Donor Relations & Community Fundraising Lead

Placements24; South Africa; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Placements24 is seeking a Mine Waste Group Manager, Africa to lead our regional Mine Waste team. You will drive strategic growth, oversee engineering and stability services, and ensure governance across the Africa unit. You will manage budgets, hiring, and performance to meet financial and client service targets.

The role emphasizes leadership, KPI development, and building high-performing teams, with a focus on developing technical capability and ensuring policy compliance across all activities.

Qualifications

• Leadership of a Mine Waste group across Africa
• Strong governance and compliance with business processes
• Financial and operational management of Tailings team in Africa
• Ability to develop KPIs and drive delivery of strategic goals
• Experience in hiring, development and performance management
• Ability to lead by example and foster a learning culture

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the Mine Waste group across Africa
• Oversee Mine Engineering and Stability, Geotechnical services and Advanced Geotech Lab
• Manage day-to-day group operations including timesheets, budgets and headcount
• Ensures alignment to policies, procedures and people policies
• Influence capability building and transfer technical expertise across the organisation
• Drive achievement of financial objectives and client service targets

Job description

Mine Waste Group Manager, Africa

We are seeking an exceptional Mine Waste Group Manager, Africa to lead our high-performing team and drive strategic growth across the region.
Operational Management
Play an integral part of the development and delivery the business strategy for Mine Waste, Africa in line with the broader Mining Service business.
Responsible for resources are utilised and allocated to project work within the discipline group to meet client service, technical and financial criteria.
Knowledgeable and accountable for the governance and compliance of their business unit, ensuring processes, systems and operations are consistently followed and understood at every level.
Accountable for the financial and operational management of Tailings team in Africa.
Responsible for overseeing Mine Engineering and Stability, Geotechnical services and Advanced Geotech Lab as part of the financial and operational management of the Mine Waste business.
Responsible for day-to-day management of the group including timesheets, expenses, leave, budget expenditure, hiring and terminations.
Responsible for developing group level Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) and continuously influence, lead, communicate and hold people accountable for achievement and delivery of the group and divisions' business strategy and financial objectives.
Accountable for developing a high performing team including performance feedback, retention and development of our people. Proactively identifying skills and development needs, fostering career development and seeking out and hiring technical and industry leaders to strengthen capability within the business to serve our client needs.
Actively lead by example and ensure all activity is aligned to our policies and procedures and people matters are dealt with consistently, fairly and in a timely manner.
Contribute to building the technical capability of others and transferring technical expertise within the organisation. Foster a culture that generates long-term learning and development of capability.
Inspire, motivate, encourage, and influence direct reports through a socially impactful leadership style.