General Manager: Community - Inclusive Justice Institute at Woolworths

Introduction

• Responsible for achieving the goals and objectives of the Non-Profit company through managing its resources (human, financial, and operational). Managerial duties include, but are not limited to leading the team, setting objectives, analyzing performance, making decisions, stakeholder interactions and delivering on programmes of work.

Job description

• Lead and own the overall community strategy and framework with detailed  plans for the different partners.
• Develop a comprehensive strategy for the entity by collaborating with Director of Corporate Social Justice, the board of the NPC and senior leadership.
• Facilitate the execution of the NPC strategy by working collaboratively with the Corporate Social Justice leadership team, and other senior members in the organisation ensuring that the strategy is understood.
• Displays the knowledge of social development.
• Ensure that appropriate metrics are in place to measure performance and progress towards strategic goals of the NPC.
• Manage the relationship with partners including but not limited to donors, other NGOs, and other businesses/corporates.
• Provide recommendations for improvement, to ensure the capture of lessons learned and adapting approaches to measure  progress on programs.
• Use project/programme management capability to implement in the Inclusive Community programmes in lines with the IJI Masterplan.Design  impact assessment and measurement and manage effective reporting to different stakeholders and audiences.
• Manage the entity activities through supporting partners.
• Oversee the set-up of end-to-end community support programs, through to successful completion of projects.
• Leading on strategy and execution of capacity building for relevant communities.
• Support the monitoring & evaluation of impact.
• Manage community partners .
• Give input to partner’s strategy to ensure this meets community needs
• Ensure governance, policies, procedures and practices are maintained and followed.
• Directs the development of policies and impact procedures
• Leads and supports the application and implementation of new policies and procedures
• Ensure governance, practices, procedures and principles are adhered to.
• Foster, engage and support community partners through their process of making an impact in communities.
• Manage policy and/ or principle design.
• Manage policy and/ or principle implementation.
• Manage monitoring and updates to principles and/or policy.
• People Leadership
• Lead, develop and support the entity team.
• Develop and maintains talent, and resource plans that define the capability and capacity needed.
• Cultivate a collaborative, high-performance culture of delivery.
• Lead teams with authenticity to embrace continuous change, continuous learning, and strong connections across technology and business teams.
• Engage and form relations with selected industry specialists.
• Financial Management
• Manage the financial health of the entity projects, aligned to the annual operational and capital expense budgets and commitments
• Plan, manage, forecast and administer budgets and funding.
• Financial acumen and technology insight to enable sound business decisions
• Effective commercial negotiation of contracts of partners for solutions and services
• Applies business acumen in evaluating work, costs and schedules of delivery.

Minimum requirements

• Postgraduate degree
• 12 years’ experience in working in communities in need.
• Care deeply about the mission: passionate about humanitarian and development work, and a deep commitment to making impact in the chosen communities.
• Proven ability in delivering results and meeting stakeholder expectations.
• Ability to work across a wide range of teams to ensure effective delivery of work streams.
• Experience in leading, developing and motivating cross-functional
• Proven management experience, particularly influencing at senior level
• Experienced professional, with a strong strategy formulation orientation, who has previously held operational roles in complex environments.
• Experience in dealing with senior stakeholders.
• Must be self-directed and have strong decision-making skills.
• Demonstrates skills in leadership and management.
• Must be willing to challenge the standard thinking with new ideas, new approach, and new solutions.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to assess community needs, design and implement relevant programs and evaluate impact.
• Experience creating and running community empowerment programs and working with community-based organizations
• Experience providing or receiving grants programmes