Closing Date 2022/10/11
Reference Number DBS220930-1
Job Title Development Facilitator [Midrand] South Africa
Job Grade 15
Job Type Classification Contract
Location - Town / City Midrand
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Country South Africa
JOB DESCRIPTION
The purpose of this role to engender sustainability in the programmes of Infrastructure Delivery and foster partnerships for development and ensure community participation and ownership of development initiatives, programmes and projects.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
The Key accountabilities, interfaces and measures of this role are further elaborated below:
1. Identification of relevant stakeholders around the project
2. Facilitate partnership with NGOs and CBOs to support communities in maximizing the social impact and boosting the sustainability of new assets built by the DBSA.
3. Conduct workshops with different stakeholders, get buy-in and ownership into the process
4. Establish stakeholder committee with key representation from identified stakeholders, identifying responsibilities for each and mechanism for engagement and communication
5. Ensuring development and signing of development charters
6. Ensuring ongoing engagement of the stakeholders committee during all stages of the project and feeding information to and from the project steering committee
7. Ensuring early identification of potential conflict between the community and contractors, mediating and resolving conflicts between parties
8. Project site visits
9. Attending Project Steering Committee (biweekly or monthly depending on particular project)
10. Report(written) to the Project Steering Committee and to the Programme Management Unit
11. Facilitating the role of stakeholders at handover of assets
12. Team management and Relationship
13. Identifying and managing risk
Key Internal Liaison Relationships
1. Group Executive: IDD
2. All DBSA Divisions
3. Overall DBSA management
Key External Liaison Relationships
1. External Service Providers
2. External stakeholders
3. External Client(s)
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EXPERTISE & TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
1. Post Graduate degree in Social Sciences or equivalent
2. A minimum of 8 years’ experience in People Centred Development
3. Well versed and current knowledge of Principals and Practice of Sustainable Development
4. Excellent knowledge of design and management of facilitation process
5. Driver’s license code 08
Skills &Knowledge
1. Ability to build strategic alliances with key players for business
2. Strong leadership capabilities to direct and lead the facilitation of Development Charters
3. Good knowledge of National Development policies and Sustainable Development principles and approaches
4. Good communicator (written and verbal) and able to communicate complex concepts effectively to community members, executive management and high level stakeholders
5. Strong facilitation skills and ability to manage conflict and resolve problems
6. Is innovative and agile in response to external change
7. Analytical skills and strategic advisory experience
8. Creative and visionary ability
9. Results driven: demonstrates high levels of commitment and dedication to achieving goals and objectives in pressured work environment
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
Written Communication
a) Is relied on by others to help them write complex technical and non-technical documents and briefs.
b) Is able to determine which aspects of this knowledge area need to be transferred to others in order to achieve organisational goals.
c) Coaches others and transfers communication skills and knowledge to others.
Presentation Skills
a) 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.).
b) Has knowledge of various feedback mechanisms to check levels of audience understanding.
Business Acumen
a) Takes actions to fit business strategy.
b) Assesses and links short-term tasks in the context of long-term business strategies or perspectives.
c) 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.
d) Anticipates possible responses to different initiatives.
e) Understands the projected direction of the industry and how changes might impact the organisation.
Negotiations
a) Has an appreciation of cultural sensitivities and differences.
b) Effectively employs a variety of advanced behavioural /interpersonal competencies to control the negotiation situation.
c) Is able to take the lead in a variety of sensitive negotiation situations requiring high levels of tact and diplomacy.
d) 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.
Data Collection and Analysis
a) Based on knowledge of the reasons behind the analysis, is able to define the most appropriate means of data collection.
b) Is able to develop formats for data collection.
c) Is able to define the most appropriate internal and external data/information sources.
d) Identifies key facts in an array of data, recognises when pertinent facts are incorrect, missing, or require supplementation or verification.
e) Breaks down data into component parts to understand the nature and relationship of the parts.
f) Has a broad knowledge of statistical data-handling techniques.
g) Can undertake more comprehensive analysis of data/information but is not required to draw conclusions.
REQUIRED PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
Achievement orientation
a) Undertakes challenging assignment and strives to complete them.
b) Sets priorities and chooses goals on the basis of calculated costs, anticipated benefits and improvement of performance.
c) Aims at exceptional performance, setting out to achieve a unique standard.
d) Constantly analysis outcomes to ensure the achievements of business goal.
e) Identifies short-term opportunity or potential problems aiming to achieve better outcomes.
Customer Orientation
a) Tries to understand the underlying needs of customers and match these needs to available or customized products and service.
b) Adapts processes and procedures to meet on-going customer needs.
c) Utilises the feedback received from customers, in order to develop new and / or improving existing services / products that relates to their on-going needs.
d) Thinks of new ways to align DBSA’s offering with future customer needs.
Integrity
a) Is willing to end a business relationship because it was associated with unethical business practice.
b) Is capable of challenging senior management (in an appropriate and respectable manner) in order to act on espoused values.
Leading and empowering others
a) Creates the conditions that enables the team to perform at its best (e.g., setting clear directions, providing appropriate structure, getting the right people, obtain needed resources).
b) Monitors performance against clear standards, and addresses performance issues promptly and takes action to get performance back to desired levels.
c) Proactively asks for feedback on own performance from team members, aiming to become more effective.
Teamwork and cooperation
a) Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale, and resolves conflicts.
b) Creates opportunities for cross-functional work.
c) Encourages others to network outside of their own team / department and learn from their experience.
Self-awareness & self-control
a) Withholds effects of strong emotions in difficult situations.
b) Keeps functioning or responds constructively despite stress.
c) May apply special techniques or plan ahead of time to manage emotions or stress
Strategic and Innovative thinking
a) Recognises opportunities or potential problems, before they become obvious, by seeing the connections in a range of sources of information, including insights from outside DBSA.
b) Restates complex knowledge in a way that makes it easier for others to understand.
c) Experiments with new approaches, tests scenarios, questions assumptions and challenges conventional thinking.
d) Creates new concepts that are not obvious to others, leveraging internal and external sources of information, to build incremental revenue and growth opportunities.
Teamwork and cooperation
a) Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale, and resolve conflicts.
b) Creates opportunities for cross-functional work.
c) Encourages others to network outside of their own team / department and learn from their experience.
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