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Key competencies

1. Leadership

 Demonstrate in-depth understanding, passion and enthusiasm for the organisation’s vision

 Lead others to achieve organisational goals and high levels of performance

 Lead the team by example and demonstrate a professional, empowering and flexible leadership

style that encourages respect and credibility

 Demonstrate stable, reliable performance under pressure

 Strong commitment to improving processes and systems to enhance quality of delivery

 Ensure DQ is a driven organisation

2. Relationship management

 Ability to form and maintain positive, strong working relationships with DQ members and key

stakeholders to facilitate the accomplishment of organisational goals

 Build and maintain effective working relationships with senior executives of key industry

organisations

 Ability to align organisational strategies with stakeholder groups

 Excellent relationship building, networking, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills

 Political awareness and diplomacy skills

3. Strategy development

 Ability to develop, implement and evaluate strategies including managing workloads and

resources

 Ability to adapt strategies quickly and effectively to changing environments

 Excellent analytical skills

4. Communication skills

 An excellent communicator, facilitator and presenter - relate well to a wide variety of people

from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds

 Ability to produce high quality written material

5. Interpersonal style

 Personal commitment to organisational excellence - displays honesty, integrity and a strong

sense of ethics in all decisions and actions

 Maintain a positive presence which commands respect from staff, members and stakeholders

Skills, qualifications and attributes required

Education

 A tertiary qualification in Business, Marketing or Tourism Management is essential

 A suitable post-graduate qualification in management is preferred

Experience

 Senior executive management experience in the tourism sector

 Proven international marketing expertise

 Proven destination reputation management experience

 Capable media spokesperson, public speaker and facilitator

 Problem solving and negotiation skills

 Financial management skills

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