Specialist: Regulatory & Legislative Drafting at The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA)

Purpose of the Job The position is responsible for supporting the Senior Manager: Strategy & Programme Management on all matters of planning, monitoring, and evaluation. It works with Programmes to ensure the development of the organisational strategic, annual, and operational plans in line with relevant government legislative frameworks, policies, and guidelines. It monitors and reports on organisational performance against short, medium, and long-term pre-determined objectives. It performs ex-ante, mid-term, end-term, and impact evaluation of the organisation’s projects working with external service providers. It manages a range of organisational planning, monitoring, and evaluation structures, systems, standards, management processes, and accountability relationships which enable the Authority to discharge its performance planning, monitoring, and evaluation responsibilities effectively. It promotes and inculcates a high organisational performance culture in the field of planning, monitoring, and evaluation through a number of capacity-building initiatives for Programmes within the organisation.

Key Outputs The successful candidate will have a direct reporting line to the Senior Manager: Strategy & Programme Management and their responsibilities will include the following:

• Support the Senior Manager in the development of the organisational strategic plan
• Ensure that the strategic plan of the organisation is in compliance with all relevant government legislative prescripts (PSA, PFMA, RFSPAPP)
• Work closely with Risk & Compliance and Finance to ensure that all the outcomes, risks, and finance information necessary to complete the organisational strategic planning is incorporated
• Ensure proper alignment between the organisational Strategic Plan, APP, and the OPP
• Ensure that all the Programme outputs, baselines, targets (SMART), and Technical Indicators Descriptions are developed in line with the RFSAPP (Templates) and the FMPPI (Nomenclature)
• Enable and co-ordinate divisional performance information reporting and assess the adequacy of information provided by verifying the portfolio of evidence provided against performance reported
• Ensure compilation of quarterly and annual performance information reports for a shared data environment and ensure that the reports are uploaded on the eQPRS after approval by all relevant approving organisational structures, working together with Programme Coordinators
• Perform all forms of relevant evaluations as prescribed by government’s legislative frameworks that can be used to inform future planning and determine and showcase the worth of the organisation’s projects in making a change in the lives of its target beneficiaries (Ex-ante, Mid-Term, End-Term, and Ex-Post Implementation – Impact)

Qualifications and Experience

• Academic Degree (NQF Level 7) in Public Management, Economics, Commerce, or equivalent
• Postgraduate studies in Monitoring and Evaluation methods will be an added advantage
• 3 years’ experience managing people or 4 years Specialist Experience
• 4 years’ experience in data collection techniques, data analysis, and report writing
• Demonstrated practice in qualitative and quantitative evaluation methods
• Experience with management information systems and knowledge management platforms

Key Competencies and Attributes

• Business Process Analysis
• Information and data analysis
• Analytical thinking
• Quality Management
• Customer Relationship Management
• Good computer literacy skills
• Ability to work under stressful situations
• Problem Solving and Decision Making
• Presentation
• Facilitation
• Coordination
• Assertiveness
• Self-driven
• Leadership
• Innovation and Creation
• Integrity
• Interactive communication
• Attention to Detail
• Decisiveness
• Teamwork
• Customer Services
• Self Confidence
• Report Writing
• Mentoring and coaching
• Knowledge of PFMA, DPME Revised Framework for Strategic Plans and Annual Performance Plans, National Treasury Framework for Managing Programme Performance Information, eQPRS, and Programme Logic