Assistant Director: Events and Amenities

**ASSISTANT DIRECTOR: EVENTS AND AMENITIES**

The University of Limpopo (UL) is standardising all events across different business units.

It is also improving/establishing different properties on campus to create world class

restaurants, guest houses and other tourist establishments. An Eventing and Amenities

Unit - in the Department of Marketing and Communication - will coordinate all these, and

the University seeks to recruit a suitably qualified and competent Unit Head.

**Requirements**:

- Marketing and/or Communication or Project Management or Sports

Management or Hospitality degree.
- Event management experience or understanding of the strategic value of eventing

as a marketing and communication tool.
- Knowledge of hospitality, restaurant management and/or sports management.
- Excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills.
- Exceptional management, planning, budgeting and reporting skills.
- 5 years of management experience with a demonstrable track record of managing

sizeable teams and dealing with multiple stakeholders.
- Sponsorship management or fundraising expertise or sports management/golf or

club management experience, and/or hospitality management experience.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Establishing and managing the Eventing and Amenities Unit.
- Creating the standard operating procedures for the Unit's functioning.
- Creating guidelines for the establishment and running of an hotel on campus

and for converting some of UL's properties on campus into bed-and-breakfast

tourist establishments
- Creating guidelines for turning the Turfloop Campus of UL into a (tourism)

heritage site - in concert with the Department of Sports, Arts and Culture - by

preserving and restoring its buildings, fauna and flora, and other features of

historical significance.
- Turning some of UL's existing restaurants (and some buildings) into competitive

restaurants to make the campus a tourist node and to take advantage of the

University's location to generate third-stream income.
- Improving the University's golf course into a world-class facility, organising top

events on it and by hosting developmental golf courses for the community of

Mankweng, Polokwane, Capricorn District and Limpopo.
- Serving as a member of the Exco of the Department, along with the Executive

Director, the Director of Marketing and Communication and the other Heads of

Units.

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**CLOSING DATE**:3 MAY 2024**

addresses and include contact numbers of three (3) referees, certified copies of

all qualifications including Matric/ Grade 12 Certificate, Academic transcripts and

a South African ID/ Passport should be forwarded to the Human Resource Officer,
- Telephonic enquiries regarding conditions of service_**_: Mr TG Morokolo 015 268 4794_**_ _
- It is the applicant's responsibility to have foreign obtained qualifications _
- evaluated by the South African Qualifications Authority. Please note that failure _
- being considered. _
- The University of Limpopo is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All appointments will _
- be made in accordance with the University's Employment Equity Policy. Preference _

**_ASSISTANT DIRECTOR AVENTS AND AMENITIES _**_will be given to Male _
- (Africans, Indians and Coloureds) Female (Africans and Coloureds _
- not been contacted within 30 days of the closing date must consider their applicants _
- as unsuccessful. _

**_The University reserve the right not to make appointment_