Senior Officer: Performance & Risk

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 the Manager: Performance and Risk, the successful incumbent is responsible for supporting business units and the Risk Management Department in the identification, assessment, management, monitoring and reporting of risk activeness across the organisation.

Key Performance Areas

Performance and Risk 

• Monitor the implementation of the RAF and business unit risk mitigation strategies.
• Facilitate the development of a risk management culture which includes training of staff on risk management policies and practices.
• Maintain a register of control breakdowns and follow up on the progress being made by management in controlling risks for allocated business units.
• Facilitate the development of a risk management culture which includes training of staff on risk management policies and practices.
• Attend Bid Adjudication Committees and other committees as delegated.

Reporting

• Contribute to the preparation and submission of Regulation reports.
• Aid in the development of functional reporting systems, for management, project or performance reporting.
• Report regularly and periodically perform necessary submissions as and when required to provide progress updates and/or inform management decisions.

Stakeholder Management

• Aid in proactive and progressive relationships with key stakeholders.
• Deal with inquiries and requests for information from both internal and external stakeholders.
• Aid in the maintenance of relationships with service providers or procurement teams and ensure that all relevant procured items are invoiced and paid on time.

People Management

• Ensure that good employee relations are maintained.
• Provide ongoing operational support to employees.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree/ Advanced Diploma in a Supply Chain Management/ Finance related qualification.
• Relevant 4 years’ experience in a Performance and Risk related environment of which 1 year must have been on a supervisory level.
• Experience in procurement/ supply chain management within State Owned Entities (SoEs) will be an added advantage.

Technical and Behavioral Competencies Required

• Planning, organising and coordinating.

• Personal mastery.

• Judgment and decision making.
• Ethics and values.
• Client service orientation.
• Legislation & regulatory knowledge.
• Compliance & governance.
• SCM risk management.
• Analysing & interpreting information.
• Advising & recording.
• Financial Accumen.

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.