Reserve Manager
| Location | Limpopo, South Africa |
| Date Posted | November 16, 2019 |
| Category |
Management
Operations |
| Job Type |
Full-time
|
| Currency | ZAR |
Description
The Herd Reserve, located in the far north of the Limpopo Province, is offering the right candidate the rare opportunity to join a team of dedicated conservationists in establishing a new reserve...
About the reserve: The Herd Reserve forms part of the 12,000ha Greater Philip Herd Private Nature Reserve, situated in the Vhembe district of Limpopo Province.
The Position: We’re looking for a Reserve Manager who will oversee the day-to-day running of the reserve under the direction of the Biological Manangement Committee. Areas of responsibility include: ecology management; infrastrtcure maintenance; labour management; security; support to the hunting and eco-tourist businesses.
Requirements:
- A three-year National Diploma in Nature Conservation or Game Ranch Management or similar qualification and at least some field experience.
- Some mechanical skill: We are not looking for a mechanical engineer, but maintenance of infrastructure and especially the water infrastructure is a big part of the job, so let’s put it this way: if you don’t know what a fan belt is, don’t apply.
- Strong people skills: Our Reserve Manager must manage staff and engage with the guests, neighbours, contractors, the authorities and owners and leave everyone charmed by their personal magnetism and charisma.
- Masses of va-va-voom. Hyper-active types would be looked upon favourably.
- And last thing, applicants must be prepared to live in the remotest reaches of Limpopo and be at least reasonably confident that the heat and solitude won’t cost them their grip on sanity!
Why should you apply?
If you want…
- “Founded a nature reserve” on your CV,
- to work with an energetic AND highly eccentric team with an incredible sense of humour in getting an audacious conservation initiative off the ground, and most of all,
- to get stuck into every aspect of running a nature reserve from re-laying pipelines ripped out by ellies, to counting blades of grass on the monitoring plots, to helping our senior tracker, Boesman, skin an impala for rations
… then this is the opportunity you’ve been waiting for!