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The Social Change Assistance Trust (Scat), a leading South African NGO working in the rural development sector, seeks to employ a dynamic person in the position of Executive Director.
This person will work closely with the Board of Trustees and the Management Team. The position will be located at Scat’s Cape Town office.
The successful applicant will have responsibility for the following aspects of the management of the organisation:
Key performance areas:
- Organisational Leadership
- Fundraising and Networking
- Ongoing development and implementation of Scat’s identity, policy and strategy
- Accountability to donors, trustees and rural partners verbally and through reports
- Management of the Trust, staff, other resources and programme implementation
- Raising and maintaining public awareness of Scat’s work
Applications are invited from individuals who:
- Have at least 5 years experience in leadership and management;
- Have extensive experience in fundraising and donor management;
- Have a proven record of competence and of the flexibility required to meet the demands of such a position, including the willingness and scope to travel;
- Are very good communicators at all levels, inter-personally and in written English
- Have a relevant post graduate qualification
- Have a code 8 driver’s licence.
Applications will be considered only if accompanied by a covering letter, a detailed C.V. containing the names and contact details of three referees and a copy of your highest qualification.
Applications should be addressed to the Executive Director and e-mailed to
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or faxed to 021 418 6850 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 021 418 6850 end_of_the_skype_highlighting begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 021 418 6850 end_of_the_skype_highlighting. No late applications will be considered. Canvassing of Trustees is prohibited.
Scat reserves the right to make an appointment from responses other than those who responded to this advertisement, to make an appointment to a different post and to make no appointment and re-advertise if necessary.
Closing Date for Applications: 27 August 2010
Only short-listed candidates will receive further correspondence, therefore, if you have not heard from us within 6 weeks of the closing date, please regard your application as unsuccessful.
The Social Change Assistance Trust (Scat) is an independent fund-raising and grant-making development agency. Its vision is vibrant and sustainable communities in rural South Africa.
Its mission is to partner with rural community-owned agencies in order to improve the quality of life in their communities. Scat works within a partnership context to support such local agencies in development and human rights work in rural communities of the Northern, Eastern and Western Cape and the North West Provinces.
The focus is on human rights, gender equity, HIV, AIDS and local economic development. The rural partner organisations, which Scat refers to as Local Development Agencies (LDAs) are managed by elected members of the communities they serve. LDAs plan according to specific needs in their RURAL community and are held stringently accountable to their communities through their constitution and annual general meetings.
Scat's Mission is to partner with rural community-owned organisations in order to contribute effectively to rights-based endeavors that improve the quality of life in their communities
A South Africa with vibrant sustainable rural Communities.
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