INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (IDC)

MANAGER: INDUSTRY PLANNING PROGRAMME COORDINATION

IDC is committed to equality, employment equity and diversity. In accordance with the employment equity plan of the IDC and its employment equity goals and targets, preference may be given, but not limited to candidates from underrepresented designated groups.

Job number IDC00802

Contract Type Permanent

Posting End Date 7 Sept 2026

Region Gauteng

IDC Job Grade M Band

Synopsis

• To lead programme coordination, portfolio reporting, governance support and implementation tracking across the Industry Planning Unit, ensuring that approved industry plans, priority initiatives, PMOs and strategic interventions are implemented in a structured and disciplined manner and monitored effectively.
• The role provides senior decision-support to the Head: Industry Planning by strengthening portfolio visibility, stakeholder alignment, governance readiness, knowledge management, reviews, benchmarking and continuous improvement across the Unit.
• The role also supports the Head in shaping and advancing the strategic direction of the Unit by providing structured analysis, portfolio insights, coordination support and implementation follow-through.

Job Description

Financial / Shareholder Returns

• Coordinate budget inputs, monitor expenditure trends and provide management reporting for IPU-led programmes, PMOs and priority initiatives to support financial discipline and informed decision-making.

Coordination, Reporting and Portfolio Management

• Lead portfolio-level tracking across approved industry plans, priority initiatives and strategic workstreams, including milestones, progress, decisions, action items, risks, dependencies, lessons learned and follow-up requirements.
• Monitor and analyse implementation progress, risks, dependencies and bottlenecks, and recommend corrective actions or escalation where management decisions are required.
• Drive follow-through on agreed actions, decisions and commitments across planners, contributors and stakeholder groups, ensuring that responsibilities are allocated, tracked and concluded.
• Monitor and report on IPU-led memoranda of understanding, partnership commitments and strategic implementation arrangements.
• Prepare management reports, dashboards, briefing notes, presentations and governance updates for the Head: Industry Planning and relevant IDC governance structures.
• Strengthen governance readiness of IPU outputs by ensuring that reports, submissions and presentations are clear, evidence-based, consistent and aligned to IDC strategic priorities.
• Consolidate inputs from Industry Development Planners and other contributors in response to ad hoc requests, executive priorities and strategic assignments.
• Lead internal liaison activities that improve awareness of IPU priorities, planned outputs and areas where input is required from other business units.

Programme Management and Strategic Initiative Delivery

• Establish Programme Management Offices (PMOs), as required, for selected IPU and Divisional priority initiatives, including inter-governmental initiatives and cross-functional strategic programmes.
• Lead the establishment and operationalisation of programme governance arrangements, workplans, reporting routines, decision logs and implementation tracking mechanisms.
• Support the translation of approved industry plans and strategic priorities into actionable workplans, delivery routines and implementation tracking mechanisms.
• Oversee implementation tracking for selected IPU and Divisional priority initiatives where IPU has a coordinating or sponsoring role.
• Facilitate senior-level workshops, conferences, stakeholder engagements and working sessions required to advance priority industry planning initiatives.
• Identify delivery risks, process gaps, coordination constraints and implementation bottlenecks, and propose practical actions to improve execution.

Qualification and Experience

Qualifications

• Minimum qualification: relevant degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Economics, Development Studies, Public Policy, Commerce, Project Management, Industrial Development, Organisational Development or a related field.
• Honours degree will be an advantage.

Knowledge & experience

• Minimum 8 -10  years’ experience in the energy, industrial development, consulting or engineering sectors.
• Experience in a development finance institution is required.
• Proven experience in programme or portfolio governance in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment.
• Significant experience in implementation tracking, risk and issue management, stakeholder engagement and management reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior stakeholders and coordinate delivery across functions without direct reporting authority.
• Experience preparing executive-level reports, governance submissions, presentations and strategic decision-support material.
• Understanding of industry planning, industrial development, development finance, public sector processes or strategic economic development would be an advantage.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, particularly Word, PowerPoint and Excel.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, written communication and coordination capability.

Roles and Responsibilities

Behavioural competencies

• Strategic thinking and business judgement
• Influencing without direct authority
• Senior stakeholder engagement
• Change leadership and continuous improvement
• Learning agility
• Structured problem solving
• Clear communication and presentation skills
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Initiative, self-management and attention to detail
• Delivery accountability
• Professional judgement and discretion

Technical/functional competencies

• Programme and project management
• Portfolio reporting and performance tracking
• Strategic implementation planning
• Governance and executive decision-support
• Process optimisation and continuous improvement
• Methodologies, tools, templates and standard operating practices
• Facilitation of multi-stakeholder engagements
• Executive reporting and presentation development
• Report writing and quality assurance
• Knowledge management
• Risk, issue and dependency tracking
• Strategic and systems thinking
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Planning, prioritisation and delivery coordination
• Advanced Microsoft Office capability

IDC is committed to equality, employment equity and diversity. In accordance with the employment equity plan of the IDC and its employment equity goals and targets, preference may be given, but not limited to candidates from underrepresented designated groups

Job Requirements

Process Optimisation, Tools and Knowledge Management

• Drive process improvements within the Unit and Division to improve the quality, consistency and usefulness of reports, templates and other outputs.
• Lead the development, implementation and maintenance of IPU methodologies, frameworks, tools, templates, reporting formats and standard operating practices.
• Improve written outputs and reporting templates to strengthen clarity, conciseness, consistency and governance readiness.
• Maintain and share lessons learned, good practices and institutional knowledge from industry planning initiatives.
• Identify opportunities to improve collaboration, information flow, document quality and reporting discipline across IPU and related teams.
• Provide quality assurance for selected IPU written outputs, including reports, submissions, presentations and stakeholder communication material.
• Lead reviews and benchmarking of IPU activities.

Stakeholder Coordination and Unit Enablement

• Serve as the senior coordination point between IPU, IDC business units, governance structures and external stakeholders where required.
• Advise the Head: Industry Planning on Unit priorities, portfolio performance, management information, stakeholder matters and execution risks.
• Support the Head: Industry Planning in shaping, communicating and implementing the strategic direction of the Unit, including translating strategic priorities into coordinated actions, workplans and monitoring routines.
• Influence delivery across cross-functional teams without direct line authority.
• Facilitate follow-through on internal and external stakeholder requests, ensuring actions are allocated, tracked and concluded.
• Strengthen a collaborative, disciplined and delivery-focused operating environment within the Unit.
• Drive adoption of improved processes, templates and reporting practices within IPU and across relevant stakeholder groups.
• Keep abreast of IDC strategic priorities, industry planning initiatives, relevant governance requirements and emerging organisational process improvement needs.

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