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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 a highly skilled and experienced professional to lead our network-wide approach to monitoring & feedback, sense-making, and data-driven decision-making for our Community Upliftment Programme in Johannesburg. The successful candidate will have a strong background in complex organisational-systemic contexts, with a proven track record of leading data-related functions and managing teams.

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

  • Qualifications:
  • Minimum Masters Degree or equivalent in a relevant field.

Experience/Skills

  • 8 years relevant and diverse experience in complex organisational-systemic contexts including:
  • 4 years in 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.

Advantageous

  • Fluency in one or more African languages.
  • Power BI and/or similar interactive data visualisation software.
  • Microsoft Dynamics 365 and/or similar CRM software.
  • A/B Testing.
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