Manager: Stakeholder Heritage Management at Transnet

Position Purpose

• To market and enhance heritage assets offerings to stakeholders. Identify opportunities, facilitate, and enable partnerships with external parties to promote Transnet’s heritage assets, and create
• New sustainable revenue streams. This, while concurrently, implementing the heritage policy and strategy, and ensuring alignment with legislative and business requirements, corporate governance guidelines and principles.

Position Outputs

• Fostering institutional partnerships, liaison, managing, and promoting relationships with steam clubs, foundations, museums, and other stakeholders.
• Develop and implement an integrated Heritage framework across the business (ODs) to ensure heritage assets are managed uniformly and commercialised appropriately, ensuring that there are SLA’ s are in place.
• Identify and develop commercialisation opportunities to yield a return on Transnet’s investments and Heritage Assets, including but not limited to identifying sponsorship or fundraising opportunities.
• Continuously review heritages asset for commercial usage, review of heritage assets for alienation and revenue generation. While simultaneously balancing the preservation of Transnet’s heritage assets with revenue generation.
• Implement commercialisation initiatives for Transnet’s Heritage assets and exploitation thereof through tourism and increased patronage for revenue generation purposes, reputational gain and ensuring sustained and growing interest in all stakeholders.
• Support engagements with the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) as statutory body to ensure that expectations are met and aligned.
• Align any heritage asset disposal requirements with SAHRA and other legislative bodies.
• Develop and maintaining a comprehensive heritage asset register from a national Transnet-wide perspective.
• Integrate the management of heritage assets into the existing and planned asset management policies, procedures, and strategies.
• Implement governance and fair practices in the treatment of heritage assets; and create standardised operational procedures and processes to manage the expectations of the various stakeholders in line with the Heritage Asset Preservation policy.
• Manage the co - ordination of Heritage Advisory Committee; and streamline stakeholder management processes and engagement.
• Partner with relevant tourism operators and steam clubs in the Heritage Rail market to promote rail history and create sustainable revenue streams.
• Seek and expand into new markets relating to Transnet Heritage that are aligned to national heritage, arts, culture & and heritage strategies.
• Identify heritage assets to be restored, maintained and secured in line with regulatory and legislative requirements and advise on restoration processes.
• Develop partnerships with external partners for the preservation and restoration of Transnet’s heritage assets in line with Transnet’s policy frameworks.
• Facilitate, present, and implement public, educational, and outreach programmes.

Qualifications and Experience

• Postgraduate Degree in Heritage, Museum Studies, History, Curatorial Studies, History of Arts, Anthropology or Social Sciences.
• Postgraduate level qualification such as Master of Social Science, Master of Arts and/or Master of Business Administration will be an advantage.
• At least 8 years relevant experience in a similar position, of which 3 to 5 years must have been at middle management.

Competencies

• Ensures the initiatives and priorities in one’s area are integrated with one another and aligned with the strategic priorities of the function and division.
• Identifies and communicates priorities, milestones, timelines, performance measures, clear accountabilities, and performance agreements.
• Commercial strategy formulation & implementation.
• Explores initiatives that impact on the future viability and capacity of Transnet’s heritage assets.
• Determines or adjusts plans, directions, priorities, and processes to address changing needs within the operating environment (heritage and tourism).
• Resolves complex problems which are difficult to define, often contradictory and are acting as barriers to achieving the strategic direction.
• Uses communication strategies to effectively engage, advocate, and inform stakeholders and the public about the Heritage portfolio’s strategic direction.