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Passionate about sustainable development, Creating Sustainable Eco-towns, Join the Green Team

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Indalo Yethu invites suitably qualified potential candidates to apply for these exciting opportunities to contribute to creating 10 model towns of sustainability in local municipalities in SA.

1.     Programme Manager: Eco-towns (Centurion)
Responsible for oversight of the implementation and management of the business plan and programme management unit. Experience in the Built Environment Sector and Sustainable Development a requirement.

    2.    Project Finance Manager (Centurion)
Specialist project finance experience, budget preparation for fundraising, expenditure tracking and financial reporting on full accounting function.
Procurement systems development and monitoring.

3.    Project Finance and procurement officer (Centurion)
Procurement administration, Full accounting function and payroll processing.

    4.    Project Human Resources Practitioner (Centurion)
HR Systems development, employment contracts, performance management, labour relations knowledge.

5.    Environmental Education Training Coordinator (Centurion)
Training coordinator, skills audits, design training packages and environment education content development for communities and municipalities.

    6.    Project Administrators *2 (Centurion)
1 x Liason with service provider and contractors, experience in project reporting essential, management of contracts and project schedules.
1 x Office administration and communications /events management.

7.    Provincial Coordinators *8
Must be prepared to work in the following locations per province: Eastern Cape, (Butterworth, Mthatha) Limpopo (Greater Giyani & Vhembe), Mpumalanga (Bushbuckridge), Kwazulu Natal (Empangeni); Northern Cape (Kuruman); Free State (Ladybrand)
Strong experience in project management/operations management/logistics management. Experience in managing local contractors and supervisory skills essential for management of contract workers.

Please see below job descriptions for the above positions. Interested candidates are invited to send a recent professional profile with contactable references and certified scanned copies of qualifications to Tokollo Mojapelo at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or fax: 012 665 1382 or to PO Box 68219. Highveld, Centurion, 0169; Contact will be limited to short-listed candidates only. Indalo Yethu reserves the right not to fill the position.

Closing date for applications: 12:00 in the afternoon on Friday the 05 February 2010

click on the title below for Job discription :

Project Human Resources Practitioner

Provincial Coordinators

Project Finance Manager

 Project Administrators

Programme Manager: Eco-towns

Project Finance and procurement officer

Environmental Education Training Coordinator

Provincial Project Co-ordinator  

 


 
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The Copenhagen Accord was announced by US President Barack Obama on the evening of Friday the 18th December 2009. It was the result of consultations by the “friends of the chair”. There were mixed reactions to the Accord. As a result of informal consultations facilitated by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon early on Saturday morning, COP 15 agreed to “take note” of the Copenhagen Accord and establish a procedure without precedent under the UNFCCC for countries willing to do so to register their support for the Accord and submit their targets by 31 January 2010.

South Africa’s views on the Copenhagen Accord is that it is not the break-through that the world expected and which the climate needed and it is not legally binding. There is some hope however that it did resolve a few key issues, namely:

•    It developed the broad institutional architecture for a technology development and transfer mechanism.

•    It brought about agreements on how to internationally measure, report and verify developing countries’ mitigation action, resolving a key dispute over review versus transparency.

•    It led to agreements on how to record economy-wide binding emission reduction targets for developed countries, including the USA (although these still need to be turned into commitments attached to a legally binding instrument).

•    It created a space to record, at international level, the emission reduction actions by the more advanced developing countries like China, India, Brazil and South Africa.

The above actions will be supported by transparently accounted finance $10 bn per year up to 2012, i.e. approaching $30bn immediately up to 2012 and $100 billion per year by 2020. Whilst the  long-term finance is still beset by conditionalities, it is an improvement on resources previously committed for climate change.  

Indalo Yethu urges all countries to continue to promote policies and actions at a local level which promote climate action, and to continue the engagement bilaterally, regionally and within the multilateral fora to reach a global consensus on climate change. Save Tomorrow Today.
 
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Front or Top Load Washing Machine

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http://www.greenlivingtips.com/articles/163/1/Green-washing-machines.html

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Don’t be a Drip

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