Institutional Planning Officer Ref 1310 or 1311 at Durban University of Technology

Minimum Requirements:

•   Honours Degree or equivalent (NQF 8) in a relevant discipline
•   5-8 years relevant experience in developing organizational strategic and operational plans.
•   Knowledge and understanding of strategic and operational planning and reporting principles.
•   Understand internal and external factors which impact on strategic direction of the Institution and
• ensure these are reflected in forecasts.
•   Ability to identify challenges, trends, and opportunities.
•   Knowledge of planning analysis tools and modelling.
•   High level written and oral communication skills in the business language of the University.
•   Demonstrated capacity to manage multiple priorities to meet competing deadlines.

Summary of Duties:

•   Maintains and further develop the strategic planning framework and design approaches for strategic and multi-year operational planning.
•   Facilitate the line of sight between Institutional strategy and the APP and EAPP and facilitates the cascade of this alignment to divisional-, faculty- and departmental-level operational plans and tactical plans.
•   Collaborate with and capacity build stakeholders responsible for KPI achievement on planning execution principles and concepts.
•   Supports in the mid-term/cyclical review of the strategic plan.
•   Supports in the facilitation of adaptive management learning sessions.
•   Manage all administrative processes surrounding the strategic and operational planning process.
•   Collate data into reporting templates and draft written narratives for mandatory, statutory and management plans and reports.
•   Compile plans and complete reports, in alignment to DHET regulations and institutional requirements, for submission to DHET and Council.
•   Review the planning and reporting processes to make process improvement recommendations to line management.
•   Collaborate with Institutional Planning Monitoring and Evaluation (IPME) team and other stakeholders to support collation and compilation of data and information for the preparation of plans and reports.