The Health Promotion & Wellness (HIV/AIDS) unit of the University of the Western Cape (UWC) is seeking to appoint a qualified Project Manager permanently to perform a lead role in managing the implementation of strategic and operational projects.

The successful candidate will facilitate timely decisions to maintain project schedules and budgets; provide the Director with regular project updates and reports, maintain trusting relationships, and identify and manage project risks and issues and work closely with the Director in the conceptualization and implementation of the unit’s vision and programmes.

Reporting to the Director: Health Promotion & Wellness (HIV/AIDS), the duties and responsibilities of the Project Manager shall include the following:

• To conceptualize, implement, and evaluate multiple programmes under the guidance of the Director, to promote healthy social life behaviours, and implement health education activities designed to promote health and wellness in domains such as, but not limited to, sexual health, substance abuse, mental health, and preventative health care. This includes inter alia, support for the recruitment, training, support, and mentoring of peer educators recruited at regular intervals, implementing peer-led activities, conducting regular campus-wide and residence programmes, executing community outreach initiatives, monitoring and evaluation, coordinating and overseeing confidential record keeping, developing and overseeing referrals for help, and the completion of all grant stipulations like regular statistics and reports,
• Assist the Director in the provision of health promotion, prevention, and advocacy and health and human rights programmes and strategies, including curriculum enrichment, and educational materials to educate and equip students to contribute meaningfully as responsible citizens,
• Effectively build and manage relationships across a diverse spectrum of stakeholders (from executive management, line management, operational staff, and third-party contractors) to align focus and activities to achieve the aims and outcomes under the Director,
• Manage the programme constraints of scope, time, budget, quality, risk, and resources,
• Engage in administrative duties, administrative coordination, and apply conflict resolution skills to ensure the timely completion of tasks, and comply with the University's Project Governance framework,
• Create project resource plans and effectively facilitate resource allocation, including financial resource allocation, ensuring clarity of roles and responsibilities of project stakeholders and volunteers,
• Oversee multiple project budgets effectively, including forecasting, variance reporting, and financial resource allocations,
• Identify project risks, and provide prudent and timely facilitation of risk assessment and mitigation plans with stakeholders,
• Provide the Director with regular project updates and reports,
• Create and manage necessary documents for projects, grant stipulations, and Unit requirements. This includes supporting the development and implementation of required protocols and monitoring and evaluation instruments, ensuring confidentiality, document storage, and reports,
• Assist the Director with funding and resource proposals to execute the Unit’s vision,
• Coordinate and implement the media and communication strategy of the Unit under the guidance of the Director,
• Assist the Director in the development and implementation of a comprehensive evaluation and scholarly programme in line with the Unit’s vision.

Minimum Requirements: (Qualification, Skills & Experience):

• Possess a Master’s degree in clinical, counselling, or educational psychology, at NQF level 9
• Registration with the HPCSA in one of the relevant categories above
• A minimum of five years’ relevant experience
   

The undermentioned attributes would be added advantage: 

• Exposure to or an interest in critical health approaches
• Experience or knowledge in community engagement and community development
• Demonstrable experience and/or knowledge of systemic behavioural health interventions
• Evidence of continued scholarly and/or research engagement

Required competencies: (skills, knowledge, and behavioural attributes)

• Demonstrated ability to work both unsupervised and collaboratively within a team to deliver results within agreed deadlines,
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with all internal and external stakeholders,
• Excellent planning, organizing, and time management skills,
• Excellent verbal and written communication,
• Excellent facilitation and consensus-building skills,
• Demonstrates emotional intelligence and adaptability,
• Excellent training skills,
• Excellent interpersonal skills,
• Experienced in analysing complex issues and facilitating appropriate solutions,
• Delivers engaging, informative, well-organized presentations,
• Delivers high-quality, well-constructed, professional documentation and reports,
• Ability to maintain confidentiality.