FAYEZ TEMBON

PERSONAL SHORT BIO

Fayez Tembon is a daughter, a wife, a sister, a friend, a mother, a mentor, and a mature lady with a profound love for sustainable environments. Fayez completed a Ph.D. degree in Environmental Management in 2022. She holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Project Management (Cum Laude) and has completed a 6-month skills program in Environmental Impact Assessment and Environmental compliance (Passed with Distinction). She is registered as an Assessor and a moderator for several Environmental and project management qualifications with the SETAs and the QCTO. She is a member of EEASA, SACE, and IAIA.

Fayez started her career as a high school life sciences educator, where she taught for more than 11 years, while simultaneously tutoring B(Ed) honors students at the University of Johannesburg. She was further appointed as the Environmental Education lecturer and research supervisor for post-graduate honors students. Following this, Fayez was called upon by WESSA to take up a position as a Senior Training Officer in 2017. She has gained a lot of experience and has since grown up the ladder to a Training manager and to a Strategic Lead for WESSA Training as she led their Environmental Skills Development Department. Fayez loves challenges and one of her greatest wishes is to join hands in upskilling the communities on different strategic aspects of environmental management. With this, she has partnered with her husband to establish the FAKANAM Green School of Excellence and Consulting where she functions as the Acting Managing Director, while she seeks permanent employment. The school aims to create a new generation for ecological footprint reduction with a cradle-to-the-21st-century career mindset. With many years of training in Environmental Impact Assessment strategies, Fayez has a strategic lens that she uses in developing contextually relevant training programs and training material that are both environmental risk-preventing and risk-mitigating oriented. With great love and passion for the environment, Fayez spends some of her leisure time in her organic vegetable garden as she cultivates vegetables for herself, her family, and the children at the Green School. Fayez is a member of social groups such as the “Dynamic Ladyz” group and the founder of a women's group, META CAREER WOMEN in South Africa. Both groups have sustainable people and environmental interests.

Throughout her career, Fayez has exhibited strategic and results-oriented business leadership skills with experience in strategy, planning and operations. Skilled in developing and executing business plans to maximize profitability, streamline operations and maintain compliance with industry regulations. Proven people leader motivates and optimizes staff performance and productivity.

• Consultant: Environmental Skills Training and Development
• Consultant: University (Diploma, Honors, Masters, PhD) research mentor
• Strategic Environmental Skills gaps analysis
• Environmental Training Content Development
• Managing the Green School from Kindergarten to Further Education and Training Phase
• Teachers and Trainers supervision
• In-service Training on relevant skills gaps
• Strategic Implementation plans Development
• Budgeting and Financial Management
• Funding Proposal Development
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Strategic Lead- WESSA Education and Training Combined Units – April 2022 – September 2023
• Developed and implemented a business plan for the Training Unit
• Managed relevant external stakeholders such as GIZ, TUT, DFFE, and independent external consultants
• Developed and uploaded into the LMS, content for online training
• Research on strategic environmental skills gaps in South Africa and the SADC region
• Conduct Environmental skills Market research in South Africa and the SADC region
• Developed training intervention proposal for funding
• Developed Climate Change training content for FNB
• Developed training material based on identified skills gaps for the unit
• Developed training costs and budgets for the training projects
• Developed contextually relevant Training material and programs such as:
• Ecofootprint calculations and Energy conservation Training material
• Integrated Waste management Training material
• Ambient Air pollution Training material
• Climate change Training material
• Sustainable Agriculture Training Material
• Managed Eco-schools programs in the Northern regions of South Africa
• Managed the training team members and their functions
• Managed all training programs and produced quarterly reports
• Conferences/workshops attended during this period:, July 2017 – June 2019 – WESSA
• Facilitated training
• Assessed POEs
• Moderated POEs and assessment practice
• Liaised with relevant SETAs for training needs and verification
• Training material development and alignment, mapping the SOs, ACs, and CCFOs to the recommendations on the prescribed unit standard or qualification
• Part of the team that developed new qualifications for the QCTO through the LG SETA, based on Environmental Monitoring.

I have been a member of various choirs since i was 8 years old until recently. I was the lead soprano singer for my secondary school choir, a choir leader, conductor and lead soprano for my high school choir. I started the university choir during school days and i was the choir lead and conductor. As i moved to South Africa and in my teaching days at Edenglen High School, i also started the school choir whic i led and took the choir for many performances in the school and out of the school.