Manager: Tax Court Litigation at The South African Revenue Service (SARS)

Job Purpose

• To facilitate, manage and monitor the team members in the administration of tax appeals including before the various courts with the aim of ensuring efficient and effective processing of appeals and the optimum utilization of SARS resources; the Tax Court roll; and other external stakeholders.

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

• Bachelor of Law (LLB)
• 8-10 years' experience in a legal environment
• 3-4 years’ experience in managing legal staff
• Admitted as an attorney or Advocate

 Minimum Functional Requirements

• Prior experience working with tax disputes
• Management of complex legal projects

Job Outputs:

• Manage litigation staff and ensure timelines are met and risks averted.
• Provide strategic directions to staff
• Provide input to senior management on the cases; trend analysis; and relevant reporting.

Process

• Act as the bottom-line driver of tactical implementation within the context of business unit excellence and performance improvement.
• Direct, control, coordinate and optimise budgeted resources to meet specific objectives and deliver agreed results and productivity requirements.
• Ensure the development and implementation of a practice in alignment with operational policy and procedural frameworks.
• Implement tactical strategy and delivery plans through the development of operational activities, ensuring the achievement of operational targets.
• Plan for handling work outputs, pull together interdependent activities and specify priorities, standards and procedures to ensure tactical implementation.
• Proactively identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fi t alternatives, implementing best practice solutions.
• Provide periodic reports on performance against plan and progress on short-term initiatives and use to realign tactical plan and objectives appropriately.
• Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, policies and procedures, and execute the implementation of change and innovation initiated by the organisation.
• Timeously communicate top-down policy and associated single practice area modification, objective achievement progress and critical success factors to impacted stakeholders.
• Use the insights gained through integrated business reports to measure success and realign tactical strategy implementation objectives appropriately.

Governance

• Implement governance, risk and compliance policy in own practice area to identify and manage governance and risk exposure liability.
• Manage and or advise on the translation and application of policy in a specific functional area.

People

• Develop and implement appropriate people capacity plans in line with delivery and efficiency targets, on budget and in partnership with specialised area.
• Develop and maintain a team that is capable for operating to their full capability and provide appropriate skills, knowledge and experience.
• Plan and implement enhanced organisational efficiency by identifying and addressing development requirements and providing tools for people resources.
• Translate performance expectations into specific metrics and goals to identify and provide effective services, solve problems and achieve objectives.

Finance

• Contribute to the development of divisional budgets to minimise expenditure aligned with divisional plans.
• Implement and monitor financial control, management of costs and corporate governance in area of accountability.
• Draw up a budget aligned to tactical delivery plans, monitor planned vs. actual, minimise expenditure and report on cost efficiency.

Client

• Develop and ensure implementation of practices which builds service delivery excellence and encourages others to provide exceptional client service.
• Manage an integrated service excellence culture, which builds rewarding relationships and provides opportunity for feedback and exceptional service.
• Build strong relationships and implement service level agreements that promote SARS with internal and external stakeholders.

Behavioural competencies

• Honesty & Integrity
• Fairness & Transparency
• Accountability
• Problem Solving and Analysis
• Respect
• Trust
• Ability to translate Strategy into Execution
• Concern for Impact on Own Behaviour
• Develop teams and nurtures independency
• Inspires other to positive action
• Nurtures future talent
• Stewardship and Service Orientation
• Strong Results Orientation
• Values and Manages Diversity

Technical competencies

• Business Acumen
• Change Management
• Court processes and procedures
• Decisiveness
• Effective Business Communication
• Functional Policies and Procedures
• Legal Advisory and Interpretation
• Legal knowledge and knowledge of ethics
• Legal compliance
• Managerial budgeting
• Planning and Organising
• Planning, management and measurement
• Problem Analysis and Judgement

Deadline:8th April,2026