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Environmental Control Officer Grade C41 responsible for enforcing the Environmental Quality Act (AKAS) 1974 and its regulations as well as the Exclusive Economic Zones Act 1984, providing technical services related to environmental management at the national and international levels, educating and raising public awareness on the shared responsibility to preserve the environment, meet the needs and stakeholder expectations.

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Tasks

writing scientific papers and reports detailing research and any new findings which are then made available to the scientific community in scientific journals or at conferences for scrutiny and further debate

identifying, classifying, recording and monitoring living organisms and maintaining databases

examining living organisms using a variety of specialised equipment, instruments, technologies and techniques such as electron microscopes, telemetry, global positioning systems, biotechnology, satellite imaging, genetic engineering, digital imaging analysis, polymerase chain reaction and computer modelling

providing advice to the government, organisations and businesses in areas such as conservation, management of natural resources, the effects of climate change and pollution

enforcing the Environmental Quality Act 1974 and the regulations thereunder and the Exclusive Economic Zone Act 1984 and the regulations thereunder

designing and carrying out environmental impact assessments to identify changes caused by natural or human factors

gathering human, animal, insect and plant data and specimens, and studying their origins, development, chemical and physical forms, structures, compositions, and life and reproductive processes

undertaking research in laboratories and in the field to increase scientific knowledge of living organisms; to discover new information; to test hypotheses; to solve problems in areas such as the environment, agriculture and health; and to develop new products, processes and techniques for pharmaceutical, agricultural and environmental use