Odwa Tivi

Young professional actively looking for employment opportunities within the environmental sciences field, offers a multifaceted corporate knowledge and skillset from different disciplines including environmental education, nature conservation, waste management, geospatial solutions, research, administration, data analysis, data management and processing of data, environmental legislation implementation and awareness.

People and Conservation Officer at City of Cape Town (2023-08 – Present)

• Develops and implement site specific community based environmental education programs
• Fulfils the role of community conservation officer Administrate bookings and enquiries related to environmental education and public liaison
• Serves as municipality staff mentor on environmental related programmes and assisting with general nature conservation management
• Collate, manage and report on visitor user groups and other client statistics
• Input into and manage aspects of the visitor facilities
• Initiate partnerships and regular stakeholder engagement programmes
• Lead biodiversity projects for both schools and various communities
• Partake in sustainable development and climate change projects
• Develop and implement environmental education tools and products relevant to various municipal environmental sites
• Regularly liaise with media and communication sector
• Organize events and activities that raise awareness of environmental issues
• Team coordination - managing EPWP team, toolbox talk in the morning, giving instruction on activities for the day and health and safety (PPE instructions)
• Alien vegetation management by partaking in regular clearing of alien plants and doing workloads
• Assisting in patrols - Foot patrol in and out of the reserve for illegal waste dumping and land invasion

Ocean Guardian (Team Coach) at I Am Water Trust (2023-02 – 2023-07)

• Served as a community-level conservationist
• Facilitated ocean connections and promoting environmental stewardship
• Lead school outreach workshops, including: Ocean Guardian Workshop, which covers environmental education, rocky shore exploration and beach clean-ups
• Lead school outreach workshops, including: River Guardian Workshop, which includes environmental education, eco-tours, mini-SASS activities and exploration through aqua scope

Junior Data Administrator at WhereIsMyTransport (2020-01 – 2021-10)

• Capture eternal public transport data into Google database
• Validated collected data from in-field and online sources for quality assurance
• Cleaned collected mobility data e.g. removing GPS spikes and making sure stops are correctly positioned
• Processed activities; including shape building and snapping collected routes to map Ensure quality assurance practices are followed
• Developed and maintained a good understanding of the GTFS file format

In-Service Trainee at Dept of Economic Dev, Environmental Affairs and Tourism EC (2017-07 – 2018-07)

As an In-service trainee, I performed numerous environmental management tasks:

• Conducting site inspections, environmental authorization audits, compliance monitoring
• Environmental legislations implementation
• Reviewing EIA, Research and decision making
• Environmental Awareness campaigns
• Waste management site inspection
• Capacity building and report writing

BTech in Environmental Management – Cape Peninsula University of Technology (2019)

National Diploma in Environmental Management – Cape Peninsula University of Technology (2017)

Grade 12 – Uxolo High School (2010)