Senior Officer: Skills 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: Reporting to the Manager: Learning and Development the successful incumbent is accountable to administer and coordinate various skills development initiatives alignment to the skills development legislative environment to ensure that RAF is in compliance with the Skills Development legislation in the development of skills.

Key Performance Areas

Stakeholder Engagements

• Liaise with InSETA regarding requirements and the organisation’s compliance with these requirements.
• Build a quality relationship with the InSETA.
• Liaise with service providers.
• Maintain an up-to-date knowledge regarding developments in InSETA and skills development.
• Conduct regular information sharing sessions with staff.
• Deal with administrative queries both internally and externally with stakeholders.

Workplace Skills Plan Implementation Facilitated

• Align the company information system to the InSETA reporting requirements.
• Co-ordinate the communication process for skills development planning and implementation within the organisation.
• Advise on learning interventions to meet the requirements of the WSP.
• Gather and capture statistics and data prior implementation of WSP for implementation report (WSPIR).

Learnerships and Skills Programmes Implemented within the Organisation

• Advocate skills development to the organisation.  
• Interpret and understand business objectives and implications for skills development. 
• Understand and apply the National Skills Development Strategy (NSDS) and InSETA sector skills plan (SSP).
• Understand the business objectives of the organisation. 

• Support the development and roll out of the needs analysis (PDP) or Skills Audit within the Organisation
• Document the results of the needs analysis into a formatted WSP.        
• Ensure that WSP complies with requirements of the InSETA.
• Ensure that the WSP aligns with sector skills requirements and organisational needs / business objectives.

Workplace Skills Plan Implementation Report (WSPIR) Compiled and Implemented

• Ensure that the WSPIR complies with requirements of the InSETA.
• Gather information (from current records/ information systems and from business areas).
• Synthesis of information into report.
• Submit report on designated date. 

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.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree/ Advanced Diploma in a related qualification.
• ODETDP qualification.
• Relevant 4 years’ experience in a similar environment of which 1 year must be on a supervisory level.

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.