Employee Relations Initiator

The Road Accident Fund’s mission is to provide timely and equitable assistance to those affected by motor vehicle accidents through the provision of appropriate social benefits to ensure financial relief and recovery for qualifying individuals.

Purpose of the Job: Reporting to Manager: Employee Relations Initiator, the successful incumbent is responsible to conduct internal prosecutions against employees who have committed misconduct or are incapacitated due to poor performance or ill health.

Key Performance Areas

Initiate Internal Disciplinary Hearings

• Initiate misconduct cases in formal disciplinary hearings;
• Initiate incapacity hearings.
• Preserve the integrity of documentation and/ or information to be used as evidence.
• Prepare disciplinary hearing plan for submission to management.
• Analyze available evidence and draw up misconduct charges for approval by line management.
• Consult and prepare witnesses for formal disciplinary hearings.
• Ensure proper preparation for disciplinary hearings.
• Lead employer evidence and cross examine employee witnesses;
• Draw-up and Present closing arguments and aggravating factors
• When necessary, lead employer evidence at CCMA.

Reporting

• Report on hearing after finalization.
• Report on statistics monthly.
• Report on wasteful and fruitless expenditure.
• Prepare and submit statutory reports and plans as and when required to provide progress updates and/or inform management decisions.
• Develop reports/ policies/ 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.

Misconduct Awareness

• Identify areas of misconduct.
• Report on internal control breakdowns.
• Prepare programmes to identify area of fraud, corruptions and consequences thereof.

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.

Stakeholder Management

• Facilitate and manage communication with relevant internal and external stakeholders 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.

Administration

• Effective case management and record keeping. 
• Updating IMS system.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree/ Advanced Diploma in Employee Relations/ Human Resources related qualification.
• Driver’s license.
• Relevant 5 - 7 years’ experience in practical experience in internal disciplinary hearings prosecutions.

Technical, Managerial, and Behavioral Competencies Required

• Communication.
• Network and Alliances.
• Planning, Organising and Coordinating.
• Ethics and Values.
• Client Service Orientation.
• Change management.
• Conflict management.
• Policy conceptualisation and formulation.
• Risk Management.
• Programme/ project management.
• Stakeholder development and relations.
• Reporting.
• Excellent knowledge of Labour Law and Law of evidence.
• Leading evidence in a tribunal.
• Cross examination skills.
• Analysis of evidence.
• Understanding of Law of evidence.
• Exceptional Communication skills (written, verbal, listening).
• Critical and analytical thinking.
• Computer Literacy (MS Word and Excel).
• Willingness to travel.
• Professionalism.
• Planning and organizational skills.
• Ability to work independently.

NB: “RAF offers Total Employment Cost packages with no additional contributions from the Employer, successful candidates are required to structure their packages in a manner that will suit their needs”.

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.