Job Opportunities at City of Cape Town

Requirements

• A relevant 3-year Tertiary qualification within the Geo-Information field;
• Minimum of 4 years’ relevant experience in a cadastral and sectional title environment;
• Proven proficiency of Geographical Information Systems (ArcGIS) and MS Office;
• Knowledge of SAP (Land Use Management Systems would be advantageous);
• Good communication and analytical skills; and
• A valid Code B/EB driver’s license.

Key Performance Areas

• Perform GIS operations on a variety of system applications;
• Capture edit and maintain datasets in a versioned Geo-database;
• Provide data analysis in order to check, validate and manipulate data to achieve consistency and accuracy;
• Prepare and produce spatial reports and maps on request;
• Adhere to the operations of the branch pertaining to operational targets, staff performance, productivity, development and training;
• Provide a Technical Support Service by conducting research to keep abreast on the latest GIS trends and technology, and contribute to the formulation for the divisions’ performance targets.

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Requirements

• Senior Certificate (Grade 12)
• At least 5 years relevant storekeeping experience
• Knowledge of Inventory Management processes and procedures and applicable legislation
• Computer literacy (incl. SAP ISM processes and MS office applications)
• A valid code EC driver’s license (advantageous).

Key Performance Areas

• Receiving and issuing of materials by ensuring correct quantity and quality.
• Recording non-conformities in all stock and materials received.
• (PAR’s and NCR’s)
• Exercising plant-to –plant transfers in case of nonavailability of stock in another store or redistribution of slow-moving stock.
• Reporting routine building and equipment maintenance requirements as part of Health and Safety checks.
• Control the material replenishment plan (MRP to prevent out of stock situations
• Identifying obsolete or damaged stock items and/ or asset inventory items for possible disposal by public action.
• Maintaining the security of stock in the stores in order to ensure accountability of Council assets.
• Maintaining good housekeeping that conforms to the Occupational Health and Safety act
• Carrying out physical stocktakingcontinuously, monthly, quarterly and yearly by reconciling related stock balances.
• Checking stock turnover and/or movement by identifying redundant and/ or obsolete
• Supervision of staff, in terms of disciplinary procedures, training, time and attendance.

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Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree/BTech in Human Resource Management
• 6 – 8 years relevant experience
• A code EB/C1 drivers licence

Key Performance Areas

• Researching, initiating, planning and implementation of strategies
• Advice and support line in the establishment of Learning Academy
• Implementation Committees.
• Developing a strategy to capacitate line to identify and develop
• Learning Academy programmes & business processes
• Work in partnership with Line Departments and all relevant Sectoral
• Education, Training Authority (SETA’s) including but not limited to Local Government SETA (LGSETA), Energy SETA (E-SETA) etc. to develop and agree on implementation time frames
• Develop learner contracts and facilitate on boarding process and managing of Learning Academy budget.
• Identifying additional funding for Learning Academy programmes and facilitate the accessing of these funds from SETAs via the City of
• Cape Town’s Skills Development Facilitator
• Appraising performance levels, setting objectives and measuring accomplishment or establishing reasons for non-conformance.

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Requirements

• A relevant B Tech or first Degree;
• Minimum of 5 years relevant experience;
• Demonstrable experience in Corporate Reporting and Dashboards,
• SAP Production, SAP project management systems and SAP CRMS contract register & monitoring;
• Demonstrate experience in contract administration and the contract management framework; and
• Be computer literate and have a minimum intermediate proficiency level of skill in the use of Excel, Word, PowerPoint and MS Project Suite, SharePoint.

Key Performance Areas

• Application of specialist knowledge in ensuring adherence to relevant legislation and accounting best practice in processes and procedures (including authorisation & delegations);
• Liaising between the Branch and various internal stakeholders on the implementation of financial/accounting processes and procedures;
• Conducting research and internal financial investigations;
• Reporting on the control, and financial risk management functions within the Branch;
• Specialist advice inter alia, guiding and assisting Manager: Urban
• Development implementation /Project Managers / Senior Project
• Managers / Programme Managers with activities required for the financial year-end procedure in accordance with corporate processes and national guidelines;
• Responsible for the Branch’s oversight of the operating, grants and capital expenditure against budget, budgetary control and administrative support tasks for the Branch; and
• Accountable for decisions taken on operational matters within the relevant legislation governing financial matters, Council resolutions, policies and procedures.
• Operate and be accountable for decisions taken within the relevant standing delegations as approved by Council.

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Requirements

• An LLB degree and admission as an Attorney or Bar Advocate (Passed Bar Examination)
• At least 5 years’ post admission experience in a relevant legal environment
• Proven experience within a local government environment will be an added advantage
• Knowledge of local government legislation, policies and procedures
• Valid driver’s licence
• Excellent attention to detail and communication skills
• Ability to simultaneously work on multiple tasks with minimum supervision
• Ability to diligently work on high volumes of work under considerable pressure
• Ability to manage and advise various stakeholders within the environment of local government

Key Performance Areas

• Provide high level legal direction and services to Council, Council committees, line departments and political structures;
• Provide an effective and efficient legal compliance function by ensuring legal compliance with Constitutional obligations and the provisions of applicable National and Provincial legislation as well as by-laws and policies of the City;
• Conduct extensive research and legal problem solving;
• Researching all relevant legislation, case law and articles in order to provide sound and up to date legal advice and direction;
• Draft and provide sustainable legal opinions based on analysis and findings of research;
• Makes final interpretive decisions on legal issues in variable and unpredictable circumstances;
• Ensures the maintenance and upkeep of all records and information;
• Effective and efficient case management, by finalizing matters within a set turnaround time;
• Draft and review legal documents and legal agreements;
• Protect/promote the legal interests of the City and safeguard it against legal risk.

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Requirements

• National Diploma, B Tech or Degree
• Minimum of 2 years’ relevant experience in financial environment as per KPA’s below
• Experience in asset management
• Knowledge of SAP Systems and Microsoft excel
• Valid Driver’s license

Key Performance Areas

• Co-ordinates and controls the selection's/depot's specialized and administrative functionality in adherence to policy, procedures, applications, systems and controls.
• Facilitate and support the recording, updating, circulation and maintenance of information to and from the branch with regards to various specialized and administrative activities.
• Coordinate the implementation of procedures, controls and activities associated with Acquisitions, Transfers, Loss Control, Insurance, Theft/Losses, Written-offs and Asset Management Functionally
• Ensuring proper controls are implemented maintained by monitoring such and implementing various checks and balances.
• Monitor the capital expenditure for the branch by extracting monthly reports and analysing expenditure.
• Ensure proper asset management by coordinating stock taking audits in terms of legislations and policies.
• Monitoring the processing and consolidation of information/complaints recorded on the system and extracting specific reports to facilitate analysis and followup on outstanding matters with the various sections/depots.
• Perform accounting activities as per established accounting standards and procedures.
• Interacting with administration officers located in the regions with a view to consolidating, referring and responding to specific problems or clarifying procedural interpretation and understanding.
• Organize and maintain fixed asset documentations for references.

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Requirements

• B Tech Financial Management or Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting
• 2-5 years’ experience in financial management environment is required.
• Computer literacy,
• Valid Code B driver’s will be an advantage

Key Performance Areas

• Generating reports from the accounting system & analysing these reports on the operating expenditure to determine variances.
• Performing budgetary control measures i.e. virements, journals & reposting to ensure compliance with budgeted amounts in order to ensure that adequate support is available to effectively manage budgets of the Branch.
• Conduct ad hoc expenditure reports to verify compliance
• Highlighting trends in over/under expenditure in the operating budget and report to line manager and make recommendations on trends.
• Monitor expenditure patterns (CAPEX) and report on identified deviations from plans. In order to Monitor the
• Capital Expenditure trends to reflect progress and identify deviations.
• Lead the asset verification process of the branch.
• Consolidating both internal and audit findings for the branch.
• Ensure that all internal and external audit findings are addressed and remedial actions are taken.
• Facilitate and co-ordinate the implementation of the ETD strategy and policy with the Branch (in compliance with legislative requirements) as well as corporate policies and procedures.
• Assists the Branch in implementing Human Resources policies and procedures to control/ regulate workplace conflict and/ or instituting corrective measures and consultation.
• Provide specialist financial management advice to the branch at different operating sections

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Requirements

• Bachelor’s or B. Tech degree or National Diploma in Information science and/or systems analysis
• At least 1 year’s relevant experience in systems analysis or information management
• Relevant experience with specialist water and sanitation software or spatial information systems (GIS) as applied to the water and sanitation field will be an advantage
• Valid driver’s licence Code 8

Key Performance Areas

• Assists with Managing and enhancing the Water and Sanitation Department’s Information Management Systems
• Assists with data analysis, information summary compilation and reporting/presentation thereof
• Assists with Project Management for development of new or updated Information Management Systems, software licensing and Software Maintenance Agreements (SMAs)
• Assists with drafting tenders and supply chain management processes
• Assists with maintenance and coordination of the department’s information systems
   

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Requirements

• A relevant National Diploma or higher or N6 plus additional two (2) years’ post-qualification experience or a three-year telecommunication Electrician type (example P&T Trade test) qualification plus additional two (2) years’ post-qualification experience or vendor (Cisco, Huawei, etc.) Certified Network
• Professional qualification plus additional two (2) years’ post-qualification experience
• A minimum of five (5) years’ telecommunication fibre, civils, inside plant and equipment experience on build, quality control, acceptance and work sign off
• Quality control or assurance certificate or qualification will be an advantage
• Proven ability to work under pressure in a critical technical environment
• Own vehicle and valid driver’s licence.

Key Performance Areas

• Provide technical expertise on acceptance and handover of installation or change
• Conduct quality assurance inspections on completed installations to evaluate it against SOP and M&P
• Manage the process to address non-compliance business improvements, training and assisting line Heads
• Provide input into SOPs, installation specifications/standards and acceptance documents
• Compile engineering reports in quality assurance findings
• Provide input into a quality management and quality management system

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Requirements

• National diploma supported by industry specific/related qualification and relevant experience
• Applicants with higher tertiary qualifications (e.g. B degree) will be given preference
• Five (5) years’ relevant experience.

Key Performance Areas

• Apply a substantial body of professional knowledge of database administration, installation and maintenance
• Develop and implement a full range of database management solutions within the framework of the City's IT architecture, policies and practices
• Deal with a variety of professional issues relating to databases and database administration, performance tuning, database indexing
• Make recommendations and facilitate the development and implementation of longand short-term objectives for data and database management.

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Requirements

• A relevant National Diploma or higher or N6 plus additional two (2) years’ post-qualification experience or a three-year Telecommunication Electrician type (example P&T Trade test) qualification plus additional two (2) years’ post-qualification experience or vendor (Cisco, Huawei, etc.) Certified Network Professional qualification plus additional two (2) years’ post-qualification experience
• Five (5)+ years’ experience in telecommunication or IT service management
• Knowledge of telecommunication infrastructure (Civils, Fibre, data/switching centres) services will be an advantage
• Proven ability to work under pressure in a critical technical environment
• Own vehicle and valid driver’s licence.

Key Performance Areas

• Responsible for managing small to carrier level customers and responsible for managing staff
• Responsible for: attending to fault ticketing life cycle, customer service, complex fault management; compliance and vendor management; stakeholder liaison; project management; technical leadership, change management; installation and integration; operations ant user support
• Operations support, risk management and asset control
• Lead small technical teams to drive fault resolution, escalations, implementation and/or problem resolution
• Provide support to management to ensure effective and efficient operations within the Service Management domain
• Relationship resilience; service delivery orientation; impact and influence; team orientation; problemsolving; report-writing.

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Requirements

• Minimum of Grade 12
• Telecommunication technology and planning related short course certificates (advantageous),
• Three (3)+ years’ experience in Telecommunication Infrastructure plan and build support function, material forecast and stock level management
• Proven ability to work under pressure in a critical technical environment
• Valid driver’s licence,
• Own vehicle advantageous

Key Performance Areas

• Provide technical assistance in coordinating the technical functions and tasks in the material management process (including assets verification, equipment type approval and codification)
• Assist the master planners with compiling scopes and the programme and equipment allocation
• Conducts technical site inspections Coordinate material type approval.

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Requirements

• A relevant B degree
• A minimum of eight (8) years’ experience in Enterprise
• Architecture/Solutions Architecture across all architecture domains and experience in Governance.

Key Performance Areas

• Identify Core technologies and productivity toolsets needed
• Develop as-is and to-be architecture diagrams, across the Core application landscape
• Develop and approve technology roadmaps across all domains
• Provide guidance and ensure alignment with IS&T governance, standards and policies
• Determine the detailed scope for the Core applications
• Identify all inter-dependencies in relation to Core and ensure that these are sufficiently catered for as part of the technical specifications
• Develop the technical specifications required for the Core Tender
• Input and sign off on applications and integration requirements
• Provide leadership in resolving complex issues that impact operational landscape environment
• Provide thought leadership, best practices and knowledge capital related to Core solutions
• Manage, coordinate and implement the key performance areas of subordinates in order to implement policies, procedures, systems and processes.

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Requirements

• First degree or BTech in electrical engineering
• Five (5) years’ experience to enable practical experience in applying the discipline functions in a variety of contexts
• Five (5) years’ experience in regulation, policies and procedures
• Additional leadership experience in managing projects and change; and practical experience in developing and managing systems that significantly affect the functioning of an organisation
• The nature of this job requires the incumbent to be physically fit
• Code EB driver’s licence.

Key Performance Areas

• Facilitate the development administration and control of new Bulk Large User, Small Scale Embedded Generation (SSEG) and Wheeling billing processes such as developing and delivering proposals or presentations on new billing processes and performing special research projects as directed
• Effectively control and support the billing activities of all electricity LU, SSEG and Wheeling customers
• Project and contract management including managing projects through the life cycle (maintaining and updating the project management and tender tracing systems; monitoring contractor performance against agreed terms and approving submissions on progress and costs)
• Liaise with customers, consultants and other representative of the customer on service requirements
• Write detailed technical reports on specialised investigations as well as project progress and finance.

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Requirements

• A relevant B degree
• A minimum of eight (8) years’ experience in Enterprise
• Architecture/Solutions Architecture across all architecture domains and experience in Governance.

Key Performance Areas

• Identify Edge technologies and productivity toolsets needed
• Develop as-is and to-be architecture diagrams
• Approve and sign off on technology roadmaps across Edge domains
• Provide guidance and ensure alignment with IS&T governance, standards and policies
• Determine the detailed scope for the Edge applications
• Identify all inter-dependencies in relation to Edge and ensure that these are sufficiently catered for as part of the technical specifications
• Develop the technical specifications required for the Edge tenders
• Define Edge application integration
• Provide leadership in resolving complex issues that impact operational landscape environment
• Provide thought leadership, best practices and knowledge capital related to Edge solutions
• People management and empowerment.

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Requirements
BTech or degree in Electrical or Mechanical Engineering
Professional registration will serve as an advantage
At least eight (8) years’ appropriate experience, involving sound working knowledge of relevant legislation, policy and procedures, at managerial level
Mechanical or electrical knowledge

• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to lead and think independently; provide strategic direction; and effectively and efficiently organise, analyse, set goals, administer, guide, integrate and implement systems, plans, standards and procedures
• Proficiency and competency in MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint and SharePoint
• A valid driver’s licence with own reliable transport.

Key Performance Areas

• Coordinate the implementation of the capital and operating budget of the pump stations section by effecting good financial controls and expenditure in terms of the Municipal Finance Act
• Manage the human resources in the pump station section in order to enhance staff performance, develop skills and ensure optimum service delivery
• Manage an operational quality management system by maintaining a quality service
• Manage reticulation water and wastewater pump stations and conveyance operations by ensuring the maintenance and operations are carried out in the most efficient and cost-effective manner
• Manage the performance of all operational functions by measuring and improving performance
• Manage the implementation of standard operating procedures by standardising operating systems and processes for equitable service delivery
• Manage effective communications by enhancing awareness, share knowledge, expose conditions and promote service delivery
• Manage response to technical enquiries by processing technical enquiries efficiently.

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Requirements

• Construction Trade Certificate
• Five (5) years’ relevant maintenance management experience
• Proven supervisory skills/experience
• Required to work in all weather conditions
• Required to work outside normal working hours during emergencies and planned overtime
• Required to be on standby
• The incumbent must be prepared to enter confined areas and work at elevated positions
• Computer literacy in MS Office and SAP
• Valid Code EB Driver’s licence.

Key Performance Areas

• Plan, prioritise and schedule maintenance projects and maintenance work
• Manage personnel performance, productivity and discipline
• Monitor and evaluate progress with regards to repairs, construction, installation and maintenance type work.
• Perform specific administrative tasks associated with the updating and maintaining records related to the activities and operations at the Depot.