Assistant Manager, Corporate Development (2 Year Contract)

Key Responsibilities and Duties

Futures Planning
Support Futures Planning work, including but not limited to the following:

• Analysing past trends
• Scanning for and researching changes that are taking place or expected to take place
• Making forecasts based on both qualitative and quantitative assessments
• Facilitating Futures Planning workshops for internal audience

Strategic Planning

• Support Strategic Planning work and related activities such as the Leadership Strategic Advance.
• Develop a planning guidance for departments based on national and organizational priorities, both in the short and long term
• Ensure alignment of strategic priorities in departmental workplans and organize workplan reviews with senior management

Corporate Performance Management

• Ensure alignment of evaluation metrics to the strategic priorities
• Fine-tune and manage the evaluation of departmental and organizational performance indicators.

Go-Live Operations Workgroup – Secretariat (pre-campus opening)

• Engage relevant stakeholders in assigned workgroups and/or taskforces to coordinate and ensure timely progression of work streams and submission of relevant updates
• Provide support towards the delivery of relevant and necessary reports for senior management reporting at relevant platforms
• Monitor and ensure timely execution of key milestones in the overall Go- Live timeline

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Job Requirements

• Degree in any discipline from a recognised institution
• For Assistant Manager: Minimum 7 years’ experience undertaking roles related to futures and/or strategic planning. Experience in a healthcare or life sciences environment is preferred.
• For Manager: Minimum 9 years’ experience undertaking roles related to futures and/or strategic planning. Experience in a healthcare or life sciences environment is preferred. In addition, supervisory and/or leadership experience is necessary.
• Ability to break out of the status quo and project your thinking beyond existing boundaries
• Strong analytical skills and ability to make judgements based on evidence, balancing possibility, probability and significance
• Good background in strategic planning and management.
• Strong people/relationship management experiences.