(1650) Governance and Standard Specialist at South African Reserve Bank

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Design and maintain the SARB’s enterprise delivery-governance frameworks, standards, quality gates, escalation routes and compliance expectations.
• Conduct independent governance reviews to verify adherence to the SARB’s delivery-governance standards.
• Update frameworks proactively as institutional maturity, assurance expectations or regulatory obligations evolve.
• Identify systemic governance gaps or repeated non-compliance and escalate through Strategy Management Office (SMO) leadership.
• Develop and maintain governance templates, checklists, quality-gate criteria and escalation pathways.
• Works with the systems and tooling specialist to embed governance requirements into delivery systems and tooling.
• Consolidate governance-assurance findings into enterprise insights, highlighting control gaps, regulatory-related governance risks and emerging compliance themes.
• Advise the Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO), senior portfolio managers, programme managers and delivery assurance on governance requirements, quality gates, templates and compliance expectations.
• Provide guidance to delivery teams to support consistent and accurate application of governance standards.
• Support governance-related capability uplift in collaboration with SMO and EPMO leaders.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• an NQF Level 7 qualification in Business Management, Governance, Project/Programme Management, Risk Management, Compliance, Audit or an equivalent qualification; and
• five to eight years’ job-related experience.