Jobs at Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA)

Job Description    

• The Built Environment Legal Specialist is responsible for ensuring legal compliance and providing legal advice and guidance on infrastructure delivery transactions. This role focuses on regulatory adherence and the development/review of contractual agreements to mitigate legal risks and safeguard DBSA's infrastructure portfolio.

Key Responsibilities    
KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS:

Strategic Initiatives and Planning

• Monitor and ensure compliance with all relevant construction, infrastructure and procurement legislation by the Infrastructure Delivery Division (IDD) of the DBSA.
• Maintain general regulatory compliance and uphold corporate governance.
• Consult with DBSA Group Legal for support in specialised areas of law.
• Lead risk management and governance policies and processes and develop plans to mitigate and resolve identified challenges.

Operational Function

• Develop a system for the preparation of contractual documents, ensuring identification of standard and critical legal clauses to protect the interest of the DBSA, and maintain templates as required.
• Provide advice on draft tender documentation and motivation to sourcing documentation to support the Bid Specification Committee in selecting a commercially sound contracting strategy and applicable standard form contract.
• Provide legal advice and quality control in the drafting of project specific construction contracts and agreements between the Infrastructure Delivery Division and individuals, third parties, professional service providers; suppliers and contractors.
• Advise and provide legal input on contractual matters to management and the project team.
• Communicate with service providers, clients and internal business units on contractual matters including claims for delays, extension of time, additional payments and variations.
• Provide advice to the Bid Evaluation Committee through the review and verification of appointment or acceptance letters, performance guarantees and all contract documents.
• Coordinate the negotiation of construction contracts and agreements with clients.
• Oversee compliance to contract award requirements ensuring all conditions are satisfied including performance guarantees, insurance and other relevant documentation.
• Provide guidance and assist in mediating contractual disputes, including attending special meetings with contractors as requested by the Construction Project Manager.
• Provide legal input in commenting on contractor claims with regard to construction or professional services contracts.
• Prepare IDD contractual claims including extensions, prolongation of cost, acceleration cost and others.
• Lead litigation, adjudication, and arbitration matters, manage external counsel and attorneys, provide input into selecting counsel and attorneys for each matter, and manage external legal costs.
• Ensure that all legal documentation, including guarantees, is securely filed and archived.

Key Measurements of Outputs:

• Time taken to prepare contracts, agreements and legal opinions.
• Quality and accuracy of contracts, agreements, opinions and solutions provided.
• Quality of legal due diligence on contracts and agreements negotiated.
• Effective management of legal claims and litigation risks.
• Management of total case/agreement / opinion / other legal costs.
• No litigation due to contractual errors and or omissions.
• Effective monitoring of the contracts and agreements.
• Clean audit.

KEY INTERNAL LIAISON RELATIONSHIPS:

• Group Executive: IDD
• Group General Counsel
• Head: Legal and Contracting 
• All IDD Business Units
• All DBSA Divisions
• Overall DBSA management

KEY EXTERNAL LIAISON RELATIONSHIPS:

• External Service Providers and Contractors
• External stakeholders
• External Client(s)
• External attorneys and experts

Expertise & Technical Competencies    
QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor of Laws (LLB)and an Admitted Attorney of the High Court of South Africa.
• Admitted Attorney/Advocate of the High Court of South Africa.
• A minimum of 7 years’ experience in the provision of legal advice and contract management for construction projects in the built environment.
• Extensive experience in Construction Law, Procurement Law and the Public Finance Management Act (PFMA).
• Sound knowledge of the Joint Building Contracts Committee JBCC), New Engineering Contracts (NEC), Government Certificate of Competency (GCC), Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) and FIDIC contracts.
• In-depth understanding of complex legal concepts in business terms.
• Ability to scrutinise vast amounts of information and identify key points promptly and accurately.
• Knowledge of relevant legislation and regulations regarding infrastructure development, as well as mediation, adjudication and arbitration of dispute processes.
• Understanding of infrastructure markets, government priorities, systems and processes at the national and provincial levels.

Desirable Requirements

• A postgraduate degree/diploma in law or construction management.

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Job Description    

• The purpose of the role is to provide strategic leadership and oversight of the DBSA’s existing client portfolio by ensuring effective monitoring, proactive risk management, and sound governance across South Africa, the Rest of Africa, and high-impact transactions, thereby safeguarding portfolio sustainability, performance, and long-term value creation.

Key Responsibilities    
Provide Strategic and Operational Leadership

• Lead the Credit Portfolio Monitoring function, setting objectives and plans aligned to the DBSA’s risk appetite and strategy.
• Position the function as the custodian of existing risk monitoring, complementing the Credit team’s focus on new clients.
• Represent Credit Portfolio Monitoring in executive forums and governance committees.

Oversee Credit Portfolio Risk Management

• Direct credit portfolio monitoring activities for existing clients across South Africa, the Rest of Africa, and highimpact portfolios.
• Review and validate credit monitoring outputs, risk assessments, and portfolio reviews for existing exposure.
• Identify emerging risks within the existing portfolio and implement proactive monitoring strategies.
• Strengthen oversight of the credit loan value chain for current clients

Drive Review Management and Financial Analysis

• Lead ongoing portfolio reviews, credit worthiness assessments, and expected credit loss (ECL) reviews for existing clients.
• Validate financial analysis outputs and risk assessments prepared by the monitoring team.
• Provide recommendations on client performance, creditworthiness, and portfolio exposure.

Strengthen Credit Governance and Risk Oversight

• Ensure strong governance frameworks for monitoring existing clients.
• Maintain compliance with internal credit policies, governance standards, and regulatory frameworks.
• Report on client performance, risk exposure, and monitoring results to executive and board structures.
• Drive continuous improvement in credit monitoring tools, processes, and practices.

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.
• 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 and living the DBSA values.

Stakeholder Management

• Ensure clear and concise communication and build trust and credibility with internal and external stakeholders
• Assess and align with the strategic goals and provide advice on key decisions to support stakeholders.
• Leverage cross-functional and business data to inform strategic, operational and domain-specific decisions.
• Lead business initiatives that focus on value creation for the business and stakeholders.

Reporting and Governance

• Establish and enforce 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.

Digital Transformation

• Champion and drives digital transformation initiatives, leveraging technology to enhance operational efficiency, improve service delivery, and unlock new value streams within the DBSA.
• Foster a mindset of innovation, identifying opportunities to adopt emerging technologies and best practices to modernise processes and deliver impactful solutions.

Key measurement of output:

• Percentage of monitoring reviews on existing clients completed within timelines and quality standards
• Level of compliance with credit governance, policies, and regulatory frameworks
• Effectiveness of risk identification and escalation across existing client exposures
• Accuracy and insightfulness of client reviews, and ECL assessments
• Percentage of portfolio exposures maintained within approved risk appetite thresholds
• Strength of team performance and delivery of portfolio oversight responsibilities
• Confidence levels of executives and the board in monitoring outputs and recommendations
• Management of team performance, talent development, and succession planning using the performance management system

Expertise & Technical Competencies    
Minimum Qualification Requirements

• Postgraduate degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, Risk Management or related field.

Desirable Qualification Requirements

• Professional certification in Risk Management or equivalent.

Minimum Experience

• Minimum 12 years of experience in credit risk, portfolio monitoring or financial analysis, with a minimum of 5 years in a senior or leadership role, managing a team.
• Strong expertise in monitoring existing client portfolios and applying credit governance frameworks.
• Advanced financial analysis and risk assessment capability.
• Familiarity with early credit loss modelling principles.
• Experience in developing or refining portfolio monitoring frameworks.

Desirable Experience

• Experience in a Development Finance Institution, banking, or investment environment.
• Exposure to monitoring African markets and high-impact portfolios.

TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

Portfolio Monitoring (Existing Clients)

• Provides oversight of existing client exposure through structured monitoring and review processes.
• Identifies portfolio trends and directs corrective actions to manage risk.

Financial and Equity Analysis

• Conducts in-depth financial analysis, including cash flow, capital structure, and equity exposure.
• Interprets complex data to inform risk strategies and portfolio decisions

Credit Governance and Compliance

• Applies governance frameworks and regulatory standards to ensure effective oversight of the existing portfolio.
• Maintains the integrity of risk processes across all segments

Expected Credit Loss Review

• Performs analysis of provisioning and impairment under IFRS 9 and related frameworks.
• Provides insights into expected credit loss models and validates underlying assumptions.

Credit Risk Assessment

• Applies structured methodologies to evaluate credit risk exposure across diverse clients and sectors.
• Provides evidence-based insights to support decision-making and risk mitigation.

Financial acumen

• Makes sound financial decisions after having analysed their impacts on the organisation, partner agencies, and community.
• Effectively prepares budgetary submissions and forecasts for own department.
• Knows the internal and external factors that impact resource and asset availability.
• Can interpret management account reports in an operational/commercial context and take action as appropriate to maximise revenues and control costs.

Strategic Planning

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

Deadline:17th October,2025

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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

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.

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.

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.

Deadline:23rd October,2025