TEAM LEAD: PROJECT MANAGEMENT: JOBS FUND PMU REF NO: G08/2025 (X2 POSTS)

TEAM LEAD: PROJECT MANAGEMENT: JOBS FUND PMU REF NO:
G08/2025 (X2 POSTS)

Term: 24 Months Fixed Term Contract

The purpose of this job is to provide strategic and technical advice in the
management of the Jobs Fund portfolio of projects and contribute to the
knowledge and learning agenda of the Fund.

SALARY :

R1 266 714 – R1 492 122 per annum (Level 13), (all – inclusive package)

CENTRE :

Pretoria

REQUIREMENTS :

Bachelor’s Degree/Advanced Diploma/ BTech degree (NQF 7) as recognised
by SAQA in Development Finance; Economics; Business Management;
Project Management; Project Finance, or related fields. NQF level 7
qualification or internationally recognised certification in Project Management
or a related field would be advantageous. Post Graduate qualification in
Development Finance; Economics; Business Management; Project
Management; Project Finance, or related field would be advantageous.

At least 7 years’ experience in investment management and track record working
with local economic development programmes in respect of undertaking
appraisals of applications for grant funding, managing the contracting process
for the projects approved for grant funding, and the periodic monitoring
performance of projects. At least 7 years’ experience and track record in
respect of economic project/programme development and support.

5 years of experience at a middle/senior managerial level. Strong economics background (Development/Behavioural/Micro) with experience in active labour market interventions. A strong financial background, in respect of financial analysis of project financial models and knowledge of different economic sectors.

Competencies Required:

Client Service Orientation: Client-service orientation implies helping or serving others to meet their needs. It means focusing on discovering those needs, figuring out how to best meet them, as well as putting into practice the Batho Pele spirit. The term “clients” refers to both internal and external clients.
Change Leadership: The ability to deliver the message of change in both words and actions and motivate people to change. It energises
and alerts groups to the need for specific changes in the way things are done.It involves taking responsibility to champion the change effort through building and maintaining support and commitment. Concern for
Quality and Order: Desire to see things done logically, clearly and well.
It takes various forms: monitoring and checking work and information, insisting on the clarity of roles and duties, setting up and maintaining an information system.
Effective Communication: Ability to transmit and receive information clearly and communicate effectively to others by considering their points of view in order to respond appropriately. This may involve listening, interpreting, formulating and delivering verbal, non-verbal, written, and/or electronic messages. It includes the ability to convey ideas and information in a way that brings understanding to the target audience.
Integrity/ Honesty: Contributes to maintaining the integrity of the organisation; displays high standards of ethical conduct and understands the impact of violating these standards on an organisation, self, and others; is trustworthy.
Networking and Influencing: Establishes, maintains and utilizes a relevant network of contacts in order to keep a pulse on public, political and internal issues and make informed decisions. It implies an intention to persuade, convince, influence, or impress others in order to meet the intended objectives.
Organisational Awareness: The ability to understand and learn the power of relationships in one’s own organisation or in other organisations. This includes the ability to identify the real decision makers, the individuals who can influence them, and to predict how new events or situations will affect individuals and groups within the Department.
People Development and Management: Mobilises people to work
toward a shared purpose in the best interests of the department, the people comprising it and the people it serves. It involves attracting, supporting, developing and retaining a talented and diverse workforce. Managers demonstrate concern for individual differences and employee morale and foster employee development through responsibility sharing, learning and training opportunities.
Problem Solving and Analysis: Understanding a situation, issue, problem, etc., by breaking it into smaller pieces, or tracing the
implications of a situation in a step-by-step way.It includes organising the parts of a problem, situation, etc., in a systematic way; making systematic comparisons of different features or aspects; setting priorities on a rational basis; and identifying time sequences, causal relationships, or if-then relationships. Create timely and well-developed solutions by examining alternatives, risks and consequences.
Resilience: Ability to cap one’s emotions to avoid negative reactions when provoked, when faced with opposition or hostility, or when working under stress. It also includes the ability to maintain stamina under continuing stress.
Resources Planning: Organises work, sets priorities and determines resource requirements; determines short- or longterm goals and strategies to achieve them; coordinates with other organisations or parts of the organisation to accomplish goals; monitors progress and evaluates outcomes.
Results Orientation: Concern for holding yourself and others accountable for achieving results or for surpassing a standard of excellence. It includes the process of setting measurable objectives, implementing change and then checking back to determine the
effect of your efforts. The standard may be one’s own past performance
(striving for improvement); an objective measure (results orientation);
outperforming others (competitiveness); challenging goals one has set, or even what anyone has ever done (innovation).
Strategic Orientation: Strategic orientation is about taking a broad scale, long-term view, assessing options and implications. It demonstrates an intimate understanding of the capabilities,
nature and potential of the department. It involves taking calculated risks based on an awareness of societal, economic, market and political issues, trends, processes and outcomes as they impact the strategic direction of the department and its linkages with the direction of government.
Systems Thinking: Orientation to think in system-wide terms with regard to functions or divisions within the organisation. This includes spotting opportunities to connect with initiatives underway in other areas or proactively sharing information or resources that can be seen to have relevance and impact for others.
Economic Development: Knowledge/ understanding of how labour
markets work; active labour market policy interventions. Understanding of and development of local economic development and making markets work for the poor are approaches to development.
Corporate Finance/ Project Finance/structured finance/ Grant Management: Specific area of finance dealing with the financial decisions corporations make and the tools as well as analyses, used to make these decisions. The discipline as a whole may be divided among long -term and short -term decisions and techniques with the primary goal being the enhancing of corporate value by ensuring that return on
capital exceeds cost of capital, without taking excessive financial risks. Policy Development.
Management and Dissemination: Knowledge of Treasury – related legislation, the legislative process and public affairs as it pertains to NT. Includes the ability to monitor legislation that is of interest to Treasury. Utilises a wide variety of resources and tools to develop, maintain, monitor, enforce and provide oversight of policies and regulations.
Project Management: Knowledge of the principles, methods, or tools for developing, scheduling, coordinating, and managing projects and resources, including monitoring and inspecting costs, work, and contractor performance.
Communication/ Knowledge Management: Verbal and writing skills, Stakeholder engagement and writing up case studies. Impact evaluation: Understanding impact evaluation methodologies, implementing evaluation programmes.

DUTIES :

Management of funding round incl. Application, Appraisal and Approval:
Conduct research on economic sectors and financial models and provide
strategic input on the design of the Fund, future funding rounds and develop
impact assessment criteria. Originate new projects to strengthen the Jobs Fund
Project Pipeline. Select high -impact projects aligned to the term sheet, Jobs
Fund policies and knowledge outcomes.

Provide quality assurance on allocated project portfolio, including administrative support related to project decision records, minutes etc. Support staff and applicants with thought leadership on the design of applications. Analyse project applications, including the financial model and advise on the feasibility of the application. Analyse Annual Financial Statements (AFS), Management Accounts, Financial Ratios, past and future cash flows and other financial data to determine the feasibility of the application.

Contracting:

Quality assurance of Activity Based Costing
Project Implementation Monitoring Plans (ABC PIMPs). Ensure that the
contracting ABC PIMP is per the one provided at appraisal to the Jobs Fund
Investment Committee (JFIC) and that all numbers are as per the Executive
Summary. Ensure that the approved Financial Models are accurately reflected
in the contracting documents and are aligned with the Jobs Fund Operating
Guidelines. Review Matched Funding agreements and documentation.

Provide quality assurance on all contracting documents. Ensure that all contracting conditions have been met and that the Grant Agreement and Annexures are finalised as per the agreed timeframes. Support the Team in resolving all issues related to the finalisation of the Grant Agreement. Post
-Investment Monitoring: Ensure the project portfolio is implemented as per the Grant Agreement. This includes ensuring that grant conditions are met, e.g. matched funding, maintenance of approved financial model and job targets.

Maintain oversight of the financial records in instances where the Jobs Fund Partner transacts from accounts other than the dedicated project bank account. Ensure that evidence of project indicators, including jobs and financial records, is quality assured and maintained i.e. all project records must be accurate and audit
ready in the RACI Folder. Ensure that the project portfolio submissions to
governance committees (Disbursement Committee (DP), Project Implementation Review Meeting (PIRM), Secondary Bank Account Meetings (SBA) are quality assured and aligned with Jobs Fund Standards. Quality assure and ensure that Project Close -Out Reports (PCRs), Year -End Review (YER) and Project Surplus processes are finalised timeously.

Manage timeous resolution of Audit Logs. Review the Project Financial Audits and ensure that all submitted audits are in line with the Operating Guidelines. Relationship Management: Manage relationships within the Jobs Fund. Manage relationship with Jobs Fund Partners. Identify and build relationship with key stakeholders in the Jobs Fund ecosystem with a view to building the Jobs Fund brand. Proactively identify potential funding sources and opportunities for
collaboration at the Fund and Project Level.

Knowledge harvesting and sharing:

Implement the Jobs Fund internal knowledge sharing strategy which includes the management and/or production of: Practice notes, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), Brown bags, Project Close -Out Reports.
Implement an external knowledge strategy for the Jobs Fund which includes the management and/or production of: Research papers/ Learning series, Community of Practice (COP/ Webinars),Newsletters/Opinion Pieces/Social Media and Creating a network of key influencers and stakeholders. Assist with design of project evaluations and the production of Knowledge Pieces. Conduct independent research on Active Labour Market policies and
interventions with a view to improving the Jobs Fund response to market
conditions.
Talent Management: Proactively search for talent to build the Jobs
Fund’s capabilities. Develop the team so that they achieve and maintain high performance by improving the skills and deepening the capacity of the team. Improve the performance of the team and manage the achievement of team deliverables and targets. Assess staff skills gaps & align unit training plan to skills gaps. Manage team resources. Manage individual team member performance, assess and provide feedback. Organise and manage Team building events.
Strategy Implementation and Risk Management: Participate and provide input into the strategic planning processes of the Jobs Fund.
Contribute to the development of a risk management framework for the Jobs Fund. Identify portfolio risks, including jobs and disbursement risks, identify and implement mitigation measures and analyse impact. Efficiently implement the jobs and disbursement strategy of the Jobs Fund and identify opportunities for improvement.

Review and update the Jobs Fund Operating Guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures on an ongoing basis. Manage strategic initiatives to improve the Jobs Fund’s performance. Strategic management of project portfolio performance, including timeous escalation and resolution of issues, risk-based site visits, attendance at Project Steercom meetings, etc. Provide support for the development, assessment, and management of project improvement plans. Implement and adhere to timelines and processes of the Disbursement Framework. Support the development of a business case for the Jobs Fund and provide inputs into the annual budget process.

ENQUIRIES :

HR EnquirieS: Kaizer Malakoane at 061 480 8042 Technical Job Enquiries: jobsfund@treasury.gov.za

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