Specialist: Learning & Development

The Road Accident Fund’s mission is to provide appropriate cover to all road users within the borders of South Africa; to rehabilitate and compensate persons injured as a result of motor vehicle accidents in a timely and caring manner; and to actively promote safe use of our roads.

Purpose of the Job: The Specialist: Learning and Development accountable to supervise and facilitate training.

Key Performance Areas

Policy Review and Implementation

• Contribute to the development and implementation of departmental policy, procedures and processes.
• Keep up to date with effective policy and practice execution strategies.

Manage training requirements.

• Conduct training needs analysis as per the PDP (Personal Development Process (PDP).
• Design, develop and/or source appropriate learning solution.
• Ensure correct logistical training arrangement are made.
• Design and conduct formative and summative assessments
• Evaluate the required effectiveness and efficiency of learning solutions.
• Facilitate training where applicable.

Legislative Compliance.

• Benchmark learning and development standards for possible implementation in the RAF.
• Keep updated with changes in legislation.
• Develop appropriate tactics and strategy to ensure compliance with said changes.
• Implement WSP to ensure developmental needs are addressed.
• Maintain compliance with training interventions.
• Develop SLA with service providers.
• Evaluate training interventions.
• Design of standard curriculum and courses within professional Learning Academy.
• Standardise all operational learning interventions for implementation throughout the organisation.

Manage toolbox and Training Calendar.

• Manage the training calendar for all RAF offices.
• Manage and input of new case material and information on the learning and development toolbox.

Reporting and Administration

• Prepare and submit regulation reports as and when required to provide progress updates and/or inform management decisions.
• Develop reports/ procedures and guide the process through the alignment of the documents to the overall RAF’s Strategy.
• Develop functional reporting systems, for management, projects or performance reporting.
• Prepare proposals, briefings, presentations, reports, and other documentation and provide management information both verbally and in report format.
• Ensure maintenance of training records (e.g., attendance registers, training evaluation forms etc.).

Act as a member of the Skills Development Committee (SDC).

• Ensure learning solutions are in-line with National Skills Development Strategy.
• Align the implementation of learning solutions with the Annual Training Report and Workplace Skills Plan.
• Participate in SDC meetings.

Stakeholder Management

• Facilitate and manage communication with relevant internal and external stakeholders in relation to investments and proactively and progressively manage the relationships.
• Manage relationships with vendors, service providers or procurement teams and ensure that all relevant procured items are invoiced and paid on time.
• Communicate with all levels of stakeholder contact.
• Represent the Fund in relevant external activities and events.

Finance management

• Manage budget as according to the business Plan.
• Comply with budget restrictions as outlined by the finance and procurement departments and the PMFA.
• Evaluate training cost optimization and budget control.

Assessments and Moderation of all internal programmes. 

• Develop Assessments and other criteria for internal programs.
• Moderate Assessments based on moderation principles as set by SAQA.

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s Degree/Advanced Diploma in a related qualification.

Experience 

• Relevant 5 - 7 years training and facilitation experience of which 2 (two) years must have been in area of expertise.

Behavioural Competencies

• • Resilience
  • Communication
  • Working with People
  • Network and Alliances
  • Planning, Organising and Coordinating
  • Employee Engagement
  • Personal Mastery
  • Judgement and Decision Making
  • Ethics and Values
  • Client Service Orientation

Managerial Competencies

• • Change management
  • Conflict management
  • Critical and innovative thinking
  • Facilitation and Presentation Skills
  • Policy conceptualisation and formulation
  • Risk Management
  • Programme/project management
  • Service Delivery Innovation
  • Stakeholder development and relations
  • Reporting

Technical Competencies

• • Knowledge of education, learning and development theory & methodologies.
  • Knowledge of training best practices.
  • Knowledge of curriculum development
  • Training, facilitation & presentation skills
  • Using effective classroom training techniques, promoting active learning, adapting instruction to meet the needs of learners, and encouraging individual practice.
  • Advanced technical experience of computer usage skills.

Road Accident Fund Values

• Integrity
• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Excellence
• Empathy

The Road Accident Fund subscribes to the principles of employment equity and preference will be given to People with Disabilities.

Applicants who have not received any correspondence from us within six weeks from the closing date can consider themselves unsuccessful

Security Vetting shall be conducted on all prospective employees

It is the applicants’ responsibility to have foreign qualification evaluated by the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA) and to provide proof of such evaluation.