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RESPONSIBILITIES

Context (Global influences, environmental / industry demands, organizational mission etc.)

• MTN is entering a new phase in its lifecycle where operational and commercial excellence has become critical for success. The urgency for change has become more heightened amidst increased competitive intensity across all markets including MTN SA. The Head of Content must therefore ensure the successful delivery in context of:
• An expertise-based multicultural organisation 
• A dynamic and evolving field of Telecommunications
• Revolutionary workforce practices which are bringing together global labour markets
• Management of executive and local shareholder expectations across MTN SA and Group
• Achievement of top quartile operating efficiency and effectiveness through scale and common policies and processes
• Dynamic legal and regulatory environment
• Convergence in SA and exploration of non-traditional revenue streams requiring complex interpretation and structuring
• Evolving industry sector constantly presenting new challenges and opportunities to the core businesses
• Rapid horizontal and vertical expansion of MTN SA, in terms of size, products, customers and geographic distribution

Key Performance Areas: Core, essential responsibilities / outputs of the position (KPA's)

Key Deliverables

• The Head of Content will be accountable to achieve the following objectives:
• Strategy Development and Implementation
• Support and contribute to the development of the functional strategy in line with the overarching business goals
• Ensure effective implementation of the strategy by means of providing direction, structure, frameworks, models, plans and roadmaps
• Conduct regular review of the functional strategy and roadmap to ensure its alignment with the changing dynamics of the internal and external ecosystem

Governance 

Strategic Meetings

• Participate and provide input in strategic meetings
• Perform evaluation baseline of key performance indicators (KPIs)
• Request for relevant budget for internal projects and new initiatives
• Facilitate preparation of proposals on change initiatives, policies and procedures

Escalations

• Escalate issues that will result in severe time, scope, productivity, and cost or resource or reputational impact
• Manage and provide solutions to escalations that have multiple processes / functions impact on critical path of service delivery
• Manage and provide solutions through stakeholder consultation where relevant

Function Tactical

• Review all projects initiated (internal or global)
• Prepare objectives, targets and budgets for RMS as applicable
• Review key risks, issues and dependencies and set mitigation actions
• Facilitate in sign-off / making decisions regarding tactical changes

Performance

• Monitor performance and alignment with MTN SA and Group strategy
• Ensure alignment between across other functions within the Group Digital team

Reporting

• Report on a periodic basis to the Reporting Manager relating to progress made within the function and in accordance with the measurement metrics set by the organisation
• Report on an ad hoc basis on specific projects, as required

Budgets

• Manage functional budgets in line with overall business objectives
• Manage project initiative budgets in line with business objectives
• Ensure that the cost of operations are reduced, in line with a least cost operating strategy stemming from the business drivers

Operational Delivery

Strategy & Planning 

• Align Digital Content objectives for the relevant segments with overall strategy of the Digital and Direct Marketing function and with International trends and the Group Digital Refresh strategy.
• Develop the Digital Content strategy together with Group and other stakeholders
• Work with internal business stakeholders and the broader Consumer team in the development and execution of RMS and VAS products & services
• Manage a team of Digital Product Managers and counterparts with Partners and Group
• Drive best practice, continuous improvement and innovation at process and procedure level for Digital Content
• Analyse new Digital Content related technology trends and innovations 
• Find innovative new Digital Content initiatives and capitalise on opportunities
• Ensure that MTN maintains a position as a world class leader in Digital Content products and services 
• Develop and manage the Digital Content innovation strategy, roadmap and product portfolio mix, in alignment to the MTN SA and Group strategy and roadmap.
• Benchmark best practises in the Digital Content environment
     

Content Management  

• Lead the development of the Digital Content portfolio by ensuring Content Partners are sourced and launched on the service delivery platform through relevant channels 
• Oversee Digital Content curation to ensure all Digital Content is collected, organised and displayed appropriately on the appropriate service delivery platform 
• Ensure thorough research is done on various platforms in order to source the optimal Digital Content 
• Ensure the right content is sourced for the right markets 
• Oversee Digital Content aggregation, where applicable
• Manage the Digital Content applications and ensure that Digital Content is ordered in such a way on the service delivery platform that it is easily accessed by customers
• Lead the creation and management of a content calendar and strategy that covers all Digital Content related touch points
• Ensure content owners and partners are worked with to ensure that Digital Content is always relevant and up to date 
• Ensure collaboration with Online Digital Channels team to ensure alignment and synergy of content across Digital Content touch points
• Engage with Group Senior Managers for Strategy & Marketing, as well as Verticals & Markets to manage Digital Content for both Global and Local Digital Content and to receive global Digital Content insights, new products and gain Group insights with respect to Digital Content and associated partnerships and alliances

Process and Procedure Effectiveness

• Lead the defining and monitoring of the execution of Digital Content management processes and procedures for MTN operations
• Oversee the implementation of all Digital Content management processes and procedures and ensure they are aligned to the set operational framework for MTN SA and Group
• Ensure improvement of existing processes and procedures to enhance effectiveness, efficiency and performance

Quality Management 

• Oversee and ensure the establishment of systems and sound practices in order to comply with best practices, legislation or other regulations and guidelines around Digital Content
•  Lead the establishment and maintenance of Digital Content quality/process standards that will enhance the customer experience and cost efficiency
• Manage the Digital Content content hierarchy, usability, and users’ requirements and needs
• Ensure standard operating procedures are adhered to
• Communicate the consequences of not maintaining Digital Content quality/process focus 
• Manage the improvement of Digital Content channel processes and procedures where the quality of work may be improved

Customer Satisfaction 

• Ensure alignment service delivery to changing needs of the business and markets
• Ensure customer needs are understood and develop and fine-tune initiatives accordingly
• Ensure customer needs and requirements are satisfied through appropriate systems, processes and procedures
• Initiate change to continually improve all aspects of service delivery 
• Drive continuous improvement as an important element of service delivery
• Ensure trends and patterns pertaining to customer requests and needs are identified to continually improve all aspects of service delivery

Supervisory / Leadership/ Managerial Complexity 

• Recruit, develop and retain people with outstanding skills, qualifications and potential
• Define the divisional KPAs and KPIs that will be cascaded down to each area
• Evaluate and assess people performance
• Understand the need to train and develop staff to be able to use resources optimally and enhance performance 
• Deploy and redeploy resources to get the work done 
• Build and enforce a customer-centric approach
• Build talent by identifying and developing new leaders for the respective environment
• Assist with employee relations and collaborative teamwork
• Manage Employment Equity and diversity
• Coach and guide subordinates 
• Build professionalism, loyalty and commitment to the organization
• Communicate actively and effectively resolving any potential conflicts that may arise 
• Display insight into leadership style and how it impacts on performance positively and negatively 
• Possess and develop the insight and flexibility to adapt to different situations 
• Manage boundaries that separate units to optimize workflow
• Live the MTN Brand – changing and influencing employee behaviour

Ways of Working 

• Leading by Connecting: Connect people; stimulate collaboration and growth in teams across functions, operations and different cultures. Share experience and knowledge that leads to a learning organization, creating sustainable expertise which drives the development of people and innovative products, 
• Leading by Delivery:  Anticipate situations and take initiative to overcome them. The result is a swift and on time delivery of qualitative and quantitative results.
• Leading by Vision: From analyzing the situation inside and outside the company and seeing opportunities until communicating the vision of the company including new ideas for sustainable business strategies, products, services and ways of working. The end result is an inspiring vision on how to succeed in our markets with our consumers in the center. 
• Leading by Change: From embracing change until leading and facilitating the implementation of change and handling of resistance for senior people. The end result is an on-time implementation of change projects and actions while maintaining a high level of motivation and commitment.
• Leading by Owning:  Take responsibility for own results as well as for company results and values. Stimulate this attitude in others, make co-workers accountable. The end result is pro-activity, creativity and motivation: capable people who take ownership.

QUALIFICATIONS

Job Requirements (Education, Experience and Competencies)

Education:

• Minimum of 3-year tertiary degree (Bachelor of Science, Commerce, Engineering or related field)
• MBA or Masters (advantageous)

Experience:

• Manager track record of 5 years or more; with at least 3 years’ experience in telecommunications, digital marketing, digital product management, content management 
• Minimum of 4 to 5 years of Senior Management experience  
• Minimum of 3 years experience in Digital Content management
• Hands on experience in managing and implementing digital products and initiatives, with strong analytics background
• Deep understanding of the digital ecosystem, players, business models and industry related best practices.
• Understanding emerging markets advantageous
• Pan Africa multi-cultural experience is advantageous
• Entrepreneurial spirit, self-driven and ability to motivate a fast-paced team
• Attitude of Innovation, inventiveness and thought leadership
• Abreast of global mind-set and best practice
• English speaker. French, Zulu and other official languages a plus

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Tactical and Operations

• Support and Maintain all the enterprise co-location areas.
• Manage all operating systems, infrastructure and application that run the pillar solutions offered to our enterprise customers Ensure the upgrading of existing systems.
• Support systems to achieve the company set Key Performance Indicators
• Work with related stakeholders concerning the prompt restoration or provision of service in full or partial system failures. Treat all systems as mission-critical.
• Travel to site for support duties, testing, new installations and upgrades where needed
• Configuration management and system orchestration using MTN's related systems
• Document system configuration and changes in system configuration.
• Work with the Hosting engineers and vendors to design and implement highly available solutions
• Ensure all area day-to-day tasks are being completed to the required level
• Analyse performance trends and failure impacts on service
• Work with the Hosting Engineers & Vendors to deploy and maintain server infrastructure, virtualisation environment, storage network and application-level network services.
• Replacing and upgrading of end-of-life systems.
• Execute the upgrade and replacement of hardware/software before end-of-life.
• Maintaining knowledge of current technology trends.
• Constantly learning and evaluating technological skills
• Communicate all faults and planned work through the correct channels
• Support Manager Enterprise Co-Location to schedule and implement of maintenance schedules
• Work with the different teams to approve the outcome of Acceptance Testing results from suppliers.
• Administer the roll out of all software package related to the area.
• Ensure that system utilisation reports are in place and relevant
• Continuously evaluating through correlation and monitoring systems
• Work with the engineers to optimise productivity by automating repetitive tasks.
• Develop and deploy tools or total solutions in aid to business processes and general productivity.

Business Support

• Collaborate and provide business with knowledge of the technical capability of the co-location space Implement IS solutions that meet business requirements.
• Ensure timeous resolution of issues.
• Maintaining knowledge of current technology trends.
• Analyse the current business environment to detect critical deficiencies and report on them
• Constantly learning and evaluating technological skills as is relevant to a Tier 1 ISP.

Governance

• Follow all corporate governance procedures in place
• Work with the Specialists to document and test system before promoting to production.
• All changes should be documented and managed for all production environment changes.
• Comply with all security policies defined by MTN
• Ensure that all ICT Operations policies, processes, and procedures are documented, understood, adhered to and continuously maintained.
• Facilitate the auditing process between MTN and vendor to ensure that audit findings are resolved and managed
• Support the integration forums with Revenue Assurance to understand issues, planning and concerns.
• Ensuring vendors adhere to MTN Governance and Processes.

Role Complexity: (additional complexity that is not inherent to the position)

• Highly technical position requiring vast technical knowledge in mechanical and electricals
• High pace of technological advancement/development
• Reliance on 3rd party vendors
• Systems involved directly support a Tier1 ISP and focusing on support and availability aligned with existing network topology Must be competent in compiling reports.

Creativities (improvement/innovation inherent)

• Absolutely self-driven, constantly finding new ways to solve problems, being able to apply technological prowess to solve real world problems arising from the daily operations of the business.
• Has the ability to bridge freely between different technologies and applications
• Continuously review system performance and recommend creative ways to enhance performance
• Lateral, logical thinking, problem solving and troubleshooting
• Innovative ways of investigating the root cause of problems and failures.

Education, Skills and Experience

Education

• 3-year degree/diploma in Mechanical or Electrical Engineering
• Certification on Hosting is an added advantage

Experience

• Minimum 5 years general systems administration experience in a data centre environment
• Experience working in a medium size organization

Training:

• Customer Service Training