Manager: Investment Facilitation at Gauteng Growth and Development Agency

The successful incumbent will be reporting to the Manager, Investment Facilitation: Trade, Investment and Regulatory Enablement and will be expected to execute the following tasks:

• Manage the Industry Development and support interventions
• To develop a sector key action plan aligned to the GGDA mandate and submit it for inclusion into the business unit operational plan.
• Contribute towards achieving company targets in terms of facilitating investments and creating jobs.
• Attract suitable investors by promoting Gauteng as a premium investment destination by provide information to potential investors regarding the unique selling proposition and competitive advantages of the Gauteng city region.
• Identify companies seeking new investment locations internationally and market the region to potential investors.
• Identify suitable local partners or joint venture purposes upon request.
• Collaborate with relevant sector and industry bodies to keep abreast of trends within the industry. to inform potential investors of developments in their sector.
• Conduct preliminary research to better understand the sector and assist in identifying possible leads.
• Deliver concise and professional presentations/briefs.
• Evaluate business plans of possible investments/ to determine the viability of proposed projects.
• Coordinate, attend and facilitate meetings with investors and relevant stakeholders to unlock investment challenges.
• Act as a link between local, national, and provincial, local municipalities and potential investors.

Assist to identify suitable services for projects taking into consideration the infrastructure needs, such as, but not limited to:

• Guidance regarding governmental incentives and grants.
• Facilitation of access to finance, Site location
• Professional referral service, Sector-specific research
• Stakeholder engagement,
• Policy advocacy, leveraging the support of the Invest SA One-Stop-Shop
• Immigration facilitation services
• Prepare pre-and post-mission reports within prescribed timeframes where required.

 Financial Leadership        

• Provide input into the business unit’s budget.
• Prepare motivations for funding-proposed engagements.

Organisational Leadership and People Management

• Providing leadership, guidance, and supervision to team members, ensuring they understand their roles and responsibilities within the organization.
• Participating in the recruitment process, which may involve identifying staffing needs, conducting interviews, and making hiring decisions.
• Setting performance goals and conducting regular performance evaluations for team members. This may also involve providing feedback, addressing performance issues, and recognizing achievements.
• Resolving conflicts and issues among team members and ensuring a harmonious working environment.
• Work in conjunction with other Business Units’ management to ensure alignment and value-added approach to organisation.

Stakeholder Relationship Management  

• Establish and maintain good working relationships with all internal and external stakeholders.
• Set up meetings with the role-players to discuss their roles and responsibilities as well as possible areas of collaboration, improvement, and conflict.
• Commission research in respect of the sector by engaging with the BI department.
• Liaising closely with clients, research institutions, financial industry, consultancy firms and other relevant stakeholders to develop new ideas for research products.
• Work with MARCOMMS and BI to ensure the required level of exposure for the sector/industry is achieved.
• Obtain mutual agreement on the resolution of issues, meetings required and the delivery of inter-dependent outputs and results.
• Continuously track the progress and performance of all relevant role-players to ensure that the agreements are honoured.
• Develop and maintain the CRM indicating the role-players, expected outputs, and contact details to ensure relevancy and accuracy.
• Document the interaction with the relevant role-players for future reference.
• Submit the documentation for archiving in the document management system.

Good Corporate Governance & Compliance

• Lobby regulatory authorities on behalf of potential clients for an improved investment climate.
• Ensure that projects are implemented in line with legislation, policy, and other statutory requirements.
• Comply with GGDA’s reporting requirements.
• Manage relationships in accordance with policies, procedures, and legal requirements.
• Ensure that all operations and activities of the sub-unit are conducted in accordance with the PFMA, relevant regulations, the GGDA’s Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, sound business practices, and other policies and practices.
• Drive a high-performance corporate culture that promotes ethical practices and encourages individual integrity, accountability, and social responsibility.
• Facilitate resource availability through effective procurement processes.
• Comply with organisation and divisional reporting requirements.

Organisational Effectiveness       

• Managing efficiencies of the sub-unit to streamline processes and effectively optimize systems.
• Ensure the delivery of sub-unit objectives and targets.
• Monitoring and evaluation of performance objectives in line with the mandate of the unit.
• Develop and maintain a sector/industry key action plan.
• Meet annual performance targets.
• Create a detailed project plan that includes all participating role-players.
• Monitor the project to identify bottlenecks, propose solutions and play a facilitation role in solving problems with national, provincial, and local, government departments.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATION AND COMPETENCY REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor’s Degree or NQF Level 7 qualification in Commerce, Public Admin, Marketing or related field Postgraduate Degree or NQF Level 9 qualification in Commerce, Public Admin, Marketing or related field
• 5 years of experience in project management 7 experience in industry/business-related management and Stakeholder management
• Good knowledge and strong interest in the industry
• Customer centricity: Ability to listen and understand customer requirements (internal and external) and anticipate customer needs and give priority to customer satisfaction.
• Knowledge of the business environment, the relevant role players within the business and their key responsibilities and outcomes
• Understanding of the Foreign & Local Economic development industry
• Knowledge of the relevant legislation/governance applicable to the organisation/industry /country
• Understanding of the Foreign & Local Economic development industry
• Knowledge of the relevant legislation/governance applicable to the organisation/industry /country
• Knowledge of the government and private sector of the targeted investments /markets/ countries
• The ability to accurately give an account of information pertaining to the performance of outputs