Director Recreation and Parks at City of Cape Town

Requirements

• The City of Cape Town is looking tappoint an experienced, results-driven, energetic leader who has gained a solid mix of operational management experience and strategic leadership capabilities to direct its Recreation and Parks Department.
• A relevant Bachelor’s degree
• Extensive managerial and functional experience at a senior level, with a proven track record demonstrating the ability tmanage a large and diverse mix of operational and professional teams within a
• parks and recreation environment
• Sound knowledge of legislation applicable tLocal Government
• Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills and ability to interface at a political level
• Driver’s licence and own vehicle.

Key Performance Areas

Recreation Framework, Strategy, Programmes and Services:

• Provide strategic direction trecreational programme planning and delivery and the co-ordination of programmes across the Department; lead continuous business improvement
• Political reporting and liaising with the public and community structures, including NGOs and NPOs
• Consolidate the Institutional Framework that regulates interaction between the City and the Local Sports Fraternity
• Establish partnerships
• Facilitate the implementation of strategic projects
• Conduct research and ensuring the implementation of infrastructure development plans
• Policy development; ensuring the compilation of service level agreements and ensuring that recreation infrastructure plans are aligned tthe City’s Development Plan and Spatial Planning
• Ensure that an effective and on-going cemetery function is delivered tthe citizens of Cape Town
• Manage horticultural services and ecological conservation
• Ensure sound financial management
• Manage the human resources within the department ensuring a climate conducive tpromoting and sustaining motivational levels, productivity, performance and improving the quality of work-life is cultivated and maintained