Project Manager: Community Skills Development - ECOD19206

Closing Date: 2024-04-05
Assignment Type: Permanent
Division: Skills Development, Job Creation & Economic Infrastructure Division
Department: Economic Development Department (2019)
Province: Gauteng
Purpose:

• Develop and implement skills for the economy programmes, vocational skills development and employability improvement strategies and interventions for communities and/or public employment programmes.
• Coordinate, manage and mobilize strategic internal and external stakeholder relationships with the National Skills Fund, Youth Employment Services, Public Employment Programme and Sector Education and Training Authorities.
• Prepare funding proposals and leverage discretionary grants to supplement skills development programmes in communities.
• Coordinate skills development stakeholders and the ecosystem and ensure the effective implementation and integration of programme management frameworks, tools and systems.
• Advise stakeholder departments, municipal entities, service providers and related stakeholders on best practice and technical knowledge relating to Skills Development.
• Develop a Skills Development monitoring, evaluate and reporting framework to measure effective implementation principles in the municipality.
• Coordinate overall community skills development related priorities with stakeholder Departments, Municipal Entities, Service Providers and all related stakeholders.
• Develop annual joint operating plans to meet established annual objectives, organise and prioritise tasks and work processes needed to achieve the overall objectives.
• Manage and maintain governance and risk management system of the functional area.
• Participate in and implement budget planning principles on stakeholder department's budget to determine their contribution to the overall annual community skills development targets.
• Manage and ensure a customer service-oriented environment as well as determine and facilitate people management and related activities in the division.

• Degree in Project Management / Economics / Development Management or relevant equivalent NQF Level 7 qualification
• 3 - 5 years experience in a similar environment

Enquiries: Tel: 0860 54 3000

Candidates may be requested to submit proof of the NQF level applicable to the qualifications they have obtained.

Should candidates not be informed of the outcome of the application within six weeks of the closing date, it should be regarded as having been unsuccessful. The City of Ekurhuleni subscribes to the principles of the Employment Equity Act and reserves the right to appoint, not appoint or to appoint laterally.

Preferred:
Remuneration: R 632664.0 to R 867924.0 - Basic plus benefits
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