Director: Business Development And Communications

The Health Systems Trust wishes to appoint a Director to develop and drive a business development and income generation strategy that supports HST to maintain a competitive market position and financial sustainability.
The Director will lead and grow a business development, marketing and communications function to maintain HST's competitive market position and financial sustainability.
The role supports the achievement of HST's strategic goals with a focus on identifying and securing new business opportunities, guiding proposal development, stakeholder engagement, market intelligence and developing and driving effective marketing and communications strategies.
The Director will have an extensive knowledge of the current donor environment and funding trends in the health sector and forge relationships with partners and funders through leveraging existing networks.
As a member of HST's executive management team, the role provides strategic advice to the CEO, ExCo and relevant HST staff on business development, marketing and communications initiatives to support organisational strategic objectives.
The position is based at the HST Midrand office.
This is a fixed-term contract position, renewable based on the availability of funding.