Closing Date 2020/10/16
Reference Number DBS200617-2
Job Title Senior Development Planner: DDM (OR Tambo-Eastern Cape)
Job Grade 17
Job Type Classification Contract
Location - Town / City OR Tambo District
Location - Province Eastern Cape
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 COGTSA in implementing the District Development Model. In line with this PIA role, the DBSA seeks to a appoint Senior Development Planner (SDP) that is responsible for finding the best solutions to achieve good long-term development for the identified District.
The SDP will co-ordinate the work of local and other spheres of government in a coherent plan to improve the quality of life for all the people living in the identified district. These would include existing conditions, problems and resources available for development. The solution/s must look at economic and social development for the entire district as a whole; i.e. how land should be used, what infrastructure and services are needed and how the environment should be protected. This will contribute to the development and execution of the ‘one plan’.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Assist in formulating and implementing the District’s ‘one plan’ by: Co-ordinating the work of local and other spheres of government in a coherent plan to improve the quality of life for all the people living in the identified district.
2. These would include existing conditions, problems and resources available for development. Meeting with municipalities, public officials and the public regarding development plans and land use.
3. Identifying the best way to meet District needs in terms of infrastructure and handling growth. Oversees all aspects of planning, including reviewing research on economic and environmental impacts.
4. Working with developers and with other communities on the best way to turn proposals into reality.
5. Providing solution/s looking at economic and social development for the entire district as a whole; i.e. how land should be used, what infrastructure and services are needed and how the environment should be protected.
6. Providing development direction and integration with the ‘one plan’ and associated strategies and sector plans.
7. Formulating and implement frameworks, policies, precinct plans and development strategies of high complexity and initiate development projects and programmes for the district.
8. Oversee and supervise the running of all development / town planning projects for the district as per the ‘one plan’.
9. Manage and provide input into development processes, projects and programmes between all relevant stakeholders.
10. Co-ordinate the planning, development and management of infrastructure and ensure alignment with the ‘one plan’ and associated strategies.
11. Facilitate development processes and projects for implementation.
12. Advise DDM on statutory and planning requirements in infrastructure planning delivery.
13. Apply sound knowledge of the principles and practices of municipal land use planning to develop creative and original planning solutions.
14. Establish and maintain good working relationships with relevant stakeholders.
15. Research and design planning policies to guide and inform strategic development.
16. Use information technology systems such as CAD (computer-aided design) or Geographical Information Systems (GIS). Stay relevant with legislation associated with land use and land use planning.
17. Prepares reports; maintains records and recommend appropriate actions or additional conditions to be imposed concerning planning, development and management of land use schemes.
18. Any development planning duties as assigned.
Key Measures/KPIs
1. Developing and implementing agreed development plans
2. Development of policies and frameworks Management of Client Relationships and key Stakeholders. Management of Budget including operational expenses.
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EXPERTISE & TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES
1. Bachelor’s degree/NQF 7 in Town and Regional Planning or Urban Development Studies Registered with SACPLAN as a professional Town and Regional Planner.
2. Minimum 10 years’ experience as a Development Planner.
3. Extensive work experience-across multiple areas of government (approximately 5 -8 years) (Past experience operating at a senior specialist level) Fully computer literate with sound knowledge of MS office.
4. Demonstrated ability to interact confidently with diverse stakeholders and clients.
Desirable Requirements:
1. Masters degree in Town and Regional Planning Technical Competencies:-
2. Strategic Planning: Develops long-term objectives, strategies, and goals.
3. Orients to longer terms than day-to-day activities; determines long-term issues, problems or opportunities.
4. Develops and establishes broad scale, longer-term objectives, goals, or special projects (e.g., affecting a department, several departments or DBSA).
5. 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.
6. Ability to analyse complex economic trends and their impact on organisational strategy.
7. Ensures performances measures are in place to monitor progress and assess accomplishments and achievement of strategic goals and objectives.
8. Develops initiatives to achieve goals and objectives.
9. 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:
1. 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.
2. Creates procedures to articulate the nature of problems and to identify and weigh alternate solutions.
3. 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.
Planning and Organising:
1. Coaches others on advanced planning and organising skills.
2. 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.
3. Develops partnership agreements that ensure win-win outcomes for all parties.
4. 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.
5. Organises, prioritises and schedules tasks so they can be performed within budget and with the efficient use of time and resources.
6. 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
Customer Service Orientation:
1. Tries to understand the underlying needs of customers and matches these needs to available or customized products and services.
2. Adapts processes and procedures to meet on-going customer needs.
3. Utilises the feedback received by customers, in order to develop new and/or improve existing services/ products that relate to their on-going needs.
4. 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:
4. Experiments with new approaches, tests scenarios, questions assumptions and challenges conventional thinking.
5. 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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