What will you do?
Manager: Stakeholder Programmes
Brand Services: Market Development
CAREER OPPORTUNITY
A position of Manager: Stakeholder Programmes exists in Santam Brand Services.
JOB DESCRIPTION
The role is intended to provide effective thought leadership to and effective project management of the portfolio of Santam’s partnerships with municipalities and other public sector, private sector and third sector partnerships.
The projects are in respect of Santam’s Partnerships for Risk and Resilience (P4RR) Programme.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
• To provide oversight and implementation of P4RR programme nationally.
• Developing and reviewing the P4RR strategy including establishing a risk management framework and dashboard to monitor & evaluate P4RR deliverables.
• Prepare partnership agreements that are required in the course of the P4RR work. This includes ensuring, together with Santam Legal that agreements are compliant and acceptable.
• Budget Management: Prepare project and portfolio financial budgets, reporting, and governance, overseeing the day-to-day expenditure and management of the P4RR budget and partnerships.
• Manage small to large project implementation using the principles and disciplines of project management including agile methodology.
• Facilitate the quarterly National Disaster Resilience Roundtable and its projects.
• Stakeholder Management: Developing & maintaining partnership relationships with municipal officials, politicians and principals of other partners.
• Building & maintaining relations with stakeholders internal to Santam.
• Represent and champion P4RR at internal, Santam and other external forums.
• Ensuring P4RR compliance with contracting and management of suppliers (following the Santam Group Sourcing protocols).
• Emthunzini Community Trust P4RR priorities and deliverables executed on time, in adherence to budget.
• Complete reporting and administration on the P4RR to Santam Exco, SESCO and the annual Santam Integrated Report.
• Effective implementation of the P4RR Strategy and tracking of the P4RR Dashboard.
What will make you successful in this role?
KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE
• Minimum 8 years’ experience in Disaster Risk Management at a Senior Level.
• Understanding the rules, regulations, sanctions and other statutory requirements, guidelines and instructions relating to governing bodies and organisations, both internally and externally.
• Knowledge of government policies and legislation and related practices in Fire, Emergency Services & Disaster Management services.
• Knowledge of Risk Management and Analysis, the process of measuring, or assessing risk and then developing strategies to manage the risk.
• Knowledge and experience of Risk Management as it relates to commercial risk reduction.
QUALIFICATIONS
• Honours Degree in Disaster recovery
• Relevant Project Management Qualification
SKILLS
• Problem-solving
• Strategic decision-making
• Networking skills
• Influencing skills
• Negotiation skills
• Project and portfolio management
• Decision-making
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal presentation)
• Strong ability to work across sectors
• Comfortable with ambiguity & paradox – complexity & system focus
• Budget management
• Change management
• Ability to operate at different levels of work
• Business acumen
COMPETENCIES
• Collaboration
• Client focus
• Cultivates Innovation
• Resilience (Ability to operate under pressure)
• Drives results (Results orientated, pro-active and deadline driven)
• Commercial Acumen
• Plans and Aligns
• Situational Adaptability
• Manage Complexity
• Builds Networks
Knowledge and Skills
Reporting and Administration
Quality, compliance and accreditation
Business Processes
Assist with development of Corporate Social Investment Strategy and implementation thereof
Personal Attributes
Organisational savvy - Contributing through others
Decision quality - Contributing through others
Plans and aligns - Contributing through others
Optimises work processes - Contributing through others
Build a successful career with us
We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future – your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth.
Through its four business clusters – Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Emerging Markets, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office – the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.
Core Competencies
Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others
Customer focus - Contributing through others
Drives results - Contributing through others
Collaborates - Contributing through others
Being resilient - Contributing through others
Turnaround time
The shortlisting process will only start once the application due date has been reached. The time taken to complete this process will depend on how far you progress and the availability of managers.
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