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Johannesburg: Head of Sense Making, Data & Insights (JHB) posted by DataFin Recruitment

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Job Description

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced professional to lead our Community Upliftment Programme’s sense-making and data insights efforts in Johannesburg. The successful candidate will have a proven track record of managing complex organisational-systemic contexts, leading data-related functions, and driving social impact initiatives.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead coherent target-setting by network management
  • Review, revise and develop coherent, fit-for-purpose indicators and dashboards as appropriate to particular roles & contexts
  • Use and manage data and information as resources for sense-making and decision-making across the network and platform as well as the ecosystem
  • Lead the strategic approach to big picture information and data systems as resources for sense-making and decision-making across the network and platform as well as the ecosystem
  • Lead the central insights function, including leading rapid learning through iterative experimenting and short-term studies
  • Collaborate with the Research, Reflection & Evaluation Head and wider Innovation & Learning portfolio team

Requirements

  • Minimum Masters Degree or equivalent in a relevant field
  • 8 years relevant and diverse experience in complex organisational-systemic contexts including a minimum of 4 years in a senior role(s) successfully leading data-related functions and managing data-related teams
  • Experience of social impact initiatives, programmes and/or organisations
  • Comfort and confidence leading sophisticated work with data
  • People-and-user-centered approaches to data and information
  • Thoughtful familiarity with M&E/MEL/MERL approaches and practices
  • A track record of, and strong appetite for, seeing patterns and building coherence amid complexity

Qualifications

  • Completed Masters Degree in a relevant field

Salary & Benefits

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