Campus Director (P5) (Facilities Management: Doornfontein Campus)
Position Summary
Introduction
The University of Johannesburg (UJ) is a vibrant and cosmopolitan university, anchored in Africa and driven by a powerful strategy focused on attaining global excellence and stature (GES). With an emphasis on independent thinking, sustainable development, and strategic partnerships, UJ is an international university of choice. The University is guided by the Vice-Chancellor’s vision of “Positioning UJ in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) for societal impact in the context of the changing social, political, and economic fortunes of Africa”.
Job description
Job Description:
To manage the campus in a manner that academic and support services are executed optimally. To provide support to core business of UJ and ensure effective and efficient service delivery.
Responsibilities:
- Direct the maintenance of all facilities and infrastructure on campus.
- Manage Campus Committees and activities on campus.
- Facilitate the effective management of all facilities at UJ.
- Act as a representative of Executive Management and the Vice-Chancellor on specific campus.
- Oversee the implementation of the campus master development plan.
- Direct the Planning and Execution of new Capital Projects (small and large) that are not multicampus.
- Initiate the procurement processes for goods and services by acting on requests from internal stakeholders.
- Coordinate with Occupational Safety regarding duties as per 16.2 appointees.
- Effectively and efficiently manage operational staff on campus
- Liaise with Protection Services to ensure effective and efficient protection of staff and students on campus.
- Ensure effective Planning, Coordination and Monitoring of large events in liaison with Event Owner, Protection Services, Safety and Occupational Health plus Auxiliary Services and relevant parties e.g., City Community Safety, Power, Traffic, Communities etc.
- Manage all campus related contracts and ensure compliance with these.
Minimum requirements
- Postgraduate qualification (NQF 8) in Engineering or Finance/Law/Management
- Five (5) to eight (8) years' experience in operations and facilities management
- Five (5) years' experience compiling, set-up, and management of budgets
- Minimum of five (5) years' in the Engineering and the Built environment with reference to buildings and essential technical services.
- Minimum of five (5) years' experienc in Maintenance planning taking into consideration the consequences of each failure, statutory requirements, framework of maintenance strategies and performance requirements
- Five (5) to eight (8) years' experience in the development of concept policies, strategies, procedures, guidelines, norms, and standards
- Five (5) to eight (8) years' experience in planning (materials, manpower, equipment, plant, and logistics)
- Five (5) years implementation and management of the Occupational Health & Safety Act and relevant legislative requirements.
- Five (5) years diagnosis of faults in the Engineering and the Built environment, and to analyze failures to establish the root causes of failures (hands on experience required).
- Five (5) years' proven general management experience of teams and groups of people
- Five (5) to eight (8) years proven experience in the effective management of projects
- Five (5) to eight (8) years experience in Utilities management
- Communicate effectively with all levels of employees and across all levels
- Facilitate change management
- Effectively identify faults and solve problems
- Negotiate effectively
- Asset performance analysis skills
- Coordinating skills
- Critical and analytical thinking
- People and performance management
- Knowledge to monitor the development, implementation and revisions of methods, systems, and procedures including those pertinent to computer applications in space, utilities and project management
- Ability to coordinating work with external professional teams, clients, operations personnel, and other stakeholders
- Ability to evaluate the cost-effectiveness in the management of the maintenance function with reference to Engineering and Built environment
- Ability to determine the level of compliance with required internal policies, procedures, guidelines, norms, and standards
- Master's in Business Administration (MBA)
- Five (5) years' experience working in a Tertiary environment
- Five (5) to eight (8) years space and asset management
Your application, comprising of a detailed Curriculum Vitae as well as the names and full contact details (including telephone numbers and e-mail addresses) of at least three traceable and credible referees must be uploaded before or on the closing date of the advertised post. Please also attach the following: a copy of your highest academic qualification, proof of registration with professional bodies you might belong to and if applying for an academic position, a list of accredited research output and/ or a portfolio of your creative output.
Please note that the University is obligated, in terms of recent amendments to the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act 2021 (Act 13 of 2021), to assess all prospective employees (including applicants) against the National Register for Sex Offenders (NRSO). The outcome of such an assessment may have an impact upon possible employment with the University.
For more information, please review the following link: Justice/Criminal/NRSO.
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Candidates may be subjected to appropriate psychometric testing and other selection instruments.
In conjunction to merit on the basis of qualifications, experience and proven achievements the University of Johannesburg is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for persons with disabilities and those individuals from the historically disadvantaged groups. As necessitated by operational requirements the University reserves the right not to make an appointment to positions advertised. If you have not received a response from the University within 8 weeks of the closing date, you should assume that your application has been unsuccessful.
