Overview: The incumbent will be responsible for identifying, facilitating, and managing catalytic economic development projects in the Eastern Cape Province. This role involves conducting preliminary viability assessments, creating a project pipeline, and leveraging economic opportunities linked to large-scale developments as well as building strategic partnerships with stakeholders at various government levels to support successful project implementation. The position involves identifying catalytic projects and facilitation of viability assessments to ascertain feasibility and impact. A critical task will be developing and maintaining a project pipeline to ensure project monitoring and continuity.
Responsibilities include: facilitate opportunities connected to mega-developments and presenting funding proposals to the Project Committee for approval.forging strategic partnerships with relevant stakeholders, securing contracts and Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for project implementation, and establishing Project Steering Committees (PSCs) for oversight and communication.identify strategic sourcing opportunities from the public sector while developing collaboration relationships with national, provincial, and local government institutions.develop an SMME empowerment framework aligned with government sourcing opportunities, determining support requirements for Small, Medium, and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs), encompassing funding and capacity-building needs while facilitating market access for SMME productslead and manage approved strategic development initiatives, monitoring implementation and reporting progressprovide input into the organizational strategy and corporate plandevelop operational plans and budgets that align with corporate objectivesmobilise resources for the role functional area mandate Minimum requirements: A bachelor's degree in commerce or development studiesRelevant postgraduate qualification (NQF 8 or higher)8+ years working experience of which 5 years should be at middle management or senior consultant level in an economic development or development management/facilitation environment Closing date for applications: 14 January 2025 Salary: R Job Reference #: 1146176