Vacancy for Project Coordinator in Cape Town March 2024

Vacancy for Project Coordinator in Cape Town March 2024

UCT Graduate School of Business – Project Coordinator Job in Cape Town March 2024

Job description

The project coordinator will work closely with the Bertha Centre’s partners, including policymakers, social investors, and social entrepreneurs, to implement the centre’s portfolio of activities around social entrepreneurship.
The project coordinator would contribute to the work on a number of projects alongside the rest of the Bertha Centre team, especially related to:

• Landscaping and mapping of the social entrepreneurship sector in South Africa and select African countries
• Content development for the implementation and expansion of the pathways to funding do-ference
• Managing and developing partnerships for the centre’s social entrepreneurship portfolio
• Research and market intelligence – developing research to assist investors, policymakers and service providers to deploy capital in a way which generates both social and financial returns and further develops the social entrepreneurship sector
• Supporting outcomes-based funding projects and innovative finance processes

Company Description

The Bertha Centre was established five years ago as a centre for social innovation as a specialised unit within the Graduate School of Business. The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship is the first academic centre in Africa dedicated to advancing social innovation and entrepreneurship.
It was established as a specialised unit at the UCT Graduate School of Business in late 2011, in partnership with the Bertha Foundation, a family foundation that works with inspiring leaders who are catalysts for social and economic change.

Requirements

• An appropriate graduate qualification (bachelor’s degree) in finance, economics and other related fields with a minimum of 3 years’ experience as a project coordinator or similar role or a Master’s degree with one-year experience as a project coordinator or similar role
• Practical experience in coordinating and implementing projects in social entrepreneurship in South Africa or a Southern African country will serve as an added advantage
• Some experience working with actors across sectors (including private, public, and civil society)
• Demonstrable passion for social innovation and social entrepreneurship
• Aptitude for project planning
• Research skills and the ability to quickly research, synthesise and summarise key lessons on unfamiliar topics
• Good communication skills and ability to collaborate with numerous stakeholders
• Strong experience coordinating large entrepreneurship events in multiple locations across South Africa, i.e. logistics, content curation, speaker coordination, local research, etc.
• Experience writing proposals and reports for funders and partners
• Experience curating knowledge products focused social entrepreneurship, i.e. podcasts, blog posts, articles, teaching, etc.

 
Contact details
Sue de Witt and Tine Fisker
UCT Graduate School of Business
+27 21 406 1091