Job Vacancies at Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA)

Job Description

• The Head Data and Analytics is responsible for leading the strategic direction, development, and implementation of data
• analytics initiatives across the organisation. This role ensures that data-driven insights align with business needs,
• enhance operational efficiency, and support the organisation’s strategic objectives. This role's primary purpose is to
• establish and drive a data-driven culture, transforming raw data into actionable insights that inform critical business
• decisions, optimise operations, and identify new opportunities for growth and efficiency.
• Key Responsibilities

Key Performance Areas:

Data Governance and Risk

• Define and execute the enterprise data strategy.
• Build and mature advanced analytics capabilities (including business intelligence, predictive modelling, and
• potentially AI/ML applications).
• Ensure robust data governance and quality.
• Lead data compliance with regulatory frameworks and internal governance.
• Implement data risk reporting and mitigation strategies.
• Maintain data security and business continuity plans.

Data Operations and Service Delivery

• Partner closely with business units and technology teams to translate complex data findings into clear, impactful
• strategies and measurable outcomes.
• Alongside the IT team, lead data-driven innovation for the enterprise, including investigation, adoption, and
• exploitation of artificial intelligence.
• Oversee the delivery of reliable, cost-effective, and innovative data services.
• Manage data infrastructure, software licensing, and refresh cycles.
• Ensure high-quality data systems and services across the organisation.
• Strategic Focus
• Set and communicate the strategic direction for data analytics in collaboration with the other executives to all
• internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop the long terms and short-term strategy and plan, aligned to budgets.
• Develop and maintain enterprise-wide data architecture and operational plans.
• Ensure alignment of data initiatives with the organisation’s strategic goals, priorities, and deliverables.
• Offer direction on implementing the strategy to effectively show commitment to it.
• Lead and advances digital transformation initiatives by harnessing data-driven technologies to boost operational
• efficiency, enhance service delivery, and create new avenues of value within the DBSA.
• Expand the organisation's research and analytics capabilities, prioritising emerging analytical methods, skills,
• and technologies to accelerate digital business innovation and transformation.
• Discover opportunities to enhance and refine data capabilities, proactively monitoring industry trends and
• integrating new technologies as applicable.
• Identify novel types, forms, and sources of trustworthy data to foster business value innovation across the
• organisation.
• Cultivate a culture of innovation, continually seeking emerging technologies and best practices to modernise
• operations and deliver impactful data-driven solutions.
• Advocate for customer-focused and future-oriented data solutions.
• Champion the advancement of data literacy throughout the organisation.

Stakeholder Management

• Build and maintains strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders such as EXCO, and the Board
• as well as government entities, commercial banks, development partners, and community representatives, to
• drive shared objectives.
• Build and manage strategic partnerships with national, provincial, and local government stakeholders.
• Manage external vendors and negotiate data acquisition contracts.
• Represent the organisation in data-related engagements with external partners.
• Navigate complex stakeholder landscapes, influencing outcomes and fostering consensus to achieve strategic
• goals.

People Management

• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and
• continuous learning to maximise individual and collective potential.
• Lead the data analytics business unit and ensure effective execution of strategy.
• Implement human capital strategies and workforce planning.
• Foster a culture of performance, learning, and collaboration.
• Drive talent development initiatives, including coaching, performance management, and career pathing, to build
• and retain a skilled and motivated team.
• Contribute to building synergies & cooperation across functions in the DBSA.
• Living the DBSA values.
• Reporting and Governance
• Establish and enforces robust governance frameworks and reporting mechanisms to ensure transparency,
• compliance, and effective decision-making across all operations.
• Ensure timely and accurate reporting of key performance indicators, risks, and progress against strategic
• objectives to relevant internal and external bodies.

Key measurements of outputs:

• Successful roll-out and adoption of data strategy across the organisation
• Number and quality of analytics solutions developed and implemented, business impact of D&A by linking use cases
• to business outcomes.
• Time from insight to action by monitoring how long it takes before D&A insights are acted upon (e.g., projects
• delivered, platforms implemented and supported, number of D&A users, usage metrics).
• Reduction of number of reports generated across the bank.
• Increase in business decisions made using data insights.
• Improvement in data accuracy and completeness
• Reduction in costs related to data management and analytics operations
• Increase in return on investment from data initiatives
• Increase in user adoption of data tools and platforms
• Improvement in data literacy among employees
• Management of team performance, talent development, and succession planning using the performance
• management system.
• Expertise & Technical Competencies

Qualifications and Experience

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Systems,
• Actuarial Science or Data Science.
• Postgraduate qualification in Data Analytics or Business Administration, and certifications in data governance, project
• management, or enterprise architecture.

Experience:

• Minimum 12 years of experience with 5+ years in a management role.
• Extensive experience in data management, analytics, and business intelligence, with a proven track record of leading
• successful data-driven projects.
• Experience with modern data tools and platforms, such as big data technologies, machine learning frameworks, and
• data visualisation tools.
• Strong track record in aligning data initiatives with business strategy.
• Strategic data planning and enterprise data architecture and integration.
• Data strategy development aligned with corporate vision.
• Data governance, compliance, and risk management.
• Project and programme management (including multi-million-rand data projects).
• Systems integration, infrastructure, and data centre operations.
• Knowledge of data security, virtualisation, and green technologies.
• Budgeting and cost-benefit analysis for data investments.
• Strong understanding of software, hardware, and telecommunications systems.
• Regulatory frameworks (e.g., King III, data governance).
• Data procurement and vendor management.
• Disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
• Technical Competencies:

Digital Literacy:

• Conduct research and has awareness of the latest trends in the digital space that affects the Organisation and the business
• unit.
• Seek out innovative approaches and interventions to improve digital agility.
• To identify technical problems when operating devices and using digital environments, and to solve them (from
• troubleshooting to solving more complex problems). Stay abreast of latest trends and incorporate it in driving change in the
• business.

Data Collection and Analysis:

• Through a mastery of advanced/complex analytical techniques, establishes highlevel trends from processed data which may not be immediately apparent.
• Moves beyond concrete analysis of factual information to develop abstract, conceptual understanding of the meaning
• of an array of information.
• Integrates diverse themes and lines of reasoning to create new insights or levels of understanding.

Data Management:

• Defines a backup strategy in line with the disaster management strategy.
• Monitors file storage policy compliance by users, identify concern areas and address the same.
• Defines parameters for backup testing and monitors the same. Conducts detailed backup tests to assure data integrity.

Strategic Planning:

• Establishes challenging, attainable goals and objectives based on a customer focus perspective.
• Looks to the future with a broad perspective.
• Ensures performances measures are in place to monitor progress and assess accomplishments and achievement of strategic goals and objectives.
• Develops initiatives to achieve goals and objectives.
• Articulates the vision and plans to others.

Knowledge Management:

• Identifies, develops, and articulates knowledge management strategies that will add value to the organisation.
• Engages with thought leaders within and outside the organisation to identify the value of knowledge and information to the organisation and develop a knowledgebased vision.
• Ensures that knowledge management strategies are embedded within corporate strategies and key business processes.
• Fosters a knowledge and information rich culture and ensures that knowledge management competencies are recognised as core competencies of the organisation in order to develop individual and organisational capability.
• Fosters the development of appropriate knowledge and information assets and the adoption of effective knowledge management processes, tools, and standards.

Reporting:

• Designs, reviews, and improves reporting processes and provides guidance.
• Leads production of complex environment reports, takes an editorial role, determines content and level of detail, and ensures consistent messaging and branding.

Data Collection and Analysis:

• Through a mastery of advanced/complex analytical techniques, establishes highlevel trends from processed data which may not be immediately apparent.
• Moves beyond concrete analysis of factual information to develop abstract, conceptual understanding of the meaning of an array of information.
• Integrates diverse themes and lines of reasoning to create new insights or levels of understanding.
• Required Personal Attributes
• Leadership/Behavioural Competencies:

Analytical Thinking:

• Identifies multiple elements of a problem and breaks down each of those elements in detail, showing causal relationships between them.
• Uses several analytical techniques to identify several solutions and weighs the value of each.

Information Seeking and Analysis:

• Analyses relationships among several parts of a problem or situation.
• Anticipates obstacles and thinks ahead about next steps in detail.

Leading and Empowering Others:

• Identifies long-term goals for the team and communicates them to team members, ensuring their buy in.
• Sets a good example by personally exercising desired behaviour, acts on
• values and beliefs.
• Communicates a vision for the team and future success that inspires team members.
• After assessing others’ competence, one delegates full authority and responsibility to others to do a task in their own way.
• Ensures that competent employees are given opportunities to further their careers.

Leading and Managing Change:

• Anticipates the need for change when not obvious and influences others to gain support.
• Builds sustainable business and organisational capacity to embrace and thrive on change.
• Re-engineers and aligns structures, processes, and practices to support and sustain the desired change.

Strategic and Innovative Thinking:

• Understands connections and trade-offs of strategic choices to evaluate which ideas are practical and possible by considering business and/or scientific implications.
• Develops innovative business and/or customer solutions that shape industry practices.

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Job Description

• The purpose of the role is to provide innovative ICT and service delivery and contribute to the overall ICT strategy and direction of the business unit. Manage the ICT development functions, with a focus on Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and solutions, ensuring the design, development, and implementation of critical applications and systems. Oversee system integration and automation and maintain oversight of the system development lifecycle, optimisation of processes and data management to support business objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Focus and Technology Implementation
• Create alignment between the business strategy and the ICT strategy to enable the delivery of service and relevance of the service delivered.
• Deliver ICT technology to business by providing technology guidance in line with the DBSA Group ICT architecture framework, strategy and roadmaps.
• Develop a technology road map and architecture for the bank and cascade it to the business unit/s.
• Ensure maximisation of the utilisation of applications and infrastructure by keeping the client updated on the benefits of such utilisation.
• Drive adherence to the approval process of all technology decisions through group ICT governance processes / committees in line with the technology architecture roadmap and strategy.
• Manage risk in system development and application management, implementing robust controls to safeguard IT assets.
• Ensure that there is an agreed service level agreement (SLA) between the business unit/s and ICT to measure and agree and elicit feedback about performance.
• Develop and implement a dashboard to track ICT performance against:
• Strategic alignment with the business
• Delivery across projects
• SLA for services and technology support
• Foster strategic collaboration with the Head ICT Infrastructure, Head Service Management & Governance, other Heads within the Digital & Business Transformation and business Heads to ensure cohesive delivery of integrated solutions, data-driven innovation, resilient infrastructure, and service excellence that supports enterprise-wide transformation.
• Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement across teams.
• Align solution delivery initiatives with enterprise digital transformation strategies, ensuring technology investments support long-term business goals.
• Collaborate with data, infrastructure, and governance teams to ensure digital solutions are secure, compliant, and optimized for performance.

ICT Solutions

• Facilitate the development and maintenance of enterprise systems architecture, defining standards and protocols for data exchange, communications and software (includes defining standards and protocols for data exchange, communications, software and interconnection of DBSA network information systems).
• Provide advice on evaluation, selection, implementation and maintenance of systems and applications, ensuring appropriate investment in strategic and operational systems.
• Implement the communication strategy for ICT plans, policies and technology trends throughout the organisation.
• Responsible for daily operations and effectiveness of production systems, including maintenance and software upgrades.
• Manage the testing and quality standards through the application and development management technologies and methodologies such as Application Life Cycle Management (ALM).
• Collaborate with internal teams and third-party providers to ensure seamless integration of services and timely delivery of required solutions.
• Oversee the management of enterprise applications, ensuring they align with evolving business needs.
• Design and maintain the application landscape, ensuring effective systems operability with a focus on data governance, integration, and accessibility.

Project Management

• Document and incorporate all current and future business requirements and needs into the ICT planning process for projects.
• Implement effective project progress reporting mechanisms to provide feedback and information to the key project stakeholders.
• Deliver all projects in adherence to ICT project management methodologies and governance frameworks.
• Manage project delivery throughout the entire lifecycle, from strategic alignment, business case development, data gathering to testing, implementation, and operationalisation whilst ensuring deviations, change requests, risks, or issues are escalated appropriately.
• Financial Management
• Review and advise on budget per project, service and contract.
• Monitor service delivered against the cost value and confirm charged/billed costs against delivered services.
• Maintain contact with suppliers and maintain knowledge of current technology, equipment, prices and terms of agreements to minimize the investment required to meet established service levels.
• Evaluate alternatives, perform appropriate cost-benefit analysis, and recommend solutions that minimize costs commensurate with acceptable risks.
• Track and report team hours and expenses on a weekly basis.
• Monitor and manage the project budget.
• Client & Stakeholder Relationship Management
• Manage external vendors and negotiate data acquisition contracts.
• Navigate complex stakeholder landscapes, influencing outcomes and fostering consensus to achieve strategic goals.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders such as Business Heads, Exco, and the Board as well as external partners to ensure solution delivery aligns with strategic objectives and stakeholder expectations.
• Collaborate with governance and service management teams to ensure compliance with service-level agreements and regulatory requirements.
• Champion a customer-centric culture within the solution delivery team, ensuring that solutions are designed and delivered with end-user experience and business impact in mind.
• Governance, Reporting & Compliance
• Collaborate and provide input for the preparation and presentation of high-quality submissions and reports for Executive Committees, Board, and governance forums, ensuring strategic and regulatory alignment.
• Ensure timely and accurate reporting on solution delivery performance, risks, and milestones to executive leadership and governance forums.
• Establish and maintain governance frameworks that align solution delivery with enterprise architecture, ICT policies, and strategic objectives.
• Monitor compliance with internal controls, regulatory requirements, and contractual obligations across all solution delivery initiatives.
• Lead periodic audits and reviews of solution delivery processes to identify gaps, enforce standards, and drive continuous improvement.
• Collaborate with risk, legal, and governance teams to proactively manage ICT-related risks and ensure mitigation plans are in place.
• People Management
• Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing team, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning to maximise individual and collective potential.
• Lead the data analytics business unit and ensure effective execution of strategy.
• Implement human capital strategies and workforce planning.
• Foster a culture of performance, learning, and collaboration.
• Drive talent development initiatives, including coaching, performance management, and career pathing, to build and retain a skilled and motivated team.
• Contribute to building synergies & cooperation across functions in the DBSA.
• Living the DBSA values.
• Key Measurement Outputs
• Ability to lead the ICT solutions function efficiently and effectively.
• Quality and efficiency of ICT solutions & services provided.
• Development and integration of applications and systems.
• Uptime and adoption of systems and applications.
• Successful completion of project according to project deliverables and targets.
• Adherence to service level agreements.
• Management of client relationships and key stakeholders.
• Management of budget including operational expenses.
• Quality of ICT contracts in place including cost efficiencies
• Expertise & Technical Competencies
• Qualification
• A postgraduate degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Commerce or Engineering.
• Experience
• Minimum of 12 years’ experience in ICT solution delivery, with at least 5 years in senior management or leadership role.
• A Minimum of 5 years in managing medium to large-sized projects in an ICT environment.
• Extensive knowledge and capability experience of SAP ERP systems (on-premise and cloud).
• In-depth understanding of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC) methodologies.
• Experience in developing and implementing both ERP and non-ERP (i.e. DevOps) applications.
• Demonstrated exposure to formulation and implementation of ICT Strategy.
• Understands Internet, Intranet, Extranet and client/server architectures.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Negotiation

• Has an appreciation of cultural sensitivities and differences.
• Effectively employs a variety of advanced behavioural/interpersonal competencies to control the negotiation situation.
• Is able to take the lead in a variety of sensitive negotiation situations requiring high levels of tact and diplomacy.
• Is able to place a discrete negotiation situation within the context of a broader long-term relationship and is not threatened by conceding ground to protect the longer-term interests of DBSA.

IT Strategy and Planning

• Has a deep knowledge of IT solutions and their short and long term benefits and able to make a business case for large IT initiatives to improve overall performance.
• Closely involved in organisational decision making, developing the IT strategy as a cornerstone for the organisational strategy.
• Able to carry out benchmarking exercises with similar sized organisations and report on the organisation efficiencies and deficiencies in addition to suggesting how to achieve “best of breed“ solutions.
• Sound knowledge and understanding of business strategies of own customers and development opportunities and potentials
• Provide leadership that encourages cultural diversity and the management style required for managing across cultures

Presentation Skills

• Knows how to deliver arguments persuasively by employing a range of advanced presentation techniques (e.g. the appropriate use of body language, how to close a presentation so that the audience continues to think about the subject matter etc.).
• Has knowledge of various feedback mechanisms to check levels of audience understanding.
• Project Management
• Defines, plans and manages large and/or strategic projects, including those with a high degree of technical complexity, with impacts across the organisation and/or with national implications.
• Assembles and leads diverse and multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring maximum effective resource utilisation.
• Successfully manages substantial project budgets, and reports directly to senior managers on the progress and results of projects.
• Identifies complex issues that need escalation and proposes appropriate corrective actions.
• Costing and Budgeting
• Able to prepare and input budget information for various departments.
• Able to produce standard monthly cost/variance reports for distribution to line management.
• Provides analytical support to the Finance function in the preparation of financial proposals, submissions and projected costs to be included in budgets and allocations.
• Understands DBSA monthly close/trial balance procedures.
• Understands DBSA cost/revenue centre structure.
• Service Focus
• Maintains focus on the whole life of service delivery - designs, develops, delivers and operates.
• Ensures that a set of IT solutions, suppliers and vendors come together to deliver an IT service.

IT Support

• Tracks trends and developments that will affect own department’s / section’s ability to meet current and future end user’s needs.
• • Seeks out and involves end-user / customer in assessing the provided services, solutions to identify ways to improve.
• Required Personal Attributes

LEADERSHIP/BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

• Leading & Empowering Others
• Identifies long-term goals for the team and communicates them to team members, ensuring their buy-in.
• Sets a good example by personally exercising desired behaviour; acts on values and beliefs.
• Communicates a vision for the team and future success that inspires team members.
• After assessing others’ competence, one delegates full authority and responsibility to others to do a task in their own way.
• Ensures that competent employees are given opportunities to further their careers.

Leading & Managing Change

• Anticipates the need for change when not obvious and influences others to gain support.
• Builds sustainable business and organisational capacity to embrace and thrive on change.
• Re-engineers and aligns structures, processes and practices to support and sustain the desired change.
• Strategic & Innovative Thinking
• Understands connections and trade-offs of strategic choices to evaluate which ideas are practical and possible by considering business and/or scientific implications.
• Develops innovative business and/or customer solutions that shape industry practices.

Teamwork & Cooperation

• Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale and resolves conflicts.
• Creates opportunities for cross-functional working.
• Encourages others to network outside of their own team/department and learn from their experience.
• Developing Others
• Gives specific positive or mixed feedback for developmental purposes.
• Gives negative feedback in behavioural rather than personal terms.
• Reassures and/or expresses positive expectations for future performance when giving corrective feedback.
• Gives individualised suggestions to individuals for their improvement.
• Driving delivery of results
• Identifies and implements a business opportunity that will have a long-term impact on the business (which may include the organisation’s reputation or brand image).
• Monitors progress and adapts the plan if necessary to ensure optimal benefit to the business.
• Makes decisions, sets priorities, or chooses goals on the basis of inputs and outputs makes explicit considerations of potential profit, return on investment, or cost benefit analysis.
• Based on the cost-benefit analysis, makes decisions of entrepreneurial risk nature.
• Decisiveness (High Performance, Service Orientation)
• Makes timely decisions about complex issues even when some information is missing.
• Makes decisions and stands by them even when they are controversial or unpopular.
• Grasps critical business opportunities when they arise by making timely decisions

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Job Description

• The purpose of the Human Capital Business Partner (HCBP) role is to deliver an all-inclusive suite of human capital services, policies and processes in support of enabling business in achieving its goals and embedding the corporate culture.

Key Responsibilities

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

• 1. Human Capital Strategic Focus, Planning and Governance
• Work proactively as a strategic enabler with business to ensure strategic objectives are achieved by helping shape strategies that connect people practices to high performance.
• Work closely with DBSA management to identify people challenges and priorities, create and implement the right people solutions and implement the human capital suite of products and services to enable business to achieve its goals.
• Provide inputs and insights to the development of human capital (HC) strategy/ies and action plans in line with the DBSA vision, strategy, and goals of the organisation.
• Drive the implementation of the HC strategy, action plans and policies in areas of responsibility.
• Build productive relationships with business and HC Units that improve collaboration, break down internal silos and facilitates a more connected way of working that supports the espoused culture of the DBSA.
• Collaborate with internal HC Units to solution appropriate human initiatives and interventions to enable business to achieve its strategy and goals.
• Monitor HC governance and risks through facilitating the refinement, development and implementation of HC policies and procedures for the DBSA.
• 2. Human Capital Business Partnering
• Implement HC initiatives; these would include amongst others: talent management, talent acquisition, career management, succession planning, workforce planning, performance management, performance management, learning and development, remuneration and rewards, organisational design, deployments, employee engagement including culture, human capital policies and procedures, employee relations and employee wellness.
• Provide HC advice, guidance and support to line management and staff in conjunction with the HC subject matter specialists as required.
• Deliver/ implement HC strategic and support services to business, amongst others, as follows:
• Facilitate the development of divisional short-, medium- and long-term workforce strategies and plans
• to ensure that each division has the required skills and capabilities to deliver on the objectives.
• Create a pipeline of talent through effective talent management, succession planning and career development management.
• Provide effective talent acquisition and resource mobility management services and solutions to business.
• Facilitate the performance management process to ensure effective performance management is conducted in line with the performance management plan.
• Build business capability through collaborating with line managers to actively identify learning and development needs and execute accordingly.
• Act as a HC change management champion by driving the implementation and adoption of new or amended policies and processes.
• Facilitate the process of incapacity management and occupational injuries in line with the prescribed processes and legislation.
• Review remuneration and benefits queries and collaborate with the remuneration team to ensure resources are attracted, motivated and retained.
• Provide guidance to business on labour relations matters including but not limited to managing conflict in the work environment and disciplinary cases in collaboration with the Senior Legal & Labour Relations specialist where required
• Provide effective human capital reports for decision making and effective management of staff.
• Monitor HC risk and develop risk management mitigating actions to mitigate any human capital or related risks.
• Lead and implement corporate and divisional HC projects with the allocated divisions and enable the management team in the business to execute on the HC deliverables.
• Manage HC Data management system and ensure accuracy of data through maintaining the quality of HC Data on HC System (SAP) in terms of employee related information. These include new hires, terminations, benefits, leave and any other changes required.
• Interpret the HC budget as it links to divisional strategy and provide guidance thereof.
• 3. Stakeholder Engagements
• Prepare presentations and reports to present to the business unit to outline HC plans and operations.
• Keep the business unit abreast of the HC developments and initiatives through actively engaging the
• critical stakeholders in business and managing the relationship.
• Act as a key HC contact for employees to provide guidance on policies and processes.
• Key measurements of outputs, amongst others:
• Quality of services and solutions provided to business
• All vacancies are filled within 6 months from approval to hire date
• Quality of new hires
• 100% implementation of agreed balanced score targets
• Quality of data on HC management systems
• 100% Implementation of approved HC polices and processes
• Quality and accuracy of HC reports
• Positive feedback from management within areas of responsibility
• Clean Audit
• KEY INTERNAL LIAISON RELATIONSHIPS
• DBSA Executive Management
• Executive Coordinators and Company Secretariat
• DBSA key stakeholders
• All DBSA Staff

KEY EXTERNAL LIAISON RELATIONSHIPS

• Service providers
• Auditor General (AG)
• DFI’s and SOE’s
• Other external stakeholders
• Regulators to understand and enquire new HC related regulatory framework
• National Treasury
• Expertise & Technical Competencies

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE

Minimum Requirements:

• A postgraduate degree in Human Resources/ Industrial Psychology/Social Sciences.
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience as a senior Human Capital Business Partner or HC Generalist in a medium to large size organisation.
• Demonstrated experience in the execution of human capital management generalist functions such as talent acquisition, talent management, succession management, performance management, incapacity management, occupational injuries, remuneration and labour relations.
• Proven understanding of people management and people management strategies.
• Strong knowledge of the relevant legislative framework, i.e., LRA, BCEA, King IV and other relevant legislation etc.
• Desirable Requirements:
• Recognised qualification in Labour/Employee Relations.
• Experience in change management and/or organisational development.
• Experience in Human Capital working in the Banking or Financial services industry.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• a) Written communication
• Understands that different writing styles are required for different documents or audiences.
• Write effective correspondence, prepares questions and reports, statements of circumstance and briefing notes.
• Reviews others’ documents for clarity and impact.
• Has a solid mastery of writing principles such as grammar, sentence construction etc.
• b) Presentation skills
• Can reinforce key presentation points with examples.
• Is able to translate technical terminology into language understandable to the audience.
• Has insight into the audience’s behavior and motivation and responds appropriately and professionally, adapting communication style as appropriate.
• c) Reporting
• Designs / customizes reports to meet user needs.
• Prepares complex or tailored reports, gathers information from a variety of sources, analyses and includes in a report.
• Keeps standard reports under review and proposes improvements to meet user needs.
• d) Business acumen
• Thinks and plans in future-oriented terms.
• Develops annual business plans that consider longer-term activities, issues, problems or opportunities.
• Develops and establishes broad scale, longer-term objectives, goals or projects (e.g., affecting a business, department, or organisation).
• e) Planning and Organising
• Is relied on to help others plan and organise their workload.
• Uses effectively advance time management processes to deal with high workload and tight deadlines.
• Organises, prioritises and schedules tasks so they can be performed within budget and with the efficient use of time and resources.
• Achieves goals in a timely manner, despite obstacles encountered, by organising, reprioritising and re- planning.
• f) Policies and Procedures

Has detailed knowledge of policy and procedure relating to a specific area of work.

• Is capable of implementing procedure, highlighting issues as appropriate.

Project Management

• Demonstrates a practical knowledge of project management principles and techniques.
• Plans, defines, and manages projects within a department or area.
• Identifies resources required and their appropriate role and skills.

Assists in the management of projects where the objectives, milestones and time scales have been defined.

• h) Data Collection and Analysis
• Based on knowledge of the reasons behind the analysis, is able to define the most appropriate means of data collection.
• Is able to develop formats for data collection.
• Is able to define the most appropriate internal and external data/information sources.
• Identifies key facts in an array of data, recognises when pertinent facts are incorrect, missing, or require supplementation or verification.
• Breaks down data into component parts to understand the nature and relationship of the parts.
• Has a broad knowledge of statistical data-handling techniques.
• Can undertake more comprehensive analysis of data/information but is not required to draw conclusions.
• i) Recruitment & Selection
• Knowledge and understanding of recruitment and selection policies and procedures, and ability to advise on selection methods.
• Ability to take a lead role in supporting line managers in selection processes. May provide specialist input to selection decisions for critical roles, e.g., administering, interpreting and providing feedback on personality and other tests.
• Ability to function as a source of advice and support across DBSA, on recruitment and selection issues, and answer more complex questions.
• j) Employee Affairs
• Deep understanding of best practice and developments in employee affairs, and the ability to keep the DBSA policy and processes under review and make improvements.
• Understands partnership principles to promote a positive impact of the unit.
• Possesses advanced coaching skills to enable the jobholder to function as a coach to others.
• k) Talent Management
• Deep understanding of best practice on career and talent management.
• Able to diagnose and address workforce planning issues and gaps.
• Able to develop plans to resolve the most challenging gaps identified in talent forecasts.
• l) Learning & Development
• Deep understanding of best practice on career and talent management.
• Abreast of best practice in learning and development.
• Ability to lead training needs analysis and design of training/learning and development calendar.
• Ability to advocate service value of learning and development in DBSA.
• Regularly shares expertise with team members to support continuous learning and improvement.
• Helps team members develop their skills and abilities.
• Works with employees and teams to define realistic yet challenging work goals.
• Advocates and commits to ongoing training and development to foster a learning culture.
• Required Personal Attributes

BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

Customer Service Orientation

• Tries to understand the underlying needs of customers and matches these needs to available or customized products and services.
• Adapts processes and procedures to meet on-going customer needs.
• Utilises the feedback received by customers, in order to develop new and/or improve existing services/ products that relate to their on-going needs.
• Thinks of new ways to align DBSA’s offerings with future customer needs.

 Self-awareness and Self Control

• Withholds effects of strong emotions in difficult situations.
• Keeps functioning or responds constructively despite stress.
• May apply special techniques or plan ahead of time to manage emotions or stress.

Strategic and Innovative Thinking

• Experiments with new approaches, tests scenarios, questions assumptions and challenges conventional thinking.
• Creates new concepts that are not obvious to others, leveraging internal and external sources of information, to build incremental revenue and growth opportunities.

Driving delivery of results

• Sets challenging goals that will have a significant impact on the business or support the organisational strategy.
• Commits significant resources and/or time to ensure that challenging goals are achieved, while also taking action to mitigate risk.

 Teamwork & Cooperation

• Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale and resolves conflicts.
• Creates opportunities for cross-functional working.
• Encourages others to network outside of their own team/department and learn from their experience.

CLOSING DATE: 23 OCTOBER, 2025

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Job Description

• The Infrastructure Fund (IF) announced by the President in September 2018 addresses the need for a dedicated blended financing facility for infrastructure programme projects. The aim of the IF is to transform public infrastructure financial provisioning using “blended” finance - combining capital from the public and private sectors and Development Finance Institutions (DFIs)/Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). This will be dedicated to meeting the financing requirements for hybrid projects.
• The mandate of the Infrastructure Fund has been captured in a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the National Treasury, Infrastructure South Africa (ISA), and the DBSA entered into on 17 August 2020.
• The role of the Infrastructure Finance Specialist is to provide financing and advisory solutions for infrastructure development.

Key Responsibilities

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS

 Strategic Outputs

• Support the expansion of IF’s project pipeline, especially in infrastructure that is being targeted to mobilise public and private sector financing.
• Ensure long-term financial planning and modelling in collaboration with the Treasury and Finance teams.
• Support public sector in the development of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) and in financing of large infrastructure projects in order to assist government’s efforts to advance Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
• Prepare various documents and management reports for Executive Committees, Boards and Stakeholders.

 Infrastructure Financing

• Prepare a project finance model using Microsoft Excel / workbook and calculation algorithms premised on accounting rules. The project finance model should be suitable for investment analysis, debt structuring and operational scenario evaluation.
• Utilise project finance models to conduct financial and sensitivity testing which are critical in determining the effects and changes in input variables on key financial outputs.
• Advise clients internally and externally on the development and effective implementation of public / private investments for sustainable development in infrastructure with a specific focus on financing solutions.
• Support Leads during preparation, structuring, negotiation, and closing of transactions of investment and policy operations.
• Conduct the financial analysis and modelling tasks within project teams working on guarantees operations and other financial structures to mobilise commercial capital for development purposes.
• Work as an integral part of the project / programme team, to conduct due diligence for infrastructure finance operations with a special focus on structuring financial solutions for raising new funding and debt restructurings.
• Develop and deliver sustainable financing structures, models and solutions for IF clients through various products which include (amongst others) blended finance structures Public Private Partnerships (PPP) structures, B-BBEE funding structures, local currency funding, guarantees and derivative hedges.
• Develop and implement various innovative financing instruments to unlock and accelerate infrastructure delivery. These instruments include (amongst others) blended finance instruments, working capital facilities, bridging finance facilities, project bonds, CPI-linked debt, green bonds, project preparation facilities, construction performance bonds, price risk management and hedging products, customised vendor financing solutions.
• Develop and implement financial advisory solutions for the IF including (amongst others) technical, financial, environmental, insurance bank services.
• Access financial markets to fund IF investments and operations to foster sustainable economic development, create wealth and improve infrastructure in South Africa by investing in infrastructure and other productive sectors.
• Ensure that all investment projects are taken to bankability through amongst others, evaluation of the feasibility of investment opportunities with a view of ensuring that they are commercially sound for financing. This must be performed in alignment with the agreed strategy and mandate, due diligence process, deal structuring, facility agreements with clients, risk mitigation, etc.
• Assist with the execution of transactions and the credit approval process to facilitate the structure and negotiate the detailed terms of the deal / transaction in liaison with Treasury, Legal, Portfolio Management teams to ensure the approval of transactions through the various approval committees.

Stakeholder Relations and Engagement

• Develop and manage relationships with key stakeholders and decision makers (in government entities, development banks, private companies and commercial banks) to contribute to economic and infrastructure development.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients and project operators
• Network and maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to enhance the mandate of the IF.
• Perform other strategic and operational duties as assigned.

Key Measurements of Outputs:

• Quality financial models and solutions
• Value and number of project approvals, commitments and disbursements.
• Value of infrastructure catalysed
• Value of Private & Public Sector partnerships and funding
•  Clean audit

KEY INTERNAL LIAISON RELATIONSHIPS

•  Head: Infrastructure Finance
•  Chief Investment Officer: IF
• CEO & Exco
•  DBSA Board & Committees
•  Relevant DBSA Divisions
• IF Team

KEY EXTERNAL LIAISON RELATIONSHIPS

•  Infrastructure South Africa
•  National Treasury
• Government Departments and SOCs
• Public & Private Sector Stakeholders
• External Service Providers
• Development Finance Institutions
• Capital Markets
• Expertise & Technical Competencies

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum Requirements
• Post-graduate qualification in Development Finance, Finance, Business, Engineering or Economics.
• A minimum of 8 years demonstrable experience in project finance, the financial and infrastructure finance arena at a mid-tier professional level.
• Experience in investing in infrastructure in emerging markets, ideally in a diversified portfolio in different sectors of infrastructure (energy, transport, etc.).
• Exposure to working on new or innovative projects and programmes.
• In-depth experience in working with deal teams private and public sector investments.
• Demonstrated experience in infrastructure finance and development.
•  Proven ability to build a project finance model using Microsoft Excel / workbook and calculation algorithms premised on accounting rules for investment purposes.
• Proven experience in project risk identification, management and mitigation.
• Knowledge of the banking sector and financial markets.
• Knowledge of the legal and regulatory environment for infrastructure procurement in SA.
• Good understanding of infrastructure investments.
• Demonstrable experience in assessing investment transaction opportunities and projects from early review to bankable debt financing deals.
• Ability to provide value to transactions for the benefit of and/or the client through knowledge of the subject, innovation and lateral thinking.
•  Knowledge of legislation, regulations, policies, processes and procedures governing the infrastructure planning and development in South Africa (e.g. PFMA).

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES:

•  Risk Identification & Assessment Skills
• Advises on applicable aspects of risk identification and assessment.
• Assesses and links short-term tasks in the context of long-term business strategies or perspectives.
• Business Development
• Initiates, reviews and interprets competitor environment reviews.
• Formulates and modify market approaches based on competitor analyses.
• Generates new business opportunities in public and private sector delivery of infrastructure.
• Identifies and develop new markets, products and clients.
• Builds capacity to conduct project origination exercises.
•  Business Acumen
• Good understanding of commercial drivers and is able to take decisions based on an assessment of alternatives concerning complex business situations.
• Good understanding of economic priorities of South Africa and Africa and how they can be implemented to meet the organisation’s strategic objectives.
• Good understanding of the need to coordinate efforts with many government entities, private sector, community groups and individuals to ensure effective implementation of new policies and regulations.
• Takes actions to fit business strategy.
• Assesses and links short-term tasks in the context of long-term business strategies or perspectives.
• Reviews own actions against the organisation's strategic plan; includes the big picture when considering possible opportunities or projects or thinks about long-term applications of current activities.
• Anticipates possible responses to different initiatives.
• Understands the projected direction of the industry and how changes might impact the organisation.
•  Deal Origination
• Identify, conceptualize and structure projects and opportunities and develop new and alternative financing mechanisms.
• Formulate and develop new and alternative financing mechanisms and concepts that can be replicated elsewhere within and outside SA.
• Conceptualise and develop innovative funding instruments (equity, venture capital, mezzanine, debt, securitisation of projects, etc.) to finance infrastructure that would otherwise not be possible relying on the market only to develop and propose these investment opportunities.
• Proactively develop impact concepts to take to the market.
• Formulate new products.
• Deal Structuring
• Uses credit enhancement techniques to structure deals and optimise pricing in terms of Basel principles.
• Has a good and practical understanding of how to optimise the Capital Structure, collateral package, and debt repayment profile.
• Builds and interrogates financial models, including those with a high degree of complexity, to develop an optimal structure.
• Identifies complex structural issues that need escalation and proposes appropriate bankable structures.
• Demonstrates knowledge on advanced structuring including the use of derivatives, syndicated loans, synthetic loans, securitisations, Inflation linked debt, credit default swaps and subordinated debt.
• Prepares specialised or tailored reports relating to new innovative instruments, gather information from a variety of sources, analyse and include in a report to new products approval committees.
• Compiles comprehensive specialist reports as required for inclusion into credit committee submissions.
•  Negotiation Skills
• Has an appreciation of cultural sensitivities and differences.
• Effectively employs a variety of advanced behavioural/interpersonal competencies to control the negotiation situation.
• Can take the lead in a variety of sensitive negotiation situations requiring high levels of tact and diplomacy.
• Can place a discrete negotiation situation within the context of a broader long-term relationship and is not threatened by conceding ground to protect the longer-term interests of the IF.
•  Project Management
• Defines, plans and manages large and/or strategic projects, including those with a high degree of technical complexity, with impacts across the organisation and/or with national implications.
• Identifies complex issues that need escalation and proposes appropriate corrective actions.
• h) Planning & Organizing
• Demonstrates advanced planning and organising skills.
• Identifies and acts on opportunities to partner with other units in the department to achieve desired results.
• Develops integrated plans for the work unit and others that interfaces with the function’s budget.
• Financial Acumen
• Makes sound financial decisions after having analysed their impacts on the organisation, partner agencies, and community.Knows the internal and external factors that impact on resource and asset availability.
• Can interpret management account reports in an operational/commercial context and take action as appropriate to maximize revenues and control costs.
• j) Reporting & Communication
• Designs / customizes reports to meet user needs.
• Prepares complex or tailored reports, gathers information from a variety of sources, analyses and includes in a report.
• Keeps standard reports under review and proposes improvements to meet user needs.
• Designs, reviews and improves reporting processes and provides guidance.
• Assists with the production of complex environment reports, takes an editorial role, determines content and level of detail, and ensures consistent messaging and branding.
• Is relied on by others to help them write complex technical and non-technical documents and briefs.
• Able to communicate complex problems or concepts, by making them simple and understandable for others.
• Adapts language to the level of the audience in order to ensure that the message has a positive impact and is interesting to the audience.
• Is articulate, demonstrates a wide range of vocabulary, and is confident when talking to large/high level audiences.
• k) Presentation Skills
• Knows how to deliver arguments persuasively by employing a range of advanced presentation techniques (e.g. the appropriate use of body language, how to close a presentation so that the audience continues to think about the subject matter etc.).
• Has knowledge of various feedback mechanisms to check levels of audience understanding.
• Written & Verbal Communication
• Understands that different writing styles are required for different documents or audiences.
• Write effective correspondence, prepares questions and reports, statements of circumstance and briefing notes.
• Reviews others’ documents for clarity and impact.
• Able to communicate complex problems or concepts, by making them simple and understandable for others.
• Problem Solving
• While remaining guided by organisational values, identifies optimal solutions, thinking first in terms of possible approaches and flexibilities in the system vs. blind adherence to rules or procedures.
• Implements solutions to complex problems, then evaluates the effectiveness and efficiency of solutions and identifies needed changes.
• Required Personal Attributes

BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

• Customer Service Orientation
• Tries to understand the underlying needs of customers and matches these needs to available or customized products and services.
• Adapts processes and procedures to meet on-going customer needs.
• Utilises the feedback received by customers, in order to develop new and/or improve existing services/ products that relate to their on-going needs.
• Thinks of new ways to align the IF’s offerings with future customer needs.
• Self-awareness and Self Control
• Withholds effects of strong emotions in difficult situations.
• Keeps functioning or responds constructively despite stress.
• May apply special techniques or plan ahead of time to manage emotions or stress.
• Strategic and Innovative Thinking
• Experiments with new approaches, tests scenarios, questions assumptions and challenges conventional thinking.
• Creates new concepts that are not obvious to others, leveraging internal and external sources of information, to build incremental revenue and growth opportunities.
• Driving delivery of results
• Sets challenging goals that will have a significant impact on the business or support the organisational strategy.
• Commits significant resources and/or time to ensure that challenging goals are achieved, while also taking action to mitigate risk.
• Teamwork & Cooperation
• Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale and resolves conflicts.
• Creates opportunities for cross-functional working.

CLOSING DATE: OCTOBER 24, 2025