Fresh Opportunities at Land Bank Careers

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

• Responsible for developing new database applications and/or converting existing legacy database applications to support business requirements.

Key Performance Areas    
Database Application Development and Scripts

• Interpret and compile technical design documentation
• Develop user database interfaces and front- end applications.
• Design Databases
• Perform Data Management 
• Perform Database mirroring /replication
• Develop Database Views, Functions, User Defined Types, Stored Procedures in line with Business requirements

 System Analysis and Design

• Facilitate scoping workshops / extract client business requirements
• Provide Business and Systems analysis functions
• Write functional technical design documents
• Provide 2nd line production support for Helpdesk calls on business related issues
• Work with project teams and apply project standards and methodologies

Database Administration

• Provide support for Database Administration tasks
• Proactively monitor the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime
• Track and report database performance metrics and analyses database performance
• Perform regular maintenance and backup including monitoring disk space and maintaining database dictionaries

Application Support, Maintenance and Changes to Business Solutions and Processes

• Develop, design and deliver the processes required to support the various Business Units.
• Ensure that appropriate service levels and quality standards are maintained.
• Ensure compliance to ICT Governance, SDLC, Project Management and Change Control standards and procedures.
• Analyse and apply required configuration changes or development to fulfil change requests.
• Develop and review business cases, functional specifications, blue prints, and all other associated documentation.
• Determine the dependencies with other modules /systems and the applicable impact of changes proposed.

Provide Functional End User Support for Allocated Application.

• Provide second line support on Help Desk calls pertaining to function.
• Prioritise response in terms of the levels of severity.

 Role Based Training

• Develop and maintain Role Based Training documentation for all business roles using SAP Business Warehouse.
• Ensure availability of training courses, facilitators and facilities for IT Role Based Training throughout the year. 

Preferred Minimum Education and Experience    

• National Diploma in IT
• 3-5 years Significant understanding and practical knowledge of database schema, development and scripting
• 3-5 years Experience in the development of database front-end development (Microsoft .Net framework)
• 3-5 years Understanding and practical knowledge of Relational Databases and Data Warehouse Concepts
• 3-5 years Database design, modelling, optimisation and performance improvement
• 3-5 years Understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies
• 3-5 years Exposure to ETL tools and embedded SQL

Critical Competencies    

• Database application development and scripting
• Relational Databases and Data Warehouse Concepts
• Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) methodologies
• ETL Tools and embedded SQL
• Database Security

Additional Requirements    

• Extended hours as and when required

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MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

• Prime contributor to the development of the Land Bank Insurance (LBI’s) strategic plan/corporate plan in support of the Head of Risk and Strategy. To produce strategy documents which are instrumental in facilitating the definition and execution of the LBI strategy and to lead the planning process to achieve the intended objectives and positioning of the Insurance through strategy themes. Responsible for the monitoring, evaluating and reporting on the execution of the Insurance ’s Corporate Strategic Plan – including the Insurance ’s Corporate Performance Scorecard, Quarterly Reports to National Treasury, and the Integrated Annual Report.

Key Performance Areas    
 Design, coordinate and implement a monitoring and evaluation framework to enable LBI to report on the outcomes/results of the LBI strategy, in particular its development impact

• Develop an overall framework for monitoring and evaluation for LBI to report on the outcomes/results of the Insurance strategy and its development impact at various levels in the organisation
• Develop baseline data whenever an indicator is identified for strategy and development reporting
• Identify training needs, organise and undertake training on monitoring and evaluation as required
• Collect data on a regular basis to achieve measurement against the performance indicators
• Analyse data, aggregate findings and produce regular reports on progress
• Identify lessons learned, develop case studies and produce documentation to capture and communicate qualitative findings on performance
• Identify indicators to be developed and reported in terms of strategy and development impact assessment.

Support corporate reporting framework by providing content for the Integrated Report, Corporate Plan and other mandatory/regulatory reports

• As part of the Risk and Strategy team, identifies content requirements for Integrated Report, Corporate Plan and other relevant corporate reports related to the LBI’s strategy and development impact
• Identify additional indicators and data to be collected in monitoring and evaluation framework to support corporate reporting process
• Writes relevant content for reports at a standard suitable for external publication
• Supports General Manager: Corporate Strategy and Innovation to collate content and document case studies as required

 Provide Input and Support in other Product Development Projects

• Based on results of monitoring and evaluation activities, identify opportunities to develop new or refine existing financial products for clients
• Provide input to product development specialist and support process to develop relevant products with the necessary information from the monitoring and evaluation outputs
• Ensure new indicators are identified and incorporated in the monitoring and development framework when new or refined financial products are launched
• Incorporate product related reporting in monitoring and evaluation framework

 Project manage and facilitate the Strategy Planning Process for the Insurance Business

• Communicates planning requirements to stakeholders
• Ensures milestones are not slipping during planning process.
• Conducts analysis to inform the strategic decisions
• Prepares the approach and content for the Board Strategy session
• Ensures that strategy documentation is filed and archived
• Ensures planning is carried out in accordance with the allocated time frame
• Analyses and reviews the planning implementation schedule on an on-going basis throughout the planning in order to make planning recommendations to line management
• Attends regular progress meetings with internal and external stakeholders to obtain feedback on the status of the planning

 Monitor, Evaluate and Report Progress for internal (Insurance) and external (including shareholder/National Treasury, regulator and other Key Stakeholders) communication.

• Project manages and facilitates content compilation of the Integrated Annual Report.
• Coordinate service provider delivery.
• Identifies and escalates organisational impediments to achievement.
• Proactively evaluates progress towards achieving the strategy and identifies risk areas of non-achievement.
• Quarterly Reporting – Internal Committees; Board and National Treasury
• Generate reports (including Managing Directors reports and Quarterly NT Reports) and slides for submission to shareholders e.g. National Treasury.
• Managing board level communications by preparing and creating meeting materials, presentations, report outs, memos and minutes,

 Strategy performance

• Develops strategy maps to enable key themes or commitments to be properly tracked.
• Allocates appropriate metrics to each strategy map to enable the Business to measure achievement effectively.
• Implements, tracks and reports on strategy achievement in the Business at divisional, management and individual level.
• Provides data on key functional commitments by the Business and tracking on achievement of these commitments to enable shortfalls to be addressed timeously by senior management.

Preferred Minimum Education and Experience    

• A relevant Bachelor’s degree in Business Management, Economics, Financial Management or related field.
• 5 years experience in the monitoring and evaluation space preferably within a Development Finance
• Intuition of similar; or
• 5 years experience in strategy planning, strategy formulation and strategy development 
• 5 years experience in the corporate strategy planning and reporting environment
• 5 yeras experience within the monitoring evaluation and reporting
• 5 years Co-ordination and preparation of performance monitoring and reporting against organisational strategy and corporate plan

Critical Competencies    

• Advanced Microsoft Office
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Integrated reporting
• Technical writing
• Planning Software Principles
• Business Acumen
• Presentation Skills
• Agriculture and Environment Management
• Developing and refining data collection tools
• Conducting and Managing surveys
• Designing and Conducting training

Additional Requirements    

• Extended hours as and when required.
• Travel as and when required.