Job Type Classification Contract
Location - Town / City Midran
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Country South Africa
JOB DESCRIPTION
This is a 3 (three) year Fixed Term Contract.
The Head of the SHIP MO will lead a team of financial, technical and legal infrastructure development experts to provide a coherent and structured approach to developing a robust national student housing programme at the 26 public universities and 50 TVET colleges.
Functional Structure: SHIP MO
The SHIP MO will be housed at the DBSA. The day-to-day activities will be under the supervision of the SHIP Oversight Committee (OSC), which is made up of representatives of the DHET, National Treasury and the DBSA, chaired by the DHET.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Technical Outputs.
The Head of the SHIP MO will be responsible for inter alia the following broad tasks:
1. Conduct a macro market needs analysis
2. Plan the programme with estimated annual and multi-year budgets
3. Ensure compliance with legislative and regulatory requirements and propose amendments where applicable
4. Exercise duty of care of the office
5. Develop various technical and funding models
6. Invite and co-opt participation of public universities and colleges in the programme
7. Receive all applications for student housing projects from participating institutions
8. Establish a relationship between SHIP MO and the institutional level implementer and enter into agreements with each participating institution
9. Ensure that terms of reference of each programme and project are adequately scoped
10. Develop a procurement strategy and plan
11. Prepare and issue Requests for Proposals (RFPs)
12. Evaluate bids and recommend preferred bidders to the OSC and the respective institutions
13. Develop a funding package for consideration by preferred bidders
14. Facilitate crowding in of financiers with the implementation of the programme
15. Act as the Secretariat to the OSC
Stakeholder management and support:
1. Managing relationships at various levels with the relevant infrastructure planning stakeholders, partners, and lead promoters, in accordance with infrastructure planning objectives;
2. Establish and maintain strategic partnerships, networks and alliances aimed at enhancing the SHIP’s development support role
3. Resource utilisation and team effectiveness:
4. Providing leadership, guidance and support in the execution of infrastructure planning support. This entails assuming a lead role in undertaking the identification of potential infrastructure planning opportunities
5. Act as a coach and mentor to SHIP MO team members
6. Be responsible for the performance management of the project managers and advisors
7. Identify staff development needs, define and review human resources targets and allocation in accordance with the human resources policies
8. Be responsible for the achievement of financial and non-financial targets of the SHIP
Business development in collaboration with DHET:
1. Harness business development opportunities which could include the mobilising of funding for development from the private and public sectors
2. Identify and advise on joint ventures, investment opportunities and management consulting projects
3. Recommend projects to SHIP MO governing structures
4. Expand and manage SHIP’s development support programmes in order to ensure these are developmentally and financially sustainable
Key measurements of outputs
1. Number of plans prepared which result in identification, assessment and realisation of projects
2. Number of catalised opportunities resulting in a robust pipeline of projects
3. Partnerships established to promote SHIP
4. Demonstration of thought leadership
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EXPERTISE & TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
Qualifications -
Minimum Requirements:
1. A Masters’ degree in Engineering, Built Environment, Development Management, Finance, Economics or Business;
Desirable:
1. A further relevant post graduate qualification
2. An engineering qualification
3. A financial qualification
Relevant Experience -
Minimum requirements:
1. 10 years relevant experience that includes infrastructure finance, project planning development, built environment, public sector management, advisory service or consulting experience working within a project management environment.
2. Demonstrable track record of effective leadership of large projects and stakeholder management
3. Expertise in originating and delivering on project development advisory assignments
4. Knowledge and understanding of relevant legislation, regulations, policies, systems and procedures governing the infrastructure planning and development environment.
Desirable:
1. A further relevant post graduate qualification
2. An engineering qualification
3. A financial qualification
4. Knowledge and demonstrable experience in the:
(1) post-school education and training sector
(2) technical planning, demand and growth estimations, and planning aspects relating to infrastructure projects, finance
(3) spatial, geographic and demographic dynamics which impact infrastructure planning
(4) infrastructure status quo assessments, demand projections, costing, conceptual design, etc
(5) planning of infrastructure in the water, transport, energy and ICT sectors related to buildings.
Technical Competencies:
Written and Verbal Communication
(1) Able to write complex technical and non-technical documents and briefs
(2) Able to determine which aspects of this knowledge area need to be transferred to others in order to achieve organisational goals
(3) Able to communicate complex problems or concepts
Project Management
1. In depth and practical understanding of how to maximize the effectiveness of project teams
2. Defines, plans and manages large and/or strategic projects, including those with a high degree of technical complexity, with impacts across the organisation and/or with national implications
3. Assembles and leads diverse and multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring maximum effective resource utilisation
Negotiation
1. Able to successfully conclude negotiations that require the development of an emotional as well as factual argument
2. Able to develop mutually-beneficial proposals and solutions
3. Effectively employs a variety of advanced behavioural and interpersonal competencies to control negotiations
Stakeholder Management
1. Delivers objectives by bringing together diverse stakeholders to work effectively in partnership
2. Identifies and engages a diverse range of influential contacts within stakeholder and community groups, and partner organisations
3. Builds alliances to establish mutually beneficial working arrangements, openly sharing knowledge and insights
Business Development
1. Assesses project and programme feasibility through interrogation of resource requirements (including financing, capacity, capability and related issues).
2. Coordinates, controls and manages the activities and efforts required for implementation of a plan
3. Initiates, reviews and interprets competitor environment reviews and take action accordingly
4. Positions the SHIP as the preferred development partner, lender and advisor
5. Promotes compliance and alignment with the strategic imperatives of both individual clients and the SHIP of investment and development interventions
REQUIRED PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
Behavioural Competencies:
Teamwork and cooperation
1. Promotes a friendly climate and good morale, and resolves conflicts
2. Creates opportunities for cross-functional working.
3. Encourages others to network outside of their own team/department and learn from their experience.
Decisiveness
1. Makes timely decisions about complex issues even when some information is missing
2. Makes decisions and stands by them even when they are controversial or unpopular
3. Grasps critical business opportunities when they arise by making timely decisions
Driving delivery of results
1. Identifies and implements a business opportunity that will have long term impact on the business
2. Monitors progress and adapts plans if necessary to ensure optimal benefit to the programme
3. Makes decisions, sets priorities, or chooses goals on the basis of inputs and outputs: makes explicit considerations of potential profit, return on investment, or cost benefit analysis.
4. Based on cost benefit analysis, makes decisions of entrepreneurial risk nature
Leading and Empowering Others
1. Identifies long-term goals for the team and communicates them to team members, ensuring their buy in
2. Sets a good example by personally exercising desired behavior; acts on values and beliefs
3. Communicates a vision for the team and future success that inspires team members
4. After assessing others competence, one delegates full authority and responsibility to others to do the task in their own way
5. Ensures that competent employees are given opportunities to further their careers
Leading & Managing Change
1. Gives teams responsibility to analyse, impact and execute change and to sustain it independently
2. Anticipates the need for change when not obvious and influences others to gain support
3. Builds sustainable business capacity to embrace change
Strategic and Innovative Thinking
1. Creates new concepts that are not obvious to others, leveraging internal and external sources of information, to build incremental revenue and growth opportunities
2. Understands connections and trade-offs of strategic choices to evaluate which ideas are practical and possible by considering business and/or scientific implications
3. Develops innovative business and/or customer solutions that shape industry practices
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