Integrated Catchment Specialist: Disaster

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- **Direct and enable the development and integration of knowledge, planning and monitoring systems to advance the practice of integrated catchment management (ICM)**:

- Compile the Annual Fire Report.
- Lead and contribute to the development of Landscape Veldfire Response Plans.
- Provide inputs into the Western Cape Province Disaster Risk Strategies.
- Contribute to the compilation of a Disaster Management Plan.
- Develop and standardise integrated catchment management systems across all Landscapes.
- Provide technical inputs to assess legal liabilities related to fire damage and assist with the preparation of evidence.
- Ensure fire awareness is mainstreamed internally and externally.
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Direct, develop and integrate effective integrated catchment management policy**:

- Contribute to the implementation of the ICM 5-Year Strategy and Implementation Plan.
- Provide decision support.
- Prioritise interventions for integrated catchment management including, fires, invasive alien species and rehabilitation within the province.
- Develop risk reduction mitigation measures and the implementation thereof.
- Identify and participate in relevant research projects.
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Generate impact through the enablement, development and integration of leading-edge technologies, practice, policy, science and innovation**:

- Lead priority integrated catchment management planning interventions to support operations in the landscapes.
- Analyse main findings and recommendations from pre
- and post-fire season audits on CapeNature managed Protected Areas and provide a summary report.
- Ensure the Incident Command System (ICS) is implemented effectively at relevant incidents and participate in ICS where required and at the Provincial level.
- Lead the assessment of specialised fire PPE and equipment needs and ensure provision to Landscapes before fire season.
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Engage and collaborate with strategic partners for advancing, securing and enabling the development and deployment of biodiversity conservation capabilities**:

- Direct and guide the prioritisation of strategic partnerships and finalisation of all relevant partnership and stakeholder agreements.
- Contribute to and enable the development of funding proposals.
- Contribute to the review of fire partnership cost-benefit analyses.
- Lead and direct the implementation of disaster management.
- Coordinate all resources for fire suppression in CapeNature in consultation with other partners and stakeholders.
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Direct and implement the development of biodiversity capability, capacity and the integration of innovation and technology**:

- Manage the research, development and implementation of innovative technologies, concepts, practices and processes.
- Lead the identification and facilitation of the development and deployment of Biodiversity Capabilities in Conservation Operations.
- Direct the development of Standard Operating Guidelines and Procedures for integrated catchment and associated tools and training interventions.
- Promote awareness about healthy ecosystems, habitats and landscapes, and ecosystem services.
- Lead the coordination of staff training in natural disaster management response.
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Embody CapeNature’s core values and core management standards**:

- Embody the CapeNature’s iCARE values: innovation, customer service, accountability, respect, and ethics.
- Provide strategic leadership.
- Ensure sound financial management and manage human and asset resources effectively.
- Ensure team cohesion and empowerment.

**MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS**:
**Qualifications and Experience**:

- A relevant NQF 7 or higher qualification in Nature Conservation.
- Five to eight years’ working experience in integrated catchment management in the fynbos environment.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the functioning of ecological processes and conservation management. **Applicants are required to include details of relevant conservation management experience in their resumes.**:

- Demonstrated project leadership and management ability. **Applicants are required to** **upload an example of a completed project or plan for which they were they were responsible.**:

- Extensive knowledge and experience of applicable legislation and the implementation thereof.
- Sound knowledge and understanding of the biodiversity of the Western Cape, and the primary threats to biodiversity in the Western Cape.
- Incident Command training and experience: Minimum Certificate ICS 300/400 or ICS 420 qualification as well as Certificate in General Staff position-specific training. **Applicants are required to** **upload certification.**:

- Bilingualism in at least two of the official languages of the Western Cape.
- Advanced understanding and experience of sound financial management.
- In possession of a valid unendorsed Code EB unendorsed driver’s license with own vehicle. Must be willing to regularly travel extensively throughout the Western Cape Province and elsewhere as req