Director: Mandela University Africa Hub for Youth

Description:

Provide visionary leadership, innovative strategy development, agile execution, and continual renewal to positioning the Mandela University Africa Hub as a dynamic, adaptive, and sustainable catalyst at the heart of fostering a self-reliant, creative and enterprising generation of entrepreneurs, social innovators and change-makers..

• Strategic Thinking: Develop, mobilise and deploy creative and innovative knowledge and thinking to position the MUAH at the core of the living ecosystem for entrepreneurship development and social innovation.
• Strategic Management: Develop and recommend the HUBs long-term strategy, vision, and performance targets, supported by annual implementation plans and budgets that drive sustainable growth.
• Entrepreneurship Development and Social Innovation Promotion: Develop and implement programmes that promote entrepreneurship and social innovation, recruit students, the youth and entrepreneurs to grow the MSMEs in key economic sectors.
• Governance & Compliance: Ensure effective management structures, sound policies, and robust governance systems while monitoring compliance with legal, regulatory, and applicable standards.
• Operational Effectiveness and Optimisation: Oversee capital and operational expenditure, ensure efficient resource allocation, and monitor HUBs performance against agreed objectives.
• Organizational Development: Establish effective structures, systems, teams, and operating models that enable execution of strategy, excellence and realisation of the imperatives of sustainability of the MUAH.,
• Resource Mobilisation and Partnerships: Design integrative collaborative ecosystems for resource mobilisation and programme or project-based partnerships.

  Core Competencies:

  Advanced level of competencies required:

  Leadership & Strategy

• Strategic Leadership

Business & Financial Acumen

Communication & Stakeholder Relationship Management