Field Technician - Survival

Location:

Jansenville, Eastern Cape

Reports to:

Senior Field Technician

Start Date:

January 2027

Are you ready to embark on an extraordinary adventure that will revitalise landscapes, combat climate change, and promote sustainable agriculture?

Join Nat Carbon Africa: a mission-driven, proudly African organisation dedicated to high-quality implementation of large-scale carbon, climate, and biodiversity projects. We embrace the power of innovative technology to enhance project execution. Community engagement lies at the heart of our projects, driven by a genuine commitment to meaningful and inclusive participation and co-benefits, such as biodiversity conservation and socioeconomic upliftment.

Nat Carbon Africa seeks a Field Technician in the Technical and Carbon Department for the large-scale Spekboom Restoration Project in the Eastern and Western Cape Provinces of South Africa.

With our partner, Imperative Global, our aim is to restore up to 100,000 hectares of degraded subtropical thicket biome. The Project entails planting Spekboom (Portulacaria afra) on privately owned land to improve ecosystem functioning and agricultural productivity over time, promote biodiversity, improve soil filtration, enhance water storage capabilities, and to reduce soil erosion. The Project is estimated to permanently store large quantities of Carbon Dioxide over the Project life, thus positively contributing towards climate change mitigation.

The Field Technician will report to the Senior Field Technician and conduct in-field monitoring activities, including vegetation surveys, biomass measurements, and survival surveys across the project area. The role involves fieldwork that contributes to the collection, management, and preliminary analysis of project data, and supports the Senior Field Technician in ensuring that all monitoring activities are completed accurately and efficiently according to project protocols.

• Conduct baseline and regular monitoring assessments, including vegetation surveys, biomass measurements, and survival surveys.

• Assistin developing, testing, and refining Standard Operating Protocols, workflows, and field methodologies to improve efficiency, accuracy, and consistency in data collection and analysis.

• Identify opportunities for innovative approaches to ecosystem monitoring, restoration assessments, and survival/biodiversity quantification.

• Ensureaccuratestorage, management, and reporting of baseline and monitoring data.

• Provide operational and field support to the Project Team as required, following guidance from the Senior Field Technician.

• Document lessons learned from field activities andcontributeideas for improving protocols, tools, and workflows.

• Participate in technical sessions, workshops, conferences, and other relevant events to advance the field of thicket ecosystem restoration academically and commercially.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English (Afrikaans orisiXhosaadvantageous).

• Ability to work independently andcollaborativelyin amultidisciplinaryteam.

• Strong quantitative and statistics skills.

• Data driven.

• Ability to manage targets and priorities and develop own goals.

• Must be well organized and willing to work hard.

• Physically fitand comfortable working in challenging outdoor conditions.

• Demonstratea high levelof personal integrity and be passionate about making a positive difference to the world.

• A relevant tertiary qualification in ecology, forestry, botany, environmental science,conservationor other related fields.

• 1–2 years’experience in a related field.

• The…