Lead: Corporate Social Responsibility

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: Reporting to Senior Manager: Corporate Social Responsibility, the successful incumbent is responsible for managing the alignment between RAF brand identity, values and its socio-economic commitment of positively impacting on the societal needs of different communities by driving the implementation of social corporate responsibility initiatives within different communities.

Key Performance Areas

Corporate Social Responsibility Initiatives

• Conduct research to determine which focus areas are to be prioritised.
• Conduct an analysis to establish the socio impact of identified focussed area to decide where there is a much needed inpact.
• Develop annual Corporate Social Responsibility execution calender in line with the overall annual plan.
• Ensure that Service Level Agreements (SLA's) are in place for all CSI programmes and initiatives.
• Drive the design specification of the identified project and ensure adherence by the NGO.
• Engage on Community/ Stakeholder sessions to create an awareess of the identified  initiaves and its benefits.
• Regulary monitoring the progress of the in preparing for the state of readiness and handover.
• Ensure that the organization adheres to all legal, regulatory, and ethical standards applicable to non-profits organisation processes.

Programme Management

• Drive the implementation plan and continously project manage the implementation with by the NGO.
• Ensure that the administrative requirements are upheld in the implementation of CSI initiatives in order to comply with the annual internal, BBBEE and compliance audits.
• Proactively manage programme changes and ensure alignment to all the plan, budget and timelines.
• Plan and set priorities for all elements of the programme.

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.

Reporting

• Plan proactively to mitigate project risks and report on all issues and associated risks.
• Monitor and report on the status of project efforts.
• Develop functional reporting systems, for management, projects or performance reporting.
• Monitor and evaluate the impact of corporate social responsibility initiatives, and providing reports.

Stakeholder Management

• Work with internal and external partners to ensure that all socio-economic development initiatives are monitored and evaluated accurately and meaningfully, thus demonstrating social impact.
• Manage relationships with implementing partners and NGO’s,and ensure that all grants and disbursements are within budget and paid on time.

People Management

• Supervise staff in the department to ensure that they achieve their objectives in line with the strategic and divisional objectives of the RAF.
• Manage the implementation of people management processes and procedures to control/regulate workplace conflict and/or institute corrective measures and consultation processes to address deviations from standards.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree/ Advanced Diploma in Social Science/ Community Development/ Business Management or related qualification.
• Relevant 5 - 7 years’ experience in Corporate Social Responsibility and related environment of which 2 years must be on a supervisory level/ area of expertise.
• Experience in project management will be an added advantage.

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.