DEVELOPMENT BANK OF SOUTHERN AFRICA (DBSA) VACANCIES

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LEAD PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST
Details
Closing Date 2025/05/28
Reference Number DBS250325-1
Job Title Lead Programme Management Specialist
Job Grade 19
Job Type Classification Contract
Location - Town / City Midrand
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Country South Africa

Job Profile (Downloadable)
Lead Programme Management Specialist_Job Profile March 2025.pdf (0.57 Mb) - 3/25/2025 12:41:33 PM

Job Description
The Infrastructure Fund (IF) announced by the President in September 2018 addresses the need for a dedicated blended financing facility for infrastructure programme projects. The aim of the IF is to transform public infrastructure financial provisioning using “blended” finance - combining capital from the public and private sectors and Development Finance Institutions (DFIs)/Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). This will be dedicated to meeting the financing requirements for hybrid projects.
The mandate of the Infrastructure Fund has been captured in a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the National Treasury, Infrastructure South Africa (ISA), and the DBSA entered into on 17 August 2020.
The Lead Programme Management Specialist will be responsible for designing and implementing multiple programmes leading to funding opportunities for the IF. These programmes, amongst others, are large-scale infrastructure projects and programmes that involve public-private partnerships.

Key Responsibilities
 
Strategic Outputs

• Support the IF’s strategic intent and progressively contribute to its annual disbursement through project and programme management activities.
• Enable IF to participate in a robust portfolio of projects, leading to improved funding and implementation opportunities.
• Work with other business units to promote IF’s role as the project developer or sponsor in selected priority sectors and programmes.
• Work with other business units to prepare investment proposals and feasibility studies for consideration by management, governance structures and key stakeholders.
• Participate in the processes of leveraging local, international and regional partners to provide capital for new business investments.
• Provide project preparation support to projects/initiatives that require further enhancement or de-risking to achieve bankability. This includes assisting project owners in refining project structures, addressing risks, and ensuring readiness for financing and implementation.
• Enhance the IF’s financial sustainability by preparing projects to be bankable through the project preparation fund, ensuring a return on investment, crowding in financers and securing rights of first refusal for IF to participate as a lender.
• Contribute to a steady flow of deals and efficiently execute and manage deals within the financing division’s pipeline by:
  • Supporting other business units in identifying and structuring project opportunities from a project developer / sponsorship perspective.
  • Defining project concept and scope.
  • Developing deal execution implementation plans.

 
Technical Responsibilities

• Support efficient risk management of programmes, provide opportunities for investments in projects and improve the quality of the IF loan book by:
  
  • Mitigating the technical and commercial risk associated with projects.
  • Facilitating a better understanding, evaluation and valuation of project risks.
  • Collaborating with the Head of Strategic Partnership and Origination, perform initial technical reviews and appraisals of projects or initiatives for potential inclusion in the IF pipeline.
  • Prepare projects to ensure that they are bankable by mitigating the technical and commercial risks associated with projects.
  • Overseeing the implementation of technical aspects and coordination of programme oversight functions.
  • Engaging with multidisciplinary teams within IF and with project owners/sponsors, including technical, legal and financial experts, to facilitate projects reaching financial closure.
  • Examining and authorising all technical documentation to ensure solutions are viable, investment ready, and sustainable.
  • Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of proposed solutions and analysing alternative approaches to determine the most efficient solution that supports the national socio-economic priorities.
  • Providing technical inputs into financing agreements, negotiations, and closure-related activities while ensuring that all technical prerequisites are met.
  • Providing technical input to support the development of contractual and regulatory frameworks, ensuring alignment with project design, structuring, execution, and governance requirements.
  • Defining the technical parameters, criteria, and specifications necessary for inclusion in the procurement strategy outlined in the Project Information Memorandum.
  • Preparing investment proposals and feasibility studies for management and the Board of Directors to consider.

Programme Management

• Monitor a portfolio of large-scale infrastructure projects and programmes involving multiple stakeholders from cradle to completion.
• Engage project stakeholders and align roles of key players.
• Manage the procurement of resources to achieve programme objectives within planned timeframes and manage the respective contracts.
• Design, develop and implement complex project/programme plans, budgets, resources and dynamic scope and deliverables according to the clients and funders' agreements. Effectively providing investor with the assurance that their investment in agreed projects/programmes will be successfully and timeously completed.
• Identify and implement measures to prevent project/programme delays by actively engaging and managing multiple project/programme offices.
• Prepare/develop project costing and cost control methodologies and procedures to ensure that projects/programmes are completed within budget and time.
• Design and review the implementation of projects/programmes as agreed. These would include:
  
  • The preparation estimates and detailed programme plans for all phases of the programme.
  • Implementation plans with outputs, activities, responsibilities and time frames.
  • Programme budget and report against budget.
  • Resource plan and allocation of responsibilities.
  • Supporting and aligning if programmes and work plans.
• Provide status reporting regarding programme milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership and identified stakeholders.
• Perform other strategic duties as assigned.

Oversight & Compliance Monitoring

• Support the Asset Management and Treasury (AMT) Unit in monitoring the projects' implementation to ensure compliance with facility agreements and contractual obligations (Construction, O&M, etc.) by conducting technical reviews and risk assessments to identify and mitigate potential project execution issues.
• Provide regular technical and programme management reports to AMT on project progress, potential risks with mitigation strategies, and compliance gaps to assist in tracking project milestones, disbursements, and performance indicators to ensure timely execution.
• Engage with project owners, contractors, and other stakeholders to address technical and programme-related challenges.
• Resolving contractual disputes or deviations related to project execution.
• Managing change requests and ensure alignment with financial and contractual commitments.
• Provide technical insights to enhance project monitoring frameworks and contribute to the development of best practices for programme and asset management within the IF.

 
Key Measurements of Outputs

• Value of bankable projects.
• Successful management and implementation of agreed projects / programmes:
  
  
  • Percentage of performance targets met as per business plan
  • Quality of delivery of projects / programmes
• Investor satisfaction of invested projects / programmes
• Clean audit

 
Expertise & Technical Competencies
 
Minimum Requirements:

• Postgraduate qualification in Engineering.
• A minimum of 10 years’ experience in infrastructure projects/programmes funding and financing with a proven track record.
• A track record in sourcing viable and bankable projects, structuring and closing investments in SA.
• Proven ability to oversee and manage large-scale infrastructure projects and programmes and PPPs.
• Demonstrated ability to work on new or innovative projects/programmes and the ability to bring ideas from conception to completion.
• Managing projects and programmes involving multiple stakeholders.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the complex legal and regulatory environment for infrastructure and infrastructure procurement in SA.
• Proven track record of leading and preparing good quality reports, documents and presentations for Executive Management, the Board and high-level stakeholders.
• Sound knowledge and good grasp of the infrastructure landscape, financial markets, political economics, macroeconomics as well as socio-economic development issues, challenges and opportunities in South Africa and the rest of Africa.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the complex regulatory environments of municipalities/metros, state-owned enterprises and other government entities in South Africa including a good understanding of the PFMA.
• Proven ability to put yourself in the client’s / funders shoes and understand the motivations that underlies behaviours of interest.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex strategic initiatives and projects to successful execution.

 
Desirable Requirements:

• Qualification in Project / Programme Management and certification with Project Management Institute (PMI) or South African Council for the Project and Construction Management Professions (SACPCMP).
• A project/programme management experience in the public infrastructure sector.

 
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• Detail Orientation
• Planning and Organising
• Adaptability
• Written Communication
• Project Management
• Commercial Business Acumen
• Legal and Regulatory Policy Knowledge
• Presentation Skills
• Procurement Services
• Risk Identification & Assessments
• Solution Focused
• Knowledge of Contracts
• Business Development
• Deal Origination
• Negotiation Skills
• Financial Acumen
• Reporting & Communication

Required Personal Attributes
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
Teamwork and cooperation

• Promotes 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.

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.

Decisiveness

• Makes timely decisions about complex issues even when some information is missing
• Makes decisions and stands by them even when they are controversial or unpopular
• Grasps critical business opportunities when they arise by making timely decisions

Driving delivery of results

• Identifies and implements a business opportunity that will have long term impact on the business
• Monitors progress and adapts plans if necessary to ensure optimal benefit to the programme
• Makes decisions, sets priorities, or chooses goals on the basis of inputs and outputs makes explicit considerations of potential profit, return on investment, or cost benefit analysis.
• Based on cost benefit analysis, makes decisions of entrepreneurial risk nature

Goal Oriented and Solution Driven

• Has an understanding of how immediate tasks contributed towards broader goals and structures activities accordingly.
• Focuses on solutions and goes beyond merely recognising a problem.

Systems Thinking

• Views legal matters as an integral part of broader operations and avoids addressing matters in isolation.
• Is able to recognise patterns and interconnectivity between various matters which are seemingly disconnected.

Self-Awareness & Self-Control

• Ignores angering actions and continues a conversation or task. May leave temporarily to withhold emotions, then return immediately to continue
• Feels strong emotions in the course of a conversation or other task, such as anger, extreme frustration, or high stress; holds the emotions back, and continues to act calmly.
• Avoids egotistical behaviour
• Welcomes positive confrontation as necessary; and avoids negative confrontation.

Decisiveness

• Acts promptly to address urgent needs, quickly taking 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.
• Changes his/her perception, ideas or alters normal procedures to fit a specific situation to get a job done and/or meet company goals.

Impact and Influence

• Includes careful preparation of data for presentation.
• Makes two or more different arguments or points in a presentation or a discussion.

Achievement Orientation

• Focuses on new or more effective ways of improving own work and meeting targets.
• Focuses on raising quality, customer satisfaction and revenues.
• Makes specific changes to systems and processes in order to improve efficiency and quality.
• Formulates own objectives and action plans in order to achieve a measurable improvement in the future.

 
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

GENERAL ASSISTANT
 
Details
Closing Date 2025/05/29
Reference Number DBS250515-1
Job Title General Assistant
Job Grade 8
Job Type Classification Contract
Location - Town / City Centurion
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Country South Africa

Job Profile (Downloadable)
Role Profile General Assistant May 2025.pdf (131.96 kb) - 5/15/2025 10:21:32 AM

Job Description
The General Assistant  role is a support function located within the Facilities Unit of the Independent Power Producer Office (IPPO).
The IPPO was established in 2010 to provide rapid solutions to South Africa’s severe electricity supplyconstraints, by procuring new energy generation capacity from Independent Power Producers (IPPs). The IPPO was created as a project office hosted by the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) under a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) between the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE), National Treasury and the DBSA. The mandateof the IPP Office is to provide specialised services to government, including a) IPP Energy Procurement Management, b) Monitoring,Evaluation and ContractManagement, and c)Professional Advisory Services. The IPPO’s skills, expertise and success in mobilising and delivering ontime is recognised domestically and globally.
The Facilities Unit ensures that the working environment of the IPP Office is serviced and maintained for optimal working conditions. The General Assistant role withing the unit has been necessitated for the purpose of providing efficient and effective general support in a customer centric manner to the IPP Office buildings ensuring that housekeeping standards in the buildings are maintained in accordance with the required standards. This is a contract poistion until the 31 March 2028.
 
Key Responsibilities
The General Assistant will be responsible for the following (but not limited to):
1. Providing a maintenance and support service to the IPP office as per required standards
Set up workstations as per relevant Head of department’s request.
Ensure that all equipment, furniture and furnishings are maintained, checked and kept in good working condition in accordance with housekeeping procedures.
Daily floor-check of all buildings and fixing any problems encountered if able to.
Reporting and logging faults/problems to the relevant department or head of department as and when necessary; following up on reports to ensure faults have been fixed and problems resolved timeously.
Collect all paper to be shredded from the IPP Office and deliver to shredding room always accompanied by Security to separate paper from other materials and shred the paper
Preparation of Bid Windows which includes but is not limited to:
Collection of all paper to be shredded
Preparation of rooms to Bid Window specifications
Filling all water and stationery requirements
Assisting at Bid Window Receiving

2. Internal delivery of supplies and/or equipment to IPP office
Collect stationery at Receiving and check that the invoice is correct against the order
Deliver stationery to relevant recipient or pack it in stationery room
Attend to specific requirements associated with the movement of office furniture by:
Locating the furniture/ equipment for re-location and checking or
removing connectivity to power sources and/ or securing loose shelving to avoid damage during movement in accordance with safety requirements
Lifting and placing item onto mobile trolley or carrying to designated location and setting up (work station / shelves and accessories) in accordance with requirements.

3. Accurate & continuous recording and relocating of assets and keys
Tagging assets by placing bar-coded sticker on relevant asset
Recording of asset information on database- the location of asset and asset numbers
Relocation and/or packing of assets as per instructions from relevant authority
Assisting staff with key requests by logging receipt and return of keys ; ensuring that keys match locks on doors and are returned when rooms/offices are not utilised.

4. Effective self-management and team-work
Maintain a professional image in all aspects of personal and work presentation
Deadlines met; relevant parties are informed of deadlines not met – able to provide appropriate resolution for tasks or deadlines not met
Actively seeks and is able to accept constructive feedback; Maintain a positive attitude and respond openly to feedback
Continuously drive to develop own skills and knowledge - Take ownership for driving own career development
Apply knowledge of the organizational systems, structures, policies and procedures to achieve results
Demonstrate initiative in follow through to ensure that personal quality and IPP Office standards are consistently and accurately maintained
Show commitment to teamwork and a willingness to go the extra mile to achieve team objectives
 
Expertise & Technical Competencies
The role requires:
Qualification: Matric or Matric equivalent
At least 2-3 years’ experience providing customer service to senior executives
At Least 4-5 year’s proven experience in successful general maintenance e.g. fixing loose cabinets and door handles, changing light bulbs, fixing leaking taps etc.
Basic Level computer Literacy – MS Word, Excel, Outlook
At least 2-3 years’ experience in basic administration functions – preparing and maintaining basic stock spreadsheets accurately

The physical attributes required for the performance of tasks associated with specific key performance areas in this post necessitates that the incumbent be physically fit and able-bodied

 
Required Personal Attributes
The successful candidate should display the follwing behavioural attributes:
Excellence Orientation
Investigative Orientation
Customer Responsiveness
Planning and Prioritising                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Interpersonal skills
Communication Skills
Verbal and written skills
Problem Solving skills

 
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

LEAD PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT SPECIALIST
 
Details
Closing Date 2025/05/28
Reference Number DBS250325-1
Job Title Lead Programme Management Specialist
Job Grade 19
Job Type Classification Contract
Location - Town / City Midrand
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Country South Africa
Job Profile (Downloadable)
Lead Programme Management Specialist_Job Profile March 2025.pdf (0.57 Mb) - 3/25/2025 12:41:33 PM
 
Job Description
The Infrastructure Fund (IF) announced by the President in September 2018 addresses the need for a dedicated blended financing facility for infrastructure programme projects. The aim of the IF is to transform public infrastructure financial provisioning using “blended” finance - combining capital from the public and private sectors and Development Finance Institutions (DFIs)/Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs). This will be dedicated to meeting the financing requirements for hybrid projects.
The mandate of the Infrastructure Fund has been captured in a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between the National Treasury, Infrastructure South Africa (ISA), and the DBSA entered into on 17 August 2020.
The Lead Programme Management Specialist will be responsible for designing and implementing multiple programmes leading to funding opportunities for the IF. These programmes, amongst others, are large-scale infrastructure projects and programmes that involve public-private partnerships.

 
Key Responsibilities
 
Strategic Outputs

• Support the IF’s strategic intent and progressively contribute to its annual disbursement through project and programme management activities.
• Enable IF to participate in a robust portfolio of projects, leading to improved funding and implementation opportunities.
• Work with other business units to promote IF’s role as the project developer or sponsor in selected priority sectors and programmes.
• Work with other business units to prepare investment proposals and feasibility studies for consideration by management, governance structures and key stakeholders.
• Participate in the processes of leveraging local, international and regional partners to provide capital for new business investments.
• Provide project preparation support to projects/initiatives that require further enhancement or de-risking to achieve bankability. This includes assisting project owners in refining project structures, addressing risks, and ensuring readiness for financing and implementation.
• Enhance the IF’s financial sustainability by preparing projects to be bankable through the project preparation fund, ensuring a return on investment, crowding in financers and securing rights of first refusal for IF to participate as a lender.
• Contribute to a steady flow of deals and efficiently execute and manage deals within the financing division’s pipeline by:
  • Supporting other business units in identifying and structuring project opportunities from a project developer / sponsorship perspective.
  • Defining project concept and scope.
  • Developing deal execution implementation plans.

 
Technical Responsibilities

• Support efficient risk management of programmes, provide opportunities for investments in projects and improve the quality of the IF loan book by:
  
  
  • Mitigating the technical and commercial risk associated with projects.
  • Facilitating a better understanding, evaluation and valuation of project risks.
  • Collaborating with the Head of Strategic Partnership and Origination, perform initial technical reviews and appraisals of projects or initiatives for potential inclusion in the IF pipeline.
  • Prepare projects to ensure that they are bankable by mitigating the technical and commercial risks associated with projects.
  • Overseeing the implementation of technical aspects and coordination of programme oversight functions.
  • Engaging with multidisciplinary teams within IF and with project owners/sponsors, including technical, legal and financial experts, to facilitate projects reaching financial closure.
  • Examining and authorising all technical documentation to ensure solutions are viable, investment ready, and sustainable.
  • Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of proposed solutions and analysing alternative approaches to determine the most efficient solution that supports the national socio-economic priorities.
  • Providing technical inputs into financing agreements, negotiations, and closure-related activities while ensuring that all technical prerequisites are met.
  • Providing technical input to support the development of contractual and regulatory frameworks, ensuring alignment with project design, structuring, execution, and governance requirements.
  • Defining the technical parameters, criteria, and specifications necessary for inclusion in the procurement strategy outlined in the Project Information Memorandum.
  • Preparing investment proposals and feasibility studies for management and the Board of Directors to consider.

Programme Management

• Monitor a portfolio of large-scale infrastructure projects and programmes involving multiple stakeholders from cradle to completion.
• Engage project stakeholders and align roles of key players.
• Manage the procurement of resources to achieve programme objectives within planned timeframes and manage the respective contracts.
• Design, develop and implement complex project/programme plans, budgets, resources and dynamic scope and deliverables according to the clients and funders' agreements. Effectively providing investor with the assurance that their investment in agreed projects/programmes will be successfully and timeously completed.
• Identify and implement measures to prevent project/programme delays by actively engaging and managing multiple project/programme offices.
• Prepare/develop project costing and cost control methodologies and procedures to ensure that projects/programmes are completed within budget and time.
• Design and review the implementation of projects/programmes as agreed. These would include:
  
  
  • The preparation estimates and detailed programme plans for all phases of the programme.
  • Implementation plans with outputs, activities, responsibilities and time frames.
  • Programme budget and report against budget.
  • Resource plan and allocation of responsibilities.
  • Supporting and aligning if programmes and work plans.
• Provide status reporting regarding programme milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks and issues, communicating across leadership and identified stakeholders.
• Perform other strategic duties as assigned.

Oversight & Compliance Monitoring

• Support the Asset Management and Treasury (AMT) Unit in monitoring the projects' implementation to ensure compliance with facility agreements and contractual obligations (Construction, O&M, etc.) by conducting technical reviews and risk assessments to identify and mitigate potential project execution issues.
• Provide regular technical and programme management reports to AMT on project progress, potential risks with mitigation strategies, and compliance gaps to assist in tracking project milestones, disbursements, and performance indicators to ensure timely execution.
• Engage with project owners, contractors, and other stakeholders to address technical and programme-related challenges.
• Resolving contractual disputes or deviations related to project execution.
• Managing change requests and ensure alignment with financial and contractual commitments.
• Provide technical insights to enhance project monitoring frameworks and contribute to the development of best practices for programme and asset management within the IF.

 
Key Measurements of Outputs

• Value of bankable projects.
• Successful management and implementation of agreed projects / programmes:
  • Percentage of performance targets met as per business plan
  • Quality of delivery of projects / programmes
• Investor satisfaction of invested projects / programmes
• Clean audit

 
Expertise & Technical Competencies
 
Minimum Requirements:

• Postgraduate qualification in Engineering.
• A minimum of 10 years’ experience in infrastructure projects/programmes funding and financing with a proven track record.
• A track record in sourcing viable and bankable projects, structuring and closing investments in SA.
• Proven ability to oversee and manage large-scale infrastructure projects and programmes and PPPs.
• Demonstrated ability to work on new or innovative projects/programmes and the ability to bring ideas from conception to completion.
• Managing projects and programmes involving multiple stakeholders.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the complex legal and regulatory environment for infrastructure and infrastructure procurement in SA.
• Proven track record of leading and preparing good quality reports, documents and presentations for Executive Management, the Board and high-level stakeholders.
• Sound knowledge and good grasp of the infrastructure landscape, financial markets, political economics, macroeconomics as well as socio-economic development issues, challenges and opportunities in South Africa and the rest of Africa.
• Comprehensive knowledge of the complex regulatory environments of municipalities/metros, state-owned enterprises and other government entities in South Africa including a good understanding of the PFMA.
• Proven ability to put yourself in the client’s / funders shoes and understand the motivations that underlies behaviours of interest.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex strategic initiatives and projects to successful execution.

 
Desirable Requirements:

• Qualification in Project / Programme Management and certification with Project Management Institute (PMI) or South African Council for the Project and Construction Management Professions (SACPCMP).
• A project/programme management experience in the public infrastructure sector.

 
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

• Detail Orientation
• Planning and Organising
• Adaptability
• Written Communication
• Project Management
• Commercial Business Acumen
• Legal and Regulatory Policy Knowledge
• Presentation Skills
• Procurement Services
• Risk Identification & Assessments
• Solution Focused
• Knowledge of Contracts
• Business Development
• Deal Origination
• Negotiation Skills
• Financial Acumen
• Reporting & Communication

Required Personal Attributes
 
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
Teamwork and cooperation

• Promotes 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.

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.

Decisiveness

• Makes timely decisions about complex issues even when some information is missing
• Makes decisions and stands by them even when they are controversial or unpopular
• Grasps critical business opportunities when they arise by making timely decisions

Driving delivery of results

• Identifies and implements a business opportunity that will have long term impact on the business
• Monitors progress and adapts plans if necessary to ensure optimal benefit to the programme
• Makes decisions, sets priorities, or chooses goals on the basis of inputs and outputs makes explicit considerations of potential profit, return on investment, or cost benefit analysis.
• Based on cost benefit analysis, makes decisions of entrepreneurial risk nature

Goal Oriented and Solution Driven

• Has an understanding of how immediate tasks contributed towards broader goals and structures activities accordingly.
• Focuses on solutions and goes beyond merely recognising a problem.

Systems Thinking

• Views legal matters as an integral part of broader operations and avoids addressing matters in isolation.
• Is able to recognise patterns and interconnectivity between various matters which are seemingly disconnected.

Self-Awareness & Self-Control

• Ignores angering actions and continues a conversation or task. May leave temporarily to withhold emotions, then return immediately to continue
• Feels strong emotions in the course of a conversation or other task, such as anger, extreme frustration, or high stress; holds the emotions back, and continues to act calmly.
• Avoids egotistical behaviour
• Welcomes positive confrontation as necessary; and avoids negative confrontation.

Decisiveness

• Acts promptly to address urgent needs, quickly taking 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.
• Changes his/her perception, ideas or alters normal procedures to fit a specific situation to get a job done and/or meet company goals.

Impact and Influence

• Includes careful preparation of data for presentation.
• Makes two or more different arguments or points in a presentation or a discussion.

Achievement Orientation

• Focuses on new or more effective ways of improving own work and meeting targets.
• Focuses on raising quality, customer satisfaction and revenues.
• Makes specific changes to systems and processes in order to improve efficiency and quality.
• Formulates own objectives and action plans in order to achieve a measurable improvement in the future.

 
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