DEVELOPMENT BANK OF SOUTHERN AFRICA (DBSA) VACANCIES

DEVELOPMENT BANK OF SOUTHERN AFRICA (DBSA)

SENIOR DEAL ORIGINATOR: TRANSPORT, LOGISTICS & BULK WATER (DBS240507-1)

Closing Date 2025/02/03
Reference Number DBS240507-1
Job Title Senior Deal Originator: Transport, Logistics & Bulk Water
Job Grade 16
Job Type Classification Permanent
Location - Town / City Midrand
Location – Province Gauteng
Location – Country South Africa
Job Profile (Downloadable) JOB_PROFILE_SENIOR_DEAL_ORIGINATOR (1) (1).PDF (1.09 MB) - 5/7/2024 4:59:57 PM

Job Description
The Senior Deal Originator is responsible for formulating and executing the strategic objectives of the business in collaboration with the Head Client Coverage whilst being accountable for deal origination, building and owning client and partnerships and developing projects for the DBSA ultimately leading to bankable deals.

Key Responsibilities

Contribute to the development of Divisional and Business unit strategies and implementation thereof.
Identify new, and prioritise existing key clients based on a set criteria (i.e. financial metrics, current and potential revenue and margin) and strategic factors.
Develop strong pipeline of good quality investments through proactive origination/business development and developing and employing sector/country knowledge.
Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, global and regional private businesses and facilitate the identification of opportunities to initiate viable projects.
Work closely with the project preparation team to facilitate project preparation, scoping, feasibility studies and business plans with the intention of closing investment deals.
Work closely with the Transactions team to take deals to bankability.
Remediate and eliminate partnership obstacles and inefficiencies, have knowledge of all new products, structured products and services offered by competitors.
Develop an in-depth knowledge of the political landscape of regions/sectors/clients and partners serviced and leverage such insights/knowledge across other regions/sectors and clients.
Build relationships, networks and collaborate with internal and external key stakeholders and clients to position DBSA as the ‘go-to’ Bank for infrastructure development opportunities.
Continuously research and analyse the clients’ business context, operations and financial performance in search of new opportunities
Leverage, engage and collaborate with the Bank’s internal network to ensure that the entire Bank’s relevant ex-pertise is used to the optimum.
Develop strong pipeline of good quality investments through proactive origination/business development and developing and employing sector/country knowledge;
Compile and provide competitor analysis and understand the operating environment.
Lead, initiate and develop new business strategies and opportunities to create a pipeline of development impact projects ensuring deal flow and bankability.
Working closely with Financing Operations Division, initiate and develop new business strategies and opportunities to create a pipeline of fee income generating projects.
Prepare and provide documentation/reports for EXCO and Board(s) decision making where applicable.
Present at deal Committees where applicable as and when required.

Key Measurements of Outputs

Value of project originated, approved, committed and disbursed.
Value of projects catalysed by the DBSA.
Value of projects originated with South African Inc.
Value of projects originated for Project Preparation Division.
Value of funds under management secured (Infrastructure Delivery business).
NPL targets.
Client service rating.

Expertise & Technical Competencies

Minimum Requirements

An Honours degree in Finance, Business, Accounting, Engineering or Economics;
8-10 years’ experience in appraising, negotiating and closing Project Finance, Corporate Finance, or
Structured Finance transactions in a financial institution;
Experience in securing infrastructure investment deals in relevant sectors/geographies in SA and/or Africa (where applicable).
Experience in leading, initiating and developing new business strategies and opportunities to create a pipeline of development impact projects ensuring deal flow and bankability.
Experience in securing deals of appropriate size for sectors and geographies in question.
Strong networks and relations with clients, global and regional private investors and banks in order to identify and source viable projects/investments.
Successful track record in leading project teams with high level stakeholders and qualified professionals.
Experience in using Financial models.
Comprehensive knowledge of the complex financial and regulatory environments across Africa (where applicable).
In depth knowledge and understanding of infrastructure market, financial markets and the macro landscape.
Demonstrable experience in identifying client challenges and playing an active part in finding innovative solutions.
Experienced communicator and negotiator (expertise at senior level).
Strong negotiation skills with the ability to close deals.
Proven experience in working with senior stakeholders in highly political environments in South Africa and the rest of Africa (where applicable).
Role requires flexibility to be redeployed if required
Ability to mentor jnr members of the team

Desirable Requirements
A post-graduate qualification such as a CA, CFA or MBA

Technical Competencies
Risk Identification & Assessment skills:

Advises on applicable aspects of risk identification and assessment.
Assesses and links short-term tasks in the context of long-term business strategies or perspectives.

Business Development:

Takes overall lead for pro-active business development at national and international level.
Initiates, reviews and interprets competitor environment reviews and take actions accordingly.
Formulates and modify market approaches on the basis of competitor analyses.
Leads the formulation, development and implementation of the business development strategy to generate new business opportunities in public and private sector delivery of infrastructure.
Identifies and develop new markets, products and clients.
Leads the participation and presentation of an organisation at investment conferences and roundtable discussions.
Coordinates business activities to ensure that investment initiatives are in support of government
BEE strategies, broader national and regional economic development strategies.
Promote compliance and alignment with the strategic imperatives of both individual clients and the organisation of investment and development interventions.
Builds capacity to coordinate, control and manage the activities and efforts required for the implementation of the plan.
Builds capacity to conduct project origination exercises.

Business Acumen:

Deep understanding of commercial drivers and is able to take decisions based on an assessment of alternatives concerning complex business situations.
Deep understanding of economic priorities of South Africa and Africa and how they can be implemented to meet an organisations strategic objectives.
Deep understanding of the need to coordinate efforts with many government entities, private sector, community groups and individuals to ensure effective implementation of new policies and regulations.
Takes actions to fit business strategy.
Assesses and links short-term tasks in the context of long-term business strategies or perspectives.
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.
Anticipates possible responses to different initiatives.
Understands the projected direction of the industry and how changes might impact the organisation.

Deal Origination:

Utilises extensive networks with developers, sponsors and consultants in DBSA-mandated sectors to identify project preparation opportunities.
Conducts project identification, conceptualisation and preliminary structuring of projects structuring and value preposition for DBSA.
Applies analytical skills to understand the technical, environmental, institutional, financial and legal components of projects to present a structure to prepare the project.
Understands the regulatory and policy environments and offers advice in preparing/structuring of projects.
Conducts market research, business analysis and profiling to identify opportunities for infrastructure development in SA, SADC and selected African countries.
Provides and grows the opportunity for DBSA equity investments.
Independently structures and negotiates and concludes engagement letters, term sheets and facility agreements.

Project Management:

Initiates project plans and secures resources for projects that span area or department boundaries.
Uses estimating techniques and develops project risk management approaches.
Has an in-depth and practical understanding of how to maximise the effectiveness of project teams.

Planning & Organising:

Is relied on to helps other plan and organise their workload.
Uses effectively advance time management processes to deal with high workload and tight deadlines.
Organises, prioritises and schedules tasks so they can be performed within budget and with the efficient use of time and resources.
Achieves goals in a timely manner, despite obstacles encountered, by organising, reprioritising and re-planning.

Financial Acumen:

Makes sound financial decisions after having analysed their impacts on the organisation, partner agencies, and community.
Effectively prepares budgetary submissions and forecasts for own department.
Knows the internal and external factors that impact on resource and asset availability.
Is able to interpret management account reports in an operational/commercial context and take action as appropriate to maximise revenues and control costs.

Reporting & Communication:

Designs / customises reports to meet user needs.
Prepares complex or tailored reports, gathers information from a variety of sources, analyses and includes in a report.
Keeps standard reports under review and proposes improvements to meet user needs.

Presentation Skills:

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.).
Has knowledge of various feedback mechanisms to check levels of audience understanding.

Negotiation:

Has an appreciation of cultural sensitivities and differences.
Effectively employs a variety of advanced behavioural/interpersonal competencies to control the negotiation situation.
Is able to take the lead in a variety of sensitive negotiation situations requiring high levels of tact and diplomacy.
Is able to place a discrete negotiation situation within the context of a broader long-term relationship and is not threatened by conceding ground to protect the longer-term interests of DBSA.

Required Personal Attributes

Behavioural Competencies

Achievement Orientation:

Undertakes challenging assignments and strives to complete them.
Sets priorities and chooses goals on the basis of calculated costs, anticipated benefits and improvement of performance.
Aims at exceptional performance; setting out to achieve a unique standard.
Constantly analyses outcomes to ensure the achievement of business goals.
Identifies short-term opportunities or potential problems aiming to achieve better outcomes.

Customer Service Orientation:

Tries to understand the underlying needs of customers and matches these needs to available or customised products and services.
Adapts processes and procedures to meet on-going customer needs.
Utilises the feedback received by customers, in order to develop new and/or improve existing services/ products that relate to their on-going needs.
Thinks of new ways to align DBSA’s offerings with future customer needs.

Integrity:

Is willing to end a business relationship because it was associated with unethical business practice.
Is capable of challenging senior management (in an appropriate and respectable manner) in order to act on espoused values.

Leading and Empowering Others:

Creates the conditions that enable the team to perform at its best (e.g., setting clear direction, providing appropriate structure, getting the right people, obtain needed resources).
Monitors performance against clear standards, and addresses performance issues promptly and takes action to get performance back to desired levels.
Proactively asks for feedback on own performance from team members, aiming to become more effective.

Self-awareness and Self Control:

Withholds effects of strong emotions in difficult situations.
Keeps functioning or responds constructively despite stress.
May apply special techniques or plan ahead of time to manage emotions or stress.

Strategic and Innovative Thinking:

Recognises opportunities or potential problems, before they become obvious, by seeing the connections in a range of sources of information, including insights from outside DBSA.
Restates complex knowledge in a way that makes it easier for others to understand.
Experiments with new approaches, tests scenarios, questions assumptions and challenges conventional thinking.
Creates new concepts that are not obvious to others, leveraging internal and external sources of information, to build incremental revenue and growth opportunities.

Teamwork & Cooperation:

Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale and resolves conflicts.
Creates opportunities for cross-functional working.
Encourages others to network outside of their own team/department and learn from their experience.

Policy
The Development Bank of Southern Africa will endeavour to make appointments in line with its Employment Equity Policy and Plan. Applications from suitably qualified designated groups, especially people with disabilities, are encouraged.
The DBSA corporate culture fit requires clear, logical and analytical thinking grounded in good interpersonal skills, a sense of urgency and results orientated execution of duties. The ability to work collaboratively and finding practical yet innovative solutions is critical to success in a work environment that demands emotional resilience, accountability and responsible risk taking and management.
The DBSA reserves the right to amend or remove vacancies in line with organisational requirements.
All vacancies can be viewed on the DBSA website (www.dbsa.org) under Careers.

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INVESTMENT CONTROLLER X2

Details
Investment Controller X2 (DBS250116-1)
Closing Date2025/01/31
Reference Number DBS250116-1
Job Title Investment Controller X2
Job Grade 16
Job Type Classification Permanent
Location - Town / City Midrand
Location – Province Gauteng
Location – Country South Africa
Job Profile (Downloadable) Job Profile Investment Controller_7 January 2025.docx.pdf (477.98 kb) - 1/16/2025 12:09:10 PM

Job Description
Support the back-office team to achieve financial strategy and vision by ensuring alignment of the Bank's Financial Strategy, through conducting financial modelling, scenario planning and forecast and reviewing and amending financial policies to support the business.

Key Responsibilities
Key Performance Areas:

Strategic Reporting and Investment Support:

Facilitating the alignment of the financial strategy with the business strategy as far as the asset and liability portfolio of the Bank is concerned.
Review the asset and liability performance to confirm alignment between the DBSA corporate strategy with the Bank's operating model.
Preparation of reports encompassing financial modelling, scenario planning, and forecasting in support of the strategic direction for the DBSA Asset and Liability portfolio.
Provide assistance and guidance in developing supporting systems and procedures.
Provide financial and statistical reports for executive decision making.
Review and amend financial policies and procedures to support the business and ensure alignment with procedures, strategies and financial rules and regulations.
Provide proactive and regular forecasting and scenario planning for corporate and divisions.
Interpret and analyse key financial information current and forecast and ratios to assist in financial decision making.
Implement expense-management strategy to be utilised for financial analysis, decision-making and cost savings.
Escalate any deviations and challenges to management, with recommended remedial and mitigating actions.
Implement financial control processes and ensure effective management of working capital, margin management, risk management and disciplined financial best practice.

Management Reporting and Information systems:

Preparation and review of the notes to the financial statements and ensure accurate quality and timeliness of the quarterly and annual results.
Review of financial processes and systems and ensuring regular updates.
Prepare financial plans and budgets for executive decision-making.
Preparing balance sheet and cash flow projections with accuracy, reliability, and on time.
Impairment assessments and review of the asset portfolio for adequacy of provisions on the credit portfolio and reasonableness of fair values of the unlisted equity investments
Provide proactive and regular forecasting and scenario planning for corporate planning for assets and liabilities.
Assess processes and recommend continuous improvements on back-office support operations.
Review own actions against the organisation plan (Balance Score Card) and look at the "big picture" when considering opportunities.
Evaluate functions against the organisational plan (Balanced Scorecard) and ensure achievement of targets while considering the broader strategic perspective and identifying opportunities.
Keep abreast of the DBSA's business functions, business developments and trends.
Maintain ongoing compliance in terms of legislative (Treasury, PFMA), financial, tax and related matters.
Provide information and insights in the preparation of annual and interim financial reports.
Review payments to ensure protection against or early detection of fraudulent activities.
Conduct research and analyse complex and diverse information to gather insights and market data.
Support in the design of workflows and procedures.

Stakeholder Management:

Provide direction and management to colleagues where applicable.
Build relationships with stakeholders across the organisation to ensure open communication and to obtain a deep understanding of the Bank's operations.

Key Measurements of Outputs:
1. Understanding of core operations: accurate interpretation of DBSA’s core operations.
2. Initiative through active contribution to new initiatives.
3. Accuracy, quality and timeliness of quarterly and annual accounts.
4. Accuracy, quality and reliability of financial reports.
5. Effective implementation processes with detailed procedural manuals as well as policies and documentation of business processes.
6. Effective execution and quarterly updates of financial processes.
7. Budget and forecast accuracy: precision in balance sheet and cash flow projections.
8. Management of client relationships and key internal and external Stakeholders.
9. Continuous learning through new finance skills acquired.
10. Active participation in working groups and committees.
11. Clean Audit

Key Internal Liaison Relationships:
1. Group Executive: Risk
2. All DBSA Divisions
3. Overall DBSA management
4. Audit & Risk Committees

Key External Liaison Relationships:
1. DBSA Suppliers and Vendors

Expertise & Technical Competencies

Qualifications and Experience:

Minimum Requirements:

A Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce or Finance or Accounting.
A minimum of 5 years’ experience in investment banking within the banking environment.
A minimum of 2 years’ experience in relevant treasury accounting, assets and liability portfolio management and experience.
A strong career track record in the back office in a large, complex organisation with multi-dimensional businesses within the banking sector for a minimum period of 4 to 5 years, preferably in an investment banking environment.
Strong, current understanding of and a strong commitment to good corporate governance and specifically international reporting standards including IFRS 9, IFRS, Basel, GAAP and other regulatory requirements including the PFMA.
Understanding of key financial markets.
Knowledge of the relevant legislative framework, i.e. King IV, MFMA, PPPFMA and other relevant legislation etc.
Strong understanding of the integration of back, middle and front office.

Desirable Requirements:

A CA(SA) or CFA qualification.
Exposure to African global markets.
Equity valuation experience.
Good understanding of SAP, quantum and other accounting tools.

Technical Competencies:

a) Financial Accounting

Thorough understanding of relevant accounting principles for DBSA and ability to guide others in their application.
Implements controls for and monitors accounting transactions to ensure legal/regulatory compliance, and accuracy and timeliness of accounting information.
Ability to apply credit/collection concepts independently, and able to adapt or develop new procedures as needed within DBSA and professional guidelines.
Identifies bottlenecks and areas for improvement within the organisation’s Financial Services concerning the efficiency and accuracy of the existing financial systems and processes.

b) Costing and Budgeting

Able to prepare and input budget information for various departments.
Able to produce standard monthly cost/variance reports for distribution to line management.
Provides analytical support to the Finance function in the preparation of financial proposals, submissions and projected costs to be included in budgets and allocations.
Understands DBSA monthly close/trial balance procedures.
Understands DBSA cost/revenue centre structure.

c) Detail Orientation

Identifies multiple sources/approaches of information to ensure that details are addressed.
Reviews the work of others for accuracy and thoroughness.
Follows up to ensure tasks are completed and commitments met by others.

d) Financial Analysis

Basic general knowledge of applicable statutes, regulations, entity/company practices and concepts.
Interprets and applies laws and regulations, analyses information and evaluates the impact of policies/procedures and practices.
Accumulates data; summaries information into pertinent, understandable, and presentable form; discerning valid from invalid comparisons of data; and seeking explanation for variations in the data.
Initiates and maintains working relationships with stakeholders.

e) Financial Acumen

Possesses sufficient expertise to establish and manage income and expenditure monitoring systems for own area of the business.
Understands cost/revenue drivers within own area and is able to take actions to control resources and expenditure to meet financial targets.
Understands basic management accounting reports and the processes by which financial resources are identified, obtained, allocated, managed, and accounted for.

f) Planning and Organising

Is relied on to helps another plan and organise their workload.
Uses effectively advance time management processes to deal with high workload and tight deadlines.
Organises, prioritises and schedules tasks so they can be performed within budget and with the efficient use of time and resources.
Achieves goals in a timely manner, despite obstacles encountered, by organising, reprioritising and re-planning.

g) Solutions Focused

Identifies optimal solutions based on weighing the advantages and disadvantages of alternative approaches.
After implementation, evaluates the effectiveness and efficiency of solutions.

h) Detail Orientation

Reviews all relevant information or aspects of a situation before taking action or making a decision.
Pays close attention to details that are important to others to make sure they are right.
Verifies that work has been completed according to the standards and procedures.

i) Negotiations Skills

Is able to state own case, leaving some room for negotiation.
Is well-versed with negotiation protocol and etiquette.
Is able to successfully conclude simple negotiations on a factual basis.
Knows when to seek advice/guidance during a negotiation.

j) Written Communication

Understands that different writing styles are required for different documents or audiences.
Write effective correspondence, prepares questions and reports, statements of circumstance and briefing notes.
Reviews others’ documents for clarity and impact.
Has a solid mastery of writing principles such as grammar, sentence construction etc.

Required Personal Attributes

Behavioural Competencies:
a) Customer Service Orientation

Tries to understand the underlying needs of customers and matches these needs to available or customised products and services.
Adapts processes and procedures to meet on-going customer needs.
Utilises the feedback received by customers to develop new and/or improve existing services/products that relate to their on-going needs.
Thinks of new ways to align DBSA’s offerings with future customer needs.

b) Self-awareness and Self Control

Withholds effects of strong emotions in difficult situations.
Keeps functioning or responds constructively despite stress.
May apply special techniques or plan of time to manage emotions or stress.

c) Strategic and Innovative Thinking

Experiments with new approaches, tests scenarios, questions assumptions, and challenges conventional thinking.
Creates new concepts that are not obvious to others, leveraging internal and external sources of information, to build incremental revenue and growth opportunities.

d) Driving Delivery of Results

Sets challenging goals that will have a significant impact on the business or support the organisational strategy.
Commits significant resources and/or time to ensure that challenging goals are achieved, while also taking action to mitigate risk.

e) Teamwork & Cooperation

Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale, and resolves conflicts.
Creates opportunities for cross-functional working.
Encourages others to network outside of their own team/department and learn from their experience.

f) Information Seeking and Analysis

Investigates the problem or situation beyond routine questioning.
Breaks down problems into simple lists of tasks or activities.

g) Flexibility

Changes his/her perception, ideas or alters normal procedures to fit a specific situation to get a job done and/or meet company goals.

h) Decisiveness

Acts promptly to address urgent needs, taking quickly those decisions which need to be taken.
Assesses available information to reach a clear view of key options and selects the best option at the time.
Thinks on their feet when necessary

i) Interpersonal Skills

Understands emotion (by reading body language, facial expression, and/or tone of voice) and what the other person explicitly says about a business or other issue (the other person’s explicit content that goes beyond labelling their emotions).

j) Analytical Thinking

Analyses and interprets multiple complex causal links: several potential causes of events, several consequences of actions, or multiple-part chains of events in order to prioritise and develop a plan of action.

k) Achievement Orientation

Undertakes challenging assignments and strives to complete them.
Sets priorities and chooses goals on the basis of calculated costs, anticipated benefits and improvement of performance.
Aims at exceptional performance; setting out to achieve a unique standard.
Constantly analyses outcomes to ensure the achievement of business goals.
Identifies short-term opportunities or potential problems aiming to achieve better outcomes.

Policy
The Development Bank of Southern Africa will endeavor to make appointments in line with its Employment Equity Policy and Plan. Applications from suitably qualified designated groups, especially people with disabilities, are encouraged.
The DBSA corporate culture fit requires clear, logical and analytical thinking grounded in good interpersonal skills, a sense of urgency and results orientated execution of duties. The ability to work collaboratively and finding practical yet innovative solutions is critical to success in a work environment that demands emotional resilience, accountability and responsible risk taking and management.
The DBSA reserves the right to amend or remove vacancies in line with organisational requirements.
All vacancies can be viewed on the DBSA website (www.dbsa.org) under Careers.

PLEASE APPLY HERE

BUSINESS CONTINUITY MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST

Details Business Continuity Management Specialist (DBS240416-1)
Closing Date 2025/01/29
Reference Number DBS240416-1
Job Title Business Continuity Management Specialist
Job Grade 16
Job Type Classification Permanent
Location - Town / City Midrand
Location – Province Gauteng
Location – Country South Africa
Job Profile (Downloadable) Business Continuity Management Specialist August 2023.docx.pdf (493.28 kb) - 8/10/2023 10:17:54 AM

Job Description
To develop, maintain an effective and “ready for response” business continuity management governance framework for the DBSA using the regulatory requirements and best practices. The incumbent will be tasked with promoting awareness of the BCM function through facilitation of awareness workshops, and manage the lifecycle of the Business Continuity Management plan.

Key Responsibilities

Develop, implement, manage, maintain and monitor an effective Enterprise Business Continuity Governance.
Framework consistently with the general regulatory requirements and industry best practices and standards.
Optimisation of existing programs and tools to improve management of risks and minimise the impact of disruptions on business as well as effectively continue or resume business following a disruption.
Continuity planning and event management, development and facilitation of DBSA wide event exercises. (BCM Scenario planning).
Liaise and give feedback to the key Stakeholders; Assign responsibilities to Stakeholders;
Expert knowledge and experience of how the all the functions integrate under the Enterprise Business Continuity Governance Framework.
Re-engineering the business continuity planning processes to meet the business requirements.
Development of a BCM Capability Tool that measures the maturity and progress of the framework in accordance with the business requirements.
Enabling the development and regular delivery of business continuity training, workshops and information sessions to ensure DBSA staff are prepared for service disruptions and can resume operations as quickly as possible.
Full coordination of the trained Business Continuity Teams in the response, recovery, restoration and resumption of all business operations in accordance with the business continuity plans, emergency response plans, crisis management plans and technology recovery plans;
Work closely with ICT to develop and maintain ICT Continuity Plan for critical systems and applications;
Work closely with the Emergency Response Team to ensure on-going compliance in terms of trained members and preparedness;
Work closely with all other Business Continuity Management Team role players including Facilities, Security, Human Capital, etc.
Evaluate threats using the DBSA Risk Management Framework and methodology.
Develop and maintain the Business Continuity Portal and filing system in accordance with the National Archives and Records Management Standards.
Coordinate Business Continuity Plan Exercises in accordance with the annual exercise schedule;
Report the Business Continuity Status of Divisions / Business Units to Senior Management;
Assist the Division and Business Unit in enhancing, formalizing and standardizing the business continuity planning process, by identifying and selecting BC strategies per Division;
Development of an Incident Management Plan and Support Structure (Strategic, Tactical, Operational);
Maintain and Review all plans quarterly.
Ensure regular reporting to the relevant governance committees providing assurance.
To ensure regular comprehensive reporting to the relevant governance committees.
To provide guidance and support to management and function owners.
Ensure a disaster plan is in place to provide for the protection of vital information assets.

Key Measures/KPI’s

Able to design and implement effective and high quality governance frameworks in accordance with the relevant legislations, regulations, standards and best practise to ensure the risks are managed and compliance is adhered to.
Able to respond; Recover, Restore and Resume Business operations with minimal impact to the business.
Ensure that the BCM programme continuously operates at a minimum of Best Practice Maturity.
Adequate levels of BCM capability are measured throughout the Bank.

Expertise & Technical Competencies

A Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent Qualification.
A membership of the Business Continuity Institute and/or an equivalent institution.
5 - 10 years of experience in Business Continuity Management Risk Management;
Adequate knowledge of Business Continuity Management and Resilience Frameworks.
Computer literacy and the basic understanding of business concepts.
Basic understanding of how information systems are designed & process data.
A good understanding how Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Crisis Management and Emergency Management are integrated under resilience SharePoint or similar system experience will be advantageous.
Experience in writing organisation wide strategies, policies, procedures and training materials will be advantageous.
Project Management experience is an advantage.
At least 6 years of experience in Risk Management preferably in a Financial Sector environment;
At least 10 years of experience in developing, managing, coordinating, implementation, testing and reviewing of full spectrum Business Continuity programmes, disaster recovery, emergency response etc.;
Expert knowledge of Business Continuity Management and resilience, Enterprise Risk Management and Operational Risk Management Standards and Best Practice; as well as the risk related control frameworks and practices, (COSO, ISO, ITIL, CMM, COBIT, etc.)
Experience in developing a BCM Assurance Framework. An understanding of the corporate wide Insurance especially in terms of Business Disruption Insurance.
Experience in writing organisation wide strategies, policies, procedures and training materials.
Experience of writing and presenting reports to senior management.
Extensive knowledge of the legislative requirements of the Data Protection Act and other information laws.
Experience in the investigation and management of incidents and root cause analysis.
Expert knowledge in Incident and Crisis Management experience.
Ability to assess commercial imperatives with a risk focus.
Ability to take ownership of and demonstrate accountability for issues.

1.     Technical
Written Communication
a.     Understands that different writing styles are required for different documents or audiences.
b.     Write effective correspondence, prepares questions and reports, statements of circumstance and briefing notes.
c.     Has a solid mastery of writing principles such as grammar, sentence construction etc.
Reporting
a.     Designs / customizes reports to meet user needs.
b.     Prepares complex or tailored reports, gathers information from a variety of sources, analyses and includes in a report.
c.     Keeps standard reports under review and proposes improvements to meet user needs.
Problem Solving
a.     Identifies complex problems based on a broad range of factors, many of which are ambiguous or difficult to define.
b.     While remaining guided by organisational values, identifies optimal solutions, thinking first in terms of possible approaches and flexibilities in the system vs. blind adherence to rules or procedures.
c.     Implements solutions to complex problems, then evaluates the effectiveness and efficiency of solutions and identifies needed changes.
Stakeholder Management
a.      Actively engages partners and encourages others to build relationships that support DBSA objectives.
b.     Understands and recognises the contributions that staff at all levels make to delivering priorities.
c.     Proactively manages partner relationships, preventing or resolving any conflict.
d.     Adapts style to work effectively with partners, building consensus, trust and respect.
e.     Delivers objectives by bringing together diverse stakeholders to work effectively in partnership.
Planning and Organising
a.     Plans and manages multiple priorities and deadlines.
b.     Uses effectively advance time management processes to deal with high workload and tight deadlines.
c.     Organises, prioritises and schedules tasks so they can be performed within budget and with the efficient use of time and resources.
d.     Achieves goals in a timely manner, despite obstacles encountered, by organising, reprioritising and re-planning
Computer Literacy
a.     Consistently uses relevant office software products such as word-processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and email packages to an acceptable standard for the job.
b.     Has the ability to use standard and/or program-specific the organisation databases, and merge / import data from one program to another.
c.     Adapts method of working to accommodate changes in the technological development.
Risk response and Reporting
a.     Monitor the effectiveness of actions taken to manage identified risks and intervene as appropriate.
b.     Understand and be able to explain the purpose of risk mitigation measures.
c.     Understand, develop and prepare risk reporting.

Required Personal Attributes

BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
1.1 Achievement Orientation
a. Delivers work on time and quality and follows through on agreed commitments.
b. Views new work experiences as an opportunity for growth.
c. Reacts immediately to overcome setbacks or/and obstacles in order to meet goals.
d. Recognises and acts upon current opportunities.
1.2 Attention to Detail
a. Double-checks the accuracy of information or work.
b. Ensures that the work produced doesn’t contain any errors.
1.3 Customer Service Orientation
a. Makes self fully available, especially when the customer is going through a critical period.
b. Requests on-going feedback from customers and takes action in response to it; manages to retain and capitalize on existing customers.
c. Takes the “extra step” to resolve customer issues appropriately, even in the case where they do not fall under own area of responsibility.
d. Is aware of the level of service offered by the competition and provides more for customers than they expect.
1.4 Self-Awareness & Self-Control
a. Feels strong emotions in the course of a conversation or other task, such as anger, extreme frustration, or high stress;
b. Holds the emotions back, and continues to act calmly.
c. Ignores angering actions and continues a conversation or task.
d. May leave temporarily to withhold emotions, then return immediately to continue.
1.5 Teamwork & Cooperation
a. Values and utilises the expertise of colleagues, asking for ideas and input and collaborates to form decisions and plans.
b. Willingly learns from others.
c. Creates opportunities for knowledge and expertise sharing between all members of the team.

Policy
The Development Bank of Southern Africa will endeavour to make appointments in line with its Employment Equity Policy and Plan. Applications from suitably qualified designated groups, especially people with disabilities, are encouraged.
The DBSA corporate culture fit requires clear, logical and analytical thinking grounded in good interpersonal skills, a sense of urgency and results orientated execution of duties. The ability to work collaboratively and finding practical yet innovative solutions is critical to success in a work environment that demands emotional resilience, accountability and responsible risk taking and management.
The DBSA reserves the right to amend or remove vacancies in line with organisational requirements.
All vacancies can be viewed on the DBSA website (www.dbsa.org) under Careers

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