12-month Graduate Intern
5 days ago
**12 MONTH INTERNSHIP - GRADUATE INTERN: REGIONAL RECYCLING OFFICER**
**Are you a dynamic, confident and results driven environmental graduate, ready to kick start your career?**
**About PETCO**
PETCO is a registered Producer Responsibility Organisation (PRO), not-for-profit company (NPC) and public benefit organisation (PBO) that represents the South African plastic industry’s effort to ensure that post-consumer polyethylene terephthalate (PET) packaging in South Africa is collected and recycled.
With almost two decades of experience, we have made a significant impact on the PET recycling industry in South Africa. Through our work in the recycling value chain, we have been able to steadily increase the recycling rate of PET in South Africa from just 16% in 2005, to 63% in 2021.
PETCO started 17 years ago, and we continuously strive to be agile in an ever-changing world, developing innovative solutions for the complex challenges facing the recycling industry. One of our latest projects includes working with blockchain technology to give collectors a permanent record of their sales, and assisting buy-back centres with an immediate view of the status of their business. We have also launched a WhatsApp-for-Business platform, streamlining and reducing the cost of access to valuable information from our treasured informal collector partners. In addition, we recently completed the filming of a cutting-edge documentary shedding light on the champions behind the recycling industry in South Africa.
Currently, PETCO members include well-known global and local brands and companies, providing the successful applicant with the opportunity to engage with global pacesetters. PETCO is funded by a mandatory EPR fee paid on each tonne of PET packaging that PETCO members place on the South African market.
**About the Role**
**Municipal Engagement**:
- Meet with Municipal contacts.
- Understand their plans not limited to IWMP, requirements, projects and programme related to recycling, waste management, littering and the integration of the informal sector.
- Present on PETCOs projects and programmes.
- Maintain a list of contacts.
- Prepare summary reports of meetings and save them to the central online repository.
- Report on findings, insights, and requests from stakeholders to the Collections and Training Manager.
- Facilitate or participate in workshops with Municipalities
- Assist in compiling relevant interactions for contributions for Board Report
**Collector Engagement**
- Follow up with our supported recycling collection projects.
- Understand the project, PETCO expenditure, contractual agreement, tonnages, and history of projects.
- Do site inspections and report back to Collections Manager on project status, site conditions, requests, interviews, and discussions.
- Ensure that relevant agreements/ minutes/ evaluation tools are in place for all projects.
- Identify possible CAT-B projects and report to CAT-B Manager
- Assist in the development of project sheets for each category B recipient
- Conducting recycling workshops for potential and established collectors
- Conducting accredited training for collectors
**Waste Pickers Supporting Activities**
- Working with municipalities
- Record on Registration system
- Storing and sorting
- MRF can employ them
- Provide equipment
- Workshops and accredited training.
**Stakeholder Relationships**
- Engage with key stakeholders - local government (municipalities); Zoos, Parks and Environmental Centre’s, Universities and Schools, NGO’s, External Funders, Recycling and Environmental Forums, Industry Associations, Contracted Recyclers (CAT A), Collectors.
- Assist Collection and Training Project Manager and Stakeholder Relations Manager in the development of PETCO news flashes, papers, reports on a variety of matters including projects launched, partnerships made, businesses grown and sustained etc.
- Attend and represent PETCO at relevant trade shows, conferences, presentations, and workshops with the objective of building networks within the waste management community.
- Identify and record collection infrastructure in the region (MRFs, Buy-Back Centers).
- Regularly visit local collection centers (drop-off sites and Buy-Back Centers) and report back on progress.
- Maintain database of all stakeholders; Collection Systems, Collectors, Municipalities, Buy-Back Centers, MRFs.
- For all engagements, capture photos and captions and forward to the Communications Manager for sharing on social media. In some cases, compile short articles highlighting improvements, positive stories, and job creation.
- Sit in on weekly Operations team meetings.
**Qualification and Experience**:
- Relevant Environmental or related qualification
- 1 year of relevant working experience
**Skills and Abilities**:
- Ability to prioritize and commit to timeframes / deadlines
- Presentation skills
- Excellent writing, communication, and interpersonal skills
- Confidence and ability to int
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