Industrial Development Corporation Jobs – 15 October 2026

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Project Manager (x12 month Fixed Term Contract)

Job Description

To lead the planning, execution, and delivery of strategic and operational projects, ensuring alignment to organisational priorities. The role is responsible for delivering projects within scope, time, cost, and quality, while coordinating cross-functional teams and managing stakeholders.

Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree (Business, IT, Engineering or equivalent)
• Project Management certification (PMP, PRINCE2 or equivalent)
• Experience: Minimum of 8-10 years’ project management experience, including at least 3 years managing complex, cross-functional projects in a corporate or development finance environment.
• Demonstrated experience managing the full project lifecycle, from initiation and planning through execution, monitoring, closure and benefits realisation.
• Proven experience in developing and managing project plans, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, issues, dependencies and change controls.
• Experience implementing project governance frameworks and preparing project reports, dashboards and decision-support information for senior management and governance forums.
• Proven stakeholder management experience, including coordinating multidisciplinary teams, service providers and senior stakeholders.
• Knowledge: Strong knowledge of recognised project management methodologies and standards, including PMBOK, PRINCE2, Agile or hybrid delivery approaches.
• Sound knowledge of project governance, financial management, risk and issue management, quality management, procurement and change management.
• Skills: Advanced project planning, scheduling, budgeting, reporting, facilitation, negotiation, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Proficiency in project management and reporting tools such as Microsoft Project, Excel, PowerPoint and dashboard applications.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present complex project information clearly to executive and governance audiences.

Roles and Responsibilities

This role includes the following, but is not limited to:

• Lead execution of approved projects and ensure delivery of agreed outcomes
• Develop and manage project plans, schedules, and budgets
• Implement project governance frameworks and ensure compliance
• Prepare and present project reports and dashboards
• Manage risks, issues, and dependencies (RAID)
• Coordinate stakeholders and ensure effective communication
• Manage project resources and financials
• Drive continuous improvement and delivery excellence
• Approved project charters, plans and schedules
• Regular project status reports
• Risk and issue registers
• Successful delivery of project outcomes

Job Requirements

TECHNICAL/FUCNTIONAL COMPETENCIES

• Project planning and scheduling
• Risk and financial management
• Governance and reporting
• Negotiation and Influencin

BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

• Leadership and stakeholder engagement
• Problem-solving and decision-making
• Strategic thinking and accountability

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Administrator – FTC X 18 Months

Job Description

• To provide professional, proactive and effective administration, coordination, and operational support to the ALM & Market Risk and Enterprise Risk Management departments.

Qualification and Experience

• Matric
• Relevant Diploma
• 2-5 years’ proven administrative experience, preferably supporting senior management and formal governance committees.
• Strong minute-taking and technical-writing capability, with the ability to produce clear, accurate and timely records of complex discussions.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook.
• Knowledge of SAP will be an advantage.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, multiple committee cycles and tight deadlines.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively across ERM, ALM & Market Risk and other stakeholder departments.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Provide ongoing secretarial and general administrative support to ERM and ALM & Market Risk.
• Coordinate annual committee calendars, schedule meetings and manage related correspondence, venues and logistics.
• Prepare agendas, collate and quality-check meeting packs, distribute documents within agreed timelines and maintain governance records.
• Record accurate minutes of technically complex discussions, maintain decision and action registers, and follow up with responsible officials until matters are closed.
• Support the ERM Forum, ALCO and related special meetings and technical subcommittees.
• Coordinate ERM risk workshops, including scheduling sessions, issuing invitations, confirming attendance, preparing workshop materials and arranging venues or virtual meeting facilities.
• Provide administrative support for risk assessments by coordinating information requests,
• circulating templates, consolidating submissions and monitoring completion against agreed timelines.
• Maintain risk issue, action and recommendation trackers; obtain progress updates from responsible stakeholders; and escalate overdue or incomplete responses to the relevant Risk Manager.
• Maintain orderly and complete records of risk workshops, assessments, supporting evidence, approvals, correspondence and agreed actions in the relevant repositories.
• Assist with compiling routine management information on the status of risk assessments, workshops, outstanding issues and action closures for review by the ERM Risk Managers

Roles and Responsibilities (cont.)

• Coordinate stakeholder follow-ups and reminders required to support timely completion of ERM deliverables, while substantive risk analysis and second-line assurance remain the responsibility of the Risk Managers.
• Draft and format memoranda, reports, presentations and other departmental correspondence.
• Manage the diaries and meeting commitments of the Heads of ERM and ALM & Market Risk, with priorities agreed between the departments.
• Coordinate travel arrangements, claims, SAP-related administration and payment processing for the Heads and teams, as required.
• Liaise with Group Secretariat, Corporate Treasury and other internal stakeholders to support the effective functioning of the departments and their governance structures

Job Requirements

TECHNICAL/FUCNTIONAL COMPETENCIES

• Strong minute-taking and technical-writing capability
• Strong planning, organisational and stakeholder-coordination skills
• High levels of accuracy, discretion and confidentiality.
• Ability to liaise and engage with internal and external clients
• Customer service skills

BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES

• Interpersonal skills
• Communication skills (both written and verbal)
• Ability to multi-task and thrive under work pressure
• Teamwork and Collaboration

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Legal Advisor

Synopsis

Key functions of the position include:
•To provide legal advice.
•To ensure compliance with internal legal and other IDC procedures and policies.
•To identify and minimize potential legal risks.
•To draft, review and negotiate agreements and other legal documentation ensure client satisfaction by providing speedy delivery of agreements and advice.
•Conducting due diligence investigations.
•Instruct and liaise with external legal counsel.

Qualification and Experience

•Law degree and Admission as an Attorney essential
•A minimum of 5 years’ working experience in either: a law firm or corporation with exposure in either, project finance, or corporate finance; or debt and equity funding, of which two (2) years must be post- articles experience in the finance or commercial sector.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Provide general legal advice, including legal research
• Structure, restructure, negotiate and re-negotiate corporate and commercial transactions including project finance and cross-border financing transactions
• Identify, evaluate and structure import and export finance transactions
• Ensure compliance with internal legal and other IDC procedures and policies
• Identify and minimize potential legal risks
• Draft, review, negotiate and re-negotiate/restructure financing agreements and other legal documentation
• Make presentations and opine on legal and regulatory developments
• Conducting legal due diligence investigations
• Ensure efficiencies aimed at improving client satisfaction by providing efficient legal services
• Developing and maintaining relationships with providers of legal services (including, external legal counsels, business rescue practitioners and other key stakeholders)
• Develop and maintain client and institutional relationships, internally, locally and internationally

Job Requirements

TECHNICAL/FUCNTIONAL COMPETENCIES
Analytical and problem-solving
Negotiation and Influencing
Attention to detail
Planning and Organizing
Professionalism and discretionary

BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
Results Oriented.
Ethical Commitment
Balanced Judgment and accountable leadership
Relationship Building & Networking
Ability to work independently and within a team.
Collaboration and Influence
Legally Sound Judgment
Good Communication Skills
Change agent and strategic thinker

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Senior Strategist – Corporate Plan

Job Description

To lead and coordinate the development, review and approval of the IDC’s Corporate Plan and corporate scorecard, ensuring alignment with the IDC’s corporate objectives and long-term strategy, and to contribute to the development and implementation of associated strategic and business plans

Qualification and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field
• Honours Degree, Masters/ MBA or MBL will be added advantage
• Minimum 8 – 10 years’ experience in the development and implementation of a business strategy in a relevant environment.
• Understanding of the relevant legislation and regulations governing Corporate planning.
• Knowledge of the Development Finance sector.
• Understanding of Economics/Socio-Economics/Development Economics.
• Understanding of Financial planning, analysis and strategic financial policy development
• Understanding of performance management principles.
• Broad knowledge and understanding of Government policy priorities.
• Understanding of change management and business process re-engineering.
• Good understanding of Excel, Word, PowerPoint, MS Project.

Roles and Responsibilities

The duties include but are not limited to:

• Responsible for the development, review and approval of the IDC’s five-year corporate plan (including corporate scorecard) and coordinating all internal stakeholders relevant to the review of the corporate plan.
• Compile and deliver presentations for internal and external platforms on the IDC’s strategy and Corporate Plan, including engagements with employees, Exco, the IDC Board, Shareholder, Parliament Portfolio Committee, the dtic, National Treasury, investors, other DFIs and relevant stakeholders.
• Participating in and coordinating strategic sessions where IDC key objectives are set and/or reviewed to inform IDC strategic plans, e.g. Board Strategy Sessions, Exco/Manco strategy sessions.
• Lead and coordinate the annual Business Planning process across the IDC, including guiding SBUs and Enablement departments in the development of their business plans and ensuring alignment with the IDC’s strategy, Corporate Plan and corporate objectives.
• Responsible for the development of Corporate KPIs and Targets to ensure they are aligned to the Corporate Plan. Furthermore, ensure that the cascading of Corporate targets to Divisions, SBUs and Departments is completed timeously
• Participating in the development and/or review of IDC long-term strategy and associated plans.
• Development and ongoing review of IDC’s corporate-wide performance measurement system.
• Providing strategic, tactical, policy information -statistical and otherwise-to input into IDC corporate planning and decision-making processes.
• Monitoring the changes in IDC’s operating environment (especially developments in the industrial development space such as government masterplans, industrial development strategy, SONA announcements) and advising the Corporation accordingly.
• To participate and advocate for IDC position in emerging national legislation and policy.
• Participate in the onboarding of new employees by providing an overview of the IDC’s strategy, Corporate Plan, Business Plans, strategic objectives and corporate performance framework.
• Mentoring and coaching junior members of the team.
• Communication of corporate performance and strategies throughout the corporation.

Job Requirements

TECHNICAL/FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES
• Report writing skills
• Formulating strategies and concepts
• Creating and innovating
• Project management skills
• Prioritisation skills
• Analytical skills
• Entrepreneurial and commercial thinking
• Planning and organising skills
• Coaching and mentoring

BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
• Adapting and responding to changeDeciding and initiating action skills
• Relating and networking skills
• Negotiating and influencing skills
• Presentation skills
• Communication Skills

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Compliance Monitoring Specialist

Synopsis

The Compliance Monitoring Specialist (“Monitoring Specialist”) will be working within the Compliance and Regulatory Affairs Department of the IDC and will be carrying out compliance monitoring reviews to ensure that business is meeting its regulatory obligations and compliance risks are mitigated.

The monitoring specialist is required to complete high quality monitoring reviews from planning to reporting, to contribute to the implementation of the CRAD’s compliance monitoring methodology and processes, and to ensure that IDC and all its subsidiaries are conducting business in accordance with applicable pieces of legislation and regulations and relevant codes and standards.

Qualification and Experience

•A bachelor’s degree in business related discipline; LLB, B Com Law, BA Law, Risk Management
•Post-graduate Compliance Qualification will have an added advantage
•CPRAC Qualification from CISA will have an added advantage
•Minimum of 5 to 8 years relevant and practical compliance monitoring or regulatory compliance risk management experience
•Member of the Compliance Institute of Southern Africa

Roles and Responsibilities

•Develop a risk based annual compliance monitoring plan to ensure coverage of key compliance risks across IDC and subsidiaries for board approval. Work with the Compliance Manager to regularly assess the relevance and focus of the Compliance Monitoring Plan
•Execute the board approved compliance monitoring plan and ensure that monitoring reviews are strategic and structural to deliver the required level of assurance within the agreed timelines as per the compliance monitoring schedule.
•Implement the CRAD’s annual compliance monitoring plan by performing complex monitoring reviews, producing quality compliance monitoring results and providing compliance advice and guidance to business to achieve regulatory compliance outcomes.
•Develop and implement the Compliance Risk Management Plans (CRMPs) and perform compliance monitoring reviews by doing the following:
•identifying and risk rating of the applicable provisions
(i)identifying, analysing and testing controls;
(ii)Undertaking thorough process, system and business walkthroughs and applying best practice sampling mechanisms to form a reasonable assurance view
(iii)identifying potential areas or compliance vulnerability and risk;
(iv)Properly prepare and record working papers;
(v)present the monitoring outcomes to business stakeholders;
•To provide assurance to the board and relevant sub-committees on the adequacy and effectiveness of controls and systems developed by business, including adherence to regulatory requirements.
•Deliver high-quality compliance monitoring reports regarding compliance risks that have been identified through compliance monitoring reviews and provide recommendations on sustainable remedial plans
•Provide timely communication on the results of compliance monitoring reviews to SBUs/Departments, and management as and when the identified gaps are confirmed, present and submit these monitoring reports to relevant stakeholders in line with the requirements of the CRAD monitoring process and plan.
•Develop and monitor the issue log/tracker to ensure the information is accurate, valid and supported by factual evidence and manage record-keeping of all review documentation in the relevant SharePoint folders. Take ownership for reporting issues raised during reviews to ensure effective resolution of issues within agreed timeframes.
•Provide independent compliance advisory services through the development of recommendations for improvements to controls and processes, which will ensure adherence to legislative requirements and mitigation of regulatory risks.
•Continuously develop and improve the monitoring methodology and overall approach to conducting monitoring reviews and stay abreast of relevant trends and typologies to utilize this information to inform the IDC Compliance Monitoring Framework.
•Pro-actively engage with stakeholders at all levels and build collaborative, effective relationships across the business and other assurance providers to contribute effectively to the execution of reviews and enhance knowledge and understanding of the IDC business operations.
•Drive continuous improvement across the business by ensuring that statutory and legislative knowledge is always current, and stakeholders are engaged effectively to facilitate the establishment of a compliance culture that contributes to prudent risk management.
•Keep abreast with IDC internal business context, standards, and goals.
•Contribute to the drafting and revision of company policies.

Job Requirements

TECHNICAL/FUCNTIONAL COMPETENCIES
Planning and organized approach to work, ensure that daily tasks are performed timely, and be able to adapt to short-term changes quickly and calmly
Must be able to interpret and apply legislation to varying business environments within the IDC
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and must be able to analyse data and interpret results
Strong presentation, negotiating and influencing skills
Possess excellent communication skills and present concepts clearly and concisely 

BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES
Highly detail-oriented and meticulous
High level of integrity and ethical standards
Professional, proactive, independent thinker able to work and drive forward key activities under own initiative.
Ability to interpret complex regulatory requirements and effectively operationalise them in a way that is tailored to the relevant audience
Ability to work independently, as part of a team and emotional intelligence
Positive approachable open-door mind set which is solution focused and balancing business imperatives

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