Protected Area Integrity Department
Job Purpose
The primary purpose of this role is to maintain a safe and secure environment for stakeholders, students, and employees by controlling access to the premises, overseeing exits from the property, and patrolling and monitoring premises and personnel.
The Gate Guard is expected to adopt a preventive approach. In other words, gate guards prevent risks and deter crime, watch out for potential risks, and report any anomalies they may encounter. The Gate Guard also controls, monitors, and directs vehicular and pedestrian traffic of all stakeholders, visitors, deliveries, and employees.
The gate guard should be well trained to safeguard people and property within their assigned area of work. Gate guards keep a lookout for any suspicious activity, and once they have identified such an activity, they are required to take appropriate action. Working in many capacities, they are required to remove trespassers, monitor entrances and even conduct regular rounds. Gate guards are also expected to watch out for suspicious activity and to be hands-on in calling reinforcements when necessary.
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
It is an operational requirement that all College employees undergo pre-employment integrity testing and submit to random integrity tests. This is a requirement for access and entrance to the College premises which is located within a protected area and as set down by the owner of the land on which the College operates
Applications close on 25 February 2025 at 16h00. If you are shortlisted we will contact you to invite you for an interview. You will NOT be invited to an interview if you do not provide relevant contactable work references in your application.
Ngirivani Land claimants should indicate they are land claimants and provide their file number in the relevant place in the application form in the link above. Candidates who have not received a response within two weeks of the closing date are kindly requested to assume that their application has not been successful in this instance.
SAWC seeks to promote diversity among its staff and reserves the right to place internal candidates in line with their transformation and development policy, where this creates a vacancy at a lower level, or benefits communities by providing a casual employment opportunity. Candidates who have not received a response within two weeks of the closing date are kindly requested to assume that their application has not been successful in this instance. SAWC reserves the right not to fill this position.
SAWC Academic Department
Job Purpose
The Junior Lecturer is a member of the College’s full time academic staff and will teach on a number of programmes including the National Certificate in Natural Resource Management: Terrestrial (NQF level 5), Advanced Certificate in Nature Conservation : Trans-Frontier Conservation Management (NQF level 6) and the Diploma in Applied Natural Resource Management. All full time academic staff contribute to teaching and learning, research and basic administration. The successful applicant will work 5 days a week at the College.
The successful applicant will:
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ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
It is an operational requirement that all College employees undergo pre-employment integrity testing and submit to random integrity tests. This is a requirement for access and entrance to the College premises which is located within a protected area and as set down by the owner of the land on which the College operates
Applications close on 28 February 2025 at 16h00. If you are shortlisted we will contact you to invite you for an interview. You will NOT be invited to an interview if you do not provide relevant contactable work references in your application.
Ngirivani Land claimants should indicate they are land claimants and provide their file number in the relevant place in the application form in the link above. Candidates who have not received a response within two weeks of the closing date are kindly requested to assume that their application has not been successful in this instance.
SAWC seeks to promote diversity among its staff and reserves the right to place internal candidates in line with their transformation and development policy, where this creates a vacancy at a lower level, or benefits communities by providing a casual employment opportunity. Candidates who have not received a response within two weeks of the closing date are kindly requested to assume that their application has not been successful in this instance. SAWC reserves the right not to fill this position.
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The Southern African Wildlife College is an equal opportunity employer and recruitment, selection and staff development is based solely on the capabilities, qualifications and intrinsic qualities of the person. No decision will be based on race, sex, culture, age, religion, creed or on any other potentially subjective views or perceptions. In addition, the College will employ people taking into account affirmative action policies, equity planning and recognition of the abilities of differently-abled people.
The College always endeavours, wherever feasible, to fill all vacancies from within whilst giving due consideration to maintaining high standards. The college, and the HR department, will thus always first look at the role and at existing employees not only within the department but within the college as whole, to determine whether there is any employee who has been identified with potential, as part of our Leadership Development policy, who meets the requirements for the role and could be promoted into it. Vacancies are always be advertised within the College unless the position is such that it cannot be filled internally, under which circumstances the position will be advertised nationally and possibly even internationally.
The Equity Committee (EC) and the SAWC community forum and/or Community Liaison Officers will be notified of all vacancies in the interests of transparency and these will be advertised on all college notice boards and via staff email. Cognizance will be taken of the needs in terms of equal opportunities, equity and transformation and development when making appointments. All applicants are required to undergo integrity testing prior to employment.