NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (NDA) VACANCIES

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DEVELOPMENT OFFICER (DO)
 
Purpose
The Development Officer’s responsibility is to empower Civil Society organisations (CSOs) to be able to: identify their assets, needs, opportunities, rights and responsibilities; plan what they want to achieve and take appropriate action; develop activities to implement community development/poverty alleviation programmes and services. In addition, the DO is responsible for facilitation of capacity building programmes for the CSOs in the District.
 
Reports To: Development Coordinator
Position location: District Office
Peromnes Grade: 
Number of Direct Reports: None
 
POSITION REQUIREMENTS
Minimum Qualification
 Bachelor’s Degree in development and/ or social sciences.
 Additional studies in programme and/or project management is an added advantage.
 
Essential Experience
 Exposure to community development or social work.
 Training facilitation.
 Proficiency in the languages spoken in the District.
 Valid driver’s licence
 
Knowledge
 Knowledge of working in a community development environment and working with community based organisations and structures.
 Knowledge and exposure of working with government departments or agencies in the social, development or economic clusters or working with civil society organisations providing services at community level.
 Knowledge or exposure to development training, mentoring, community based organisation support and development work.
 Exposure to public service policies and regulations.
 Knowledge and exposure of NPO Act, Cooperatives Act.
 Knowledge or exposure to project and programme management principles and application.
 Knowledge or exposure to community and organisational analysis techniques and tools.
 Knowledge or exposure to community entry and diagnosis techniques.
 Knowledge and exposure to the skills development landscape of people working in community based organisation.
 
Skills & Abilities
 Analytical ability.
 Negotiation.
 Service motivation.
 Creativity & innovation.
 Excellent communication skills – written and verbal.
 Mentoring and incubation skills to support community projects.
 Ability to perform multiple tasks
 Ability to facilitate and present to members of communities.
 Proficient in MS Office Suite.
 
Competencies
• Job Knowledge
• Technical Skills
• Acceptance of responsibility
• Quality of Work
• Reliability
• Initiative
• Communication
• Interpersonal Relationships
• Flexibility
• Team Work
• Planning and Execution
 
MAIN AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
CSOs mobilisation
 Conduct CSOs mobilisations through community entry and engagement processes for purposes of mapping CSOs needs in a local area.
 Identify CSOs needs, including Cooperatives’ skills, assets, issues and needs for development support.
 Produce CSOs community profiles and needs assessments reports for purposes of developing effective development interventions for local CSOs.
 Provide capacity building and CSOs support interventions to ensuring that local CSOs, including Cooperatives have functional structures and systems to support their operations.
 Conduct CSOs dialogues to foster local based networks and provide platforms for CSOs at local level to plan integrated community development programmes driven by the CSOs.
 Identify resources with the local CSOs including Cooperatives to support their existing community programmes in line with local development needs.
 Assist CSOs, including Cooperatives in formally registration processes with relevant registration body.
 Develop a database of all CSOs including Cooperatives with all relevant information required in the database in the Wards you are responsible for in a district municipality.
 Building links with local funders, donors, government departments and other agencies for partnerships with CSOs including Cooperatives at local level.
 Raise public awareness, through dialogues and public engagements on issues relevant to the community and CSOs including Cooperatives operations in the local area.
 Liaising with interested groups and individuals to mobilise local resources including financial resources to support local CSOs Cooperatives work in the local area.
 Mediating in matters of conflict within the CSOs including Cooperatives and within the CSOs sector in general.
 Planning, attending and coordinating meetings and events for CSOs including Cooperatives and community.
 Providing support to CSOs including Cooperatives that are non-compliant with the registration requirements.
 Participate in the selection, short listing, site visit and adjudication of the national categories and provincial categories for NDA projects awards.
 
CSOs capacity building
 Identify institutional capacity building needs for CSOs within District Municipality.
 Identify the interventions needed by CSOs including Cooperatives within the District.
 Group and classify CSOs, including Cooperatives, according to the needs analysis and interventions required to improve their capabilities and quality of service.
 Prioritise capacity building interventions required by the CSOs including Cooperatives, according to the needs of the organisations
 Draw Capacity Building Plan (indicating the dates, venue, number of participants and the intervention).
 Train, mentor, incubate and support CSOs including Cooperatives that require institutional capacity strengthening.
 Refer and link CSOs, including Cooperatives that require technical training and support to relevant institutions and conduct follow up to assess progress.
 Manage logistics for all capacity building events; schedules training sessions and ensures facility setup and communication to the participating communities
 Participate in relevant sector education training ensuring that capacity building interventions take place as planned.
 Monitor and evaluate the use, relevance and impact of training materials.
 Continually assess the effectiveness of programs developed and/or administered.
 Ensure compliance to curriculum delivery standards and implement monitoring systems and procedures
 Identify and engage with relevant stakeholders for capacity building.
 Liaise and manage relationships with other capacity building strategic partners involved in capacity building.
 Ensure regular information sharing of the activities of the capacity building programme within NDA
 Ensure that proper record keeping (statistics) are retained and updated regularly and prepare and submit statistical/statutory reporting as appropriate.
 
Reporting
 Preparing reports and submit monthly reports with portfolio of evidence on time to the Development Coordinator/ District Manager.
 Prepare reports on to capacity building with regard to the implementation of capacity building programmes or operational issues.
 
KEY RELATIONSHIP INTERFACES
Internal Relationships - other than reporting lines (manager and subordinates). *
• NDA employees
• NDA corporate support services
• Management
External Relationships (With Local/Provincial structures and other key parties, specify)
 Department of Social Development – District
 SASSA - District
 District Municipality
 CSI Departments
 CSO Networks
 Local government officials
 Community Development Workers in the district
 
 
 
 

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OFFICE ATTENDANT
 
Purpose
The position provides an office attendant service to the office where the position is based, as per the standards outlined in the performance contract of the individual.
Reports To: Provincial Manager
Position location: Provincial Office
Peromnes Grade: 15
Number of Direct Reports: None
 
POSITION REQUIREMENTS
Minimum Qualification
 Proven competence in the required areas
 
Essential Experience
 At least 2 years working experience in the provision of cleaning services
 Basic office administration skills will be an advantage
 
Knowledge
 Knowledge of domestic/ corporate cleaning procedures essential
 Computer literacy is advantageous
 Knowledge of photocopying, binding and faxing is advantageous
 Knowledge of Microsoft Outlook and Calendar
 
Skills & Abilities
 Planning, organising and prioritising
 Ability to work independently within framework of general instructions
 Willingness to assist to achieve professional image for organisation
 Ability to take instructions and deliver on short notice
 Ability to improvise on creative options, provide imaginative solutions and improve processes in terms of cleaning requirements
 Good communications skills – verbal & written
 
Personal Attributes
 Respect for authority
 Dependable, conscientious, reliable, good timekeeping and willingness to go the extra mile
 Good memory
 Tidiness
 
MAIN AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Co-ordinate meeting venues and meeting arrangements
 Check calendar daily for request for catering meeting arrangements
 Allocate a venue in accordance with the size of the group
 Inform meeting organiser immediately should venue not be available or offer an alternative solution
 Professionally present refreshments to the meeting participants at a times agreed upon prior to the meeting should it involve catering
 Set up the venue prior to meeting by ensuring venue is neat and tidy
 Clean venue within 10 minutes after meeting and ensure furniture and venue are left organised and tidy
 
Control kitchen supplies, stock, cutlery and crockery
 Ensure that stock is replenished whenever necessary by ordering the beverages and /or stock in liaison with the administrative assistant e.g. Tea, coffee, milk, cutlery and crockery
 Keep control of and ensure safekeeping of all stock, cutlery and crockery
 Keep register of daily use and keep record and report any theft of missing cutlery
 Create and maintain inventory of office supplies and ensure inventory of all supplies are updated daily and losses are recorded and reported
 Ensure change rooms are always have sufficient toilet paper, hand soap and paper to dry hands
 
Keep kitchens organised
 Ensure tea, coffee, milk and sugar are replenished daily at agreed intervals
 Clean kitchen and wash dishes at agreed intervals
 Tidy up kitchen before departure and ensure kitchen is stocked with milk for next day
 Ensure water in coolers are always replenished when running low so that cold water is always available
 Check and remove dirty dishes from work stations should it be found standing around whilst staff is involved in meetings
 
Vacuuming and emptying dustbins in office
 Vacuum all offices daily as per roster
 Empty all dustbins and shredders
 Empty all shredding machines whilst cleaning offices
 Wipe all working surfaces in all offices and meeting venues at least once daily or more where required
 
Provide administrative support service to the office when required
 Keep occupied by offering assistance to administrative staff when having no other duties to tend to and free time is available
 
KEY RELATIONSHIP INTERFACES
Internal Relationships - other than reporting lines (manager and subordinates). *
• NDA employees
• NDA visitors
External Relationships (With Local/Provincial structures and other key parties, specify)


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Application details: Full Job profiles for these positions are available on the NDA website – www.nda.org.za. A detailed Curriculum Vitae (CV), with three references must accompany the application and a fully completed application for employment form obtainable on www.nda.org.za must be emailed to careers@nda.org.za.
 
Correspondence will be limited to shortlisted candidates only. Preference will be given to candidates whose appointment will promote NDA Employment Equity targets.
 
NB: Use the job reference as a subject line (heading of the email application) e.g. Reference no: 2023LOHO2 for the first position. An email without the reference number as a subject/heading will be disqualified. Please ensure that the reference number is written the same way as in the advert.
 
Failure to submit a detailed CV, fully completed application form and comply with the application instructions above will result in the disqualification of your application.
 
For enquiries regarding these positions, please contact Ms Nonhlanhla Zulu at Tel: 011 018 5523 / Cell: 067 839 4087
 
Should you not be contacted within two months of the closing date of this advert, please consider your application as unsuccessful. All candidates will be subjected to personnel suitability checks, qualification verification and competency assessment where required.
 
Closing date: 29 May 2023
 
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