Senior Manager - Terrestrial Ecologist

The Terrestrial Ecologist will be responsible for setting up and managing terrestrial natural scientific research systems and studies (fauna, flora and land-based ecosystems), recovery and rehabilitation, sustainable reintroductions.

Duties - including but not limited to

• Continually review relevant studies and reports.
• Work with and manage consultants.
• Distil and report facts and findings most informative to the Integrated Development Management Plan for the land and its zonation plans.
• Analyse and establish terrestrial environmental best practise benchmarks
• Design and implement short-term, medium-term and long-term studies on species, habitat, climate and all related methodologies and budget requirements.
• Formulate environmental rehabilitation and ecological restoration plans including related programs and budgets.
• Conduct baseline studies, game counts and species census data gathering and update all species lists - birds, plants, reptiles, amphibians etc.
• Resolve detailed plans for re-introduction of locally extinct, endemic species - including related programs and budgets.
• Develop species-specific management plans and monitoring systems.
• Monitor the health and condition of all threatened and high priority species and initiate appropriate action to remediate if / when necessary.
• Map and monitor vegetation and habitat types on the and changes over time.
• Review and comment on regional, urban and special project development plans