Save the Children South Africa New Opportunity

Save the Children South Africa (SCSA) works with children and their families in some of the nation’s most marginalised communities. SCSA is at the forefront of saving children’s lives and creating lasting change for children and their families, reaching over 100,000 children directly and over a million children indirectly annually through child rights, health and nutrition, child protection and education programmes.

Since early 2018, SCSA is implementing the Happy Living and Learning project in ECD centres in Gauteng, Kwa-Zulu Natal and Mpumalanga over a 2 – year period. The project is based on SCSA’s holistic/integrated approach to early childhood development. The Early Childhood Centre Infrastructure Project Manager will be directly responsible for developing ECD centre infrastructure extension plans and ensuring its roll-out as per the project budget and guidelines. He/she will work closely with the project team in order to meet project deadlines and deliverables.

Job Title: Early Childhood Centre Infrastructure Project Manager 
Grade: 3
Fixed Term: 13 months
Reports to: GP/MP Provincial Manager
Location: Pretoria
Travel Requirements: 60% domestic travel
Budget Responsibilities: Above R1.2 million annually
Asset Responsibilities: SCSA working tools
Child Protection level: 3

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Facilitate development of ECD site infrastructure extension plans according to donor specifications, infrastructure needs assessment and municipal by-laws
• Manage the planning, execution and completion of the additional space or building extension
• Co-ordinate the acquisition and development of resources and material required for the ECD libraries
• Initiate and maintain strong working relationships with local government, traditional leadership and other key ECD centre stakeholders
• Implement the ECD infrastructure budget, maintaining maximum expenditure within a set timeframe in line with donor conditions and project plans
• Contribute to documentation of lessons learnt during implementation of this project
• Work collaboratively with the Happy Living & Learning (HLL) Project team
• Undertake any other related responsibilities as the Provincial Manager may assign

BEHAVIOUR AND PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES (Save the Children Values in Practice)

Accountability

• Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds colleagues accountable to deliver on their responsibilities and provide necessary support to improve team performance

Ambition

• Future oriented, thinks strategically and on a global scale
• Focused on achieving external impact of the project

Collaboration

• Clear ability to understand other people’s perspective and address reasonable concerns and needs
• Builds and maintains effective relationships with colleagues, members and external partners
• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength

Creativity

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks
• Takes initiatives that are beneficial to the organisation

Integrity

Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity

Ubuntu

We endeavour to treat everyone with respect, empathy and compassion

Passion

We value passion, determination, perseverance and the sense of urgency

Learning

We believe in creating a learning organisation in which staff members commit themselves to personal growth and, in so doing, seek and share knowledge and information.

CHILD SAFEGUARDING

Level 3:  the role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process of staff.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Undergraduate qualification in construction, building, civil engineering related field, or equivalent recognised qualification
• Project Management qualification will be an additional advantage

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• At least 5 years’ experience working in the South African ECD/education sector
• Demonstrable Project Management experience and management of building projects
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English, ability to inform and engage through written communication
• Experience in developing ECD infrastructure
• Experience in planning and facilitating building & procurement processes
• Strong skills in Microsoft office and project management tools
• Strong initiative and ability to multi-task, anticipate and prioritise without direct supervision

ESSENTIAL

• Driver’s license
• Competence in MS Office and basic Excel

Applications must be sent to [email protected]

Appliation Deadline: 17th September, 2018