Gender and Local Government Manager South Africa

Gender Links, a dynamic Southern African NGO headquartered in Johannesburg that promotes gender justice and equality seeks to fill the post of South Africa Local Government Manager.

Key responsibilities:

• Managing Centres of Excellences (COE) in South Africa, through mainstreaming gender in local government, associated partners and stakeholders
• Facilitating training in various stages of Centres of Excellences
• Managing knowledge creation and learning, gathering testimonials per councils at workshops, compiling I stories, contributing to the SADC Barometer
• Planning and Reporting for the SA Local Government
• Fundraising and managing the budget for the programme
• Generating monthly monitoring and evaluation reports

Qualifications, experience and skills

• A degree in Social Sciences, Gender Studies or other relevant discipline.
• At least 5 years’ experience in lobbying and advocacy work on gender and development work.
• Strong knowledge/ prior experience of working in local government in South Africa.
• Research, advocacy and training skills.
• Strong strategic, conceptual and operational skills
• Financial, fund raising and report writing skills
• Excellent networking and inter-personal skills
• Excellent verbal and writing skills
• IT proficiencyÀ“ knowledge of MS Office packages like excel, MSProject, Powerpoint, and Outlook.
• Proficiency in at least one widely spoken local language in addition to English
• A valid drives’ license.

General conditions:

The post which is for an initial period of one year period based in Johannesburg. GL will offer a competitive remuneration package commensurate with the skills and experience. Background information can be found on www.genderlinks.org.za or by phoning Human Resources Manager on (011) 622 2877. Please submit a CV, references and relevant sample of written work to hr@genderlinks.org.za by Friday 19 December 2014.

Late applications will not be considered. Only short listed candidates will be contacted for interviews. GL reserves the right to not appoint anyone if a suitable candidate is not found.