Chief Investment Officer

**Eastern Cape**, East London**

**Negotiable Monthly Cost To Company (Market related, Negotiable)**

**Opportunity Available Our leading client in the Business Development Sector is looking to employ a Chief Investment Officer to join their dynamic team in East London.**

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- **Export trade development and facilitation**
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- **Local and global promotion of the EC province as an investment destination of choice**
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- **Building requisite capabilities and positioning the company as strategic fund managers for both public and private sector funds**
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- **Leading strategic projects development from ideation to bankability**
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- **Spearheading investment management in catalytic commercially sound initiatives**
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- **Leading partnerships development and management for trade, investment, and resource mobilisation**
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- **Building and managing a team of professionals to achieve the strategic objectives**
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- **Lead the company’s vision, mission and strategic objectives in relation to Trade, Investment and Promotion.**
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**Key Responsibilities**:
**Investment Management**:
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- **Develop a system of identifying investment opportunities, packaging and linking it to investors or relevant institutions, provide information and assist municipalities with support services that lead to investment retention, identify large scale Investment projects, and package & market these for investment**
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- **Establish Knowledge Management Hub for Trade and Investment in the Eastern Cape using RAP as a Research instrument.**
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- **Drive the value chain analysis and communicate results to stakeholders (e.g. livestock farming, meat production, Cannabis, Oceans Economy, Renewable Energy, Creative Economy, Tourism, Automotive, General Manufacturing and Digital Economy)**
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- **Establish a Town & Urban Planning capacity for purposes of supporting municipalities in servicing investors (existing & new).**
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- **Lobby for the development of an Eastern Cape incentive package to support investors/investments.**
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**Lead Trade and Investment promotion**:
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- **Build sustainable solutions and supporting trade and investment tools through analysis and advise on resource consumption and optimisation opportunities.**
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- **Build the multidimensional trade and investment model partnering with stakeholders across the government sphere.**
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- **Create and promote a solid and validated Trade and Promotion project pipeline, promoting industry sectors with high potential and qualified projects within the province.**
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- **Assess and monitor the impact of financial and non-financial changes in market and inform trade and investments decisions.**
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- **Work closely with regional governments and the Southern African Development Community on trade policy.**
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- **Develop systems to evaluate risks and benefits, opportunities and possible risk mitigation plans and maximise benefits.**
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- **Assess the emerging and dynamic markets as well as stable yet growing sectors through a variety of well proven methods.**
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- **Monitor all the South African bilateral and multi-lateral trade initiatives.**
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**Establish, oversee and manage projects and programmes and aligning them with national and provincial Trade and Investment strategy**:
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- **Innovate and oversee Trade and Investment Promotion for major projects and programmes that address the company’s strategic goals.**
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- **Lead and drive the implementation of growth sectors’ strategies.**
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- **Lead and drive investment promotion strategies and projects.**
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- **Direct and coordinate approved programmes, projects, and major activities in collaboration with the management team.**
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- **Monitor and evaluate the integration and synergy between projects, programmes and the units.**
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- **Develop and manage capability to conduct and evaluate research, such as detailed company or industry analyses, to inform investment decision making.**
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- **Maximise returns within acceptable levels of risk through the implementation of an effective multi decision making approach**
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**Regulatory compliance and effective risk management on all aspects of the Investment Management practice**:
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- **Ensure compliance to statutory, regulatory, legislative and internal requirements**
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- **Manage investment risk exposure through appropriate risk identification, monitoring, and reporting to effectively minimise the impact of business risks**
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**Accountability for the overall Financial Management for the Unit**:
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- **Prepare and approve the consolidated forecast of annual capital and operational budgets in line with corporate guidelines.**
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- **Manage overall costs against guidelines and act where necessary.**
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- **Monitor the utilisation of the budget to ensure that expenditure is effectively managed and allocated efficiently.**
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- **Identify and analyse reasons/causes f