Senior Officer: Stakeholder Relations

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: Stakeholder and Intergovernmental Relations, the successful incumbent is accountable to assist with the identification, planning and delivery of stakeholder engagement plans and programmes.

Key Performance Areas

Develop and Implement Operational Plans Aimed at Building and Maintaining Relations with Various Stakeholders’ Clusters, Valued by the RAF

• Project planning.
• Customer engagement.
• Implement the fraternity stakeholder engagement strategy and plans.
• Conduct stakeholder map and needs analysis.
• Conduct an environmental scan.

Develop and Maintain a Database of Key RAF Stakeholders

• Stakeholders’ identification and need analysis.
• Logistical and administrative coordination.
• Develop database of MoUs .
• Identification of operational areas for ensuring functionality of the MoUs.

Coordinate Stakeholder Engagement Events and Related Logistics

• Run awareness and information campaigns.
• Facilitate development and publication of advocacy public education material.
• Project planning and reporting.
• Implement stakeholder awareness, mobilisation campaigns.
• Maintain the sub-component budget expenditure.

Reporting

• Contribute to the preparation and submission of Regulation reports.
• Aid in the development of functional reporting systems, for management, project or performance reporting.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree/ Advanced Diploma in Public Relations/ Marketing/ Communications related qualification.         
• Relevant 4 years’ experience in Marketing, Intergovernmental Relations, Communications related environment.

Technical and behavioral competencies required

• Planning, organising and coordinating.

• Personal mastery.

• Judgment and decision making.

• Ethics and values.

• Client service orientation.
• Understanding of corporate communication processes and structures bin both business and private sector.
• Team player, accountable, reliable and a person of integrity.
• Communication and project management skills.
• Report writing and problem solving skills.
• Report writing and problem solving skills.
• Proficiency in at least 3 official languages.
• Excellent use of the business administration skills.
• Ability to provide internal and external stakeholders with professional communication.
• Ability to network and conduct advocacy.

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.