MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIREMENTS:
- Relevant Honours Degree (NQF Level 8) in Forensic Science; Enterprise Risk Management; Internal Audit; Finance, or related field (economics, business management, statistics, or law).
- Certification in Fraud Risk Management (CFRM).
- Membership to a professional body, e.g. Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE).
IDEAL QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
- MPhil Fraud Risk Management.
MINIMUM EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:
- 8 years or more within a fully-fledged Compliance environment.
- 5 years’ experience in:-
- Fraud risk profiling/assessment value chain (from identification through to reporting)
- Analysis of key trends in relation to the institutional fraud risk landscape, including emerging risks.
- Effective coordination of whistleblowing activities, including proactive response to hotline reports.
- Undertaking preliminary forensic investigations with confidentiality and deadline-driven posture.
- Leading fraud and forensics related training and awareness across an organisation.
- Responding to practical complexities pertaining to fraud and forensics related cases.
- Evaluation of an institutional fraud and forensics value chain, including implemented recommendations for improvement.
- Development of fraud and forensics governance documents, including socialisation across an organisation.
- Combined Assurance Framework (CAF).
- Contract management, identifying loopholes and unmitigated risks prior to executive sign-off.
- Project management with tangible outcomes/impact.
- Interacting across all hierarchical levels (At all levels within the institution), viz. with line management and other CAF lines of assurance role players.
Ideal Experience:
- Experience in the Higher Education Sector.
- Insights into organisational strategy.
- Experience in the implementation of an ERM software.
- Experience in serving on an oversight structure, even if as merely an internal role player.
MIMIMUM LEGAL REQUIREMENT:
Membership, in good standing, with a professional fraud-focused body, viz.:-
- Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), or
- Institute of Commercial Forensic Practitioners (ICFP), or Equivalent
KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
FRAUD AND FORENSICS GOVERNANCE
Develop and/or update fraud and forensics related policies, frameworks, and procedures, including:
- Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Policy
- ERM Framework
- Fraud, Bribery, and Corruption Prevention Policy
- Conflict of Interest Policy
- Whistleblowing Policy
- Undertake benchmarking as a source of innovation and infusion of market trends, demonstrating a growth mindset.
- Integrate institutional strategy into governance documents to ensure alignment and awareness.
- Produce detailed reports and dashboards with graphical illustrations, highlighting the interconnectedness of fraud, corruption, and control breaches.
FRAUD RESPONSE PLANNING & PREVENTION
- Proactively track fraud-related red flags across institutional activities and develop appropriate mitigation tactics.
- Capture and track lessons learned from forensic investigation reports and use these insights to strengthen prevention measures.
- Act as a sounding board for first-line assurance role players by shaping fraud-sensitive dialogue.
- Provide actionable input into the university’s green-paper processes, informed by market best practices.
- Contribute towards AppFactory MoUs, MoAs, and other agreements by identifying fraud-related loopholes.
- Promote and embed a strong risk management philosophy and culture.
FORENSIC INVESTIGATIONS MANAGEMENT
- Engage relevant leadership team members to capture critical details for RFQ specifications.
- Compile RFQs for projects requiring external forensic services, ensuring specifications are well scoped.
- Liaise effectively with stakeholders to gather, analyse, and track evidence, and identify emerging fraud trends.
Apply protocols for forensic investigations, including:
- Evidence gathering to safeguard integrity of investigations
- Competent compilation of evidence for possible criminal prosecution
- Conduct thorough root cause analyses of fraud cases.
- Present evidence at disciplinary hearings to defend forensic reports and ensure accountability.
WHISTLEBLOWING AND HOTLINE
- Liaise with the external service provider administering the whistleblowing hotline.
- Manage and coordinate whistleblowing processes, ensuring confidentiality, responsiveness, and organisational trust in the system.
FRAUD AWARENESS AND TRAINING
- Contribute to creating a culture of openness and accountability across DUT.
- Lead fraud awareness and training sessions, drawing on case studies, local and global (glocal) market trends, and lessons learned from investigations.
- Promote institutional resilience by embedding fraud awareness across all organisational levels.
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MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS REQUIREMENTS
- Relevant Honours Degree (NQF Level 8) in Enterprise Risk Management, Internal Audit, Finance, or related field
- Professional certification such as CRMA, CRM-Prac, CRM-Prof, or CIA
IDEAL QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS:
- Master’s in Business Administration; Master’s in Business Leadership; or MPhil in Internal Audit (or other related Master’s degree)
- Bachelor of Laws (LLB)
MINIMUM EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS:
- Minimum 8 years in a fully-fledged compliance environment
- At least 5 years’ experience in:
- Generally Accepted Compliance Practice Framework
- Combined Assurance Framework (CAF)
- Business continuity, including practical implementation
- Contract management, including identification of risks before executive sign-off
- Project management with measurable outcomes
- Interacting across all organisational levels (At all levels within the institution)
- Experience in serving on an oversight structure, even if as merely an internal role player.
- Knowledge of higher learning policies, procedures, and legislation will be an advantage.
IDEAL EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS
- Higher Education sector experience
- Understanding of organisational strategy
- Registry systems and processes experience
- Experience coordinating organisation-wide roadshows.
KEY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Compliance Governance Documents:
- Develop and implement Compliance Policy and Compliance Framework
- Align systems and processes with Generally Accepted Compliance Practice Framework.
Statutory, Regulatory & Policy Compliance Monitoring and Reporting:
- Interpret and track legislative changes and integrate into DUT systems.
- Collaborate with Lines of Assurance (OHSE, IAF, Legal Services, Employee Relations, Registry, statutory auditors).
- Coordinate compliance audits and report to governance structures.
- Escalate non-compliance incidents appropriately.
Stakeholder-Centricity:
- Develop and maintain a Compliance Stakeholder Matrix (CSM).
- Map stakeholder roles and responsibilities and align with best practices.
- Liaise with internal and external stakeholders to drive a zero-tolerance culture toward non-compliance.
- Support statutory/external audits.
- Collaborate with Judicial Services to enhance compliance in student services.
Compliance Training and Awareness:
- Lead compliance awareness and training for new and existing staff.
- Embed compliance into daily operations.
- Partner with Judicial Services to raise awareness on compliance processes.
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In summary, the Executive Dean for the Faculty of Management Sciences strategically manages the following divisions & departments that are located in the three campuses of ML Sultan & Ritson (in Durban) and Riverside (in Midlands, PMB): -
- Applied Law
- DUT Business School
- Ecotourism
- Entrepreneurial Studies and Management
- Hospitality and Tourism
- Human Resources Management
- Marketing and Retail
- Operations and Quality Management
- Public Management
- Public Relations Management
- FMS Postgraduate Studies
- International Centre of Non-Violence (ICON)
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
- A Doctorate in an appropriate discipline with a strong research profile that demonstrates leadership.
- At least ten (10) years’ work experience in the higher education environment of which five (5) years should have been in a senior academic management capacity.
- Relevant higher education leadership and managerial skills.
IDEAL REQUIREMENTS
- A strong record of initiating and managing collaborations and partnerships at local, regional and international levels.
- Proven record of being a respected senior academic leader.
- Sound knowledge of higher education and the higher education system in South Africa and internationally.
KEY RESPONSIBILITY AREAS
- Develops, research, design, and review of faculty and, where appropriate, institutional policies, procedures, plans and systems as required in line with relevant legislation, national standards and international best practices.
- Provides leadership in the formulation and monitoring of faculty related plans, processes and systems and goals.
- As part of the Institutes Academic leadership team, provides input to regional, national and international academic initiatives where appropriate.
- As structural and functional head of the faculty, oversees and monitors the effective implementation of institutional and university policies, procedures, plans and systems within the faculty.
- Provides specific, high-level, legally compliant strategic advice on faculty-related academic matters to the DVC for Teaching and Learning and to the Executive Management as may be required.
- Provides specific, high-level, legally compliant strategic advice on faculty-related academic matters to the DVC for Research, Innovation and Engagement and t o the Executive Management as may be required.
- Manages appeals, complaints, from students, parents, employers.
- Manages staff appeals, complaints, grievances etc., and conducts disciplinary enquiries as appropriate.
- Promotes equity and transformation within the faculty.
- Promotes congenial working relationships between staff in the faculty and with other academic and administrative departments.
- Manages the Faculty office by delegating specific responsibilities to Deputy Dean, e.g. registration, record keeping and qualification procedures.
- Designs, sets up, and monitors effective control systems to promote the smooth and efficient functioning of the faculty, e.g. initiates, promotes and implements new/alternative procedures to enhance academic administration efficiency.
- Embeds ‘stewardship’ in the University’s people who shall live its values and principles and demonstrate an institutional culture that supports the vision and strategy of the University.
- Innovates and implements ‘systems and processes’ that optimize productivity, efficiency, effectiveness and exceptional performance at all levels.
- Assures acceptable levels of ‘sustainability’ in all the areas under Management.
- Focuses on the ultimate goal of and impactful DUT that ‘contributes towards the improvement of lives and livelihoods’ of the broader ‘society’.
In pursuance of ENVISION2030, the ideal incumbent:
- Epitomises and demonstrates values- and principles-driven leadership and management, the DUT DNA and The DUT Way.
- Fosters visionary and transformative leadership that is efficient, effective and impactful not only internally, but in our broader society nationally and internationally.
- Embeds systems thinking and management in the implementation of plans and projects, while ensuring sustainability.
- Takes leadership in ensuring that our education philosophy statement ‘our innovation and entrepreneurship shapes adaptive graduates that transform society’ is not only enacted across DUT, but is a lived experience among, primarily, academics and students.
- Is creative and innovative, deliberative and decisive, and is a leader, a strategist and a manager.
- Is a seasoned academic leader with a proven record of academic excellence.
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