Educator - Sanccob Cape Town - SANCCOB

SANCCOB
SANCCOB
Verified Company
Cape Town, South Africa

1 week ago

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

The Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB) seeks to employ a full-time Educator to be based at its Cape Town centre in Table View.

The
Educator will be responsible for the following duties (among others):


Education and Awareness functions:


  • Offering high quality educational tours and programmes to onsite and offsite schools/groups
  • Conducting informative and interactive onsite tours of the SANCCOB facility
  • Organising/hosting/representing education oriented programmes/events which are either hosted by SANCCOB or other affiliated organisations
  • Hosting informative online lessons with local and international audiences through various platforms
  • Managing the adult education programmes
  • Ensuring the children education programmes run smoothly
  • Ensure that information relayed in all programmes is accurate, current and updated regularly
  • Communicating and maintaining a positive relationship with members of the general public, conservation organisations and other stakeholders in a manner that upholds SANCCOB's professional standards and image
  • Ensuring the standard for all education programmes are conducted at a high level and catered to each individual audience appropriately while adhering to SANCCOB's main aims and goals
  • Travelling to underresourced and vulnerable areas and engaging with learners/community members/public, and implementing exciting education and awareness programmes, including but not limited to, working with learners and individuals who are:
  • Disabled
  • Chronically ill
  • Under resourced
  • Vulnerable
  • Other learners/individuals with special education needs

Administrative functions:


  • Duties relating to management of the merchandise shop, including stock takes, daily cashups, stock and cash control, and general sales
  • Sourcing new eco
- friendly and sustainable stock for the shop

  • Management of the online shop including ensuring orders are timeously shipped, queries are attended to and stock is loaded correctly
  • Recruiting, booking and hosting school groups including online lessons
  • Promoting, creating and coordinating education donations and other income streams, as and when required
  • Coordinating logistics for programmes according to programme specifications (busses, lunches, etc.)
  • Assisting with budget management
  • Prospecting for new income opportunities
  • Produce monthly reports and statistics
  • Ensuring that the Education Centre and Education Office are organised, neat and clean
  • Ensuring safety, cleanliness and tidiness of apparatus and resources
  • Ensuring that education materials are accurate, uptodate, and printed professionally
  • Assisting in managing inventories of the education department equipment and ensuring that systems are in place to take care of the equipment
  • Managing the vending machine by working closely with the owners
  • Driving responsibilities
  • Training education interns and volunteers
  • Ensuring that all assigned administrative functions are timeously completed, accurate and complete

Other functions:


  • Performing any other tasks necessary for the conduct of the employer's business, as the employer may from time to time direct
  • Living the SANCCOB brand by living SANCCOB's core values

The Educator must meet the following criteria:

  • At least three years of administration skills and experience
  • Tertiary qualification in teaching/education or nature conservation qualification or biology or zoology
  • Experience and exposure to working for an NGO, NPO, or NPC in South Africa
  • Environmental education experience
  • Experience in sharing knowledge and information to different audiences
  • Sound knowledge and experience in teaching/education, facilitation, and programme management
  • Peopleoriented; understands people and comfortable in cultivating and managing stakeholder relationships
  • Customerservice driven
  • Attention to detail
  • Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
  • Ability to work independently and in a team
  • Articulate ability to present a concept to motivate action
  • Must be deadline and target driven
  • Must be organised and proactive
  • Result driven in a team environment, innovative, passionate and commitment to the team and the cause
  • Ability to influence and inspire others
  • Financially literate and comfortable to work with budgets and present financial information
  • Experience with online communication tools
  • Knowledge and experience of MS Office
  • South African citizen or with permanent residency or valid work permit
  • Own vehicle and valid driver's license

Requirements:


  • At least three years of administration skills and experience
  • Tertiary qualification in teaching/education or nature conservation qualification or biology or zoology
  • Experience and exposure to working for an NGO, NPO, or NPC in South Africa
  • Environmental education experience
  • Experience in sharing knowledge and information to different audiences
  • Sound knowledge
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