Divisional Head: EL, Job Creation & Skills Development – ECOD19180 needed at City of Ekurhuleni

Key performance areas:

• Develop and Implement the Community Enterprise Development, Skills development, Economic Infrastructure Development and Job Creation Strategy.
• Provide Strategic Leadership in the development and implementation of development strategies and business plans to enable effective implementation, service delivery and performance
• Integrated and collaborate stakeholder departments to ensure effective implementation of community empowerment programmes and projects.
• Programme Origination Intervention and Render Programme and Project management services to ensure effective implementation of community empowerment programmes.
• Establish and facilitate economic stakeholder engagement structures and platforms to mobilize communities, business, academia and civil society organizations towards a common economic programme for CoE
• Keep abreast and institutionalize new knowledge of related acts, regulations and regulatory frameworks to improve the impact of economic plan through strategic partnerships
• Develop and implement economic development programmes and stakeholder plans, ensuring effective roll-out, implementation and impact on CoE communities and in support and collaboration with other Divisional Heads in EDD and stakeholder departments
• Research, develop and implement business cases and proposals to secure external grant funding on behalf of the CoE
• Monitor and enforce effective financial control, corporate governance, financial compliance, risk management and clean audit interventions
• Lead and manage teams by providing a meaningful context, setting performance standards, clarifying roles and coordinating like-minded stakeholders, organizations and internal stakeholder departments

Core Requirements:

• B Degree (preferably in Local Economic Development) or relevant equivalent NQF Level 7 qualification
• 8 years’ overall relevant management experience in a similar environment, of which at least 4 years must have been at Senior Management level in a municipal environment
• Strategic leadership skills
• Knowledge of relevant legislation
• Operational financial management skills
• Operational programme conceptualization, planning, management, monitoring and evaluation and reporting skills
• Knowledge and information management skills
• Proficiency in policy, strategy and business case/proposal development