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Senior Deal Originator: Local Government Support

Closing Date	2024/10/29
Reference Number	DBS240715-1
Job Title	Senior Deal Originator: Local Government Support
Job Grade	16
Job Type Classification	Permanent
Location – Town / City	Midrand
Location – Province	Gauteng
Location – Country	South Africa
Job Profile (Downloadable)	Senior_Deal_Originator_Local_Government_Support_Feb_2023 Signed.pdf (359.08 kb) – 7/15/2024 11:43:27 AM

Job Description
The Senior Deal Originator is responsible for formulating and executing the strategic objectives of the business in collaboration with the Head Client Coverage whilst being accountable for deal origination, building and owning client and partnerships and developing projects for the DBSA ultimately leading to bankable deals.

Key Responsibilities

1. Contribute to the development of Divisional and Business unit strategies and implementation thereof.
2. Identify new, and prioritise existing key clients based on a set criteria (i.e. financial metrics, current and potential revenue and margin) and strategic factors.
3. Develop strong pipeline of good quality investments through proactive origination/business development and developing and employing sector/country knowledge.
4. Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, global and regional private businesses and facilitate the identification of opportunities to initiate viable projects.
5. Work closely with the project preparation team to facilitate project preparation, scoping, feasibility studies and business plans with the intention of closing investment deals.
6. Work closely with the Transactions team to take deals to bankability.
7. Remediate and eliminate partnership obstacles and inefficiencies, have knowledge of all new products, structured products and services offered by competitors.
8. Develop an in-depth knowledge of the political landscape of regions/sectors/clients and partners serviced and leverage such insights/knowledge across other regions/sectors and clients.
9. Build relationships, networks and collaborate with internal and external key stakeholders and clients to position DBSA as the ‘go-to’ Bank for infrastructure development opportunities.
10. Continuously research and analyze the clients’ business context, operations and financial performance in search of new opportunities
11. Leverage, engage and collaborate with the Bank’s internal network to ensure that the entire Bank’s relevant expertise is used to the optimum.
12. Develop strong pipeline of good quality investments through proactive origination/business development and developing and employing sector/country knowledge;
13. Compile and provide competitor analysis and understand the operating environment.
14. Lead, initiate and develop new business strategies and opportunities to create a pipeline of development impact projects ensuring deal flow and bankability.
15. Working closely with Financing Operations Division, initiate and develop new business strategies and opportunities to create a pipeline of fee income generating projects.
16. Prepare and provide documentation/reports for EXCO and Board(s) decision making where applicable.
17. Present at deal Committees where applicable as and when required.

Key Measurements of Outputs

1. Value of project approvals, commitments and disbursements.
2. Value of projects prepared and committed for DBSA approval.
3. Value of funds under management secured (Infrastructure Delivery business).
4. NPL targets.
5. Client service rating.

Expertise & Technical Competencies
TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES

1. Risk Identification & Assessment skills

Advises on applicable aspects of risk identification and assessment.
Assesses and links short-term tasks in the context of long-term business strategies or perspectives.

2. Business Development

Takes overall lead for pro-active business development at national and international level.
Initiates, reviews and interprets competitor environment reviews and take actions accordingly.
Formulates and modify market approaches on the basis of competitor analyses.
Leads the formulation, development and implementation of the business development strategy to generate new business opportunities in public and private sector delivery of infrastructure.
Identifies and develop new markets, products and clients.
Leads the participation and presentation of an organisation at investment conferences and roundtable discussions.
Coordinates business activities to ensure that investment initiatives are in support of government BEE strategies, broader national and regional economic development strategies.
Promote compliance and alignment with the strategic imperatives of both individual clients and the organisation of investment and development interventions.
Builds capacity to coordinate, control and manage the activities and efforts required for the implementation of the plan.
Builds capacity to conduct project origination exercises.

3. Business Acumen

Deep understanding of commercial drivers and is able to take decisions based on an assessment of alternatives concerning complex business situations.
Deep understanding of economic priorities of South Africa and Africa and how they can be implemented to meet an organisations strategic objectives.
Deep understanding of the need to coordinate efforts with many government entities, private sector, community groups and individuals to ensure effective implementation of new policies and regulations.
Takes actions to fit business strategy.
Assesses and links short-term tasks in the context of long-term business strategies or perspectives.
Reviews own actions against the organisation’s strategic plan; includes the big picture when considering possible opportunities or projects or thinks about long-term applications of current activities.
Anticipates possible responses to different initiatives.
Understands the projected direction of the industry and how changes might impact the organisation.

4. Deal Origination

Utilises extensive networks with developers, sponsors and consultants in DBSA-mandated sectors to identify project preparation opportunities.
Conducts project identification, conceptualisation and preliminary structuring of projects structuring and value preposition for DBSA.
Applies analytical skills to understand the technical, environmental, institutional, financial and legal components of projects to present a structure to prepare the project.
Understands the regulatory and policy environments and offers advice in preparing/structuring of projects.
Conducts market research, business analysis and profiling to identify opportunities for infrastructure development in SA, SADC and selected African countries.
Provides and grows the opportunity for DBSA equity investments.
Independently structures and negotiates and concludes engagement letters, term sheets and facility agreements.

5. Project Management

Initiates project plans and secures resources for projects that span area or department boundaries.
Uses estimating techniques and develops project risk management approaches.
Has an in-depth and practical understanding of how to maximize the effectiveness of project teams.

6. Planning & Organizing

Is relied on to helps other plan and organise their workload.
Uses effectively advance time management processes to deal with high workload and tight deadlines.
Organises, prioritises and schedules tasks so they can be performed within budget and with the efficient use of time and resources.
Achieves goals in a timely manner, despite obstacles encountered, by organising, reprioritizing and re-planning

7. Financial Acumen

Makes sound financial decisions after having analysed their impacts on the organisation, partner agencies, and community.
Effectively prepares budgetary submissions and forecasts for own department.
Knows the internal and external factors that impact on resource and asset availability.
Is able to interpret management account reports in an operational/commercial context and take action as appropriate to maximize revenues and control costs.

8. Reporting & Communication

Designs / customizes reports to meet user needs.
Prepares complex or tailored reports, gathers information from a variety of sources, analyses and includes in a report.
Keeps standard reports under review and proposes improvements to meet user needs

9. Presentation Skills

Knows how to deliver arguments persuasively by employing a range of advanced presentation techniques (e.g. the appropriate use of body language, how to close a presentation so that the audience continues to think about the subject matter etc.).
Has knowledge of various feedback mechanisms to check levels of audience understanding.

10. Negotiation

Has an appreciation of cultural sensitivities and differences.
Effectively employs a variety of advanced behavioural/interpersonal competencies to control the negotiation situation.
Is able to take the lead in a variety of sensitive negotiation situations requiring high levels of tact and diplomacy.
Is able to place a discrete negotiation situation within the context of a broader long-term relationship and is not threatened by conceding ground to protect the longer-term interests of DBSA.

Minimum Requirements

An Honours degree in Finance, Business, Accounting, Engineering or Economics;
8-10 years’ experience in appraising, negotiating and closing Project Finance, Corporate Finance, or Structured Finance transactions in a financial institution;
Experience in securing infrastructure investment deals in relevant sectors/geographies in SA and/or Africa (where applicable).
Experience in leading, initiating and developing new business strategies and opportunities to create a pipeline of development impact projects ensuring deal flow and bankability.
Experience in securing deals of appropriate size for sectors and geographies in question.
Strong networks and relations with clients, global and regional private investors and banks in order to identify and source viable projects/investments.
Successful track record in leading project teams with high level stakeholders and qualified professionals;
Experience in using Financial models;
Comprehensive knowledge of the complex financial and regulatory environments across Africa (where applicable).
In depth knowledge and understanding of infrastructure market, financial markets and the macro landscape.
Demonstrable experience in identifying client challenges and playing an active part in finding innovative solutions.
Experienced communicator and negotiator (expertise at senior level).
Strong negotiation skills with the ability to close deals.
Proven experience in working with snr stakeholders in highly political environments in South Africa and the rest of Africa (where applicable)
Role requires flexibility to be redeployed if required
Ability to mentor jnr members of the team

Desirable Requirements

A post-graduate qualification such as a CA, CFA or MBA
Required Personal Attributes
BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

1. Achievement Orientation

Delivers work on time and quality and follows through on agreed commitments.
Views new work experiences as an opportunity for growth.
Reacts immediately to overcome setbacks or/and obstacles in order to meet goals.
Recognises and acts upon current opportunities.

2. Customer Service Orientation

Makes self fully available, especially when the customer is going through a critical period.
Requests on-going feedback from customers and takes action in response to it; manages to retain and capitalize on existing customers.
Takes the “extra step” to resolve customer issues appropriately, even in the case where they do not fall under own area of responsibility.
Is aware of the level of service offered by the competition and provides more for customers than they expect.

3. Attention to Detail

Double-checks the accuracy of information or work.
Ensures that the work produced doesn’t contain any errors.

4. Leading and Empowering Others

Creates the conditions that enable the team to perform at its best (e.g., setting clear direction, providing appropriate structure, getting the right people, obtain needed resources).
Monitors performance against clear standards, and addresses performance issues promptly and takes action to get performance back to desired levels.
Proactively asks for feedback on own performance from team members, aiming to become more effective.
Ensures tasks are delegated so that team members are empowered to deliver results and develop their capabilities.

5. Self-awareness and Self Control

Feels strong emotions in the course of a conversation or other task, such as anger, extreme frustration, or high stress;
Holds the emotions back, and continues to act calmly.
Ignores angering actions and continues a conversation or task.
May leave temporarily to withhold emotions, then return immediately to continue.

6. Strategic and Innovative Thinking

Recognises opportunities or potential problems, before they become obvious, by seeing the connections in a range of sources of information, including insights from outside DBSA.
Restates complex knowledge in a way that makes it easier for others to understand.
Experiments with new approaches, tests scenarios, questions assumptions and challenges conventional thinking.
Creates new concepts that are not obvious to others, leveraging internal and external sources of information, to build incremental revenue and growth opportunities.

7. Teamwork & Cooperation

Values and utilises the expertise of colleagues, asking for ideas and input and collaborates to form decisions and plans.
Willingly learns from others.
Creates opportunities for knowledge and expertise sharing between all members of the team.

Enterprise Risk Management Professional

Closing Date	2024/10/31
Reference Number	DBS241014-1
Job Title	Enterprise Risk Management Professional
Job Grade	16
Job Type Classification	Permanent
Location – Town / City	Midrand
Location – Province	Gauteng
Location – Country	South Africa
Job Profile (Downloadable)	ERM Professional _Job Profile September 2024.docx.pdf (397.30 kb) – 10/14/2024 9:33:39 AM

Job Description
The ERM Professional is responsible for managing the Bank’s risk levels, ensuring that risk profiles align with the Bank’s risk tolerance. Working closely with the principal, this role involves strategising, developing and implementing processes to identify, assess, manage, and report on risks across the organisation, while ensuring effective coordination between risk management structures.

Key Responsibilities
Key Performance Areas:

1. ERM Operational Functions

Support the Principal ERM in developing and implementing the strategic direction for the ERM function.
Establish the ERM risk universe and ensure there are no gaps in the management of specific risks and risk categories.
Establish functional methods and processes to implement the ERM strategy.
Prepare and submit the Annual ERM Risk Plan and all other reports as per the requirements.
Develop, implement and oversee the Risk Appetite Framework and Risk Tolerance levels for the group and per division.
Facilitate the drafting and maintaining of divisional risk registers for divisions as requested by the Principal ERM.
Provide support to Management in integrating risk management with the strategy development processes.
Develop, implement and communicate ERM policies and procedures to business.
Facilitate the development of risk management strategies for the organisation’s critical operational risks and find appropriate solutions to mitigate and manage identified risks (inclusive of Basel requirements).
Facilitate ERM assessments and monitor priority operational risks across the organisation.
Align the ERM process with Internal Audit, Credit and Investment risk processes and all other Risk and Control Functions across the Group.
Build project risk management capabilities across various project types.
Work closely with the risk team and other monitoring functions in ensuring effective combined effort and assurance of risk management.
Assist in developing the ERM Cluster’s strategy and execution plan in line with the divisions and organisational vision, strategy, and goals.
Determine cluster objectives and targets for inclusion in the division’s balanced scorecard.
Monitor, evaluate and integrate risk activities across the Bank.
Facilitate the strategic risk process and related reporting.

2. ERM Best Practice

Elevate and evolve the status of ERM within the Group to at least best practice.
Play a trusted advisor role to Management and the Executives concerning leading risk practices and consulting activities.
Determine emerging risks on a timely basis.

3. Divisional ERM Advisory Services, Monitoring & Reporting

Provide a professional ERM advisory service to Business.
Ensure that group-wide risk projects are managed and implemented in the Business (excludes credit and investment risk).
Communicate and facilitate the use of appropriate ERM methodologies, tools and techniques.
Work with divisions to establish, maintain and continuously improve risk management capabilities and implement appropriate risk reporting standards.
Provide an independent view regarding proposed business plans and transactions.
Develop, monitor and report on corporate key indications.
Conduct risk investigations as required.
Assess the status of corporate mitigation actions.
Participate in special project risk reviews as required.
Key Measurements of Outputs:

1. Established ERM plans and frameworks.
2. Accurate reporting and monitoring of enterprise risk.
3. Quality and accuracy of reports and risk mitigation plans.
4. Clean audit.

Key Internal Liason Relationships:

1. Risk Division
2. All Divisions
3. Group and Divisional Risk Committees
4. Corporate Committees

Key External Liason Relationships:

5. Service Providers
6. DBSA stakeholders (as required)
7. External benchmarking sources.

Expertise & Technical Competencies
Qualifications and Experience:

Minimum Requirements:

1. A postgraduate qualification in Risk Management or equivalent.
2. A minimum of 5 years’ experience in Enterprise Risk Management.
3. In-depth knowledge of development finance, risk management philosophies, practices, etc.
4. Knowledge of the relevant legislative framework, i.e., Basel II, GAMAP, GAAP, IFRIS, etc.
5. Experience in Project/Programme Management.
6. Expert knowledge of risk and financial management principals, philosophy and methodologies to participate in
   the most complex risk assignments undertaken in the DBSA.
7. Good understanding of Finance, Treasury, Credit and other risk-related matters affecting the Bank and the
   Divisions.
8. Ability to quantify and aggregate risk for management and reporting purposes.

Desirable Requirements:

1. A postgraduate qualification specialising in Risk Management.

Technical Competencies:

a) Written communication

• Understands that different writing styles are required for different documents or audiences.
• Write effective correspondence, prepares questions and reports, statements of circumstance and briefing notes.
• Reviews others’ documents for clarity and impact.
• Has a solid mastery of writing principles such as grammar, sentence construction etc.

b) Presentation skills

• Can reinforce key presentation points with examples.
• Is able to translate technical terminology into language understandable to the audience.
• Has insight into the audience’s behavior and motivation and responds appropriately and professionally,adapting communication style as appropriate.

c) Reporting

• Designs / customizes reports to meet user needs.
• Prepares complex or tailored reports, gathers information from a variety of sources, analyses and includes in a report.
• Keeps standard reports under review and proposes improvements to meet user needs.

d) Risk Identification and Assessments

• Diagnoses significant, unusual and emerging risks to which the business is exposed.

e) Risk Management Policies and Procedures

• Develops innovative approaches to managing significant business risks effectively and efficiently.
• Leads implementation, execution and monitoring activities.
• Advises on best solutions and foresees the impact of changes in regulations, policies and procedures for
  non-complex and increasingly complex business issues.

f) Presentation Skills

• Knows how to deliver arguments persuasively by employing a range of advanced presentation techniques
  (e.g., the appropriate use of body language, how to close a presentation so that the audience continues to
  think about the subject matter etc.).
• Has knowledge of various feedback mechanisms to check levels of audience understanding. .

g) Risk Response and Reporting

• Develop and implement appropriate risk mitigation for significant and unusual risks to which the business is
  exposed.
• Provide advice on business continuity management mechanisms, define appropriate risk responses for
  reasonably foreseeable emergency scenarios and events.
• Design and implement risk reporting systems and communicate to executive management risk processes
  and results including recommendations for improvement.

Required Personal Attributes
Behavioural Competencies:

a) Customer Service Orientation

• Tries to understand the underlying needs of customers and matches these needs to available or
• customized products and services.
• Adapts processes and procedures to meet on-going customer needs.
• Utilises the feedback received by customers, in order to develop new and/or improve existing services/products that relate to their on-going needs.
• Thinks of new ways to align DBSA’s offerings with future customer needs.

b) Self-awareness and Self Control

• Withholds effects of strong emotions in difficult situations.
• Keeps functioning or responds constructively despite stress.
• May apply special techniques or plan ahead of time to manage emotions or stress.

c) Strategic and Innovative Thinking

• Experiments with new approaches, tests scenarios, questions assumptions and challenges conventional thinking.
• Creates new concepts that are not obvious to others, leveraging internal and external sources of information, to build incremental revenue and growth opportunities.

d) Driving delivery of results

• Sets challenging goals that will have a significant impact on the business or support the organisational strategy.
• Commits significant resources and/or time to ensure that challenging goals are achieved, while also taking action to mitigate risk.

e) Teamwork & Cooperation

• Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale and resolves conflicts.
• Creates opportunities for cross-functional working.
• Encourages others to network outside of their own team/department and learn from their experience.

Committee Officer

Closing Date	2024/10/29
Reference Number	DBS241009-1
Job Title	Committee Officer
Job Grade	13
Job Type Classification	Permanent
Location – Town / City	Midrand
Location – Province	Gauteng
Location – Country	South Africa
Job Profile (Downloadable)	Job Profile_Committee Officer.pdf (377.21 kb) – 10/9/2024 3:12:34 PM

Job Description
The Committer Officer is responsible for providing governance, secretariat and full administration support to DBSA Committee/s as well as provide support to the Chief Risk Officer’s office. The Committee Officer’s key performance requirements are summarised below.

Key Responsibilities
Key Performance Areas:

Provide full administrative function associated with servicing Committees; these include the following:

Plan and coordinate the periodic and adhoc Committee meetings.
Prepare and distribute agendas and relevant supporting documentation / meeting packs.
Compile meeting minutes, action lists and distribute to relevant stakeholders.
Draft, communicate and track all resolutions taken at meetings.
Maintain proper record keeping and document management of all Committee/s related matters, resolutions and documents (statutory filing requirements are adhered to).
Provide information to the committee members and/or DBSA staff as required (data protection protocols in terms of POPI Act are adhered to)
Make logistical arrangements when required.
Deliver other support and administrative duties as required.

Provide sound statutory and governance standards to the Committees:
Responsible for advising the Committees and relevant stakeholders on how to discharge their responsibilities/duties and liabilities under the Companies Act / King IV / PFMA as well as comply with the DBSA’s Committee/s governance framework.
Facilitate the orientation of new Committee Members and make sure that the members are advised of procedures of their appointment and the terms of reference of the committee/s.
Facilitate training for Committee Members on issues of policies and practices.
In consultation/liaison with the Company Secretary and Chief Risk Officer, provide advice on legal and compliance matters to Committee Members.
Report to the Chief Risk officer on any failure of any Committee Member/s to comply in terms of their legal and compliance responsibilities.
In consultation with the Chief Risk Officer, responsible for updating and maintaining the Charters and Terms of Reference of the Committee/s.
Facilitate the completion of Committee disclosures.
Support the Committee Chairperson / Chief Risk Officer to manage, address and respond to audit queries from Internal Audit and External Auditors.

Any other duties as assigned these include amongst others providing support to the Chief Risk Officer in terms of projects and back-up to staff within the office of the executive.

Key Measurements of Outputs:
Timeous preparation of agendas, minutes, action lists and distribution of meeting packs / documents.
Accuracy of minutes, action lists and resolutions.
Quality of support, advice and guidance given to committee members.
Effective orientation of the new committee members.
Effective follow-up and monitoring to ensure implementation of committee decisions.
Adherence and compliance to legislation in respect of the Companies Act, PFMA, King IV and POPI Act.
Efficient and effective provision of secretarial administration.

Key Internal Liaison Relationships:

DBSA Board
Executives

Committee Members
Management
Staff

Key External Liaison Relationships:
Non-Executive Directors
Service Providers

External Auditors
External DBSA Stakeholders

Expertise & Technical Competencies
Qualifications and Experience:

Minimum Requirements:
At least a degree qualification in either law, finance, audit or accounting background.
A minimum of 5 years’ relevant Committee Officer experience, preferably in supporting Credit / Investment Committees.
General understanding of the lending business.
Knowledge of Company’s Act, PFMA, King IV and relevant legislations.
Proven experience in engaging with internal and external auditors.
Demonstrated experience in engaging and advising Board members and high-level dignitaries.
Experience in working with external auditors, legal advisers, bankers.
Demonstrated experience in putting together good quality presentations and writing reports for Exco and Board Committees.
Demonstrated experience MS Word (Advanced), Excel and PowerPoint (Intermediate to Advanced), MS Teams (Advanced), Diligent Boards (Advanced), SharePoint (Advanced)

Desirable Requirements:
Legal qualification
Experience in a banking and or financial sector
Project management experience
Ability to use SAP

Technical Competencies:

Written Communication

Understands that different writing styles are required for different documents or audiences.
Write effective correspondence, prepares questions and reports, statements of circumstance and briefing notes.
Has a solid mastery of writing principles such as grammar, sentence construction etc.

Reporting

Designs / customizes reports to meet user needs.
Prepares complex or tailored reports, gathers information from a variety of sources, analyses and includes in a report.
Keeps standard reports under review and proposes improvements to meet user needs.

Problem Solving

Identifies complex problems based on a broad range of factors, many of which are ambiguous or difficult to define.
While remaining guided by organisational values, identifies optimal solutions, thinking first in terms of possible approaches and flexibilities in the system vs. blind adherence to rules or procedures.
Implements solutions to complex problems, then evaluates the effectiveness and efficiency of solutions and identifies needed changes.

Stakeholder Management

Actively engages partners and encourages others to build relationships that support DBSA objectives.
Understands and recognises the contributions that staff at all levels make to delivering priorities.
Proactively manages partner relationships, preventing or resolving any conflict.
Adapts style to work effectively with partners, building consensus, trust and respect.
Delivers objectives by bringing together diverse stakeholders to work effectively in partnership.

Planning and Organising

Plans and manages multiple priorities and deadlines.
Uses effectively advance time management processes to deal with high workload and tight deadlines.
Organises, prioritises and schedules tasks so they can be performed within budget and with the efficient use of time and resources.
Achieves goals in a timely manner, despite obstacles encountered, by organising, reprioritising and re-planning

Computer Literacy

Consistently uses relevant office software products such as word-processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and email packages to an acceptable standard for the job.
Has the ability to use standard and/or program-specific the organisation databases, and merge / import data from one program to another.
Adapts method of working to accommodate changes in the technological development.

Risk response and Reporting

Monitor the effectiveness of actions taken to manage identified risks and intervene as appropriate.
Understand and be able to explain the purpose of risk mitigation measures.
Understand, develop and prepare risk reporting

Required Personal Attributes
Behavioural Competencies:

Customer Service Orientation

Tries to understand the underlying needs of customers and matches these needs to available or customized products and services.
Adapts processes and procedures to meet on-going customer needs.
Utilises the feedback received by customers, in order to develop new and/or improve existing services/ products that relate to their on-going needs.
Thinks of new ways to align offerings with future customer needs.

Self-Awareness and Self Control

Withholds effects of strong emotions in difficult situations.
Keeps functioning or responds constructively despite stress.
May apply special techniques or plan of time to manage emotions or stress.

Strategic and Innovative Thinking

Experiments with new approaches, tests scenarios, questions assumptions and challenges conventional thinking.
Creates new concepts that are not obvious to others, leveraging internal and external sources of information, to build incremental revenue and growth opportunities.

Driving Delivery of Results

Sets challenging goals that will have a significant impact on the business or support the organisational strategy.
Commits significant resources and/or time to ensure that challenging goals are achieved, while also taking action to mitigate risk.

Teamwork and Cooperation

Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale and resolves conflicts.
Creates opportunities for cross-functional working.
Encourages others to network outside of their own team/department and learn from their experience.

Senior Legal Advisor – Corporate

Closing Date	2024/10/29
Reference Number	DBS240223-1
Job Title	Senior Legal Advisor – Corporate
Job Grade	18
Job Type Classification	Permanent
Location – Town / City	Midrand
Location – Province	Gauteng
Location – Country	South Africa
Job Profile (Downloadable)	Senior Legal Advisor Corporate_Job Profile Feb 2024 002.docx.pdf (374.52 kb) – 2/23/2024 9:51:32 AM

Job Description
The role of the Senior Legal Advisor is to provide leadership in the delivery of reliable, accurate, timely and well-informed advice to the DBSA on corporate legal issues including labour matters and the potential legal implications of various corporate strategies and business initiatives and projects. To provide guidance and leadership to junior legal advisors.

Key Responsibilities
Legal Advisory Functions

Provide legal advice and support to DBSA’s corporate units including Finance, Treasury, Procurement, Strategy, Human Capital, Information Communications Technology (ICT) , Communications and Marketing unit.

Research and communicate the risks and legal issues involved in a broad range of commercial transactions and operational issues specific to DBSA’s corporate unit.

Draft/vet and review a variety of corporate legal contracts including services, consultancy, software/hardware support, lease, finance and grant agreement.

Ensure compliance with various legislation, policies and regulations.

Provide general legal advice on procurement, supply chain and tender process.

Direct negotiation with the service providers and consultants.

Manage corporate litigation.

Participate in procurement and investment committees of the DBSA.

Monitor developments in the legal field and provide updates to management.

Identify matters requiring specialist legal input and instruct and liaise with appropriate external counsel.

Liaise with external attorneys and prepare comprehensive brief to attorneys where necessary.

Manage the legal budget for appointment of external legal service provider and ensure work is done cost effectively.

Key Measurements of Outputs

Time taken to prepare and or review contracts, agreements and legal opinions.

Quality and accuracy of agreements, opinions and solutions provided.

Effective management of legal claims and litigation risks.

Management of total case / agreement / opinion / other legal costs.

No litigation due to contractual errors and or omissions.

Effective monitoring of the contracts and agreements.

Clean audit.

Expertise & Technical Competencies
Minimum Requirements:

A Bachelor of Laws degree (LLB) or Legal post graduate qualification.

Admitted Attorney/Advocate of the High Court of South Africa.

A minimum of 5 years’ experience in High Court litigation and/or corporate insolvency.

A minimum of 5 years post qualification experience in a commercial/finance/banking or corporate law environment gained at a commercial banking, specialist law firm/ corporate or similar institution.

Desirable Requirements:

Private public partnership experience.

Experience in legal investment.

Technical Competencies

Written communication:

Understands that different writing styles are required for different documents or audiences.

Write effective correspondence, prepares questions and reports, statements of circumstance and briefing notes.

Reviews others’ documents for clarity and impact.

Has a solid mastery of writing principles such as grammar, sentence construction etc.

Presentation skills:

Can reinforce key presentation points with examples.

Is able to translate technical terminology into language understandable to the audience.

Has insight into the audience’s behavior and motivation and responds appropriately and professionally, adapting communication style as appropriate.

Reporting:

Designs / customizes reports to meet user needs.

Prepares complex or tailored reports, gathers information from a variety of sources, analyses and includes in a report.

Keeps standard reports under review and proposes improvements to meet user needs.

Legal Knowledge:

Extensive knowledge and understanding of the principles of DBSA.

Wide-ranging knowledge of industry best practice, and keeps abreast of, interprets and informs on developments in the area of new laws and regulations relevant to DBSA.

Legal Policy Knowledge:

Ability to represent DBSA in the court of law when required.

Ability to draft non-standard legal documents per procedures.

Ability to draft more sensitive policy and legal procedures to be followed by stakeholders of DBSA, and review and refine in response to inputs from relevant stakeholders, for approval.

Ability to understand legal rights and responsibilities and the possession of authority to make legal decisions.

Protects the organisation’s legal rights, utilizing a broad knowledge base of all major legal disciplines.

Presentation Skills:

Knows how to deliver arguments persuasively by employing a range of advanced presentation techniques (e.g., the appropriate use of body language, how to close a presentation so that the audience continues to think about the subject matter etc.).

Has knowledge of various feedback mechanisms to check levels of audience understanding. .

Business Acumen:

Takes actions to fit business strategy.

Assesses and links short-term tasks in the context of long-term business strategies or perspectives.

Reviews own actions against the organisation’s strategic plan; includes the big picture when considering possible opportunities or projects or thinks about long-term applications of current activities.

Anticipates possible responses to different initiatives.

Understands the projected direction of the industry and how changes might impact the organisation.

Negotiations:

Has an appreciation of cultural sensitivities and differences.

Effectively employs a variety of advanced behavioural/interpersonal competencies to control the negotiation situation.

Is able to take the lead in a variety of sensitive negotiation situations requiring high levels of tact and diplomacy.

Is able to place a discrete negotiation situation within the context of a broader long-term relationship and is not threatened by conceding ground to protect the longer-term interests of DBSA.

Required Personal Attributes
Behavioural Competencies

Customer Service Orientation:

Tries to understand the underlying needs of customers and matches these needs to available or customized products and services.

Adapts processes and procedures to meet on-going customer needs.

Utilises the feedback received by customers, in order to develop new and/or improve existing services/ products that relate to their on-going needs.

Thinks of new ways to align DBSA’s offerings with future customer needs.

Self-awareness and Self Control:

Withholds effects of strong emotions in difficult situations.

Keeps functioning or responds constructively despite stress.

May apply special techniques or plan ahead of time to manage emotions or stress.

Strategic and Innovative Thinking:

Experiments with new approaches, tests scenarios, questions assumptions and challenges conventional thinking.

Creates new concepts that are not obvious to others, leveraging internal and external sources of information, to build incremental revenue and growth opportunities.

Driving delivery of results:

Sets challenging goals that will have a significant impact on the business or support the organisational strategy.

Commits significant resources and/or time to ensure that challenging goals are achieved, while also taking action to mitigate risk.

Teamwork & Cooperation:

Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale and resolves conflicts.

Creates opportunities for cross-functional working.

Encourages others to network outside of their own team/department and learn from their experience.

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