Assistant Director: Cultural Support, Ref No: CAS 22/2026 at Western Cape Department of Cultural Affairs & Sport

Minimum Requirements

• An appropriate 3-year tertiary qualification (National Diploma/B-Degree);
• A minimum of 5 years’ relevant experience.

Key Performance Areas

• Provide support services for cultural facilities to ensure a safe and enabling environment for cultural programmes and initiatives; Provide administrative support services to the component;
• Provide secretariat services to the Western Cape Cultural Commission; Operational Management; People Management; Financial Management.

Competencies

• Knowledge of the following: Knowledge of and working experience with the legislation, regulatory frameworks, policies and best practices that have a bearing on the line functions; information systems that aid in the management of knowledge and information pertaining to the line function; project management; operational management practices; procurement and tendering processes; policy development, and operational management, monitoring and review processes; modern systems of governance and administration.  
• Knowledge and understanding of public service procedures, processes and systems; regional and local political, economic and social affairs impacting on the provincial government of the Western Cape;
• Constitutional, legal and institutional arrangements governing the South African public sector; public finance, human resources and discourse management processes; the Public Finance Management Act, National and Provincial Treasury Regulations, other financial policies, prescripts, directives and collective agreements; the functioning of the Province and the activities of sister departments/related functional areas;
• Knowledge and understanding of the policies of the government of the day; Knowledge and understanding of Labour Relations legislation and regulations; Knowledge and understanding of performance management in general; stakeholder management.
• Skills needed: Numeracy; Literacy; Computer Literacy; Language skills; Accounting; Finance; Audit.