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Job Advert Summary    
The Supervisor: Accounting’s role shall be required to but not limited to – the collection and usage of the accounting information for the purposes of financial decisions on budgeting, planning, organizing, coordinating, control and accurate reporting in order to ensure effective and efficient management of finances:

• Financial and managerial reporting, forecasting, and budgeting; and
• Cost and project

Minimum Requirements    
Key Requirements

• Relevant B Com Degree in Accounting (NQF level 7)
• Honours degree in Accounting will be an added advantage
• The candidate should have served Accounting Articles (Signed off)
• Professional designation such as ACCA or ACMA/CIMA/CA (SA) will be highly advantageous;
• 3-5 Years professional experience in Financial and Accounting field, including leadership, general management, operational responsibility in a large corporate/public sector organisation, and staff management;
• Experience gained within the Project based environment will be highly advantageous

Additional Requirements

• Ability to manage a team of accountants;
• Good written and verbal communication skills including compiling reports;
• Project management experience and adhering to deadlines;
• Commitment to integrity, customer service focused, attention to detail, performance and results driver, decision making, problem solving, and ability to work with minimum supervision;
• Flexibility to operate as a member of the team, share knowledge and transfer of skills to colleagues; and
• High levels of proficiency in computer skills (advanced Microsoft Excel and Word knowledge, accounting package is required preferable SAGE300);

Duties & Responsibilities    
The Supervisor: Accounting’s role shall be required to be but not limited to –

• the collection and usage of the accounting information for the purposes:
• of financial decisions on budgeting,
• planning, organizing, coordinating, control;
• and accurate reporting in order to ensure effective and efficient management of finances;
• financial and managerial reporting, forecasting, and budgeting;
• and Cost and Project Accounting.

Technical Competenes
Description Knowledge of:

• Public Financial Management Act;
• Treasury Regulations;
• Financial Management Systems such as SAGE 300;
• Budget and revenue generation models in Corporate/ Public Sector environment;
• Financial Management Framework in the Corporate/ Public Sector environment;
• Knowledge of PFMA prescribed GRAP Accounting standards;
• Key Financial legislation, policies, systems, processes, and procedures; and
• Financial management within the Corporate / Public

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Job Advert Summary    

• The HSRC policy briefs are documents that synthesize research and extract important information for policy processes. Electronic versions are published on the HSRC website. The potential target audiences include government officials, funders, development agencies, academics, diplomats, students, media and many others. The publication is aimed at policy actors and not academics therefore the intention is to use plain, accessible English
• The Research Impact Division, within the HSRC, seeks to appoint, on a freelancer basis – Policy Briefs Reviewers.  

Minimum Requirements    
Key Requirements:

• Minimum qualification of a PhD in public policy or related discipline
• A Master’s in either Law, public policy or science communication would b considered for applicants with related experience;
• Experience in facilitating a policy brief training workshop
• Have evaluated policy briefs before
• Have published a policy brief or related science-policy engagement publication
• Proficiency in English and one other South African language

Duties & Responsibilities    
Key Responsibilities:

• Review final drafts of Policy Briefs
• Hold feedback sessions with authors
• Advice on the dissemination strategy
• Facilitate policy brief writing workshops for researchers and policymakers
• Facilitate science-policy engagements

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Job Advert Summary    

• The HSRC policy briefs are documents that synthesize research and extract important information for policy processes.  Electronic versions are published on the HSRC website. The potential target audiences include government officials, funders, development agencies, academics, diplomats, students, media and many others. The publication is aimed at policy actors and not academics therefore the intention is to use plain, accessible English
• The Research Impact Division, within the HSRC, seeks to on a Freelancer Basis, Language Editors.

Minimum Requirements    
Key requirements

• A minimum qualification of a completed undergraduate degree/diploma in language services or a related discipline
• Ability to edit English text at the level of a 1st language English speaker and willingness to demonstrate this capability in a test tracking changes in a Word document.
• 3 years’ English language editing experience, over and above any general writing experience
• Preferably experience as member of a newspaper or magazine subediting team OR experience in editing academic, technical or scientific content to be accessible to the general public
• Proficiency in one South African language other than English 

Duties & Responsibilities    

Key responsibilities 

• Language editing for the Word version of the policy briefs, which is normally between about 1500 and 3 000 words
• Editing includes checking grammar, sentence structure, spelling errors, lack of clarity and inconsistencies in the text, as well as text cuts to an optimal word count.
• Writing and editing of headlines where needed
• Choosing pull quotes where needed
• Checking whether graphics make sense
• Generally focusing on finer details throughout the document