1. Facility Protection and stakeholder engagement

• Build and maintain strong relationships with community installation stakeholders, including outlying sites.
• Conduct site assessments at all communal installations, ensuring that:
• You build and maintain stakeholder relationships.
• All installation security infrastructure is in place, maintained and operational, coordinating with the Control Room for any technological infrastructure.
• Site visit is logged.
• Any upgrade requirements are filtered into the project management workflow.
• Meet bi-monthly with UHS leadership and bi-annually with the Jewish International Schools leadership.

• Coordinate and oversee training for:
• PCT/SCT teams (To be coordinated with the training department).
• Administrative staff and Rabbis at community installations.
• Security personnel at community installations
• Act as the primary point of contact for all external protection-related queries.
• Proactively identify risks and challenges, escalating where required.

2. Project Management

• Follow up from installation site visits ensuring that:
• Site assessment tracker is updated.
• Recommendations are issued within 72 hours.
• Implementation of recommendations is followed up with relevant stakeholders.
• Manage security upgrade projects end-to-end, including:
• Project proposals and submissions
• Project timeline management.
• Contractor coordination.
• Financial management and tracking of expenditure according to contract requirements.
• Act as the primary point of contact for all community installation upgrades.
• Coordinate with the Control Room to ensure all technical infrastructure is functional and integrated.

3. SSD Programme Oversight

• Oversight of the SSD Department in collaboration with the SSD HOD.
• Attend SSD operational meetings and ensure alignment with broader organisational goals.
• Ensure SSD training is conducted in collaboration with the training department in line with the training strategy.
• Support HR-related matters in a line management capacity where required.
• Act as the client liaison for SSD-related projects in partnership with the HOD SSD.
• Monitor operational effectiveness and implement improvements where necessary, with consultation of site management.

4. Reporting & Documentation

• Develop professional risk analyses and proof of concept proposals for all projects, including:
• Identified risks.
• Detailed recommendations.
• Cost breakdowns.
• Project timelines.
• Compile structured weekly project updates for line management.
• Compile and submit monthly operational reports (relevant sections) focused on facility updates.
• Compile midway progress reports and completion reports for all projects and upgrades, including project close-out and documentation.
• Compile and distribute minutes of:
• UHS / JI meetings
• Beneficiary/client meetings.

The ideal applicant will have the following competencies: 

• Matric is essential; a tertiary qualification is an advantage.
• Experience within the CSO, advantageous.
• Background / understanding of the South African Jewish Community is essential.

• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders across internal and external environments
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong inter-personal skills with the ability to use your communication skills to inspire those around you and drive performance.
• A confident and outgoing individual who is friendly and accessible and able to deal with people with sensitivity and respect regardless of the context.

• Proficient in Microsoft Office (particularly Excel) with a good general technological literacy and understanding.
• Strong project management and coordination capability
• An organised and meticulous individual who is able to follow policies and procedures.
• A flexible, self-driven individual who is able to work autonomously while maintaining open channels of communication with a team.
• High attention to detail and structured follow-through
• Able to manage conflicting priorities and work well under pressure to meet tight deadlines
• Comfortable working in an unstructured environment and able to work well across cross-functional teams.

• Proactive problem-solving and risk identification
• Operational awareness with a solutions-driven mindset.
• Strong financial management ability.
• A good knowledge of systems is essential.
• A community volunteer driven individual.
• A physically fit individual.
• Trustworthy and reliable with the ability to manage confidential information in a discrete and sensitive manner
• Driver’s licence is essential as is own car that can be used for work purposes.
• No criminal record.

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Closing date for applications: 11 May 2026

If you have not been contacted within 2 weeks of submitting your application, kindly consider your application to have been unsuccessful