Overview The Western Cape Department of the Premier plays a leading role in envisioning and implementing the strategic path of the Western Cape Government, while working to ensure accessible, quality and people-centric services across the province. The role and mandate of the Department is to enable - equip VIPs and departments to deliver, including gover...
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Minimum Requirements
- An appropriate qualification at NQF level 7 as recognised by SAQA.
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience at a middle/senior managerial level.
- Successful completion of the Certificate for entry into the SMS (Senior Management Service) prior to appointment: The nominated candidate will be required to complete the Senior Management Pre-entry Programme (Nyukela) before the candidate can be appointed into this post.
Key Performance Areas
Line Management:
Provide strategic management, advice and guidance in respect of the following functional areas:
- Transversal Identity and access management services.
- Enterprise-wide Messaging and collaboration services.
- Provincial Microsoft licensing procurement, allocation, compliance, and optimisation.
- Maintenance of internal-facing endpoints and national transversal systems.
Strategic Management (including change management):
- Define, review, and continuously align the purpose, objectives, priorities, and activities of the Directorate with departmental and provincial strategies.
- Drive the Directorate’s strategic planning, business planning, and change management processes.
- Evaluate Directorate performance against approved objectives, standards, and measurable outcomes.
- Report regularly to the Chief Director on operational performance and matters of strategic importance.
- Ensure compliance with applicable legislation, prescripts, and governance requirements.
- Foster a culture of innovation, optimisation, and continuous improvement within the Directorate and Department
People Management and Empowerment:
- Recruit, develop, and retain staff in appropriate numbers and grades to achieve the Directorate’s objectives.
- Motivate, train, and guide employees to achieve excellence in service delivery.
- Manage performance, evaluation, and development of staff.
- Oversee workforce planning, capacity building, and service delivery improvement initiatives.
- Promote sound labour relations and maintain discipline within the Directorate.
Financial Management:
- Manage participation in the Directorate budgeting process, including Annual and Adjustment Budgets.
- Assume accountability for efficient, economic, and effective management of the Directorate’s budget and expenditure.
- Ensure adherence to procurement, tender, and contract management requirements.
- Ensure alignment of expenditure with departmental and strategic objectives.
- Report on financial matters to the Chief Director and relevant oversight structures.
- Ensure appropriate risk management controls, asset management, and record-keeping are in place and adhered to.
Clients and Stakeholder Liaison
Engage at executive, intergovernmental, and institutional levels, including:
- Provincial Cabinet and Provincial Parliament.
- Director-General and Provincial Top Management (PTM).
- Provincial departments.
- National departments and agencies (e.g. SITA).
- Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA).
- Auditor-General of South Africa.
- Academic and research institutions.
- Private sector organisations and NGOs.
- Local Municipalities.
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Minimum Requirements
- An appropriate qualification at NQF level 7 as recognised by SAQA.
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience at a middle/senior managerial level.
- Successful completion of the Certificate for entry into the SMS (Senior Management Service) prior to appointment: The nominated candidate will be required to complete the Senior Management Pre-entry Programme (Nyukela) before the candidate can be appointed into this post.
Key Performance Areas
Line Management:
Provide Strategic management, advice and guidance in respect of the following functional areas:
- Roll-out, support and maintain LAN infrastructure and services at WCG schools.
- Roll-out, support and maintain end-user devices and services at WCG Schools and regional corporate sites.
- Provide a service desk for WCG schools.
- Provide user access management and collaboration services for WCG schools.
- Research and develop ICT solutions for WCG Schools.
- Provide ICT advisory services to WCG schools and regional corporate sites.
Strategic Management (including change management):
- Define and review on a continual basis the purpose, objectives, priorities and activities of the Directorate.
- Drive the Directorate’s strategic planning process.
- Drive the development and management of the strategic and business plans for the Directorate.
- Evaluate the performance of the Directorate on a continuing basis against pre-determined key measurable objectives and standards.
- Report to the Chief Director on a regular basis on the activities of the Directorate and on matters of substantial importance relating to operational managagement support.
- Monitor and ensure compliance with relevant legislation and prescripts in respect of adequate and appropriate record keeping of the activities of the Directorate, and of the resources (people, finances and assets) employed by it.
- Foster and promote a culture of innovation within the Directorate, and the Department.
- Diligently perform all duties assigned to the post of Director.
People Management and Empowerment:
- Recruit, develop, and retain staff in appropriate numbers and grades to achieve the Directorate’s objectives.
- Motivate, train, and guide employees to achieve excellence in service delivery.
- Manage performance, evaluation, and development of staff.
- Oversee workforce planning, capacity building, and service delivery improvement initiatives.
- Promote sound labour relations and maintain discipline within the Directorate.
Financial Management:
- Manage participation in the budgeting process at Directorate level.
- Ensure the preparation of the Annual and Adjustment Budgets for the Directorate.
- Assume direct accountability for the efficient, economic and effective control and management of the Directorate’s budget and expenditure.
- Assume direct accountability for ensuring that the correct tender and procurement procedures are adhered to in respect of purchases for the Directorate.
- Assume direct accountability for ensuring contracts are managed effectively and efficiently for the Directorate.
- Ensure that all spending is aligned with the strategic objectives of the Directorate and Department.
- Report to the Chief Director and relevant oversight role players/committees on all aspects of the Directorate’s finances.
- Assume overall accountability for the management, maintenance and safekeeping of the Directorate’s assets.
- Assume direct accountability for ensuring that appropriate risk management procedures are in place and adhered to for the Directorate.
- Ensure that full and proper records of the financial affairs of the Directorate are kept in accordance with any prescribed norms and standards.
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Minimum Requirements
- An appropriate qualification at NQF level 7 as recognised by SAQA.
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience at a middle/senior managerial level.
- Successful completion of the Certificate for entry into the SMS (Senior Management Service) prior to appointment: The nominated candidate will be required to complete the Senior Management Pre-entry Programme (Nyukela) before the candidate can be appointed into this post.
Key Performance Areas
Line Management:
Strategic management, advice and guidance in respect of the following functional areas:
- Facilitate the departmental strategic management process:
- Coordinate the Departments participation in the Provincial Strategic Plan (PSP).
- Advise on the alignment of the Department’s strategies with national and provincial strategic imperatives.
- Facilitate the Department’s strategic and operational planning processes.
- Coordinate the drafting of the Department’s strategic plan and annual performance plan.
- Coordinate the development and implementation of Annual Operational Plans.
- Ensure alignment of departmental policies, strategic planning and budget processes.
- Participate and provide inputs into departmental budget processes.
- Coordinate the departmental input into the Organisational Functional Assessments, including developing implementation plans and report thereon.
- Facilitate the monthly and quarterly monitoring and review of the Department’s performance against the annual performance plan.
- Facilitate the bi-annual and mid-term review and reporting of departmental performance against its strategic plan.
- Facilitate the monitoring of departmental programme and project performance via the executive dashboard.
- Coordinate internal capacity building on performance information management.
- Manage and coordinate the Department’s Business Continuity Management system.
- Ensure departmental coordination and good governance practices:
- Coordinate the drafting of the Department’s annual report.
- Ensure departmental participation in engagements with oversight bodies, e.g. MTEC and Standing Committees.
- Coordinate departmental inputs in respect of oversight bodies and other management matters requiring consolidated responses.
- Oversee departmental occupational health, safety, security, and personal information management:
- Develop, implement, and maintain governance frameworks and processes.
- Manage and maintain the OHS electronic system (once implemented).
- Coordinate training, awareness, monitoring, evaluation, and advisory services.
- Provide administrative and operational support services.
Strategic Management (including change management):
- Define and review on a continual basis the purpose, objectives, priorities and activities of the Directorate.
- Drive the Directorate’s strategic planning processes
- Drive the development and management of the strategic and business plans for the Directorate.
- Evaluate the performance of the Directorate on a continuing basis against pre-determined key measurable objectives and standards.
- Report to the Deputy Director-General on a regular basis on the activities of the Directorate and on matters of substantial importance relating to operational management support.
- Monitor and ensure compliance with relevant legislation and prescripts in respect of adequate and appropriate record keeping of the activities of the Directorate, and of the resources (people, finances and assets) employed by it.
- Drive strategic and operational change management processes in the Directorate.
- Foster and promote a culture of innovation within the Directorate, and the Department.
- Diligently perform all duties assigned to the post of Director.
People Management and Empowerment:
- Recruit, develop, and retain staff in appropriate numbers and grades to achieve the Directorate’s objectives.
- Motivate, train, and guide employees to achieve excellence in service delivery.
- Manage performance, evaluation, and development of staff.
- Oversee workforce planning, capacity building, and service delivery improvement initiatives.
- Promote sound labour relations and maintain discipline within the Directorate.
Financial Management:
- Manage participation in the Directorate budgeting process, including Annual and Adjustment Budgets.
- Assume accountability for efficient, economic, and effective management of the Directorate’s budget and expenditure.
- Ensure adherence to procurement, tender, and contract management requirements.
- Ensure alignment of expenditure with departmental and strategic objectives.
- Report on financial matters to the Chief Director and relevant oversight structures.
- Ensure appropriate risk management controls, asset management, and record-keeping are in place and adhered to.
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Minimum Requirements
- An appropriate qualification at NQF level 7 as recognised by SAQA.
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience at a middle/senior managerial level.
- Successful completion of the Certificate for entry into the SMS (Senior Management Service) prior to appointment: The nominated candidate will be required to complete the Senior Management Pre-entry Programme (Nyukela) before the candidate can be appointed into this post.
Key Performance Areas
Line Management:
Manage the provision of departmental capacity development initiatives, though ensuring the:
- Overseeing the identification/diagnosing of current capacity levels and defining the improvement needs.
- Planning of organisation development capacity improvement(s) and ensuring the availability of the requisite resource capacity to execute these iniatives.
- Overseeing the design, implemention and measurement of the impact of capacity improvement solution (s).
- Influence organisational design methodology and practice to enable an agile and responsive WCG.
- As an OD Manco member, joint accountability for the successful and effective functioning of the Organisation Development unit.
Strategic Management (including change management):
- Define and review on a continual basis the purpose, objectives, priorities and activities of the Directorate.
- Drive the Directorate’s strategic planning process.
- Drive the development and management of the strategic and business plans for the Directorate.
- Evaluate the performance of the Directorate on a continuing basis against pre-determined key measurable objectives and standards.
- Report to the Chief Director on a regular basis on the activities of the Directorate and on matters of substantial importance relating to Digital government and ICT.
- Monitor and ensure compliance with relevant legislation and prescripts in respect of adequate and appropriate record keeping of the activities of the Directorate, and of the resources (people, finances and assets) employed by it.
- Foster and promote a culture of innovation within the Directorate, Chief Directorate and the Branch.
- Diligently perform all duties assigned to the post of Director.
People Management and Empowerment:
- Participate in the recruitment of employees in the numbers and grades appropriate to ensure the achievement of the Directorate’s Business Plan.
- Motivate, train and guide employees within the Directorate, to achieve and maintain excellence in service delivery.
- Actively manage the performance, evaluation and rewarding of employees within the Directorate.
- Monitor information capacity building within the Directorate.
- Ensure involvement in the compilation of a workforce plan, a service delivery improvement programme, and an information resources plan for the Directorate.
- Promote sound labour relations within the Directorate.
- Actively manage and promote the maintenance of discipline within the Directorate.
Financial Management:
- Manage participation in the budgeting process at Directorate level.
- Ensure the preparation of the Annual and Adjustment Budgets for the Directorate.
- Assume direct accountability for the efficient, economic and effective control and management of the Directorate’s budget and expenditure.
- Assume direct accountability for ensuring that the correct tender and procurement procedures are adhered to in respect of purchases for the Directorate.
- Ensure that all spending is aligned with the strategic objectives of the Directorate and Department.
- Report to the Chief Director and relevant oversight role players/committees on all aspects of the Directorate’s finances.
- Assume overall accountability for the management, maintenance and safekeeping of the Directorate’s assets.
- Ensure that full and proper records of the financial affairs of the Directorate are kept in accordance with any prescribed norms and standards.
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Minimum Requirements
- An appropriate 3-year National Diploma/B-Degree (equivalent or higher qualification) in Project Management or Information Technology; a minimum of 3 years of Project Management experience in IT Development projects; and a valid (Code B or higher) driving license.
Key Performance Areas
- Facilitate project planning and allocation: Coordinate the conducting of needs analyses and feasibility assessments to inform project scoping, allocation, and adoption and develop comprehensive project plans and documents. Manage and coordinate project execution: Manage day-to-day project implementation in line with approved plans, contracts, and methodologies.
- Coordinate multidisciplinary project teams and stakeholders. Establish clear roles and responsibilities (define roles for each team member and stakeholder based on expertise and project needs); Facilitate communication and collaboration through, e.g., regular coordination meetings, collaboration platforms, and dashboards, and facilitate issue resolution and manage change requests effectively.
- Monitor, evaluate, and report on projects: Monitor and track timelines, milestones, quality, and budgets, and initiate corrective actions as needed using tools, documents, and dashboards. Report progress to stakeholders through structured reports, presentations, online reporting platforms, and review sessions. Evaluate project outcomes against predefined indicators; Conduct impact assessments or coordinate the conducting of impact assessments by relevant stakeholders (e.g., academia or PTE) and support knowledge sharing across departments.
- Oversee financial management for specific projects: Provide inputs to the directorates, link the budget to projects, and monitor expenditure, where applicable. Organize the appropriate scheduling of project-related financial transactions in the component (as applicable) so that the necessary procedures can be implemented as required. Oversee project-related provisioning and procurement (where applicable) and asset management and perform contract management for outsourced projects.
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Minimum Requirements
- An appropriate 3-year tertiary (National Diploma/B-Degree); A minimum of 3-years middle management experience; A valid code 08 driver’s licence.
Key Performance Areas
- To manage delivery of services relating to systems and applications planning, development, implementation and maintenance; Manage relationships with client departments and key stakeholders to facilitate and enable the implementation of system software;
- Provide services relating to policy and frameworks and ensure accurate reporting and compliance; Plan and manage the work of and account for the overall performance of the team;
- Financial Management: Ensure efficient, economical, and effective financial control. Determine projected funds and actively participate in the budgeting processes; People Management: Manage a team of professionals and service providers that are necessary to perform and deliver services. Manages the project office, project managers, and project processes.
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Minimum Requirements
- LLB-Degree (Law or equivalent legal qualification) with admission as an Advocate or Attorney. LP 7: A minimum of 5 years' appropriate practical post-qualification legal experience in a legal practice or legal department in the public or private sector; LP 8: A minimum of 9 years' appropriate practical post-qualification legal experience in a legal practice or legal department in the public or private sector.
Key Performance Areas
- Providing SCM Committees with legal guidance on procedural fairness, conflict of interest, and the legal implications of their decisions; Drafting formal (written) legal opinions on substantive legal matters relating to Procurement Law, the Law of Contract, and administrative justice; Reviewing and vetting tender documents of substantial importance to the Administration to ensure they are aligned with applicable legislation.
- Identifying potential legal risks in the "pre-award" phase and providing guidance on legal risk mitigation; Providing legal support on contract lifecycle management and ensuring that the interests of the Western Cape Government, state entities, and statutory bodies are protected; Liaising with the Litigation Unit in relation to matters that are related to substantial legal opinions rendered, legal advice given, or contracts drafted or edited in the event of court proceedings relating to procurement law; and Drafting, scrutiny, and editing of legal-technical correspondence.
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Minimum Requirements
- An appropriate 3-year tertiary qualification (National Diploma/B-Degree/equivalent or higher) in Information Technology or related, A minimum of 3 years middle management experience; a valid code B driving license.
Key Performance Areas
- Render infrastructure and architectural services; Plan and manage the work of and account for the overall performance of the Subdirectorate: People Management and Financial Management. Render infrastructure and architectural services;
- Manage a team that is necessary to perform and deliver services relating to business and technology planning, development, implementation and maintenance.
- Manage a team that is necessary to perform and deliver services relating to business and technology planning, development, implementation, and maintenance.
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Minimum Requirements
- An appropriate 3-year tertiary qualification (National Diploma/B-Degree or higher qualification) in Information Technology; a minimum of 8 years' relevant experience.
Key Performance Areas
- Lead the development, implementation, and reporting of the WCG Digital Government Strategy and Transformation Plan to ensure strategic alignment: Develop and maintain IT plans, including capability mapping, strategic planning of digital activities;
- Develop an IT planning and/or IT Value framework and support the implementation thereof. Facilitate strategic alignment and engagement across government spheres and sectors.
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Minimum Requirements
- An appropriate 3-year tertiary qualification (National Diploma/B-Degree or higher) in the human or social sciences field; a minimum of 3 years of appropriate experience within a human resource development environment.
Key Performance Areas
- Provide professional curriculum design services to the Directorate of Training with the following: The design, development and accreditation of new training curricula, courses and learning programmes within the Sub-directorate Curriculum Development and Quality Assurance; Undertake quality assurance in respect of the Quality Management System (QMS) for International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO 9001:2015) and the Public Service Education and Training Authority (PSETA);
- Ongoing evaluation and updating/reviewing/conversion to the online environment of learning programs. Contribute to the following learning delivery services within the Directorate of Training: Presenting training programmes and courses with one's own capacity; Facilitation of training programmes and courses presented by experts from provincial departments; Facilitation of training programmes and courses presented by external service providers; The programming and scheduling of training interventions; Special human resource development projects allocated to the Sub-directorate;
- Carry out all course administration; Liaise with provincial, national, and international role-players in respect of training and development matters. Provide input in respect of the operational work of other units of the Chief Directorate as required and in respect of the operational management of the Directorate and/or sub-directorate, with particular reference to the development of business and operational plans.
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Minimum Requirements
- Grade 12 (Senior Certificate or equivalent qualification); A minimum of 3 year relevant experience.
Key Performance Areas
- Bid Administration and Management and Secretariat Function for all Quotation Commitees; Bid Specifications, Bid Evaluation Committee’s and Advisory function to all SCM Committees; Manage the Electronic Purchasing System; Contract Administration; Managing RT contracts; Compliance verification of requisitions.
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Minimum Requirements
- Grade 12 (Senior Certificate or equivalent qualification).
Key Performance Areas
- Compliancy checks /verification on all requisitioning and LOGIS payment documentation; Update of registers of Requisitions and invoices; Invoice / order preparations and verification prior to payment process; Monitor and coordinate supplier performance; LOGIS capturing and maintenance; LOGIS Commitment monitoring and reporting.
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