SUMMARY:
Specialist: Transformation & Empowerment - Johannesburg
POSITION INFO:
Job Title: Specialist: Transformation & Empowerment
Reporting Line: Manager: Strategy and Organisational Performance
Remuneration: R807 700 - R1050 000 per annum
Main Purpose of the Job:
Implement and project manage the organisational transformation strategy - Manage, monitor, oversee, and report on the company transformation scorecard inclyding the company BEE verification - provide advice, support and assistance on entity policies and procedures related to the area of focus - Ensure entity compliance with relevant policy, legislation and frameworks - Monitoring, tracking of processes and governance.
Key Responsibility Areas:
Quality Management
- Implement and execute the entity transformation and empowerment plan.
- Support the monitoring and reporting on the entity transformation and empowerment plan including implementation plans, processes, policies, targets, outputs, and outcomes.
- Support the entity in the management of programme stakeholder management to achieve the outcomes of the programme and in engaging on a regular basis with the key stakeholders for the purposes of updates on transformation progress.
- Compile and assist on the reporting of all related transformation imperatives related to transformation and empowerment objectives of the company.
- Assist and support the reporting of procurement monitoring to ensure required targets related to the designated groups and community initiatives are implemented and achieved.
- Assist in the development of evaluation tools, methods and frameworks that will ensure compliance and adherence to approved standards and procedures.
Programme Administration Management and Implementation
- Ensure and support efficient, effective, and good practice programme and project administration.
- Ensure appropriate programme and project document management, tracking and reporting.
- Ensure all company policy, legislative and administrative frameworks are applied and complied with in the management of the function optimally and information is integrated and readily available for reporting.
- Coordinate and manage project deliverables consistent with the required company administrative systems.
- Monitor and evalaute statusses of each project for reporting purposes.
Transformation and Empowerment Required Areas of Output and Outcome
- Report on entity B-BBEE interventions related to housing and human settlements development including targets, outputs, and outcomes.
- Initiate, design, and implement approved programme projects.
- Support and Assist Entity Units to advance transformation in the following regards:
- Women empowerment
- Youth employment
- Preferred procurement BEE for community benefit
- Preferred procurement transformation
- Empowerment of disabled persons within the sector
- Support the access to jobs and skills development
- Support entry of new firms in the construction sector
- Empowerment of military veterans
- Promotion of local content through transformation and empowerment
Eployment Equity Support
- Input in company human resources policy and planning and monitoring support thereof.
- Support the development of the company Employment Equity Plan and B-BBEE Strategy and Action Plan.
- Support problem solving and developing value-adding strategies align transformation and empowerment legislation and objectives.
- Support the Implementation and annual planning for transformation and empowerment targeting and outputs.
- Support and assist with interventions or training programs and advancement opportunity, identifying of obstacles that are present for specified designated groups.
Project Management
- Identify and facilitate engagements and interventions for economic participation for all designated groups for the advancement of transformation and empowerment.
- Implement and faciitate the implementation and support of policies, plans and frameworks where appropriate to enhance socio-economic impact.
- Develop and support plans that ensures that local communities derive maximum benefit from the investment through access to labour, sub-contracting opportunities, socio-economic investment, and income.
- Support successful conclusion of transformation project.
- Support principle that transformation targets are linked to the human settlement transformation score card.
Stakeholder Engagements
- Design, plan and support research, network with relevant role-players and make appropriate contact with public sector organisations.
- Gather relevant information data including key decision-making processes, strategic choices, and timing of priorities, to support evidence-based programme and project planning.
- Support CEO and supervisors in the compilation of reports and presentations to promote transformation in the sector and company functions, mandate and role.
- Advise and organize appropriate meetings, interventions, appointment, engagements, networking sessions and presentations as may be required.
People Management
- Manage and lead any personnel falling under the position scope of authority.
- Set clear objectives for the position and scope of work to measure achievements against objectives based on the company performance management system.
- Build and manage relationships with staff members.
- Implement and comply with the company policies and procedures as required.
- Manage risks within programme and projects.
Qualifications & Experience:
- Relevant Degree in Human Resources Management and/or Education and/or Development Studies
- Valid Driver''''''''s Licence
- Ability and willingness to travel
- Computer literacy and proficiency to research, write and compile and prepare reports and presentations
- Minimum 10 years'''''''' experience in the Social and Community Development and/or Transformation and/or Empowerment and/or Change Management
- Experience and knowledge of Skills Development and Training
- Experience in Enterprise Development and Corporate Social Investment Programmes
- A minimum of 3 years of this experience must be at management level
Competencies Required:
Leadership Competencies:
- Advocac and Lobbying
- Change Management
- Developing Others
- Delivery Leadership
- Organisational Awareness and Effectiveness
- People Management
- Public and Private Partnering
- Stategic Planning and Annual Performance Planning
Technical Competencies:
- Contractor / Service Provider Management
- Cost Benefit Analysis
- Needs Analysis
- Policy and Procedure Development and Implementation
- Resource Management
- Administration Support
- Data Interpretation
- Budgeting and Budget Management
- Performance Management
- Business Modelling
- Economic Analysis
- Market Research and Analysis
- Programme Management
- Project Feasibility
- Project Financial Management
- Project and Programme Financial Modeling
- Project and Programme Scope Definition and Management
- Research
- Evaluation
Service Competencies:
- Concern for others
- Customer / Citizen Service and Orientation
- Environmental Awareness
- Networking
- Political Intelligence
- Relationship Management
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Team Player
Behavioral Competencies:
- Action Orientation
- Analytical Thinking Skills
- Attention to Detail
- Compliance
- Communication Written
- Communication Verbal
- Conflict Resolution and Resilience
- Contextual Application
- Continious Improvement
- Creative Thinking
- Decision Making
- Diligence
- Diversity
- Drive to Deliver
- Ethics and Integrity
- Influencing
- Learning and Development
- Mentoring
- Negotiation
- Planning and Organising
- Problem Analysis and Solving
- Professionalism
- Resilience
- Self-Management and Maturity
- Situational Responsiveness
- Thought Leadership
- Technical Curiosity and Expertise
- System and Process Thinking Skills
