Current Opportunities at Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA)

• The role has been necessitated firstly for the purpose of effectively developing and enabling the execution of the technical strategy for various power producing projects including, Renewable Energy, Battery Energy Storage, Gas to Power, Coal, and Hybrid energy facilities by aligning and integrating with the overall IPP Office Strategy through building and maintaining strategic partnerships and people enablement.
• Reporting to the Head: IPPO, the Head: Technical will be responsible for the delivery and alignment of the technical strategic objectives of the IPPO's procurement programmes as well providing the technical expertise advisory support for procurement and implementation
• The Head: Technical will further identify, mobilise and manage the appropriate strategic partnerships, personnel, programme resources, ensure appropriate governance is maintained throughout, and manage all stakeholder relation expectations.

Key Responsibilities    
The Head: Technical will be responsible for: 

• Develop the 5 year Strategic Technical Strategy for the IPP Office.
• Formulate broad goals and new ways of addressing technical challenges within the IPPO programmes, in collaboration with the all relevant functions and parties.
• Ensure Integration of multi-dimensional functions within the IPP Office.
• Manage the determination of the technical policies and tactical optimisation.
• Establish the annual Technical Strategic Plan (SP) and Technical Annual Performance Plan (APP)
• Interpret and align the technical strategy into overall business plans and budgets to achieve the IPP Office goals
• Provide technical advisory support to the IPP Procurement and Implementation Programmes and interventions as informed by various stakeholder mandates.
• Project manage technical strategic initiatives in the IPP Office at a high level.
• Plan and manage the recommended resource requirements (people, process and technology).
• Ensure internal controls and policies are implemented.
• Create and leverage relationships with key external and internal stakeholders to enable the success of the strategies.
• Develop partnerships with key IPP’s/transaction advisory firms/regulatory bodies / relevant government organisations and government officials etc. to build sustainable long term technical solutions for the IPP Office programmes.
• Support the DMRE and other stakeholders in respect of the IPP Procurement Programme and Interventions.
• Communicate a compelling vision to gain commitment to the overall objectives.
• Model high performance behaviour in line with the leadership principles internally and externally.
• Create the conditions that enable the team to perform (e.g. team spirit, providing the right structure, involving the team in decision making).
• Utilise all resources, optimally, effectively and efficiently.
• Identify and develop talent, and grow the IPP Office competence.

Expertise & Technical Competencies    

• Relevant Bachelor’s technical and management Degrees.
• Minimum 10 years of experience working in the public energy sector at a senior management level in infrastructure development is essential.
• Minimum 15 years of experience working within the electricity regulatory environment and establishing of project development teams managing multidisciplinary resources at a senior level.
• Management experience working without supervision or instruction is essential.
• Must have a sound working knowledge of OHSA, ORHVS and NEMA.
• Must be competent in using GIS, MS Office and MS Project.
• Must be competent in interpreting Power System, Energy and Financial modelling studies.
• Knowledge and Understanding of the energy sector and various related legislation
• Knowledge and understanding of ESKOM, other public sector bodies and relevant standardisation bodies
• Knowledge and understanding of the principles of business strategy
• In-depth knowledge of various legislations related to the IPP Office

Required Personal Attributes    
The successfull uncumbenet should demonstrate the following:

• Analysis and Judgement
• Numerical Reasoning
• Assertiveness
• Excellence Orientation
• Investigative Orientation
• Customer Responsiveness
• Business Acumen
• Planning and Prioritising
• Ability to Influence
• Motivational
• Strategic leadership
• Presentation skills
• Negotiation skills
• Interpersonal skillsNetworking skills
• Financial and business analytic skills
• Strong verbal and written skills
• Problem Solving skills
• Decision making skills
• Coaching and mentoring skills

Closing Date    
2023/07/31

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Job Description    

• To coordinate the divisions administrative functions and liaising with all key stakeholders both internally and externally. Manage the Executive’s administrative responsibilities such as scheduling, planning, organising and play a key role in the coordination of deliverables and activities internally and externally.

Key Responsibilities    

Divisional Operational Planning and Coordination

• Coordinate the development of the division’s short and long -term plans and facilitate the scheduling and organising of planning sessions and final divisional plan aligned to the corporate plan and the Banks strategy.
• Coordinate and consolidate inputs for the preparation and alignment of the Divisional Balanced Scorecard (BSC) and provide support in drafting the final draft.
• Monitor and track the divisions performance against the balanced scorecard and provide reports on tracking progress, critical areas of improvement and priorities to ensure targets are achieved.
• Prepare and manage the budget for the division in consultation with the Executive.
• Provide coordination support to the Group Executive to manage various strategic initiatives and special projects on behalf of the Division.
• Conduct research and keeping abreast on topics affecting the division and prepare reports for decision making purposes.
• Participate in meetings to follow-up on key decisions and actions from the Board; Executive Management and ensure timely implementation and feedback is provided.
• Analyse and interpret data and/or reports from unit heads and project leads to provide dashboards and summaries outlining critical information and areas of concern.   
• Compile and distribute divisional reports/presentations and communicate on behalf of the executive providing feedback and updates on initiatives, projects, and various operational tasks.
• Implement systems, processes and procedures to improve the divisions administrative efficiency, effectiveness and productivity.
• Act as a point of contact with staff and various stakeholders and provide insight on initiatives, projects and divisions activities.
• Coordinate the divisions human resources activities including the approval of human resource plans and ensuring that performance agreements are completed.

Risk Management and Governance Committee Support

• Facilitate and co-ordinate the development and implementation of the risk register to provide an overview to the divisions management team.
• Monitor the divisions risk register and develop a risk matrix to evaluate and report on operational risks and risk mitigation actions implemented.
• Plan and schedule the performance of periodic management assurance reviews to assess the adequacy and effectiveness of the risk mitigation measures.
• Coordinate and assist in the preparation of divisional submissions to management and board committees, business review, management committees, ad hoc resolutions from divisional specific committees (secretariat)
• Coordinate internal and external audit review process and liaise with unit heads to consolidate feedback.
• Facilitate the development, management and monitoring of the division’s delegation of authority guideline, ethics / declaration of interest requirements, committee requirements and charters, as well as board requirements.

Office Administration

• Develop specific templates for the division for standardisation of reporting and administrative efficiency.
• Administer the document management system to secure/ store data and provide a platform for sharing division information.
• Work with the Group Executive to support the planning and execution of day-to-day work routines and key deliverables.
• Management of the Group Executive’s office with specific reference to the following:
• Monitor that the Group Executive’s office is appropriately resourced with daily consumables;
• Provide secretariat support in key meetings and interactions to ensure the recording of decisions and follow-up;
• Draft and edit all communication (letters, routine correspondence) from the Office of the Executive for approval; and
• Provide inputs, review and quality assurance of all documents and reports from the Executive.
• Procurement of professional services on behalf of the Group Executive by developing the relevant procurement documents and ensuring that procurement is performed according to the policy.

Stakeholder Engagements

• Prepare presentations, relevant documents and briefing packs for Executive engagements i.e., workshops/conferences, meetings, speaking engagements and ensure the Executive is appropriately briefed in consultation with subject matter experts and unit heads.
• Consolidate and compile inputs from unit heads to develop a stakeholder management framework for the division which incorporates the engagement plan and reporting requirements for internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage the Executive’s engagements and communications with critical stakeholders, including Ministers’ and CEO’s.
• Oversee the management of partnership agreements with amongst others key stakeholders, partners, clients, service providers, and consultants.
• Undertake other tasks as assigned by the Executive, from time to time. 

Key Measures/KPIs

• Effectiveness and efficiencies in the Office of the Group Executive.
• Quality of presentations and reports.
• Management of Budgets including operational expenses.
• Risk Management with Coverage.
• Maintain and enhance Governance within Coverage.
• Stakeholder management for the Coverage Division.

Key Internal Liaison Relationship

• Group Executive
• DBSA Executive Management
• DBSA key stakeholders
• Coverage Staff

Key External Liaison Relationships

• DBSA suppliers
• Other Stakeholders

Expertise & Technical Competencies    

Minimum Requirements:

• A relevant B Degree.
• Minimum of 5 years’ relevant experience in a similar role.
• Experience in drafting reports, presentations, etc for Executives and Board Level.
• Experience in communicating with high level stakeholders (verbal and written).
• Demonstrable experience in managing projects as well as excellent skills in planning and organising.
• Extensive and deep computer expertise in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Proven ability to coordinate and manage multiple functions.
• Excellent leadership skills to coordinate a team within the executive’s office as well as the ability to mobilise appropriate resources to assist in providing the most suitable solutions and services when required.
• Exposure to coordinating strategy formulation.
• Strong financial management experience.

Desired Requirements:

• Knowledge of Economics and /or Finance.
• Banking industry and/or economic development services industry experience.
• MS Projects.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCY
Written communication

• Understands that different writing styles are required for different documents or audiences.
• Write effective correspondence, prepares questions and reports, statements of circumstance and briefing notes.
• Reviews others’ documents for clarity and impact.
• Has a solid mastery of writing principles such as grammar, sentence construction etc.
• Presentation skills
• Can reinforce key prgesentation points with examples.
• Is able to translate technical terminology into language understandable to the audience.
• Has insight into the audience’s behavior and motivation and responds appropriately and professionally, adapting communication style as appropriate.

Reportin

• Designs / customizes reports to meet user needs.
• Prepares complex or tailored reports, gathers information from a variety of sources, analyses and includes in a report.
• Keeps standard reports under review and proposes improvements to meet user needs.

Business acumen

• Thinks and plans in future-oriented terms.
• Develops annual business plans that consider longer-term activities, issues, problems or opportunities.
• Develops and establishes broad scale, longer-term objectives, goals or projects (e.g., affecting a business, department, or organisation).

Planning and Organising

• Is relied on to helps other plan and organise their workload.
• Uses effectively advance time management processes to deal with high workload and tight deadlines.
• Organises, prioritises and schedules tasks so they can be performed within budget and with the efficient use of time and resources
• Achieves goals in a timely manner, despite obstacles encountered, by organising, reprioritising and re-planning

Financial Acumen

• Makes sound financial decisions after having analysed their impacts on the organisation, partner agencies, and community.
• Effectively prepares budgetary submissions and forecasts for own department.
• Knows the internal and external factors that impact on resource and asset availability.
• Is able to interpret management account reports in an operational/commercial context and take action as appropriate to maximize revenues and control costs.

Financial Analysis

• Interprets, analyses and/or evaluates compliance with applicable legislation, sound regulatory practices and procedures, generally accepted accounting principles, and other such rules and regulations.
• Analyses or interprets financial records and develops program procedures, financial models and databases.
• Demonstrates a thorough knowledge and understanding of applicable regulations, rules, entity/company practices, concepts, and industry issues.
• Demonstrates a thorough knowledge or experience working with legal and regulatory issues in their subject area.
• Develops and maintains effective working relationships with regulated industries, government officials, administrators, and civic leaders.

Required Personal Attributes    

• Customer Service Orientation
• Tries to understand the underlying needs of customers and matches these needs to available or customized products and services.
• Adapts processes and procedures to meet on-going customer needs.
• Utilises the feedback received by customers, in order to develop new and/or improve existing services/ products that relate to their on-going needs.
• Thinks of new ways to align DBSA’s offerings with future customer needs.
• Self-awareness and Self Control
• Withholds effects of strong emotions in difficult situations.
• Keeps functioning or responds constructively despite stress.
• May apply special techniques or plan ahead of time to manage emotions or stress.
• Strategic and Innovative Thinking
• Experiments with new approaches, tests scenarios, questions assumptions and challenges conventional thinking.
• Creates new concepts that are not obvious to others, leveraging internal and external sources of information, to build incremental revenue and growth opportunities.
• Driving delivery of results
• Sets challenging goals that will have a significant impact on the business or support the organisational strategy.
• Commits significant resources and/or time to ensure that challenging goals are archieved, while also taking action to mitigate risk.

Teamwork & Cooperation 

• Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale and resolves conflicts.
• Creates opportunities for cross-functional working. 
• Encourages others to network outside of their own team/department and learn from their experience.

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Job Description    

• The Construction Project Manager’s responsibilities span a broad spectrum, covering all areas of project management including planning, cost and time management, quality management contract administration and safety management. The Project Manager will be required to ensure that the projects are technically sound, that all activities associated with managing the project work-flow and performance are met and to provide the necessary management and leadership skills to ensure the project team deliver.

Key Responsibilities    
Strategic Functions

• Assist in the planning, execution, monitoring and control and closure of the project (with the relevant support from the Programme Support Office).
• Assist in identifying and implementing expediting measures to prevent project delays.

Project Management Functions

• Project coordination and team management
• Oversee the construction project from start to finish;
• Serve as a key link with the Programme Manager and client’s representative and review the deliverable prepared by the team before passing onto the client;
• Co-ordinate the efforts of all parties involved in the project, including professional service providers (consultants), contractors, sub-contractors and labour;
• Develop team spirit and ensure that staff involved in the project are committed to the same goal
• Identify and negotiate assignment of resources; and
• Implement the project office framework with objectives and goals of the team members and assign individual responsibilities.

Project control on cost, time and quality

• Ensure that control measures for cost, time and quality are in place;
• Conduct regular status meetings with the principal agent teams;
• Conduct periodic inspection visits to project construction site(s);
• Ensure that construction activities follow the predetermined schedule and critically monitor project milestones;
• Oversee project accounting including budget management, approval of progress payments, tracking of team expenses and minimising the exposure to risk;
• Ensure invoices/claims submitted by contractors and/or professional service providers are timely checked, verified and forwarded to the Programme Manager; And
• Maintain strict adherence to the budgetary guidelines as well as project management, quality and safety standards.
• Complete projects within time, budget and quality

Project planning

• Devise project work plans and make revisions as and when need arises;
• Confirm project activities are scheduled;
• Prepare all programme/project cost activities; and
• Confirm milestones with stakeholders and customers.
• Ensure proper planning

Project communication and reporting

• Ensure an effective communication system is in place to provide timely feedback for management, client and customer;
• Issue site meeting minutes and action plans;
• Compile weekly project reports for stakeholders;
• Compile monthly progress reports; and
• Conduct project close out reviews.
• Ensure timeously, effective communication and adequate reporting

Project contract management

• Ensure contracts are managed in a way that is fair to all parties;
• Monitor performance by identifying and resolving areas of concern;
• Actively measure progress against the contract’s performance;
• Ensure adherence to the contract conditions and timelines; and
• Issue contract instructions in accordance with the conditions of the contract (in consultation with the Legal Expert).

Project commissioning

• Confirm the commissioning and transfer of new assets;
• Confirm the availability of all site handing over documentation;
• Ensure submission of as built drawings and user specifications where applicable; and
• Ensure commissioning, hand over and sign-off by client.

Programme health, safety and environmental quality

• Ensure the implementation of Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act and any recommendations from audits carried out within the project environment;
• Assure compliance to the project Environmental Approval (EA) conditions develop a culture of safety and health within the project environment by promoting the aims and benefits of proactive safety and health interventions;
• Conduct effective control, management and follow up of incidents; and
• Advise and evaluate contractors on compliance to the approved safety plan.

Resources utilisation and stakeholders relations

• Adequate utilisation of resources.
• Management of relationships with key stakeholders (internal and external).

Expertise & Technical Competencies    
Minimum Requirements

• A four-year Bachelors degree or similar in the built environment (Civil Engineering, Construction Management, QS or Architectural).
• Registered as professional with one of the professional bodies in built environment.
• A Project Management professional registration is required. (e.g. with SACPCMP, PMI).
• More than 7 years' experience in construction projects/built environment as a project manager.
• Must be able to manage financial budgets
• Proven track record in managing large scale construction projects/built environment in various different disciplines.

Skills & Ability

• Project and contract management knowledge
• Sound knowledge of the JBCC, NEC, GCC and other relevant building contracts
• In depth understanding of the PMBOK knowledge areas
• Knowledge of relevant Acts regarding infrastructure development
• Understanding of infrastructure markets
• Understanding of government priorities, systems and processes at national and provincial level

Desirable Requirements

• Post graduate degree in Civil Engineering or built environment will be added advantage.
• Post graduate certificate in Project Management.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Project Management

• Initiates project plans and secures resources for projects that span area or department boundaries.
• Uses estimating techniques and develops project risk management approaches.
• Has an in-depth and practical understanding of how to maximize the effectiveness of project teams.

Planning & Organizing

• Is relied on to helps other plan and organise their workload.
• Uses effectively advance time management processes to deal with high workload and tight deadlines.
• Organises, prioritises and schedules tasks so they can be performed within budget and with the efficient use of time and resources.
• Achieves goals in a timely manner, despite obstacles encountered, by organising, reprioritising and re-planning

Negotiation Skills

• Understands and can apply basic negotiating skills and techniques, e.g. obtaining a full understanding of the other party's agenda and needs before disclosing own perspectives.
• Possesses an understanding of various unspoken communications from other parties and can decipher hidden agendas.
• Can successfully conclude negotiations which require the development of an emotional as well as factual argument.
• Is able to develop mutually-beneficial potential solutions.

Written Communication

• Understands that different writing styles are required for different documents or audiences.
• Write effective correspondence, prepares questions and reports, statements of circumstance and briefing notes.
• Reviews others’ documents for clarity and impact.
• Has a solid mastery of writing principles such as grammar, sentence construction etc.

Required Personal Attributes    
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
Achievement orientation

• Undertakes challenging assignment and strives to complete them.
• Sets priorities and chooses goals based on calculated costs, anticipated benefits, and improvement of performance.
• Aims at exceptional performance, setting out to achieve a unique standard.
• Constantly analysis outcomes to ensure the achievements of business goal.
• Identifies short-term opportunity or potential problems aiming to achieve better outcomes.

Customer Orientation

• Tries to understand the underlying needs of customers and match these needs to available or customized products and service.
• Adapts processes and procedures to meet on-going customer needs.
• Utilises the feedback received from customers, to develop new and / or improving existing services / products that relates to their on-going needs.
• Thinks of new ways to align DBSA’s offering with future customer needs.

Integrity

• Is willing to end a business relationship because it was associated with unethical business practice.
• Is capable of challenging senior management (in an appropriate and respectable manner) in order to act on espoused values.

Leading and empowering others

• Creates the conditions that enables the team to perform at its best (e.g., setting clear directions, providing appropriate structure, getting the right people, obtain needed resources).
• Monitors performance against clear standards, and addresses performance issues promptly and takes action to get performance back to desired levels.
• Proactively asks for feedback on own performance from team members, aiming to become more effective.

Teamwork and cooperation

• Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale and resolves conflicts.
• Creates opportunities for cross-functional work.
• Encourages others to network outside of their own team / department and learn from their experience.

Self-awareness & self-control

• Withholds effects of strong emotions in difficult situations.
• Keeps functioning or responds constructively despite stress.
• May apply special techniques or plan ahead of time to manage emotions or stress

Strategic and Innovative thinking

• Recognises opportunities or potential problems, before they become obvious, by seeing the connections in a range of sources of information, including insights from outside DBSA.
• Restates complex knowledge in a way that makes it easier for others to understand.
• Experiments with new approaches, tests scenarios, questions assumptions and challenges conventional thinking.
• Creates new concepts that are not obvious to others, leveraging internal and external sources of information, to build incremental revenue and growth opportunities.

Teamwork and cooperation

• Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale and resolve conflicts.
• Creates opportunities for cross-functional work.
• Encourages others to network outside of their own team / department and learn from their experience.

Closing Date    
2023/07/21