Godfrey was a founder Director-General for Tanzania's National Environmental Management Council [NEMC] (1986-1996), after which he was appointed by the United Nations UNDP as Chief Technical Adviser in Lesotho on environmental and related issues (1996-2000), by the Kinondoni [Dar es Salaam] Municipal Authorities as Team leader on the Coastal Management project, and, before his current position, by UNDP as Senior Technical Adviser in Kigali, Rwanda, again on environmental conservation and management projects (2005).
