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Key Purpose
- To protect the legal interests of Discovery Green across all facets of its operations and thereby contribute to its ongoing success and growth.
Job Summary
- Discovery Green is seeking a highly experienced and commercially astute Senior Legal Counsel to provide strategic legal support to the renewable energy business for, inter alia, project finance transactions as well as both generator and customer power purchase agreements (“PPAs”). The ideal candidate would possess deep expertise in South African energy law, a solid track record in advising on complex infrastructure projects, and a keen understanding of the regulatory frameworks and stakeholder engagement in the private and public sector.
Education, Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree from a recognised university
- Admitted Attorney of the High Court of South Africa
- Minimum of 4 to 8 years post qualification experience
- Track record in advising on PPAs and project finance deals
Non-Exhaustive Areas of Responsibility
- Providing clear, concise, and practical legal and commercial advice and counsel to business teams on a wide array of business and contractual issues while coordinating with other legal team members and stakeholders as necessary to collaborate effectively across all levels of the organisation
- Analysing and effectively negotiating contract terms that support the business objectives, while complying with applicable laws, regulations and internal company policies
- Independently reviewing, drafting, and negotiating contracts and templates in support of the growing business ventures
- Consulting on legal matters, handling briefing of attorneys for referred matters and keeping abreast of relevant legislation
- Working efficiently with other areas in Discovery Green, the wider Discovery Group, customers and service providers
Attributes and Skills
- Ambitious, hardworking, resilient, decisive and adaptable
- Excellent legal drafting, negotiation and analytical skills
- Awareness of the energy market, industry and regulations
- Ability to work independently whilst also being a team player
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Key Purpose
- Within the Application Platform Services system area, the Java Developer must work together with Business Analyst, UX & Content Teams, System Architect and managers to understand the overall business need and the requirements, design the system solution using various approaches and technologies, implement the designed solution in the system with high quality source codes.
- The Java Developer will support the projects throughout the project life-cycle, including requirements, design, implementation, release and post release support.
- The Java Developer in the Application Platform Services area must be technically able support and maintain the deployed applications on dev, test and production environments.
Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to
- Develop, test, and maintain the deployed application software with high quality
- Analyse, maintain and enhance existing application and troubleshoot issues with efficiency
- Perform accurate development estimation
- Produce technical specifications and designs.
- Analytical and problem solving skills
- Self-starter who takes ownership, is accountable, and is able to work under minimum supervision
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Can help with quality assurance and provide comments
- Present to senior stakeholders
- Offer support and guidance to peers
- Perform analysis at a strategic level and understand principles of business, technical and enterprise architecture
Personal Attributes and Skills
- Passionate about technology and development.
- Results oriented with the ability to work under pressure and juggle multiple concurrent projects with changing priorities and deadlines
- Analytical thinking
- Personal organisation and time management skills
- Technical and business writing skills
- Presentation and facilitation skills
- Communication skills (written, verbal/presenting and listening)
- Stress management
- Customer focused
- Results oriented
- Able to resolve conflict
- Creative
- Innovative
- Self-driven
- Attention to detail
- Ability to build relationships with people from all different backgrounds and at different job levels
Education and Experience
Minimum
- Matric/Grade 12 and formal Java qualifications.
- 3 years Java systems development experience
- Java EE knowledge and experience
- Experience with SOAP and REST services
- Unit testing and mocking frameworks
- Source control, experience with GIT
- Experience with industry standard Application Servers (preferably WebLogic)
- Knowledge of OO design principles and development patterns
Preferred
- IT related Degree or Diploma (BSc/BTech or similar).
- Angular Framework
- Spring Framework
- SQL and ORM experience
- Presentation layer development (HTML5, CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, GWT, Spring MVC)
- Experience using formal modelling languages (UML, etc) and modelling tools (Enterprise Architect, Visual Paradigm etc.)
- Exposure to Agile principles and methodologies, including Continuous Integration and Test Driven Development
Advantageous
- Honours degree
- DevOps/Continuous integration
- Exposure to the Atlassian tool suite (Jira, Confluence, Bamboo and Bitbucket)
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Key Purpose
- Lead the technical development, testing, and implementation of advanced Large Language Model (LLM) based projects and related technologies to deliver end-to-end data science and AI products within the organization.
- Work closely with cross-functional teams and business partners to design, build, and deploy scalable solutions that will directly impact staff and customers.
- Create opportunities that delight our customers by leveraging Discovery’s vast clinical, demographic and operational data. Using this data with predictive modelling and machine learning techniques you will have a direct impact on strategic initiatives to support Discovery’s world-class operations.
Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to
- Lead the design, development, and deployment of LLM - and generative AI-based solutions that address large-scale and complex problems and materially drive the company’s global product offerings and strategy forward.
- Collaborate with product owners, project managers, and executive stakeholders to identify and prioritize business problems that can be solved with LLMs.
- Conduct desktop research into the state-of-the-art in LLMs and Generative AI and apply findings to real-world applications (either requested by business or suggested by yourself).
- Conduct research and development of speech-to-text and audio-based language models, integrating with LLM pipelines where applicable.
- Conduct experimental research on the use of LLMs in real-world company applications to ensure that design and development decisions are made scientifically and optimize for and balance all business requirements. These include accuracy, scalability, efficiency, reliability, safety, and cost-effectiveness.
- Translate strategic direction into technical product definitions and roadmaps.
- Participate actively in internal and external communities discussing and designing policies for the ethical use of AI and ensure your team’s work meets ethical AI standards.
- Contribute substantially to a culture of innovation, leading the prototyping and development of novel methodologies and approaches. Provide strong thought leadership in this regard.
- Communicate complex technical concepts to executives and non-technical stakeholders effectively.
- Demonstrate strong emotional intelligence by understanding and uplifting team members and skillfully managing challenging situations with composure.
- Advise other teams in the business on best practice based on your experience.
- Mining large structured and unstructured datasets to find new insights to inform operational efficiency and ‘member- delight’ interaction strategies
- Research and application of the most up to date machine learning algorithms and AI techniques
- Present data and model findings in a way that provides actionable insights to business users
- Monitoring model performance
Personal Attributes and Skills
- Expert in data science programming languages such as R, Python, Scala
- Expert in data manipulation skills including SQL to extract, transform and load data
- Experience in interactive data exploration and data-driven story telling
- Understanding and application of Big Data and distributed computing principles
- Hands on experience with Big Data systems will be preferred
- Strong analytical and statistical knowledge with an understanding of the latest machine learning algorithms for both structured and unstructured data
- Ability to adapt to emerging technologies and tools
- Proficiency in version control systems such as Git for collaborative coding and maintaining code integrity
- Ability to formulate problem statements and develop a plan for tackling the problem
- Strong ability to communicate findings and recommendations from data (visual, verbal and written)
- Integration and implementation experience
- A passion for data exploration and analytics
- Self-starter
- Willingness to learn and grow exponentially
- A restless curiosity towards data and uncovering unknown correlations
- Ability to work cohesively in a team environment and balance multiple priorities
- A team player who can work alone when required and without supervision
- High level of attention to detail, resilience, enthusiasm, energy and drive
Education and Experience
- Honours or Master’s degree in Computer Science with solid experience in statistical modelling, data mining and machine learning, OR
- Honours or Master’s degree in either Data Science, Statistics, or Applied Mathematics with some experience in software engineering, computer science or working with big disparate sets of data
- Other analytical qualifications will also be considered if accompanied by the relevant experience
- A minimum of 3 - 5 years’ work experience in a data science position
Technical skills additional (advantageous)
- Experience with cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure, or AWS
- Experience with tools such as Whisper, DeepSpeech, OpenAI or HuggingFace
- Experience in sourcing and combining data from both structured and unstructured sources
- Experience with Google Tensor flow
- Familiarity with MLops practices and tools
- Proven tack record of Data Science or AI project delivery
- Deep understanding of LLMs and experience with models like GPTs, LLaMa, Gemini etc
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Key purpose
- The Content Lead: Insurance is responsible for the content deliverables of Discovery Life and Discovery Insure. The Content Lead combines the creativity and skill of a specialist writer with leadership, organisational and problem-solving abilities to meet the content objectives of each business. Reporting to the Head of Content, the Content Lead oversees the day-to-day content planning, generation and execution of content development. The Content Lead supervises freelance writers, with the responsibility to create compelling thought leadership, brand and social media content for Discovery’s investment, insurance and employee benefit offerings. The Content Lead plays a key role in coordinating, planning and collaborating with various internal, marketing, editorial and project teams to deliver high-quality content for various target audiences and platforms.
As the Content Lead, responsibilities include the following, but are not limited to:
- Developing quality content across multiple platforms and formats
- Meeting with editorial and project teams on the various insurance brands, and social media and PR teams to brainstorm and develop content ideas for all media channels
- Planning and managing daily content operations for the portfolio
- Collaborating with the Head of Content to understand content priorities and solutions
- Presenting content opportunities and solutions to heads of brand, social media and PR
- Supervising freelance writers and other content producers, as required for different projects and briefs
- Managing project plans, schedules, work flow data and related administration
- Identifying unique content opportunities in line with the key messages and priorities as stipulated by business
- Identifying opportunities for content that will be suitable and relevant for a media audience
- Collaborating with a broader team to identify opportunities that will build the thought leadership position of experts and leaders in the business
- Researching and overseeing development of content for various executive LinkedIn profiles
- Identifying opportunities where data insights from business can be leveraged in content
- Assisting the team in conducting interviews with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to produce content according to client briefs
- Developing and managing content plans according to content and marketing strategies
- Assisting the team in developing content in various forms, including press releases, opinion pieces, website content, media responses and reports
- Project managing large content projects when required
- Working with and providing support to the Head of social media on social media content
- Working with various internal and external stakeholders, including clients and suppliers
- Managing briefs for video and photography shoots, as well as design agencies
In this role, the Content Lead is responsible for ensuring continuous improvement and professional development, including:
- Fostering an environment conducive to cross-functional skills transfer and coaching freelance writers where required
- Cultivating an environment where creativity and innovation are encouraged
- Maintaining professional and technical knowledge and keeping abreast of industry trends
- Contributing to team success by ensuring team commitment and cohesion
- Valuing individual contributions and showing respect for others
- Respecting diversity and encouraging an environment that values inclusivity.
- Builds and manages operational relationships with internal stakeholders
- Engage with senior business colleagues to contribute to the brand or communication strategy
- Researches local and international trends and business enablers and makes recommendations on content and editorial plans and strategies
- Provides expert guidance to colleagues on industry best practice
- Participates in meetings and forums to share knowledge, encourage innovation and manage complexities.
Competencies
- Understanding of the financial, insurance and investments landscape
- Excellent writing skills, with experience in financial and technical writing an advantage
- Ability to develop content strategies, plans and campaigns targeted at various audiences
- Ability to engage with senior management within the organisation
- Ability to translate complex concepts into engaging and simple content
- Ability to understand the voice of the organisation and adapt the tone of the content to the audience
- Project management experience and skills
- Attention to detail
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to work well in a team and oversee the deliverables of a team of writers
- Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
Education and experience
- Matric and appropriate tertiary qualification (degree with marketing, communication, journalism, writing or language components)
- Extensive writing experience
- Background in writing on financial, insurance and investment topics
- Minimum 5 – 8 years’ experience (PR, editorial, social media, communication, or agency experience)
- Digital marketing and social media experience
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Key Purpose
- The vacancy is for a graphic design role within the Discovery Corporate and Employee Benefits business unit. The role requires the Graphic Designer to create visual concepts to communicate, inform and captivate our stakeholders.. This will include a wide range of material such as mail templates, banners, brochures, flyers, posters, booklets, guides, newsletters, videos, etc.
Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to
- Translate strategic direction and technical content into high-quality design using the brand identity.
- Liase and work with stakeholders to understand and determine their design requirements
- Develop concepts, graphics and layouts for Corporate and Employee Benefits product collateral
- Develop concepts and execute original content by determining the ideal usage of colour, text, font style, imagery, and layout
- Manage workflow, prioritize tasks and keep stakeholders updated on progress and timelines
- Prepare rough drafts, storyboards for discussion based on agreed brief
- Review final layouts, suggest improvements and enhancements if required
- Update and maintain design index, and library of open files, images etc.
- Keep abreast of and understand the latest trends and how they can be used and implemented within a corporate environment
- Working independently as well as cooperatively with the communications and marketing teams to meet deadlines
Personal Attributes and Skills
The successful candidate must demonstrate the following competencies:
- Exceptional creativity and innovation
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- An understanding of the latest trends and their role within a corporate environment
- Professional approach to time, costs and deadlines
- Highly adaptable and resilient (Able to work under pressure)
- Ability to work both independently and participate as a member of a cross-functional team.
- Ability to prioritize and work on multiple tasks simultaneously
- Able to work independently
- Able to work in conditions of change, flexible and open to learn new languages and architecture
- Recognise unique demands of marketing/communication deadlines and of non-conventional working hours
Education, Skills and Experience
- Education & training qualification in Graphic Design (Degree or Diploma)
- Must have a minimum of 1 years’ graphic design experience
- Work experience in a similar environment would be an advantage
- Must be proficient in:
- Microsoft Office
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe Indesign
- Adobe Premier Pro
- Adobe Dreamweaver
- Typography
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Key Purpose
- Discovery is offering a great opportunity to join its fully serviced in-house digital marketing team. We are looking for a passionate, creative and hardworking digital advertising specialist that lives, eats and breathes targeted online campaigns and soaks up the latest in industry best practices and trends. The successful individual will be a digital advertising all-rounder with experience in search, programmatic and social channels. To ensure success as a digital advertising specialist, you should have in-depth knowledge of digital marketing techniques, excellent interpersonal skills, attention to detail, be able to lead a team, be creative and innovative and be able to work to strict deadlines and within allocated budget.
Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:
- Execute effective digital marketing strategies across channels; make sure campaigns are optimised regularly for best results.
- Monitor campaign performance against target on a daily basis, ensuring the direct sales teams are receiving the required number of leads.
- Troubleshoot where campaigns are not performing against target and propose corrective actions.
- Monitor campaign budgets and ensure we stay within budget.
- Produce reports as required with key metrics and detailed analysis and insights.
- Present KPIs, recommendations and insights at manco meetings.
- Collaborate with brand, actuaries and other internal stakeholders to deliver on marketing objectives.
- Stay on top of digital advertising trends, skills, platform changes and best practices and implement new learnings where required.
- Train, manage and guide junior staff members.
- Maintain good relationships with external parties like Google and Meta account managers as well as any other providers we work with.
Competencies
- Experience in performance marketing.
- Experience in media buying.
- Experience in financial services.
- Deep understanding of digital analytics and the ability to translate it into actions to meet ROI objectives.
- Ability to draft performance reports.
- Ability to present reports and findings to key stakeholders.
- Demonstrated understanding and use of Google Ads, Meta Ads, Microsoft Ads, DV360, LinkedIn, X, YouTube Ads, Facebook/Instagram Ads, TikTok Ads, etc.
- Strong communication skills for dealing with clients, internal teams and external stakeholders.
- Problem-solving skills to interrogate when campaigns are not performing and provide insights and suggestions.
Education and Experience
- Tertiary qualification (marketing/communication) required.
- Previous digital advertising experience required (5 years minimum).
- Financial services experience (advantages).
- Google Ads, Facebook Blueprint, Google Analytics certification (advantageous).
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About the role
- As a Business Lead within the Finance and Commercial team at Vitality, you will be responsible for coordinating the various finance, commercial and project activities, partner relationships and project and analytical reporting within the finance and commercial team space.
- You will be responsible for understanding and creating the product vision, business case and product and finance specs on allocated initiatives as well as maximizing the value of the product and the work of the Development Team by managing the Product Backlog.
- Responsibilities include partner co-ordination on owned-product projects as well as integration of partners including onboarding of partners. You will also be responsible for partner, finance, campaign and product reporting setup and maintenance on allocated products.
Job Purpose
Outputs may include but are not limited to:
- Work with Product Management and business operations to understand and create the business case and product spec
- Work with solution team to understand solution and customer journey options
- Work with Operational Team for operational readiness
- Work with Marketing Team to create product marketing strategy
- Work closely with the Development Teams to drive product delivery:
- Act as the single decision maker giving direction to the team
- Prioritize and manage the Product Backlog
- Emerge Product Backlog Items (PBIs) together with the team
- Drive just-in-time PBI elaboration
- Elaborate product requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria
- Order the PBIs to best achieve product goals admissions
- Optimize the value of the work the Development Team performs
- Ensure that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the team will work on next
- Ensure the Development Team understands PBIs to the level needed
- Perform Backlog Refinement to prune and maintain the Product Backlog
- Ensure Definition of Ready (DoR) is met for all PBIs
- Drive Product Planning Workshops and Release Planning sessions
- Present product vision and goals for each release / sprint
- Present prioritized PBIs to the team in Sprint Planning
- Drive rapid product decision making
- Accept PBIs as per acceptance criteria and Definition of Done (DoD) in Sprint Reviews
- Take ownership and sign off on items developed and delivered within product portfolio.
- Approve business specifications and system’ user specifications
- Approve marketing content and UX / member journeys that they are in line with the strategic outcomes of the product
- Approve testing plans to ensure all scenarios are catered for when new features and products are introduced.
- Provide insights on the performance of products that own/manage against strategic objectives, targets and expected outcomes, and propose interventions where required to ensure that these are met.
- Maintain operational processes where required and drive systematic roll-out of automated solutions to replace any manual, error-prone processes
Education / Qualifications / Accreditations with Professional Body
- Business / Engineering degree
Work Experience
- 2 – 4 years of strong analytical experience
- 1 – 3 years finance specific experience
- Ability to communicate effectively in multiple business areas (e.g. marketing, finance, operations, legal, systems, etc.)
- Strong relationship building skills
- Project management or coordination experience (advantageous)
- Product management / ownership / delivery experience (advantageous)
- Track record of working well across various departments in a large organization is preferable (advantageous)
Competencies
- Proactive and with curious mindset
- Hands on working style
- Eye for detail
- Strong interpersonal and influencing skills
- Ability to think strategically and translate strategy to action plans
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to deliver results
- People management skills
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