Deputy Director: Skills for the Economy REF NO: SID&ET 057 at Department of Trade, Industry and Competition

REQUIREMENTS :

• A qualification at NQF Level 7, as recognized by SAQA, Development Studies, Business Management, Economics, Education Policy, or a related field.
• 3–5 years managerial experience in the skills development sector, including implementation and evaluation of education/skills programmes and strategies in the public or private sector.

DUTIES :

• Policy Analysis & Programme Development: Analyse policies, regulation and legislation to develop appropriate policies, strategies and programmes to address specific sector priorities. Conceptualise and communicate internal and external processes to assess specific Sector Skills Plans of specific SETAs and integrate the sector needs of the dtic stakeholders. Benchmarking sector-based policies and programmes against local and international best practice.
• Stakeholder Management: Represent the unit in relevant forums, task teams on skills development. Identify, set up and manage internal & external stakeholder forums for conceptualization, design & implementation of policies & programmes in specific sector skills areas, Masterplans, SEZs and SETAs.
• Project Management: Develop, implement and manage programmes in support of youth employment and labour market development. Manage the development and approval of Workplace Challenge annual business plan, annual targets & annual report. Manage the development and approval of the sectoral Centre of Excellence in the textile & clothing sector annual business plan, strategic planning processes, annual targets and annual report. Manage the conceptualization and design of sector-based programmes/projects in line with sector policies and strategies with internal sector desks, industry stakeholders, SETAs and benchmarked against local and international best practice.
• Monitoring and Evaluation: Identify and implement monitoring & evaluation requirements. Monitor the implementation of business plan and development of feedback reports on a monthly and quarterly basis (Performance & financial expenditure). Monitor implementation of expert committee and develop inputs on MTEF, audit & the dtic performance processes & reporting.
• Sub-directorate Management: Manage collation of inputs into the quarterly and annual reports, business plans and targets. Compile reports on skills development programmes and M&E visits. Monitor financial resources and assets of the unit. Manage the human resources of the sub-directorate. Manage the process of reporting on financial and operational risks.