Looking for CEO for emerging social enterprise | School of Hard Knocks, Cape Town, South Africa

[Scott Sloan]

Who We Are

School of Hard Knocks (SOHK) is an award winning South African sport for development social business that provides a combination of psycho-social counseling from supportive adults and life skills through sports coaching to improve the wellbeing of young people experiencing trauma from violent and under-resourced backgrounds.

What We Do

SOHK has two programmes:

SOHK for Schools is designed as an integrated programme where children who have suffered or are suffering on-going traumatic episodes and displaying risk taking behaviour such as substance abuse are provided with multiple services accessed within a school environment. These include access to psycho-social counselling conducted by mental health professionals, and provision of a values led approach that uses trained coaches to teach personal and social responsibility for 28 weeks of the school year. 

Project #NextGenMen, is using the power of soccer to challenge and change problematic social norms and attitudes that underpin violence against women (VAW). To do this, we deliver internationally recognised gender transformative content aimed at promoting more positive masculinities to 600 men in the soccer fraternity at 20 sites across South Africa.

About the Role

We are looking for a dynamic and gritty CEO who is excited to build a fast-growing and high-impact organisation alongside a passionate and hard-working team. The CEO would have both a strategy and execution role. She or he would develop strategy, fundraise to fulfil that strategy, manage the operations team, gather and analyze operational data, oversee our finance and data systems, and be a critical thought partner to the Board.

For more info and how to apply email sc...@schoolofhardknocks.co.za.