Salary:
R2,259,984 (Senior Management Service/SMS level 16) – ALL-Inclusive remuneration package per year plus a 10% non-pension head of the departmental allowance.
The remuneration package consists of a basic salary, the government’s contribution to the government’s pension fund and a flexible part, which can be structured in terms of applicable rules and a 13th check, motor car all -purpose, compensation for homeowner and medical assistance can include.
Requirements:
- Postdoctoral qualification at NQF level 8 as recognized by the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA).
- Ten years of experience in senior management.
Knowledge:
- Knowledge of the latest progress in the theory and practice of public management;
- Advanced knowledge of modern management systems and administration;
- Knowledge of the policy of the Government of the Day;
- Knowledge of global, regional and social affairs that influence the provincial government of the free state;
- Knowledge of global, regional and local political, economic and social affairs that influence the provincial government of the free state;
- Knowledge of constitutional, legal and institutional regulations for the South African public sector;
- Knowledge of intergovernmental and international relations; And
- Knowledge of communication, media management, public relations, public participation and public education.
Skills:
- In-house advisory and advisory skills;
- Strong conceptual, interpretative and formulation skills;
- Strong leadership skills with specific reference to the ability to display thorough leadership in context;
- Team building and strong interpersonal skills;
- Excellent communication skills;
- Excellent planning, organization and people management skills;
- Possibility of multitasking, to deal with ambiguity and to manage under rapidly changing and under pressure;
- Convince and influence skills; And
- Skills for conflict management.
Tasks:
- Strategic management, guidance and advice with regard to displaying efficient and cost -efficient, transparent and responsive public administration, including:
- Professionally supporting the Executive (Premier and Cabinet) with regard to policy, strategies and provincial strategic stakeholders at a high level;
- Ensuring that policy development, strategic planning, program and project implementation initiatives of the provincial executive are informed by suitable and reliable information about strategic management;
- Granting Executive Governance Support Services; And
- Taking responsibility for intergovernmental relations, cooperation between the government and the coordination of actions and legislation of departments.
- Provide strategic management for the province of Free State, including:
- Functions of and organizational regulations in public service;
- Employment and other personnel practices, including the promotion of broad representativeness and human resources management and training in public service;
- The salaries and other circumstances of services of officers and employees;
- Employment relationships in public service;
- Information management and information technology in public service;
- Public Service Transformation and Reform; And
- Regularly report to the prime minister on a regular basis about the activities of the department and about matters of considerable importance for the administration.
- Offer people management services to the department, including:
- Participate in the recruitment of employees in the figures and figures that are suitable for guaranteeing the strategic plan of the department;
- Motivating, training and leading employees within the department to reach and retain excellence in services;
- Actively managing the performance, evaluation and remuneration of employees within the department;
- Monitoring information capacity building within the department;
- Ensuring involvement in the composition of a personnel plan for the department;
- Promoting good employment relationships within the department; And
- Actively manage and promote the maintenance of discipline within the department.
- Provide for financial management services to the Department, including:
- Managing participation in the budgeting process at departmental level and at branch level;
- Ensure the preparation of the annual and adjustment budgets for the department;
- Based on direct accountability for the efficient, economic and effective control and the management of the budget and expenditure of the department;
- Based on direct accountability to ensure that the correct tendering and purchasing procedures are complied with with regard to purchases for the department;
- Reporting to the prime minister and relevant supervisory wheels/committees on all aspects of the department’s finances;
- Indeed perform all tasks that have been assigned to the position of Director General;
- Based on the general accountability for the management, maintenance and storage of the department resources; And
- Ensure that full and correct data from the financial affairs of the Department are stored in accordance with any prescribed standards and standards.
Applications:
Applications must be submitted on the prescribed Z83 form, available at a public service department or online via the “fast links” section of the homepage of The website of the Department of Public Service & Administration (DPSA). The Z83 form must be fully completed and signed by the applicant. All applications must be accompanied by an extensive CV.
Only nominated candidates must submit certified copies of qualifications and other related documents. (It is the responsibility of the applicant to have foreign qualifications assessed by SAQA.)
Requesting, addressed to Mr. M Silwana, Office Manager: Office of the Director-General of the Office of the Premier, Free State, must be marked for the attention of Mrs. Matshidiso Modisapudi.
Requests can be submitted via:
The closing date for applications is 4 p.m. on April 22, 2025.
To ask: Mrs. Limakatso Nqoko, acting chief director: company reform of the Office of the Premier, Free State. Call 063 688 6685 or E -Mail limakatso.nqoko@fspremier.gov.za
Remark:
- The FSPG is a confirming employer of equal opportunities. It is the intention of the FSPG to promote representativeness (race, gender and disability) in the province by filling this position and candidates whose appointment, promotion or transfer will be preferred. Applications of people with disabilities are welcome.
- Applications must be submitted to or before the closing date.
- Correspondence will only be limited to nominated candidates. If you are not contacted within four months of the closing date of this advertisement, accept that your application was not successful.
- All nominated candidates are subjected to staff fitness controls.
- All nominated candidates for SMS posts will be subject to a technical exercise that intends to test relevant technical elements of the task, the logistics of which will be communicated by the department.
- Nominated candidates must attend a generic assessment of the management competencies (in accordance with the DPSA guideline on the implementation of competence-based assessments). The competence assessment will test generic management competencies using the mandated DPSA SMS Competention Assessment instruments.
- Potential applicants for posts in the SMS, as well as existing SMS members who will go to higher levels within the SMS, it is expected that the compulsory pre-entry certificate for the Nyukela Public Service SMS program is expected to complete successfully completionThat came into force on April 1, 2020. No applicant will be appointed without this certificate. Individual applicants are expected to pay the course. The duration of the course is 120 hours. Visit the website of the National School of Government For full details.
- This appointment is subject to the signing of an employment contract, no more than a period of five years, a security authorization of the top secrecy, a competence assessment and an annual performance agreement. The successful candidate will have to be to announce their financial interests in accordance with the prescribed regulations.
This article was sponsored by the provincial government of the free state.
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