Communications Consultant
2024, ongoing
ISS African Futures & Innovation, Pretoria, South Africa
Curation of weekly Blog and monthly Newsletter.
Expert liaison and partnership building for outreach
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Website Consultant
2024, ongoing
ISS African Futures & Innovation, Pretoria, South Africa
Website user experience, structure, layout. Content strategy, revision, editing
Associate and Sub-Editor
2023 - 2025
REWILDING SOUTHERN AFRICA Magazine, Pretoria, South Africa
Environmental journalism, content strategy and feature writing, stakeholder engagement
Chief Research Officer
2023, ongoing
AidBlock, Ghana
Blockchain for Purpose
Executive MBA
2022 - 2023
Quantic School of Business and Technology, USA
Founder and Director
Ongoing, since 2017
PLCnetwork of the Southern Hemisphere
Private and community land conservation
Programmes Manager and Partnerships & Conservation Entrepreneurship Advisor
2021 - 2023
African Wildlife Economy Institute, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Theory of Change, impact reporting, fellowships and partnerships management, fundraising & grant proposal writing, web content management, stakeholder engagement events, team building
Consultancy - External subject matter expert: National Diploma in Natural Resource Management
2020
Southern African Wildlife College, Hoedspruit, South Africa
Training materials development: Chapters 'Conservation Communication' and 'Conservation Business Administration'
Research and Communication Manager (Freelance)
2019 - 2020
Lushomo, Cape Town, South Africa
Report editing, infographic development, design briefs, website content
Visiting Lecturer
2018
Southern African Wildlife College, Hoedspruit, South Africa
Module: Natural Resource Economics
Photographer
Ongoing, since 2018
Julia’s Lens
Co-founder and Communication Manager
2017 - 2019
Khadim's Coffee Shop, Cape Town, South Africa
Environmental Researcher
2016 - 2017
C4 EcoSolutions, Tokai, South Africa
Proposal writing for Green Climate Fund; Research: soil-plant interactions influencing woody encroachment (including soil data collection in Kruger National Park)
Ph.D. Conservation Biology
2012 - 2016
Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST/NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Dissertation: 'The influence of location on the structure and functioning of Private Land Conservation networks in the Western Cape Province of South Africa'
M.Sc. Geoecology
2004 - 2011
University of Bayreuth & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany; and Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet Uppsala, Sweden
