Part of the technical team for the global ICLEI Cities Biodiversity Center, my position entailed building the capacity of local government officials to mainstream biodiversity into municipal policies, and compiling biodiversity guidelines, publications and other resources to enhance biodiversity management and conservation at the local level. Recent projects:- Project Manager of LAB: Wetlands SA project, working with 11 District/Metro Municipalities across South Africa to raise awareness and management of wetland ecological infrastructure.- Lead author of the Biodiversity Mainstreaming Toolbox for land-use planning and development in Gauteng. including summaries for Senior Managers and Planners & Engineers which introduces the range of biodiversity planning tools for mainstreaming biodiversity into land-use and development planning to provincial and municipal government. - Project lead for the LAB: Wetlands and Communities programme, working with the City of Tshwane and Nelson Mandela Bay Municipalities to develop a local government wetland management plan. - Officer for Local Action for Biodiversity (LAB) Programme, assisting local governments (Calgary, Grand-Synthe, Lilongwe, Montpellier, Brussels & Montreal) in the development of biodiversity reports and Local Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plans (LBSAPs).- Report writing: Linking levels of biodiversity governance: a case study of eThekwini and KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.- Coordinator of the Urban Nature conference at the ICLEI World Congress 2015, Seoul, South Korea and supported in the organisation of the Biodiversity Summit for Cities and Subnational Governments at the Convention on Biological Diversity 12th Conference of the Parties, South Korea, 2014.- Represented ICLEI at Ramsar Convention on Wetlands 12th Conference of the Parties in Uruguay, 2015, in support of the resolution on Wetland City Accreditation.

Research into the effects of dust on biological crusts in Namaqualand: undertaking preliminary research including best practice techniques.

On-site officer overseeing the implementation of Environmental Management Plans on several sites in the Western Cape including large-scale earthworks, wind farms, housing and commercial developments. Key tasks: Training executives and unskilled workers; compliance assessments, reporting.