Vacancies at Land Bank Careers

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

• Prime contributor to the development of the Bank’s strategic plan/corporate plan in support of the Head: Corporate Strategy and Innovation.
• To produce strategy documents which are instrumental in facilitating the definition and execution of the Land Bank strategy and to lead the planning process to achieve
• the intended objectives and positioning of the Bank through strategy themes.
• Responsible for the monitoring, evaluating and reporting on the execution of the Bank’s Corporate Strategic Plan – including the Bank’s Corporate Performance Scorecard, Quarterly Reports to National Treasury, and the Integrated Annual Report.

Key Performance Areas

Project manage and facilitate the Strategy Planning Process for the Bank

• Communicates planning requirements to stakeholders.
• Ensures milestones are not slipping during planning process.
• Conducts analysis to inform the strategic decisions.
• Prepares the approach and content for the Board and ExCo Strategy sessions.
• Ensures that strategy documentation is filed and archived.
• Ensures planning is carried out in accordance with the allocated time frame.
• Analyses and reviews the planning implementation schedule on an on-going basis throughout the planning in order to make planning recommendations to line management.
• Attends regular progress meetings with internal and external stakeholders to obtain feedback on the status of the planning.
• Monitors the implementation of and adherence to the planning procedures.
• Develops annual corporate strategic calendar that encompasses all corporate strategy planning and reporting aspects.
• Monitors and reports progress relative to the strategy planning calendar.
• Ensures all strategy documentation are filed and archived for retrieval during audit processes.

Develop Strategies to inform the direction of the Bank at Corporate Level. Unpack the strategic implication at functional level to ensure alignment and implementation

• Conducts strategic anaylisis and prepares strategic proposals which feed in the Corporate / Strategic Plan.
• Ensures strategy execution through facilitating operational strategy communication across the organisation.
• Ensures alignment between organisational strategy, operational strategy and plans between all senior stakeholders.
• Determines dependencies, inter-dependencies and co-dependencies to other control systems.
• Reviews procedures across the organisation to ensure alignment.
• Distribution of content of corporate strategy to business units.
• Review performance plans to ensure alignment to corporate strategy.
• Facilitate strategy and business management problem solving for divisions in the Bank.

Monitor, Evaluate and Report Progress for internal (Bank) and external (including shareholder/National Treasury, Parliament, and other Key Stakeholders) communication.

Integrated Annual Report:

• Project manages and facilitates content compilation of the Intergated Annual Report.
• Coordinate service provider delivery.
• Identifies and escalates organisational impediments to achievement.
• Proactively evaluates progress towards achieving the strategy and identifies risk areas of non-achievement.

Quarterly Reporting – Internal Committees; Board and National Treasury

• Generate reports (including Quarterly NT Reports) and slides for submission to shareholders e.g. National Treasury and Parlaimentary committees.
• Submits the schedule and reports to line management.
• Archives reports for future reference purposes.
• Produces reports in accordance with policies, procedures and legal requirements.
• Prepares monthly, quarterly and annual data reports for distribution on all lines of business.
• Identified trends and emerging developments through data analysis and recommends improvement on all lines of business.

Strategy performance

• Develops strategy maps to enable key themes or commitments to be properly tracked.
• Allocates appropriate metrics to each strategy map to enable the Bank to measure achievement effectively.
• Implements, tracks and reports on strategy achievement in the Bank at divisional, management and individual level.
• Provides data on key functional commitments by the Bank and tracking on achievement of these commitments to enable shortfalls to be addressed timeously by senior management.
• Contribute to the development of remediation plans for areas of under-achievement.
• Ensures validation of the performance against pre-determined objectives through the facilitation of internal audit of the Performance Scorecard.

Preferred Minimum Education and Experience

• Bachelors Degree in Business Management, Economics, Financial Management or related field.
• 4 - 5 years experience in strategy planning, strategy formulation and strategy development.
• 4 - 5 years experience in co-ordination and preparation of performance monitoring and reporting against organisational strategy and corporate plan.

Critical Competencies

• Advanced Microsoft Office
• Planning Software Principles
• Business Acumen
• Contract Administration Principles
• Financial Management Principles
• Business Objectives
• Presentation skills

Additional Requirements

• Knowledge of the business environment.

Closing Date

• 2025/07/14

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MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

• To provide legal advice, legal opinion and solutions and manage legal risks as per the Regionolisation model to business units and branches.
• The position is located within the Regions to ensure effective client support.
• The Legal Advisor will ensure legal compliance as well as manage the external resources and the draft and review of client agreements and contracts and other relevant legal matters.
• Review/checking of the conditions precedent to ensure compliance and sign off of same.

Key Performance Areas

Business Support and General Legal Advice

• Custodian of legal agreements as applicable and responsible for developing and reviewing them from time to time to ensure legal compliance
• Drafting of Legal Agreements and SLA’s
• Assessment of impact of any new legislation and providing training to Legal and affected Business Units from time to time
• Providing legal advice and opinions to Divisions and within the regionalisation model
• Legal research and legal reviews and due diligence investigations
• Advising and providing a tailor made business solutions to problems
• Generally ensure best possible legal solution to legal problems

Monitoring and Compliance with Land Bank Act and other applicable legislation

• Monitor legislation that may affect the Bank and recommend solutions
• Proactive awareness of new legislation and advising the Bank accordingly
• Assessment of impact of any new legislation and making recommendations in this regard

Resource Management

• Management of assigned attorneys in terms of giving them instructions and subsequent communication as applicable
• Manage delivery of outsourced work and monitor performance

Review and Development of Policies and Procedures

• Identify loopholes and make recommendations on policies and processes for improved service delivery
• Monitoring and compliance to the policies and procedures and making recommendations in case of non-compliance.
• Assist in Delegation of Powers (DOP) development and review
• Drafting agreements and general legal assistance to the Bank as a whole including ensuring product compliance and alignment with the Bank’s policies

Manage Stakeholder relationship

• Proactive building of internal relationships with all business units
• Understanding operational business needs
• Providing business solutions in area of expertise
• Understanding internal client’s areas of operation
• Proactively building relationships with attorneys/advocates/Bank clients
• Good working relationship with team

Drafting

• Receive requests for the drafting of Contracts
• Assess and discuss requirements with the client and draft initial contracts
• Review inputs and amend according to comments received
• Prepare execution versions of the contract, together with control sheets, acquire internal signatories and submit for external signatures
• Retain electronic copies of contracts and control sheets
• Preferred Minimum Education and Experience
• 4 year LLB Degree or equivalent.
• Admitted Attorney having served articles of clerkship or Admitted Advocate, having served pupillage.
• 3 – 5 years Post admission experience.

Critical Competencies

• Legislation
• Legal opinions
• Report writing
• Compilation of policies and procedures
• Legal reviews and due diligence
• Research
• Drafting

Closing Date

• 2025/07/14

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Main Purpose

• To create and manage an end-to-end legal recoveries capability that is recognised as a valuable and strategic the business of the Bank.
• The function should maximise cost effective recoveries thereby supporting the Banking and Risk Divisions and contributing to minimising financial loss and mitigating risk on behalf of the Land Bank.

Key Performance Areas

Strategy development and overseeing the legal recovery process including insolvency and debt collection

• Manage various functions within Legal Recoveries in order to maximise cost effective recoveries.
• Determine what right-off is appropriate and is in the best interest of the Land Bank.
• Comply with right-off processes and policies.
• Manage and approve all outputs from the legal advisors and Specialists.
• Manage and monitor the matters that are referred to attorneys and debt collectors
• Monitor and evaluate the performance of the attorneys.
• Ensure that effective risk controls have been identified and that a proper risk control assessment is in place and reviewed annually
• Ensure that documented risks controls are operating effectively and if not that appropriate, corrective actions are taken
• Ensure that business and reputational risks associated with third party relationships are mitigated through effective service level agreement and monitoring thereof.
• Ensure that appropriate mandates are in place and reviewed annually
• Ensure that policies are in place, aligned with the recoveries strategy and reviewed annually
• Ensure that processes and procedures are documented, aligned with the recovery strategies and reviewed annually.
• Ensure effective disposal of Bought in Properties by the Bank
• Provide strategic leadership

Maintain stakeholder relations

• Oversee and manage the flow of relevant information to best inform stakeholders as to the status of the portfolio or individual clients within the portfolio
• Where appropriate generate feedback to stakeholders to improve future risk decisions and ensure past mistakes are prevented
• Ensure stakeholder alignment and satisfaction utilising sound stakeholder management techniques
• Maintain relationships with external service providers (attorneys; debt collectors, etc.) and handle their queries timeously.
• Maintain relationships with clients.
• Maintain relationships with the relevant government departments (DRDLR, DAAF, etc.)
• Ensure good communication and reporting lines with branches.
• Respond timeously to internal and external customer queries

Manage budgets

• Make budget recommendations for the Legal Recoveries and Debt Collection unit.
• Monitor expenses and ensure the cost effectiveness of the department.
• Monitor costs of fees charged by attorneys

Manage information systems

• Ensure the maintenance of the system.
• Recommend enhancements on the system.
• Monitor the monthly reports.
• Analyse the information in the system

Manage land claims

• Ensure recovery of money on properties subject to land claims.
• Track all claims to ensure that maximum recovery takes place

Preferred Minimum Education and Experience

• LLB degree or equivalent,
• Admission as an attorneys or admission as an Advocate, having served pupillage is a requirement.
• 7 years experience in legal recoveries / debt collection environment and litigation, preferably in a bank.
• 5 years management experience is preferable.

Critical Competencies

• Financial Principles
• Experience in restructuring of distressed accounts
• Knowledge of risks and controls
• Good understanding of legal practices in South Africa
• Understanding of Insolvency legislation and practises in South Africa

Additional Requirements

• Competency in English
• In depth knowledge of the Companies Act, NCA, CPA, Land Bank Act, and other relevant legislations

Closing Date

• 2025/07/14

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Main Purpose

• To provide support to farmers beyond financing, through the implementation of grower programmes and the provision of technical support to farmers, within the context of partnership programmes.

Key Performance Areas

Grower Programme Development

• Develops Grower Programmes for farmers, within the ambit of partnership programmes; for specified commodities.
• Partners with Credit Risk and Agricultural Economics and Advisory to determine commodities where the Bank has financing appetite in order to prioritize Grower Programmes
• Establishes relationships with off-takers and leverages their expertise and the market networks to support the growth and success of farmers.
• Identifies and selects supplier aggregators based on set criteria to create market access for and to support the development of low-scale farmers.
• Ensures that grower programmes enable sustainable farming practices, manage stakeholder interests and enable market access.
• Makes data-led decisions regarding resource deployment and continuous improvement of grower programmes

Grower Programme Capacitation

• Recruits farmers to grower programmes by using a development and merit-based process for farmer selection.
• Builds a pipeline of qualifying grower programme participants, to ensure the long-term continuity and viability of programmes.
• Works collaboratively to leverage the Bank’s marketing capabilities to create market awareness of grower programmes and success stories via digital, social and traditional media channels.
• Effectively maps stakeholders and formulates comprehensive plans to engage and consult community leaders and relevant authorities where required.
• Develops robust systems for collecting, tracking and analysing data pertaining to grower programs and farmer data.

Farmer Development

• Works collaboratively across functions within the bank to establish and develop programmes and content input for the Land Bank Farmer Academy.
• Ensures that grower programmes provide structured market access to farmers to increase trading volumes while simultaneously achieving significant social impact with regard to development farmers
• Selects and implements organizational models that enable high levels of farmer-partnership interaction to build trust, while transferring knowledge and skills to ensure the long-term viability and sustainability of farmers enrolled in grower programmes.
• Facilitates increased private sector investment in developing farmers; promoting sustainable sourcing practices through strategic procurement linkages that are commercially viable for Land Bank.
• Puts structures in place to support farmers in meeting the compliance, governance and contractual obligations applicable to grower programmes and strategic partnership agreements.

Farmer Development Project Management, Monitoring and Evaluation

• Develops models for monitoring of development farmers’ projects.
• Encourage comprehensive risk management strategies within grower programs, emphasizing the importance of adopting insurance solutions provided by LBI.
• Manages varied projects including status reporting and program management across multiple projects.
• Develops and maintains effective interface across business areas to understand the business transformation agenda, priorities and delivery needs.
• Ensures compliance with governance practices, standards and architectural standards in the delivery of grower programmes and farmer pre and post-support initiatives.

People Management

Performance Management

• Ensure the overall team is meeting their targets as prescribed by the Head.
• Monitor manager’s achievements against their development plans.
• Provide inputs to head on performance tracking and monitoring of managers.
• Participate in performance reviews with the head.
• Provide coaching and feedback to subordinates.

Capacity Planning

• Determine the human resource requirements, in accordance with the expected deliverables and current capacity.
• Set out the resourcing and human capital requirements to the head to ensure that deliverables will be met in accordance with the expected targets.
• Minimise staff turnover.
• Lead the subordinates in such a manner as to foster innovation.
• Demonstrate behaviour aligned to the corporate Land Bank values.
• Equitable distribution of responsibilities and accountabilities and plan appropriate human capacity and full utilisation for projects under management.

Preferred Minimum Education and Experience

• Degree in Commerce / Science / Agriculture
• A minimum of 7 years experience at management level.
• A minimum of 3 years experience in the development and implementation of grower programmes.

Critical Competencies

• Business development and networking
• Farmer development
• Stakeholder and client management
• Operationalising strategy
• Legislative and regulatory context

Additional Requirements

• Knowledge of PFMA
• Knowledge of Land Bank Act
• Knowledge Banking Products
• Knowledge of Agricultural Operations

Closing Date

• 2025/07/16