Senior Manager: Strategy And Business Performance

Requirements

• Be in possession of a Post Graduate Degree in Business Administration or Public Management.
• Have 6-8 years of experience at a strategic level i.e., ExCo and /or Senior management role.
• Have an understanding (working knowledge) of the South African Government’s Medium-Term Strategic Framework (MTSF).
• An understanding of the Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment (DFFE) reporting format and cycles.
• An understanding of the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) Framework and guidelines for the development of Strategies, Annual Performance Plans, and Annual Operational Plans.
• An understanding of the role of the AG in auditing strategies, APPs, and AOPs.
• Leadership and management skills.
• Planning and organising.
• Conflict management.
• Presentation skills.
• Computer skills.
• Listening skills.
• High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
• Making rule-based and analytical decisions.
• Project management.
• Interpersonal skills.
• Strategic leadership and awareness.
• Project management skills.
• Interpersonal skills.
• Strategic leadership and awareness.
• Decision making.
• Teamwork and collaboration.
• Time management.
• Ethical practice and adhering to organisational values.
• Organisational knowledge.
• Effective communication (verbal and written).
• Information management.
• Analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Monitor the implementation of the APPs and divisional AOPs, against set deliverables.
• Manage the early warning system and reporting between divisions and EXCO.
• Compile and distribute business performance information to relevant parties internally and externally.
• Coordinate attendance and reporting of working groups and reports to Minmec.
• Provide support in the planning, preparation, organising, and execution of business performance planning sessions.
• Advice on business process efficacies.
• Collate information from previous strategic plans and provide a baseline from which a 5-year strategic plan will be developed.
• Provide support in the development of the SANParks annual performance plan (APP) in alignment with the government’s MTSF and the DPME guideline.
• Ensure the development of divisional annual operational plans and assure quality.
• Ensure development of departmental operations plans.
• Provide input into alignment of APPS, OAPs in the HCM performance management system, and L&D approaches.
• Combined assurance for audit to internal and AG on the business performance report.
• Ensure timeous and correct reporting of the annual performance plans on a quarterly and annual basis to the EXCO, board committees, board, DFFE, and DPME.
• Ensure compliance with the relevant prescripts of MTSF, DPME guidelines, and the national treasury.
• Ensure compliance with the Auditor General’s (AG) prescripts in terms of reporting against the annual performance plans.
• Ensure that the internal audit provides quarterly assessments on the APP.
• Ensure that audit findings from the AG and internal audit are tracked per division and corrective actions are undertaken.

Documents Required

• A covering letter, detailed Curriculum Vitae, certified copies of qualification(s), and Identity Document (certified within the past 3 months)