Managing Director

5 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Zenzeleni Networks Full time

**Vacancy: Zenzeleni Managing Director**

**Background**
Zenzeleni Networks NPC is an award winning non-profit company that exists to work with under
- resourced and under-privileged communities in South Africa which seek to benefit from the power of internet connectivity.

Zenzeleni was formed in 2012 through a friendship between a University of the Western Cape (UWC) doctoral student and a local community activist from the Eastern Cape. Since then it has maintained strong ties to South Africa’s leading academic institutions. Over the years it has grown substantially, now boasting 2 active communities in the rural Eastern Cape with combined monthly traffic of more than 7.5TB, a school of community networks currently training members from 7 South African communities, and daily requests to bring the services to other areas in South Africa too.

Zenzeleni has accumulated a number of accolades nationally and internationally for our innovative work:

- Zenzeleni’s work is widely recognised internationally, both through receiving support from, amongst others, the Internet Society and from the Association for Progressive

Communications, as well as featuring in all major reports on universal connectivity from the
United Nations agencies, and our work has been featured in major media national and international outlets such as the BBC, Deutsche Welle, SABC and eTV.
- Zenzeleni has received several awards, such as the Department of Science and Innovation’s

National award for "Best Innovation with Social Impact” in 2017; the SAB Social Innovation
Award in 2021; and Runner Up in Mozilla’s Equal Rating Innovation Challenge 2017.
- Since 2018 Zenzeleni has been in partnership with the South African Department of Science and Technology (DST) and its Technology Innovation Agency, which has supported us in our quest to refine and advance our model. As a result, the DST minister together with the minister from the Department of Communications visited our Eastern Cape site in March 2020.

Zenzeleni is a proud member of the Global movement for Community Networks and regularly participates in regional summits & thought pieces. Locally we also actively contribute practical guides to support organizations with similar goals, policy submissions, general articles and much, much more

While we are acutely aware of the challenges we face in bringing affordable and reliable telecommunications solutions to rural areas, we remain convinced that it is possible to work with communities to ensure quality connectivity in every corner of South Africa and that it is possible to use the power of the internet to empower society on an unprecedented scale. This vision continues to inspire and mobilize us to act.

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**The position**
Zenzeleni is looking for a new Managing Director to lead the organization in its next era of growth.

Working with the board of directors and an organisational team and in a full time, permanent capacity, the new Managing Director will lead the organization as it seeks to: (i) expand operations into new areas (ii) lobby for greater access to the internet and the eradication of digital inequality and

**Key Areas of Responsibility (KARs)**
- Jointly develop the organisation strategy, vision and mission of the organisation with the board;
- Manage the relationship with the board of directors to ensure that the board is well informed and able to govern Zenzeleni in keeping with the roles and responsibilities as outlined in

Zenzeleni’s Board Governance manual;
- Work with the board to strengthen Zenzeleni’s governance and oversight, ensuring that

Zenzeleni meets all internal policies, fiduciary responsibilities and that the organization maintains statutory compliance at all times, including HR practices, Financial control,
Occupational Health and Safety, NPO & PBO reporting etc;
- Provide strategic direction staff in accordance with the organisational strategy, which includes identifying key legislative changes and trends in society and the ICT sector in which we operate and steering the organization through those & inspiring the team and supporters to achieve that vision;
- Develop the operating plan and provide oversight to all implementation activities;
- Maintain and grow key relationships with ICT sector roleplayers, International, National and

Local government, grant-making trusts, and society at large to enable us to thrive;
- Represent the organisation at panels, industry bodies, SIGs, journals and lobby for policy reform
- Direct the staff recruitment and performance management process to ensure that Zenzeleni continues to attract the necessary quality staff from both the corporate as well as the NPO sector & maintain our reputation as an employer of excellence;
- Continuously develop and improve processes and procedures to ensure that staff can perform their duties & to foster a healthy workplace culture so that Zenzeleni is maintained as a data driven, learning organization;
- Impl

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