Karen Vickers

Experience

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  Organization for Tropical Studies

  Aug 2006 - Jul 2015

  Resident Lecturer
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  Nsasani Trust

  Jan 2011 - Oct 2022

  Director

  The Nsasani Trust is an educational non-profit focussed on building human capital for the Biodiversity sector in South Africa. We are a key partner in the Skukuza Science Leadership Initiative, designing and implementing scientific courses that range from highschool level through to industry professional and everything in between. Check us out at www.nsasani.co.za

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  GreenMatterZA

  Oct 2022 - now

  Executive Director

  GreenMatter works towards unlocking the environmental, social and economic potential of our country, through the development of suitably skilled environmental and sustainability specialists, researchers and professionals. At GreenMatter, we bring together networks of organisations, institutions and agencies to implement solutions that are aimed at addressing the challenges around developing relevant and quality environmental skills. GreenMatter does this in support of the various strategies and frameworks in place to address the demand for quality environmental skills such as the Biodiversity Human Capital Development Strategy (BHCD), the Environmental Sector Skills Plan (ESSP) and the Department of Science and Technology’s Global Change Human Capital Development Strategy. Show less