Assistant Director: Water, Energy and Telecoms at National Treasury

Qualification/s Requirements

• A Grade 12 is required coupled with a minimum National Diploma (equivalent to NQF level 6) or Bachelor’s degree (equivalent to NQF level 7) in Finance or Economics;
• A minimum 3 years‘ experience obtained in the water and energy sector or energy and telecoms sector; and
• Knowledge and experience in financial management, mergers and acquisitions, strategy and or economic regulation. 

Key Performance Areas

Restructuring of SOE

• Assist in reviewing of the restructuring/turnaround plans of the SOEs in the water, energy and telecoms sectors;
• Participate in the restructuring of SOEs in the water, energy and telecoms sectors with other departments

Oversight over SOEs: 

• Assist with the review of legislation, sector policy and framework for economic regulation inputs;
• Analyse the alignment of the corporate plans of SOEs in the water, energy and telecoms sectors to policy objectives;
• Analyze industry structures and provide advice on certain analysis and trends in sectors; 
• Assist in the  oversight over; and
• Schedules pertaining to SOEs in the water, energy and telecoms sectors. 

PFMA Oversight:

• Assist with the analysis and drafting of responses to PFMA applications from SOEs pertaining to the relevant sectors. 

Provision of contingent liabilities: 

• Assist in the analysis and drafting of responses to guarantee requests received from SOEs.

Oversight over SOE capital structure: 

• Participate as a team to analyse the extent to which SOEs in the relevant sectors need to be recapitalized; and
• Assist in the analysis of the extent to which SOEs in the sectors could pay dividends to government.