Executive: Office of the CEO

SUMMARY:
The Housing Development Agency (HDA) is a National Public sector development agency that inter alia has the mandate to identify, acquire, prepare and develop suitable land for human settlements. The agency also undertakes the programme and project management for development of housing and human settlements. 

The HDA has the following three-year fixed term contract position:

POSITION INFO:
Main Purpose: 
To contribute to the sustainable growth and development of the HDA by providing the Agency with Sustainable Business Governance solutions that serve to integrate ad continuously improve and refine its governance (institutional decision making) processes, structures and frameworks/guides (such as policies) by:

• Implementing and managing mechanisms that ensure effective strategy execution and service delivery by:
• Identifying strategy execution challenges ad risks and providing innovative solutions
• Developing and managing key strategic risk management programmes and /or projects from conceptualization to implementation and 
• Ensuring the alignment of operational programmes, projects and initiatives in the HDA with the Agency’s values and strategic objectives.

• Bachelor’s degree with specialization in decision making and systems thinking/modelling.
• Minimum 5 years interdisciplinary experience in safety, housing (infrastructure), environmental, development planning, policy, strategic planning, decision making, systems thinking and modelling

• Identify strategic risk
• Conceptualize and manage the implementation of the strategic risk management programmes and/or projects (inclusive of programmes/projects monitoring, evaluation and learning)
• Implement and oversee culture alignment and change management initiatives

• Identify appropriate service deliver improvement methods, processes, tools and techniques and manage the implementation thereof
• Monitor and evaluate strategy execution
• Identify strategic partners and initiate capacity building partnership/network

• Contribute to the development/refinement of systems models that support strategic decision making
• Conduct Action research to identify new and innovative trends in decision support tools and technique’s
• Analyze relevant sector policies

• Identify root cause of strategic execution strengths and weakness 
• Utilize departmental SDIX scores as a basis for determining which business processes require ISO 9000 compliant procedures
• Identify policies to be developed that strengthen strategy execution

• Quality control all written communication from the OCEO to internal and external stakeholders
• Validate data and information used in evidence-based decision-making

• Monitor and evaluate performance and manage that if direct reports to the Executive: OCEO

• Plan the HDAs strategic risk management projects/programmes and organize and coordinate the relevant resources. Organize data and information feeding into strategic thinking and decision-making

• Strategic planning/strategic business management, risk management, project management, biometry/statistics; policy analysis.
• Strategic planning and business development processes
• Performance monitoring and evaluation.
• Competency in Action research;
• Facilitate strategic decision making and develop decision models 
• Familiarity with housing sector legislation and policies 
• Key functions of an implementing agent 
• Strategic risk identification and management

• Intermediate Microsoft Office / HR Systems is essential.
• Solid, proven and applied understanding of labour law and employment equity regulations.
• Solid and proven HR administration skills.
• Proven people management skills

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