Job
ForAfrika
Head of Operations
📍 South Africa
🏷 Governance & Public Policy
🗓 Posted 21 Oct 2026
- Lead ForAfrika South Africa's programme and contract delivery as the senior operational leader, accountable for every funded project from handover to close-out across humanitarian, development and social enterprise work
- Manage the country office's operational backbone—operations, procurement, logistics and people functions—ensuring all contracted commitments are delivered safely, compliantly, on time and within budget
- Drive operational systems and capability building across the Country Office to support growth in humanitarian, institutional, Pre-Commercial Viability and Commercial Transactions work
- Coordinate the full country portfolio spanning humanitarian and donor-funded programmes, government and corporate/CSI-funded contracts, and approved PCV and FASE ventures
- Build strategic partnership with the Country Managing Director as a core member of the Country Leadership Team, grounding country strategy in delivery capacity, cost and operational risk
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