Coordinator: Illegal Succulent Trade
20 hours ago
**Job Advert Summary**:
This position is seconded to SANBI Biodiversity Research Assessment and Monitoring Division
- (3-year fixed-term contract position based in Cape Town)_
WWF is the world’s largest and most respected independent conservation organisation, with over 6 million supporters and a global network active in over 100 countries. WWF's mission is to stop the degradation of the Earth's natural environment and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature, by conserving the world's biological diversity, ensuring that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable, and promoting the reduction of pollution and wasteful consumption.
WWF South Africa is a national office that is part of the WWF network. We are a local NGO that has worked for over 50 years with the aim of inspiring all South Africans to live in harmony with nature, for the benefit of our country and the wellbeing of all our people. WWFs work is _for nature, for you_.
Our work is challenging and exciting and we love what we do. To join our team, you need to be brilliant at what you do, passionate, results-orientated and have a positive attitude.
**Background**:
Over the past few years there has been a significant escalation in the illegal trade of succulents from South Africa’s arid zone which is threatening populations of many species of succulents.
WWF is assisting SANBI with capacity for the implementation of the recently formulated National Response Strategy and Action Plan to address the Illegal trade in South African Succulents. The Coordinator shall be responsible for undertaking the fieldwork, and for processing confiscated succulent plant material and supporting the effective and efficient writing of expert statements for the law enforcement process with regard to illegal succulent trade cases.
The Coordinator will work closely with and be supervised by the Senior Scientific Coordinator: Illegal Succulent Trade.
**Minimum Requirements**:
- Minimum of BSc Hons in environmental science, conservation, botany or biological sciences.
- Minimum of 1-year’ experience, preferably in botanical sciences and/or illegal trade of wildlife products.
- Resilient character able to be responsive to the requirements of working with the complex rapidly evolving illegal trade in succulents.
- Ability to identify succulent plant species occurring in South Africa’s arid zone.
- Knowledge and understanding of the Succulent Karoo biome and South Africa’s arid zone, in particular endemic succulent flora.
- Experience working in the field and monitoring plant populations, ideally in arid environments.
- Capable of working independently as well as part of a small team.
- Willing and able to travel throughout the arid zone or be based in the Namaqualand region.
- Fully proficient in Afrikaans (speaking and writing).
- Valid South African citizenship or resident status.
- Valid Drivers License.
**IF YOU HAVE PREVIOUSLY APPLIED FOR THIS ROLE, YOU ARE KINDLY REQUESTED TO RE-APPLY AS THERE ARE CHANGES TO THE CONTENT OF THIS ADVERT.**
**Duties and Responsibilities**:
1.** Assist Senior Scientific Coordinator in the** **implementation of the National Response Strategy and Action Plan to address the illegal trade in South African succulent flora as required**
- Assist in developing and implementing field and trade monitoring protocols.
- Undertake fieldwork in the arid zone to monitor priority succulent species as per the monitoring protocols.
- Collect and provide data to be used for species Red Listing.
2.** Support the management and curation of confiscated succulent plants**
- Provide support to the Senior Scientific Coordinator in developing a standard operating procedure for the treatment of succulent plants once they are confiscated as well as once they arrive at relevant National Botanical Gardens.
- Provide support to relevant NBGs in implementing the standard operating procedures.
- Supervise the receiving and processing of confiscated material delivered to Kirstenbosch.
3.** Provide support to enforcement efforts relating to the illegal trade in succulent flora**
- Assist Senior Scientific Coordinator in developing templates and Standard operating procedures around writing statements and the treatment of confiscated succulent plants.
- Undertake writing of section 213 expert statements as necessary for court cases involving confiscated succulent plants.
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