Senior Manager: Strategy and Business Performance

The Organisation requires the services of a Senior Manager: Strategy and Business Performance in the Chief Operating Officer Division. This position will be based at Groenkloof National Park, Pretoria.

**Location**:
GROENKLOOF NATIONAL PARK (HEAD OFFICE)

**Requirements**:

- Be in possession of a Post Graduate Degree in Business Administration or Public Management.
- Have 6-8 years of experience at a strategic level i.e., ExCo and /or Senior management role.
- Have an understanding (working knowledge) of the South African Government’s Medium-Term Strategic Framework (MTSF).
- An understanding of the Department of Forestry, Fisheries, and the Environment (DFFE) reporting format and cycles.
- An understanding of the Department of Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation (DPME) Framework and guidelines for the development of Strategies, Annual Performance Plans, and Annual Operational Plans.
- An understanding of the role of the AG in auditing strategies, APPs, and AOPs.
- Leadership and management skills.
- Planning and organising.
- Conflict management.
- Presentation skills.
- Computer skills.
- Listening skills.
- High level of accuracy and attention to detail.
- Making rule-based and analytical decisions.
- Project management.
- Interpersonal skills.
- Strategic leadership and awareness.
- Project management skills.
- Interpersonal skills.
- Strategic leadership and awareness.
- Decision making.
- Teamwork and collaboration.
- Time management.
- Ethical practice and adhering to organisational values.
- Organisational knowledge.
- Effective communication (verbal and written).
- Information management.
- Analytical skills.

**Responsibilities**:

- Monitor the implementation of the APPs and divisional AOPs, against set deliverables.
- Manage the early warning system and reporting between divisions and EXCO.
- Compile and distribute business performance information to relevant parties internally and externally.
- Coordinate attendance and reporting of working groups and reports to Minmec.
- Provide support in the planning, preparation, organising, and execution of business performance planning sessions.
- Advice on business process efficacies.
- Collate information from previous strategic plans and provide a baseline from which a 5-year strategic plan will be developed.
- Provide support in the development of the SANParks annual performance plan (APP) in alignment with the government’s MTSF and the DPME guideline.
- Ensure the development of divisional annual operational plans and assure quality.
- Ensure development of departmental operations plans.
- Provide input into alignment of APPS, OAPs in the HCM performance management system, and L&D approaches.
- Combined assurance for audit to internal and AG on the business performance report.
- Ensure timeous and correct reporting of the annual performance plans on a quarterly and annual basis to the EXCO, board committees, board, DFFE, and DPME.
- Ensure compliance with the relevant prescripts of MTSF, DPME guidelines, and the national treasury.
- Ensure compliance with the Auditor General’s (AG) prescripts in terms of reporting against the annual performance plans.
- Ensure that the internal audit provides quarterly assessments on the APP.
- Ensure that audit findings from the AG and internal audit are tracked per division and corrective actions are undertaken.

**Please Note**:
SANParks reserves the right not to make an appointment.

**Salary**:
R943 635.00 - R1 415 505.00 Per Annum

**How To Apply**:
**Documents Required**:
A covering letter, detailed Curriculum Vitae, certified copies of qualification(s), and Identity Document (certified within the past 3 months) to the following address:
Human Resources Division
SA National Parks
PO Box 787
PRETORIA
0001
Fax: 086 295 4078

Applicants in possession of foreign qualifications are to submit evaluated results by the South African Qualifications Authority.

**Closing Date**:
03 October 2025