VACANCY: HEAD OF OPERATIONS

Organisational Overview:

School of Hard Knocks (SoHK) is a mental health and sport-for-development non-profit organisation (NPO) based in Cape Town, South Africa. SoHK has three programmes that, together, will reach 4000 people by the end of 2024, each of which seeks to address different elements of mental wellness.

The SoHK Schools programme is a 1-year intervention, working with 900 learners in grade 7 and 9, in groups of approximately 30, at schools based in or around the CBD of Cape Town. The programme provides weekly mental health-focused life skills training, using touch rugby as a way to create a non-safe space for the participants to engage with the content, and to build mentoring relationships with SoHK’s trauma-trained coaches.

The NxtGenMen programme is a 6-week intervention aimed at improving male mental health and at reducing violence perpetrated by men - and, in particular, to reduce violence against women. NxtGenMen seeks to help the men who attend the programme to have more self-awareness, to question unhealthy gender norms and to have an improved skill set for relationship management and conflict resolution.

The NxtGenWomxn programme is designed to provide adolescent girls and young womxn with the mental health resources to deal with the challenges they face in their lives. NxtGenWomxn is, like NxtGenMen, a 6-week intervention, and is aimed at improving self-awareness, self-care and distress tolerance, to improve mental health and emotional wellbeing.

 The role:

 This role will report to the Chief Executive Officer, and will work alongside the NxtGenMen Manager and Safeguarding Manager.

 SoHK is a growing organisation and, as such, the role will require a degree of flexibility and competence across a number of areas. Your role will focus on the areas specified below, however you will be expected to accommodate new challenges and responsibilities as they arise. Working hours will be capped at 45 hours per week, but availability will need to be flexible and responsive to events, priority cases and visitor needs.

Elements of the role will require work in the field, at partner schools and partner organisations, and some work will be required in the office, but the bulk of the role will allow for remote work.

Key responsibilities will include: human resource management, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation, grant writing, event management, project management, and maintaining relationships with partners and donors.

 

Qualifications and Requirements:

·        Relevant managerial qualification preferable but not essential;

·        At least 4-years’ managerial experience working within a South African-based organisation;

·        Experience or understanding of youth programmes related to mental wellbeing;

·        Excellent interpersonal skills to build and maintain meaningful relationships with young people and organisations;

·        Experience with grant-making organisations, and the ability to write reports for the organisations’ funders;

·        The ability to develop and deliver detailed presentations to a range of audiences;

·        Excellent organisational and multitasking abilities;

·        Ability to be flexible within a fast-paced, changing environment;

·        A clear criminal record.

·        A valid driver’s licence and own vehicle.

This role is being recruited on a 12-month contract basis with possible extension.

 

Closing date for applications: 5pm, 3 November 2024

Starting date: January 2024 (Negotiable)

Job Types: Full-time

 

CLICK HERE TO APPLY. YOU WILL NEED TO SUBMIT A CV AND A LETTER OF MOTIVATION

Lana Rolfe