CITY POWER WORKPLACE
 
City Power Johannesburg SOC Limited is a municipal entity wholly owned by the City of Johannesburg. City Power commenced operations on 01 January 2001 and is responsible for electricity distribution within its area of supply in the City of Johannesburg. 
 
Enterprise Support Group 
 
Practitioner: ICT Risk Management & Compliance (X1) Ref: 012 
TASK Grade 12 
Reporting to – Manager: ICT Governance & Compliance 
 
Purpose
Identify, analyse, assess and mitigate the information technology risks in order to eliminate all ICT risks that might impact the business negatively. 
 
 
Key responsibilities 
• Use the ISO and CobiT guidelines to develop a comprehensive Information Security risk assessment program 
• Perform regular reviews of the risk assessment program to ensure compliance to the ISO and CobiT standards and regulations 
• Perform risk impact analysis and business risk cost analysis to identify how a risk will negatively affect the business 
• Produce a detailed ICT risk assessment report to the business 
• Identify and prioritize critical business functions and prioritize business critical functions to ensure security and business continuity 
• Produce a risk mitigation and strategy 
• Using the risk assessment report and risk mitigation report, analyze all controls recommended to ensure appropriate controls for the risk areas identified and implemented 
• Arrange with an external supplier to perform an independent ICT environmental assessment and ensure that the external supplier provides risk mitigation and control recommendation reports 
• Assess and review the awareness and training programmes to ensure that it meets and covers IS standards and that it is effective 
• Provide on-going information security training and awareness. 
 

​Competencies
Behavioural Competencies 
• The ability to exhibit courage and resilience when confronted with issues, opposition, ethical dilemmas or failures. 
• The ability to demonstrate commitment to City Power’s core values and principles. 
• The ability to emphasise collaboration, teaming, and cooperation in operations.
• The ability to feel pride and ownership for the success and brand of City Power. 
 
Functional Competencies 
• The discovery and communication of meaningful patterns in data by using systems thinking to investigate the complex relationships between seemingly unrelated data sets. 
• Knowledge and ability to evaluate, negotiate, procure, track, and manage IT assets including software licenses and computer leases. 
• Modelling ability that is used to integrate and transform fragmented organisational systems, applications, work processes and organisational structures into a holistic reflection of the business environment, helping management to be responsive to industry wide challenges and change. 
• Knowledge and ability to ensure there are adequate technical and departmental safeguards to protect the continuity of IT infrastructure services by the implementation of IT security principles, methods, practices, policies and tools that are used in securing IT resources including information and operations security, physical security, department continuity/disaster recovery planning, methods to deal with security breaches and security assessment in a technical environment. 
• The study or use of systems for storing, retrieving, and sending information. Ability to prioritise and approve City Power investment in information technology (IT) applications and systems. 
• Provides direction and guides on Infrastructure and technical services related project programmes through the effective planning, management, monitoring and evaluation of specific activities in order to ensure effective development and execution of programmes/ projects. 
• Knowledge and ability to apply architecture theories, principles, concepts, practices, methodologies and frameworks. 
 
Minimum qualifications 
• National Diploma in ICT security and governance, or certification in information security, governance and risk or the equivalent 
 
Related Minimum Experience 
• 5 years’ experience 



In case of further information regarding this advertisement (circular 002/2019; Ref 012), please contact:
Team Talent Acquisition Tel (011) 490 -7099/ (011) 490-7103/ (011) 490-7394 
Kindly forward your detailed CV’s via E-MAIL: recruitment.enterprisesupport@citypower.co.za or  by no later than 03 May 2019.
 
Note:
 City Power is an Employment Equity Employer; therefore preference for this position will be given to candidates whose appointment will enhance representivity (especially Gender and Disability). If you do not hear from us within 2 months of the closing date, you may assume that your application was unsuccessful. 
 
 Applicants must note that further checks will be conducted once they have been shortlisted and that their appointment will be subject to positive outcomes on these checks, which include qualification authentication, criminal records and previous employment. 
 
 City Power reserves the right not to fill the position or to re-advertise it. Where applicable, candidates may be expected to undergo psychometric assessments. 
 
 It is the applicant’s responsibility to have their foreign qualifications evaluated by the South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) and to provide the evaluation results. 
 
 Please include copies of your qualifications with your application. 
 
 No walk-ins for this advert only emailed and faxed CV’s will be acceptable.