Priscilla De Comarmond

Experience

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  Carrington House Hotel

  Nov 2007 - Feb 2008

  Restaurant Supervisor
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  Climate Systems Analysis Group (CSAG)

  Feb 2009 - Jan 2010

  Researcher/student

  Undertook research in the context of climate change. Research was based on the identification and calculation of the seasonal forecast skill in South Africa in comparison to the actual seasonal rainfall for the respective seasons.

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  ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability - Africa

  Feb 2010 - Dec 2013

  Professional Officer

  Professional Officer at ICLEI Africa in the Energy and Climate Change Unit. Since 2010, worked intensely on climate change related project (Adaptation and Mitigation) funded by international organisations. Main projects worked on over the course of the three years: - 5 city climate change adaption project in Africa (2009-2012). - Local Renewables project in Ekurhuleni (2011-2013)- Urban Low Emissions Development project with 7 RSA municipalities (2012-2015)Main Activities and Roles entail: Project related work and research on cities based in Africa. Conducting capacity building workshops for community based adaptation. Coordinate data collection, management and analysis for the development of local GHG inventories. Communications to the highest city level, co-ordinate and facilitate stakeholder workshops, assist with proposal development, project reporting and project related popular articles. Show less

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  City of Cape Town

  Jan 2014 - now

  - Project manager of metering of municipal buildings- Project manager, design creator of SmartFacility a City application to manager resources (electricity, solar,water) of municipal buildings for proactive management --- SmartFacility consists of web-based application development and maintenance; Media screen public dashboard content management implementation; GIS dashboard of municipal resource use. - Energy efficiency and renewable energy savings reporting - Project financial planning, management and reporting- Municipal facility inventory and meta data maintenance - City-wide and municipal operations GHG inventory reporting - Energy and carbon data management - Energy and carbon data, collection, analysis and contribution towards annual Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) reporting - Project Management of Cape Town State of Energy and Carbon 2021 Report - Stakeholder management - Bid Committee Chair for procurement planning - Support Energy Performance Certificate requirements of buildings by South African national government - Mentoring and supervision of permanent and internship staff Show less - Project manager of energy efficiency project implementation in municipal buildings - Energy efficiency and renewable energy savings reporting - Energy audit of municipal buildings (pre and post retrofit) - Project donor reporting - Project financial planning and management and reporting- Municipal facility inventory and meta data maintenance - Management and coordination of municipal building metering project - Development of a new City application called SmartFacility, an internal resource data management system to support managers, project managers and facility managers to be proactive in facility resource management - City-wide and municipal operations GHG inventory reporting - Energy and carbon data management - Energy and carbon data, collection, analysis and contribution towards annual Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) reporting - Mentoring and supervision of permanent and internship staff- Became a mother Show less - Assistant project manager to energy efficiency and renewable energy project implementation in municipal buildings - Energy efficiency and renewable energy savings reporting - Energy audit of municipal buildings (pre and post retrofit) - Project donor reporting - Municipal facility inventory development and maintenance - Municipal metering project management - City-wide and municipal operations GHG inventory reporting - Energy and carbon data management - Energy and carbon data, collection, analysis and contribution towards the Cape Town State of Energy 2015 report - mentoring of internship staff Show less

  • Head: Resource Data Programs and Project Development

    May 2023 - now

  • Senior Professional Officer: Energy & Data Management, Sustainable Energy Markets Department

    Jun 2018 - Apr 2023

  • Professional Officer: Energy efficiency and energy data management

    Jan 2017 - May 2018

  • Assistant Professional Officer: Energy & Climate Change Unit

    Jan 2014 - Dec 2016