Executive Head: Social Development at City of Johannesburg

Minimum Requirements: 

• Matric/Grade 12; 
• Bachelor’s Degree in Social Science, Social work or related field at NQF level 7; 
• 10 years’ working experience in the discipline, of which 5 years’ senior management experience and 3 years at middle management level; 
• A valid driver’s license; and 
• Must have no criminal record. 

Primary Function:

• Guide the development and implementation of human and social development interventions through a targeted focus on poverty reduction, food security, community self-sustainable programmes, social inclusivity, literacy and skills programmes. This will be done by ensuring that appropriate strategies, business plans, policies and procedures are developed, approved, communicated to the relevant stakeholders and implemented so that Social Development strategic imperatives of the City are met. The job also entails building strategic relationships and engagements (within the City) and other stakeholders (including national, provincial government and other local authorities) so that an understanding is created of their requirements and these are incorporated into the policy and strategic planning process of the Department. 

Key Performance Areas: 

• Ensure compliance with National Legislation through reviewing, drafting, recommending and implementing relevant policies and strategies so that effective regulatory mechanisms are in place for Social Development within the City. 
• To plan, manage, monitor, govern and control the department’s operating and capital budget so that spending is in line with the Council’s requirements in order to ensure that the developed Strategic Plans, guidelines and policies are accurate, workable, client and project-compliant within the set Long Term GDS 2040, IDP’s and or predetermined Strategic Departmental and City objectives and accommodate change from time to time; 
• Lead, direct and control the Departmental strategy that permits administration and related functions which support the service delivery components of the department in order to enable sustainable and integrated systems and processes that will contribute to good administration and governance, legislative compliance and further administrative excellence in terms of giving effect to service delivery outcomes and to prevent administrative risks; 
• Provide research and development and policy reviews that identify programme gaps and new initiatives required for implementation in the Social Development Department; 
• Lead research and development to enhance the knowledge base and sharing for ongoing local, provincial, national and global action to ensure that the Social Development Department is at the forefront of socioeconomic development; 
• Support training and strengthening of the capacity of managers and operational staff in relation to social development programmes by the department; 
• Lead, support and control the financial management, budgeting and forecasting in order to ensure that all the social development programmes are positioned to capably attend to expenditure requirements associated with normal, critical operational and ad hoc deliverables identified as priority in the IDP/LIDP/SDP of the City of Johannesburg; 
• Establish a suitable departmental structure and lead, direct and control staff within the Department to achieve the set objectives by defining/adjusting the role boundaries, workflow processes and job design/job evaluation/job rotation against laid down service delivery requirements in order to ensure a climate conducive to promoting and sustaining motivational and performance levels is cultivated and maintained by implementing legislation, conditions of service, actions that will enable the Department to contribute positively to the COJ’s service level objectives and outcomes from a human capital management perspective; 
• Community and citizen mobilization (transversal), in order to ensure the development of strategies encourage communities to participate in decisions that affect their lives, improve quality of services and optimal service delivery.