undertake the requisite individual learning and development in line with unit development plans;
• Contributes to the preparation of the training workshops/ courses for junior staff under guidance.

BEHAVIOURAL ATTRIBUTES AND REQUIRED SKILLS

• Analytical skills
• Presentation and Facilitation skills
• Communication skills (Oral and Written)
• Negotiation skills
• Customer orientation
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Report writing skills

EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATION

• Grade 12; and
• BSc Honours Geology/Earth Sciences or MSc/M-tech Geology/ Earth Science
• 3 years’ experience in fundamental geoscientific research
• Candidate Natural Scientist (Cand.Sci.Nat.) registration with SACNASP
• Drivers licence: Code 08