Deputy Director: Museum and Heritage: Head Office at Limpopo Department of Sport, Arts and Culture

• 1 Permanent position(s) exists in the SAC
• Salary Level: 12
• Salary: R1059105 all-inclusive remuneration package per annum
• Reference No: DSAC 2025/03

Key Performance Areas

• Manage transformation and revitalisation of museums and heritage services: Develop, implement and monitor provincial museum, heritage, and cultural strategies. Coordinate the revitalisation of museums and heritage activities, lead the promotion of museum and heritage services to previously marginalised communities, promotion of material culture from previously marginalised communities. Align Museum and heritage programs to address social concerns such as poverty alleviation, education, and awareness campaigns (e.g., HIV/AIDS). Bridge the information gap between government programs and communities.
• Ensure enhancement of collection and conservation: Capacity building to empower communities around local museums, coordinate and oversee that heritage objects of cultural significance are identified, graded, acquired, documented, and preserved, ensure rare and culturally significant objects are secured and maintained to professional standards. Manage provincial heritage sites that are associated with each museum and contribute towards the development of a working tool to guide museum functions. 
• Manage promotion of education, research and tourism: Building of partnerships with academic institutions to enhance research initiatives, Collaborate with heritage-tourism clubs, government, and non-governmental organizations to promote heritage tourism and cultural experiences., Lead school outreach programs and community engagement initiatives to complement the curriculum in Limpopo Province, coordinate the celebration of important national and international  days in the Museums and Heritage calendar and promotion of museums. 
• Ensure contribution towards global initiative programmes: Build networks with heritage and museum institutions nationally and globally to facilitate intercultural exchange., Coordinate the E-Heritage documentary program and other digital initiatives, explore investment and development opportunities for heritage development in the province. identification, acquisition, and provide curatorship to museum or heritage objects of Limpopo origin that are either overseas and in other province and participate in the intercultural exchange programs with well-established heritage institutions in the world.
• Identify, acquire, and curate heritage objects of provincial origin.
• Supervise employees to ensure an effective museum and heritage service. This would, inter alia, entail the following: Coordinate and monitor the implementation of Museums operational plans to ensure alignment with provincial
• Outcomes and outputs, allocate duties and do quality control of the work delivered by supervisees, advice and lead supervisees with regard to all aspects of the work, manage performance, conduct and discipline of supervisees, ensure that all supervisees are trained and developed to be able to deliver work of the required professional standards efficiently and effectively and develop, implement and monitor work systems and processes to ensure efficient and effective functioning.

Prerequisites

• An undergraduate Qualification (NQF level 06) in Heritage Management / Museum studies, Arts/Cultural Studies as recognized by SAQA. A minimum of three to three (3) – five (5) years of experience in Museum and Heritage environment, of which 3 years must be at an Assistant Director level (Junior Management). A valid driver’s license (except for persons with disabilities).

Person Profile

• Knowledge: Sound and in-depth knowledge of All relevant n-depth knowledge of museum, heritage, and cultural legislative frameworks and all relevant legislative frameworks that govern the Public Service. Strong grounding in Human Resource Management, Financial Management, and governance principles.

Skills: 

• Applied Strategic Thinking, Creative Thinking, Citizen Service Orientation, Decision Making, Communication and Information Management, Diversity Management, Citizenship focus and responsiveness, Continuous Improvement, Communication and information management, Problem Analysis and decision-making, Applying Technology, Budgeting and Financial Management, Networking and building bonds, Project Management, Team leadership, Planning and Organising, Developing Others, Self-Management, Team Membership, Report writing skills, Facilitation, Presentation and Stakeholders Engagement, Research/Analysing, Interpersonal Relationship skills, Analytical Thinking skills, Ability to self-motivate and work in a team environment.