- Provide independent, high-level strategic advice to the CEO on organisational priorities, risks, and opportunities.
- Integrate enterprise priorities by facilitating coordination across functions and resolving cross-functional trade-offs.
- Translate complex internal and external information into clear, actionable insights to inform executive decision-making.
- Support the CEO in shaping and communicating organisational strategy and direction.
- Promote shared strategic understanding and cohesion across the executive leadership team.
Organisational Strategy and Performance
- Lead the development and execution of the organisational strategy and Annual Performance Plan (APP).
- Ensure coherence between strategic objectives, operational plans, and resource allocation.
- Oversee enterprise performance management, including monitoring, evaluation, and reporting.
- Assess organisational performance, identify gaps, and drive corrective interventions.
- Identify systemic service delivery challenges and enable enterprise-level responses.
- Drive organisational improvement through innovation, learning, and performance optimisation initiatives.
Executive Office Leadership & Coordination
- Lead and manage the Office of the CEO as a central coordination and integration function.
- Manage the CEO's strategic agenda, including prioritisation and workflow management.
- Coordinate execution of cross-functional strategic initiatives and enterprise commitments.
- Establish and maintain systems to track delivery of CEO directives and organisational priorities.
- Facilitate aligned stakeholder engagement in support of strategic objectives.
- Drive efficiency, innovation, and continuous improvement within the Executive Office.
Governance Enablement & Decision Support
- Enable adherence to governance frameworks and regulatory requirements (e.g., PFMA, King IV), without assuming assurance accountability.
- Coordinate EXCO processes to ensure structured, timely and effective decision-making.
- Ensure executive submissions are complete, relevant, and strategically aligned.
- Monitor implementation of EXCO decisions and agreed actions to ensure accountability.
- Provide visibility of governance dependencies and organisational implications to support informed decision-making.
Strategic Infrastructure & Facilities Oversight
- Provide strategic oversight of organisational infrastructure and facilities to support operational effectiveness.
- Align facilities and workplace strategy with organisational objectives and workforce requirements.
- Oversee long-term capital planning, space utilisation, and sustainability initiatives.
- Provide executive oversight of occupational health and safety (OHS) frameworks and compliance reporting in line with legislative requirements.
- Oversee performance governance of facilities-related service providers against agreed service standards and strategic value outcomes.
- Matric Certificate (NQF 4)
- Postgraduate Qualification in Business Management/Public Administration Strategy/Economics or Maritime studies (NQF 8)
- Master's degree (NQF 9) would be an added advantage
- Ten (10) years' relevant experience in supporting the CEO's Office.
- Five (5) years experience in Senior Management role
- One (1) year experience in Executive Management experience (minimum 1 year) would be an added advantageous.
- Enterprise strategy development and execution Organisational performance management (APP, M&E)
- Executive advisory and decision-support
Demonstrated experience in:
- Leading cross-functional integration and complex initiatives
- Supporting EXCO and Board-level processes Experience
- Experience in the public sector or regulatory environments is highly desirable.
- Experience in overseeing strategic research would be an added advantage
- Experience overseeing facilities and infrastructure functions at an organisational level would be an advantage.
FUNCTIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
- Enterprise strategy development and execution
- Organisational performance management (APP, M&E frameworks)
- Public sector governance frameworks (PFMA, King IV)
- Executive decision-support and advisory practices
- Programme and portfolio coordination
- Facilities and infrastructure strategy (oversight level) Strategic thinking and systems leadership
- Executive communication and influencing
- Complex problem-solving and decision-making
- Stakeholder and relationship management
- Change and transformation leadership
- Analytical thinking and insight synthesis