Job Openings at South African Reserve Bank

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Define the project scope/brief and work breakdown structure in collaboration with key stakeholders to ensure a common understanding of deliverables and the approach.
• Produce comprehensive project management plans that include scope, quality, risk, time, cost, human resources, procurement, integration and communication, and ensure that these knowledge areas are regularly updated and maintained.
• Ensure that all project documentation, deliverables and reports, including close-out documents, are produced, approved and filed.
• Identify and manage project risks, constraints and changes.
• Establish and manage relationships with all stakeholders, role players and service providers to ensure commitment to a common goal.
• Establish and effectively manage a multidisciplinary project team throughout the project life cycle, clearly defining the roles and responsibilities of project team members for the delivery of project outputs.
• Direct and coordinate activities of project resources to ensure the progress of projects are according to the approved schedule, expected deliverables, budget, specifications and quality standards.

Additional requirements include:

• facilitation skills;
• planning and organising skills;
• effective communication skills; 
• a drive for results;
• service and stakeholder focus; and
• managing complexity and ambiguity. 
• Do not enclose copies of your identity document or qualifications with your application.
• Shortlisted applicants will be subjected to a psychometric assessment, an appropriate reference check and a security clearance as part of the selection process.

 The closing date for applications is 29 July 2026. Late applications will not be considered.

•  In line with the SARB’s commitment to diversifying its workforce, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups. People with disabilities are welcome to apply.
•  The SARB offers remuneration and benefits commensurate with the level of the position and in line with the market. The level at which the successful applicant will be appointed will depend on his/her experience and competence.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a degree in Commerce or Information and Communication Technology, or an equivalent NQF 7 qualification; 
• a minimum of five to eight years’ experience in project management in the financial sector or compliance environment;
• sound knowledge of project management methodologies, project cost management, contract and service management and project management legislation; and 
• a postgraduate qualification in project management (will be an added advantage). 

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Engage in short-term planning and perform tasks against work plans formulated in collaboration with the Team Leader/Manager. 
• Perform general administration in support of departmental operations, including but not limited to correspondence, records management, data capturing and document processing (typing/formatting), licence certificates, Government Gazette publications, website authoring, authorised signatories and delegations of power.
• Perform administrative tasks in support of the department’s financial administration as requested by the Manager, including activities in relation to levies and fees, the budget, obtaining vendor information, processing invoices, procuring goods and services, and ensuring the timely submission of accurate payment information.
• Execute administrative activities with regard to training, events and facilities management. 
• Administer, prepare and distribute departmental publications and marketing material. 
• Assist in the administration of risk management, business continuity, state of control, compliance management, internal audit, ethics and activities related to the Protection of Personal Information Act 4 of 2013 and Promotion of Access to Information Act 2 of 2000.
• Engage effectively with internal stakeholders.
• Perform administrative duties on an ad hoc or project basis.
• Perform work independently within established practices, given processes, rules and regulations, ensuring compliance with standards, policies and other guidelines in executing own tasks.
• Diagnose problems and choose/modify routines to deal with them, displaying the ability to provide solutions to problems within a defined context. 
• Willingly address any gaps in performing tasks and activities against required standards.

Job requirements
To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a Higher Certificate (NQF 5) in Administration, Risk and Compliance, Governance or Records Management, or an equivalent qualification; and 
• a minimum of one to three years’ experience in a management support environment.

knowledge and understanding of:

• industry, organisational and business awareness; 
• quality assurance; 
• continuous improvement; 
• continuous learning and/or professional development;   
• business continuity planning; 
• administration strategy and planning; 
• legislation, governance, risk and compliance;    
• administration information management;
• administration reporting;
• cost administration; 
• administration-specific inventory management; 
• a client focus;
• a service and stakeholder focus;
• the ability to work in a team;
• interpersonal sensitivity;
• a drive for results;
• problem-solving and analytical skills; 
• verbal and written communication skills; and
• a learning focus.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a Higher Certificate (NQF 5) in Administration, Risk and Compliance, Governance or Records Management, or an equivalent qualification; and 
• a minimum of one to three years’ experience in a management support environment.

Additional requirements include:

knowledge and understanding of:

• industry, organisational and business awareness; 
• quality assurance; 
• continuous improvement; 
• continuous learning and/or professional development;   
• business continuity planning; 
• administration strategy and planning; 
• legislation, governance, risk and compliance;    
• administration information management;
• administration reporting;
• cost administration; 
• administration-specific inventory management; 
• a client focus;
• a service and stakeholder focus;
• the ability to work in a team;
• interpersonal sensitivity;
• a drive for results;
• problem-solving and analytical skills; 
• verbal and written communication skills; and
• a learning focus.

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Compile documentation and provide project technical co-ordination in order to optimise programme and project capital scope, costs and execution schedule. 
• Collate and coordinate project compliance documentation (e.g. Scope, Quality, Cost, SHE and Schedule) for programmes and project plans and to liaise with various stakeholders (internal and external) throughout the project life cycle in order to maintain effective communication on all matters relating to the project.
• Coordinate the development and review of the project charter, scope of Work (SoW) and cost estimate.
• Collate risk management information and provide evidence of mitigation plans to the Compliance and Records Coordinator within CSD.
• Collate and co-ordinate the project execution plan documentation tailored for each programme and project to ensure effective and efficient execution.
• Collate documentation and compile governance requirements on all aspects of project management framework.
• Co-ordinate estimates and cost control measures
• Co-ordinate and report on the programme and project schedules on the project performance and progress to the sponsor on a monthly basis. Including To maintain the procurement spreadsheet in order to keep track of contract status and to follow up as required with the Procurement Division and internal and external stakeholders.
• Co-ordinate appropriate handover of the programmes and projects to the Programme Managers as per the PMO framework. 
• Contain and follow up on project activities in the absence of the project manager in order to ensure project continuity 
• Coordinate all lessons learnt documentation and workshops in order to implement best practices gained from past experiences into Project Management systems, tools and guidelines for use in future projects to improve overall project management effectiveness and efficiencies.
• Maintain a project repository in order to ensure that project information is accessible to all stakeholders and available for audit purposes.

Qualifications

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a minimum of a National Diploma (NQF 6) OR equivalent in project management; and
• a minimum of 3-5 years of broad cross functional experience in construction project management and process management.

Additional requirements include:

• project compliance management knowledge and skill
• project planning knowledge and skill
• project legislation and governance, risk and compliance knowledge and skill
• project risk management knowledge and skill
• project information management knowledge and skill
• project reporting knowledge and skill;
• communication skills in English (i.e. written and verbal);
• building & maintaining relationships
• impact & Influence
• interpersonal sensitivity
• analysing & problem solving
• planning & organising and
• team player.
• In line with the SARB’s commitment to diversifying its workforce, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups. People with disabilities are welcome to apply.
• The SARB offers remuneration and benefits commensurate with the level of the position and in line with the market. The level at which the successful applicant will be appointed will depend on his/her competence and experience.
• Human Resources Department

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Engage in short-term planning and perform tasks against work plans as defined in conjunction with more senior developers.
• Follow departmental BI standards and best practices for coding, testing and documentation and deliver solutions within agreed timelines.
• Write customized code in SAS, including macro programming and connecting to different data stores.
• Maintain and enhance the source code and process flow for the department’s SAS production environment.
• Consistently provide BI solutions maintenance and support in the designated area and ensure business continuity in line with the agreed service standards.
• Keep abreast of ICT developments and trends within specialised area of technology to develop and design the most appropriate BI solutions.
• Actively participate as a member of a team, to move the team towards the completion of goals.
• Engage with the internal and external user community to ensure that business benefits are realised.
• Evaluate own performance against given criteria and identify and address any task-specific learning needs.

Qualifications

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• A National Diploma (NQF 6) in Information Technology (IT) or an equivalent qualification;
• at least 2–5 years of experience in BI solutions development; and 
• exposure to BI Technologies such as (SAS, MS Power BI, Oracle BI, MS Fabric, Denodo, Teradata) would be an advantage.
• A SAS base certification would be advantageous.

Additional requirements include:

knowledge and skill in:

• base SAS Programming;
• data analytics;
• problem solving;
• industry, organisational and business awareness;
• quality assurance;
• continuous improvement;
• continued learning and professional development;
• business continuity and planning;
• IT enablement planning;
• IT transformation and innovation;
• change management;
• application design, configuration and development;
• application support and maintenance;
• infrastructure design and development;
• systems integration;
• workload estimation; and 
• technical analysis.
• In line with the SARB’s commitment to diversifying its workforce, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups. People with disabilities are welcome to apply.
• The SARB offers remuneration and benefits commensurate with the level of the position and in line with the market. The level at which the successful applicant will be appointed will depend on his/her competence and experience.

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Work as part of a team in consulting with stakeholders and business clients in respect of problem definition and the identification of business requirements for low- to medium-risk projects.
• Provide analytic support in the form of data analysis and modelling, reviewing business processes and procedures, assessing possible solutions, and defining solution requirements and acceptance testing of the ultimate solution.
• Propose inputs to the elaboration of solutions, their scope and feasibility, and their supporting business case for assurance by a more senior/experienced business analyst.
• Assist a more senior/experienced business analyst in modelling the business and information technology (IT) domains.
• Stay abreast of changes to analytical tools and methodologies and apply these in the course of own work.
• Facilitate workshops, prepare presentations, and independently engage customers in respect of problem definition and the identification of business requirements.

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• An Honours degree in IT or equivalent;
• a relevant Business Analysis Certificate; and 
• two to five years of experience in a business analysis environment. 

Additional requirements include:

• industry, business and organisational awareness;
• IT governance, risk and compliance knowledge and skill;
• continued learning and/or professional development knowledge and skill;
• quality assurance knowledge and skill;
• continuous improvement knowledge and skill;
• business transformation and optimisation knowledge and skill;
• elicitation techniques knowledge and skill;
• business analysis practices, methodology and tools knowledge and skill;
• realisation and testing practices knowledge and skill; and
• IT domain management knowledge and skill.
• In line with the SARB’s commitment to diversifying its workforce, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups. People with disabilities are welcome to apply.
• The SARB offers remuneration and benefits commensurate with the level of the position and in line with the market. The level at which the successful applicant will be appointed will depend on his/her competence and experience.

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Engage in short-term planning and perform the tasks defined in the work plan, in collaboration with the team leader. 
• Perform general administrative tasks in support of the overall operations in the department, which include, but are not limited to, records management, correspondence, strategy management, management reporting, etc.
• Perform administrative tasks in support of the department’s financial administration as requested by the team leader/manager, including obtaining vendor information, processing invoices, procuring good/services and ensuring the timely submission of accurate payment information.
• Support the team leader/manager in his/her role as a sub-records manager as well as a training, facilities, information technology and fixed assets representative, and in effectively managing the requirements and resources of the department.
• Provide support to the team leader/manager in the monitoring and maintenance of the business continuity planning process and Occupational Health and Safety Act responsibilities, where appropriate.
• Provide support in the coordination of the risk and compliance management processes of the department as well as the maintenance of its risk matrices and action plans emanating from internal and external audits.
• Provide administrative support in the preparation of the annual budget and the monitoring of budget-related expenditures.
• Engage effectively with stakeholders, both within and outside of the department, that render services to the department.
• Perform administrative duties on an ad-hoc or projects basis as requested by the team leader/manager, while ensuring compliance with relevant guidelines, standards and policies.
• Perform work independently within established practices, given processes, rules and regulations, ensuring compliance with standards, policies and other guidelines in executing own tasks.
• Diagnose problems and choose/modify routines to deal with them, displaying the ability to provide solutions for problems within a defined context.
• Willingly address any gaps in own performance of tasks and activities against the required standards.
• We need to include the updating of the website as well as intranet, please get wording from Wonder

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a Higher Certificate (NQF 5) in administration and records management or equivalent and;
• two to three years’ experience in a management support/administration environment.

Additional requirements include:

• Verbal and business writing communication skills;
• problem-solving, reporting and analytical skills;
• service and stakeholder focus;
• quality management;
• team work and collaboration;
• agility and flexibility;
• data capturing knowledge and skill;
• drive for results;
• planning and organising skills; 
• intermediate excel skills;
• administration reporting;
• cost administration;
• client-centric focus;
• attention to details; and
• continued learning and/or professional development knowledge and skill.
• In line with the SARB’s commitment to diversifying its workforce, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups. People with disabilities are welcome to apply.
• The SARB offers remuneration and benefits commensurate with the level of the position and in line with the market. The level at which the successful applicant will be appointed will depend on his/her competence and experience.

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• Conduct functional, non-functional, integration, system integration, regression and user acceptance testing.
• Analyse business requirements and perform gap analyses to ensure comprehensive testing is done.
• Compile test strategies, plans and test cases (including test estimation) to ensure a structured approach during testing.
• Evaluate, plan, design, develop and deploy testing techniques for new solutions, products, applications and/or enhancements to existing applications throughout the development life cycles.
• Manage defects and improve the quality of testing through early defect detection.
• Keep abreast of developments in information and communications technology trends, specifically within the infrastructure technical testing arena to develop and design the most appropriate test approaches and solutions.
• Develop progress and quality reports (encapsulating test results and statistics) to support the final approval for implementation of the solution.
• Compile user manuals and conduct training to support the utilisation of the solution.
• Engage with the internal and external user community to ensure that business benefits are realised.

Job requirements

To be considered for this position, candidates must be in possession of:

• a Bachelor of Computer Science degree (NQF 7) in Information Technology (IT) or an equivalent qualification; and
• five to eight years’ experience in technical testing.

The following would be an added advantage:

• general application security; 
• server performance testing experience and/or working with monitoring tools;
• manual and automated application programming interface testing experience; and.
• experience working with the following tools Postman, UFT, Selenium, LoadRunner and J-Meter.

Additional requirements include:

knowledge and skill in:

• industry, organisational and business awareness;
• quality assurance;
• continuous improvement;
• continued learning and professional development;
• IT enablement legislation and governance, risk and compliance;
• application design and development;
• infrastructure testing; and 
• operations.
• In line with the SARB’s commitment to diversifying its workforce, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups. People with disabilities are welcome to apply.
• The SARB offers remuneration and benefits commensurate with the level of the position and in line with the market. The level at which the successful applicant will be appointed will depend on his/her competence and experience.

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Detailed description

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following key performance areas:

• To support the Bank through the HRBPs in the development of fit for purpose solutions, policies, procedures and processes related to the Compensation and Benefits function.
• To implement the total reward strategy in support of the SARB’s recruitment, retention and performance management strategies.
• To provide analytical consultation services regarding compensation and benefits programmes in line with legislative requirements, organisational goals and compensation philosophy of the SARB.
• To benchmark compensation and benefit best practices, research, analyse and conduct salary and benefits surveys to ensure competitiveness in the attraction and retention of talent.
• To establish and manage relationships with key internal/ external stakeholders and service providers in order to ensure the provision of fit-for-purpose compensation and benefit solutions within the Bank.
• To facilitate job evaluation sessions to determine weights/evaluation of jobs for job grading, 5compensation, job design and/or organisation design.
• To provide management reports for effective decision making by relevant stakeholders and senior leadership.
• To participate in recognition agreements with the local union on reward issues when required.
• To prepare, execute, monitor and report on the departmental operational budgets to allow for efficient financial management within HRD.

Qualifications

To be considered for this position, candidates must have:

• A minimum of a Bachelor in Human Resources/Commerce or equivalent.
• Remuneration qualification or GRP certification.
• A minimum of 5 to 8 years of experience in a compensation and benefits environment.

Additional requirements include:

• Industry, organisational and business awareness Knowledge and Skill.
• Quality assurance Knowledge and Skill.
• Reward and recognition Knowledge and Skill.
• Continuous improvement Knowledge and Skill.
• HR information management Knowledge and Skill.
• HR reporting Knowledge and Skill.
• Drive for results.
• Effective communication.
• Impact and influence.
• Building and maintaining relationships.
• Analysing & problem solving.
• Planning & organising.
• Judgement & decision making.
• Conceptual thinking.
• Innovation and creativity.
• In line with the SARB’s commitment to diversifying its workforce, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups. People with disabilities are welcome to apply.
• The SARB offers remuneration and benefits commensurate with the level of the position and in line with the market. The level at which the successful applicant will be appointed will depend on his/her competence and experience.