Strategy Manager at Auditor-General of South Africa

Requirement Overview

This role is responsible for supporting the two senior managers (SM: Strategic Planning and SM: Monitoring & Evaluation) in planning for the organisation’s annual performance and then ensuring the implementation of this performance. The managers will also support the SMs and business unit in supporting/enabling the overall execution of the AGSA’s strategic objectives, including strategic programmes/projects and the achievement of the requisite targets, drafting and analysing quarterly and annual reports, and executing performance assessment processes that further the delivery of the AGSA’s constitutional mandate.

Roles & Responsibilities

Strategic Function:

• Support assigned business units and portfolios with their strategic management deliverables, from strategic planning to annual reporting.
• Work in partnership with assigned business units’ leaders (and the SM: Strategic Planning) in the development of business unit scorecards and portfolio implementation plans.
• Work in partnership with assigned business units’ leaders (and the SM: Monitoring & Evaluation) in assessing and reporting on how assigned business units and portfolios are performing against their scorecards and implementation plans.
• Support the development and rollout of organisational monitoring and evaluation project plans.
• Collate information and draft first-line quarterly reports for assigned business units and portfolios, in support of the SM: Monitoring & Evaluation’s development of the organisational quarterly reports.
• Collate annual performance information and draft first-line annual report submissions on behalf of assigned portfolios for incorporation into the organisation’s annual reporting process and product.
• Maintain and deliver against monitoring and reporting mechanisms (information collection, storage, and dissemination systems and processes) to track and assess organisational performance.
• Establish indicators or criteria for monitoring, determine deviations or variances against targets, especially for assigned portfolios.
• Analyse the reported information, establish trends, barriers to the achievement of the strategy, draw conclusions, and make recommendations for improvement.
• Drive the year-end performance scorecard review process and ensure effective support to and coordination with the internal and external auditors for the manager’s assigned business units/portfolios.
• Guide and support assigned business units in monitoring their performance and reporting thereof.
• Design and review reporting formats to enable better reporting and decision-making.
• Ensure uninterrupted performance of the strategy management information system.
• Conduct research and benchmarking on strategy management best practice and utilise outcomes to improve own performance (in supporting assigned portfolios) and the performance of the business unit.

Stakeholder Management:

• Build and maintain positive relationships with all members of staff and contacts within and outside the AGSA.
• Ensure that the reputation of the business unit and the organisation is preserved and enhanced in every stakeholder engagement.
• Facilitate the cooperation by various stakeholders in the execution of the reporting processes.
• At every opportunity communicate the organisational strategy and the strategic goals and objectives to both internal and external stakeholders to further understanding of these by all relevant stakeholders.
• Engage with both internal and external stakeholders to identify and evaluate performance barriers and successes to continuously improve the compilation of the organisational reports.
• Liaise with relevant stakeholders in drawing performance reports.
• Provide subject matter advice to any stakeholder in the organisation.
• As part of the Strategy business unit, ensure excellent communication with all members of the unit.
• Implement activities outlined in the business unit’s stakeholder engagement plan.

People Management:

• Manage own performance and contribute to the setting of performance objectives and targets.
• Manage own professional development and ensure the required continuous professional development credits are achieved.
• Attend all mandatory training required by the business unit and the organisation.
• Regularly provide and seek constructive feedback.
• Implement activities outlined in the business unit’s People, Culture and Ethics plans.

Financial and Operational Management:

• Ensure adherence to all internal controls.
• Ensure correct application of organisational policies and related processes, including at a business unit level.

Ad-hoc:

• Lead or execute projects as and when required by the business unit leader.
• Undertake any other reasonable duties as may be requested from time to time by the business unit leader.

Skills, Experience & Education

Qualifications:

• A Bachelor’s Degree in business/commerce, statistics, or the arts.
• An Honours Degree/Post Graduate Diploma (NQF Level 7) in business management, strategy, statistics, technology, commerce, or arts.

Experience:

• Minimum 5 years’ demonstrable experience in strategy, including in planning, reporting, and/or evaluation.
• Experience in the following is also key:
  • Development of performance scorecards.
  • Integrated reporting – application of the <IR> framework, information gathering and processing processes, etc.
  • Engaging with multiple stakeholders.
  • Creativity and problem-solving.
  • Excellent business writing.
  • Data analysis and visualization.