GROW New Ongoing Recruitment – Apply Now!

The GROW with Educare Centres project was incubated by a partnership between The Clothing Bank and Grow Learning Company. Both partners have a deep understanding of the core components required to establish successful, self-sufficient, independent business owners who are able to provide quality education.

Job Title: Project Manager
Job Location: Cape Town
Salary: R28 000 to R30 000

The purpose of the position is to manage a staff team as well as all the deliverables for the region. This includes servicing our existing 24 ECD Centres in low income areas in Cape Town as well as establishing a further 6 centres during the course of 2019.

Requirements:

Business Management:

• Manage Business Plan for the region
• Develop and Manage the Implementation Plan for the Western Cape Region

Regional staff management:

• Recruit all new staff for the region
• Team meeting report planning / updates / distribution for CT
• Performance management of all regional staff
• Manage annual salary reviews of all regional staff

Financial Management:

• Internal
  • Financial Budget
  • Give input annual financial budget for the region
  • Submit all invoices
  • Check monthly management accounts
• Funding
  • Humulani, Saville Foundation and Myschool

High level Operations:

• Manage the implementation of the “GROW with Educare Centres” Chain of Events:
  • Internal
  • Training
  • Franchisee
  • Grow Learning Company

Marketing:

• Staff business cards
• Utilise Marketing collateral:
  • Website
  • Brochure
  • Video
  • Social Media – Facebook page
  • Pop-up banner
  • Mascot – Hippos
  • GROW with Educare Centres aprons

Recruitment of New Franchisees:

In conjunction with the Education Implementation Manager in Cape Town:

• Field all initial calls from potential Franchisees (usually existing Principals of Centres)
• Host information days for potential new Franchisees
• Do initial site visit to check viability
• Set up and facilitate recruitment day
• Arrange final site visits before sign up with infrastructure upgrades person for quotes
• Secure deposit payments
• Map out orders for each new Centre
• Work through Disclosure Document with final recruit
• Work through Franchise Agreement with final recruit
• Complete the new Franchisee file
• Oversee upfront inventory check
• Manage the implementation process at new Centres with Regional Education Manager

Ordering:

Oversee Education Mentor (Orders) with regards to the following:

• Centres:
  • Annual new Centres orders for set up
  • ‘Top up’ orders for existing Centres
  • Annual consumable’s orders
  • Other supplier orders e.g. Makro
  • Tracking
• Marketing material for Centres
• Printing orders
• Stationary orders

Infrastructure Upgrades:

• Source contractor to manage infrastructure upgrade
  • Manage the infrastructure upgrade process:
  • Sign off on quotes
  • Pay invoices
  • Do inspection of final work

Existing Franchisees:

• Oversee the planning and execution of the monthly franchisee meetings
• Manage the partnership and compliance of franchisees

Stakeholder Management:

• Create and manage database of Department of Social Development contacts
• Create and manage database of NGO contacts and management of NGO file
• Arranging and overseeing all stakeholder events

Requirements:

• Strong project management skills are essential
• Experience at management level in an NGO in the ECD space

To apply, submit your CV to [email protected]

Application Deadline: 31st August 2018