CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER (Grade 11) – BIKITA RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL 215 views

NOTICE OF VACANCY
Applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced persons to fill the following position

Reports to the Council Chairperson

Main duties
⦁ . Service delivery: Ensuring adequate and quality service delivery, Co-coordinating the Local Authority’s programme implementation whilst ensuring integration and synergy with otherarms of government.
⦁ . Strategic Planning and alignment to National Strategy: Guiding Council in determining the Local Authority’s vision, mission and values and ensuring that they are aligned to national aspirations. Leading management in setting the Local Authority’s short, medium and long term goals so as to guide all Council activities. Providing leadership and counsel in the formulation of broad corporate strategies, policies and standard operating procedures, strategies, policies and standard operating procedures relating to service delivery, corporate governance, stakeholder engagement investment and economic development in line with government priorities, programs and the Local Authority’s vision and performance standards. Ensuring implementation of Council resolutions
⦁ Performance Management and Administration: Setting Performance benchmarks for the Heads of Departments in line with IRBM (whole of Government Performance Management System) and spearheading quarterly performance reviews to enable monitoring of strategy execution. Ensuring the implementation of all resolutions of Council by respective Heads of Departments and officials.
⦁ Cooperate Governance: Ensuring organizational stability through design and implementation of viable systems and procedures. Providing cooperate governance advice to Councillors and Management Ensuring that all committees of Council are adequately constituted and functional. Providing Administrative interface between the local authority and relevant government ministries, departments, agencies and other stakeholders. Reviewing policies for alignment and initiating changes as and when necessary. Ensuring adherence to internally established systems and procedures
⦁ Financial Management: Ensuring adequate resource mobilization to support strategy implementation. Providing oversight on budgeting, reporting and auditing in Council. Controlling Council expenditure and ensuring that local authority operates within the budget.
⦁ Local Economic Development: Ensuring compliance with dictates of the relevant economic clusters in the fulfillment of national development programmes. Ensuring local economic development through exploitation of local endowments. Creating a conducive environment for investment.
⦁ Stakeholder and Community engagement: Promoting the image and programmes of the local authority through sound stakeholder engagement strategy. Ensuring representation of the local authority in relevant stakeholder platforms. Ensuring an open door policy with all relevant stakeholders.

QUALIFICATIONS
⦁ Adegreefrom a recognized University in the Administration, Local Governance and Management Development studies, Engineering, Politics, Business Studies. Law. Afull CIS is also acceptable
⦁ Masters’Degree is an added advantage
⦁ Should have a minimum of four (4) years post qualification experience in middle or senior management in an administrative position. Local Government experience is an added advantage.
⦁ High computer literacy
⦁ Full knowledge of Local Governance Accounting systems
⦁ Aclean class 4 drivers licence
⦁ At least 35 years old and mature
⦁ Acitizen of Zimbabwe
⦁ Aclean criminal record of service within the local government fraternity.

In return the Council offers:
⦁ Attractive remuneration package will be disclosed to the successful candidate.