Closing Date 2020/10/16
Reference Number DBS200618-4
Job Title Senior Infrastructure Development Specialist: Water DDM (Waterberg District - Limpopo)
Job Grade 17
Job Type Classification Contract
Location - Town / City Limpopo
Location - Province North-West
Location - Country South Africa
JOB DESCRIPTION
The District Development Model (DDM) is an integrated planning Model for Cooperative Governance & Traditional Affairs (CoGTA) which seeks to be a new integrated, district-based, service delivery approach aimed at fast-tracking service delivery and ensure municipalities are adequately supported and resourced to carry out their mandate. Across the 44 districts and 8 Metropolitans in the country, all developmental initiatives will be viewed through a district level lens; ‘one district, one plan’.
DBSA is the programme implementation agency (PIA) responsible for supporting COGTA in implementing the District Development Model. In line with this PIA role, the DBSA seeks to appoint a Senior Infrastructure Development Specialist (Water) that is responsible for planning, developing and executing projects/programmes in water supply, sanitation and rural/urban/municipal infrastructure development and management, and relevant sector governance reforms for the identified district.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Functions:
1. Lead the formulation and engagement in dialogue with municipalities and stakeholders concerning water supply and sanitation, and provision of municipal services.
2. Appraise water and sanitation master plans and regional bulk master plans submissions from municipalities and stakeholders and provide inputs to the District ‘one plan’.
3. Develop / review and obtain approval of the water and sanitation services development plan for the District.
4. Lead the development of feasibility studies, technical reports and designs of water and sanitation infrastructure with special emphasis on regional water and sanitation schemes.
5. Facilitate the development of innovative solutions for water and sanitation treatment processes and usage for the district.
6. These amongst others would include:
1) System models, yield analysis and planning systems
2) Optimisation of water infrastructure; e.g. pumping systems, storage and pipeline network including appropriate technologies.
3) Appropriate treatment technologies and infrastructure. Assessment and optimisation of wastewater treatment facilities. Feasibility for effluent reuse.
4) Effective delivery of water to municipalities / communities.
5) Coagulants locally produced.
6) Operations and maintenance of pressure systems
7) Billing software.
8) Sewer modeling, network analysis and planning
9) Reviewing of technical reports guidelines and sanitation guidelines
10) Updating of water and sanitation costing guidelines
7. Draft business case/s for water and sanitation infrastructure projects / programmes.
8. Prioritise the water and sanitation infrastructure delivery needs of the District including capital and maintenance projects and also look at reduction of non-revenue water losses and water reuse strategies
9. Facilitate sign-off on inputs provided to the preparation of the Water & Sanitation Infrastructure Programme Implementation Plan by Implementing Agents.
10. Facilitate sign-off of water and sanitation project / programme execution plans as well as any scope and / or cost variations.
11. Prepare, manage and monitor short, medium- and long-term water and sanitation infrastructure delivery for assigned projects / programmes.
12. Oversee project management of water and sanitation infrastructure projects for the District in line with the approved ‘one plan’.
13. Develop and implement the physical resources infrastructure planning framework and prioritisation model(s).
14. Develop and implement policies, criteria and procedures for all water and sanitation infrastructure plans, programmes and projects.
15. Develop and obtain approval of the Procurement Strategy providing value for money to inform the Water & Sanitation Infrastructure Management Plan.
16. Review and recommend signing of Service Delivery Agreement/s.
17. Consult Municipalities and identified stakeholders during initiation and commissioning phases. Finalise and approve all water and sanitisation infrastructure monitoring reports (performance and financial reports).
18. Lead in conducting capacity building activities in water supply and sanitation sector policies and practices of Executing Agencies (EAs), including urban development. Manage social facilitation.
Key Measures/KPIs:
1. % of infrastructure plan submissions appraised
2. Water & Sanitation Infrastructure Programme Management Plans developed for the District % of business cases drafted for water and sanitation infrastructure projects / programmes
3. % of Water & Sanitation Infrastructure Programme Implementation Plans by Implementing Agents review and approved No. of project / programme execution plans approved and implemented
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EXPERTISE & TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
1. Bachelor’s degree/NQF 7 in Built Environment or Civil Engineering.
2. Registered with the relevant professional council/board as a Built Environment / Engineering professional (PrEng or PRTechEng) Public sector management and/or related experience in the delivery and oversight of water and sanitation infrastructure projects/programmes at a senior level (10 - 15 years).
3. Demonstrated knowledge of the Engineering Profession Act, Architectural Profession Act, Quantity Surveying Profession Act, Expanded Public Works Programme, Local Government Building Regulations (where applicable), Occupational Health & Safety Act, Provincial Land Administration Legislation, Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations Act, Intergovernmental Framework and the PFMA. Extensive work experience-across multiple areas of local government (approximately 5 -8 years) (Past experience operating at a senior specialist level). Demonstrated ability to manage large scale water and sanitation infrastructure projects / programmes.
4. Fully computer literate with sound knowledge of MS office.
5. Demonstrated ability to interact confidently with diverse stakeholders and clients.
Desirable Requirements:
Project Management Qualification Technical Competencies:-
Strategic Planning:
1. Develops long-term objectives, strategies, and goals.
2. Orients to longer terms than day-to-day activities; determines long-term issues, problems or opportunities.
3. Develops and establishes broad scale, longer-term objectives, goals, or special projects (e.g., affecting a department, several departments or DBSA).
4. Develops a business strategy; assesses and links short-term, day-to-day tasks in the context of long-term business strategies or a long-term perspective; considers whether short-term goals will meet long-term objectives.
5. Ability to analyse complex economic trends and their impact on organisational strategy.
6. Ensures performances measures are in place to monitor progress and assess accomplishments and achievement of strategic goals and objectives.
7. Develops initiatives to achieve goals and objectives.
8. Articulates the vision and plans to others.
Project Management:
1. 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. Assembles and leads diverse and multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring maximum effective resource utilisation.
2. Successfully manages substantial project budgets and reports directly to senior managers on the progress and results of projects.
3. Identifies complex issues that need escalation and proposes appropriate corrective actions. Solutions Focused: Identifies broad, highly complex problems based on a multitude of factors, many of which are complex and sweeping in nature, difficult to define and often contradictory. Creates procedures to articulate the nature of problems and to identify and weigh alternate solutions.
4. Evaluates the effectiveness of solutions using approaches tailored to the situation.
Business Acumen:
1. Takes actions to fit business strategy.
2. Assesses and links short-term tasks in the context of long-term business strategies or perspectives.
3. 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.
4. Anticipates possible responses to different initiatives.
5. Understands the projected direction of the industry and how changes might impact the organisation.
6. Planning and Organising: Coaches others on advanced planning and organising skills.
7. Plays a role in transferring advanced planning and organising skills and knowledge to others. Identifies and acts on opportunities to partner with other units in the department to achieve desired results.
8. Develops partnership agreements that ensure win-win outcomes for all parties.
9. Develops integrated plans for the work unit and others that interfaces with the function’s budget. Uses effectively advance time management processes to deal with high workload and tight deadlines.
10. Organises, prioritises and schedules tasks so they can be performed within budget and with the efficient use of time and resources.
11. Achieves goals in a timely manner, despite obstacles encountered, by organising, reprioritising and re-planning
Detailed Oriented:
1. Quickly identifies relevant and irrelevant information to support accurate decision making.
2. Maps out all the logistics and details of a situation to ensure smooth and flawless implementation.
3. Consistently identifies all relevant details that are not obvious in complex situations.
4. Requires the highest standards for accuracy and quality for their work.
5. Establishes processes to ensure accuracy and quality of services delivered by the team.
Reporting & Communication:
1. Designs, reviews and improves reporting processes and provides guidance.
2. Leads production of complex environment reports, takes an editorial role, determines content and level of detail, and ensures consistent messaging and branding.
3. Is relied on by others to help them write complex technical and non-technical documents and briefs.
4. Can determine which aspects of this knowledge area need to be transferred to others in order to achieve organisational goals.
5. Coaches others and transfers communication skills and knowledge to others.
6. Able to communicate complex problems or concepts, by making them simple and understandable for others.
7. Adapts language to the level of the audience in order to ensure that the message has a positive impact and is interesting to the audience.
8. Is articulate, demonstrates a wide range of vocabulary, and is confident when talking to large/high level audiences.
Presentation Skills:
1. 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.).
2. Has knowledge of various feedback mechanisms to check levels of audience understanding.
REQUIRED PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES
1. Customer Service Orientation:
2. Tries to understand the underlying needs of customers and matches these needs to available or customized products and services.
3. Adapts processes and procedures to meet on-going customer needs.
4. Utilises the feedback received by customers, in order to develop new and/or improve existing services/ products that relate to their on-going needs.
5. Thinks of new ways to align offerings with future customer needs.
Self-Awareness and Self Control:
1. Withholds effects of strong emotions in difficult situations.
2. Keeps functioning or responds constructively despite stress.
3. May apply special techniques or plan of time to manage emotions or stress.
Strategic and Innovative Thinking:
1. Experiments with new approaches, tests scenarios, questions assumptions and challenges conventional thinking.
2. Creates new concepts that are not obvious to others, leveraging internal and external sources of information, to build incremental revenue and growth opportunities.
Driving Delivery of Results:
1. Sets challenging goals that will have a significant impact on the business or support the organisational strategy.
2. Commits significant resources and/or time to ensure that challenging goals are achieved, while also taking action to mitigate risk.
Teamwork and Cooperation:
1. Acts to promote 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.
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