Operations Manager

3 months ago


Hoedspruit, South Africa GVI Full time

**Reports to**:Bushwise Director
**Working location**:Hoedspruit Office, Limpopo
**Type of Contract**:Fixed Term Contract, initially 6 months with _(option to extend dependent on excellent performance) _
**Start date**:ASAP

**About Bushwise**
Bushwise is an internationally recognised Field Guide Training Company that conducts high quality training across the African continent, that is also committed to training and developing its staff.

Exciting and new expansion opportunities have opened up new positions within the company to grow the team. Specifically, we are looking for a very experienced Operations Manager to join us at Bushwise.

**About the role**

**✨ **About you**
If you are ambitious, purpose-driven, and you have a great sense of humour, we want to meet you. As an organisation, we know that welcoming a broad range of people with unique identities makes us a more powerful workforce and we are committed to evolving our diversity, equity and inclusion practice.

**Specific responsibilities**
- Finance:

- Create & maintain operational budgets for Bushwise using advanced excel skills.
- Continuously looking to optimise costs and improve margins.
- Operations:

- Deliver on fleet & asset management
- Implement systems to manage and track
- Manage the maintenance requirements of the Bushwise camps
- Successfully deliver on upcoming and ongoing project management requirements
- Oversee the overall procurement for Bushwise
- Ongoing logistics management for both students and staff
- Health & Safety:

- Be the main responsible person for the overall H&S of Bushwise.
Assist with any crisis management in a leadership role

**Personal attributes**:

- You should be able and love to travel to the various camps across South Africa.
- You are someone that is solution driven with excellent problem-solving skills.
- You are someone who is confident and decisive.
- Excellent negotiator.
Well-organised in your work and you love spreadsheets and tracking success.

***Professional skills and experience:
- 5-10 years experience as an Operations Manager.
- Advanced Excel skills including Pivot Tables and G-Suite
- 5 years experience in project management.
- Strong leadership skills, with the ability to guide and mentor others.
- Basic technical understanding of general maintenance.
- Proven track record of developing and executing large annual budgets.
- It’s important that you are a master at being organised in your work.
Taking initiative and having the ability to multitask and be proactive.

**Benefits:
**Here’s what our Bushwise team enjoys:

- Half days on the first Friday of each quarter
- Collaborative, flexible culture
- Transparency - hear directly from the CEO consistently
We laugh a lot, genuinely care about and support each other, and do the occasional dress-up and social event at the local restaurant.

You can find out more about the type of work Bushwise does and who we are as an organisation here.

**To apply**

Please send your CV and a cover letter stating why you feel you would be best suited to this position at GVI.



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