British High Commission South Africa Jobs - Procurement Reform Programme Regional Delivery Manager
British High Commission South Africa Jobs - Procurement Reform Programme Regional Delivery Manager
Job Category Foreign and Commonwealth Office (Policy & Political roles)
Job Subcategory
Economic and Prosperity
Job Description (Roles and Responsibilities)
Main purpose of job:
On 25 November 2015, the UK Chancellor announced a new cross-Whitehall Prosperity Fund with the primary aim of supporting growth in partner countries.
This came into effect on 1 April 2016. South Africa has been identified as a priority partner country for the Fund, and the Prime Minister announced around £50m of such programmes for South Africa during her bilateral meeting with South Africa’s President Ramaphosa in London in April 2018.
The Anti-Corruption programme is one of ten Prosperity Fund programmes operating or in development in South Africa.
It has a number of sub-programmes, the largest of which is designed to reform public procurement systems.
It is known as the Global Digital Marketplace Programme (GDMP), delivered globally by the UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS).
The programme’s objective is to transform the way government buys technology and digital services by opening the market up to small and medium-sized enterprise suppliers.
It is designed to support the South African Government’s procurement to become more transparent, accountable, and efficient by working in partnership with the South African Government at all levels, to deploy the GDMP platform, using local resources, global best practice and building capability at a local level .
We are advertising for a Regional Delivery Manager to lead this programme in Southern Africa, and ensure the wider components of the Anti-Corruption Prosperity Fund programme that are active in this region are appropriately monitored and coordinated with the GDMP programme.
These other components are smaller scale and more regional in nature, covering 1) the UN Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC)’s delivery of a regional programme to support institutional implementation of the UN Convention Against Corruption (UNCAC); and 2) the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)’s establishment of global online advice to public and private sector globally to fight corruption.
As role-holder you will work with the UK GDS team to define and design the Discovery and Delivery programme phases.
You will also work with multidisciplinary international teams to successfully deliver the scope of work, agreed between the regional teams and GDMP team in London.
It will be a challenging and rewarding role with regional travel.
Roles and responsibilities:
The Regional Delivery Manager – Southern Africa, will be responsible for all local delivery of the GDMP, and of supporting components of the broader Anti-Corruption Programme. In practice this means:
GDMP Discovery phase design and management
Provision of digital procurement specialist advice and direction during the programme Discovery and Delivery design phase;
Regional Discovery phase leadership, resulting in provision of the regional findings and recommendations that will guide the next steps and stages of the programme.
Developing a strategy for regional GDMP roll-out, ensuring alignment with wider Anti-Corruption programme goals, the GDMP strategy, and regional economic integration dynamics
GDMP Southern Africa region - delivery oversight
Working with the regional delivery teams to ensure that the agreed programme scope is delivered, on time and budget;
Making sure that the regional teams clearly understand the vision and goals;
Supporting the regional teams with identification and management of any key programme risks and issues; decisions making process;
Coaching the regional teams to apply most appropriate agile and lean tools and techniques for their environment to deliver the programme;
Working with the regional teams to support continuous improvement to programme delivery methodology and approach by running regular retrospectives/lessons learnt;
Core regional delivery team resourcing oversight;
Sharing best practices of digital service delivery and government transformation with the regional teams;
Interacting regularly with the regional
delivery teams and being the first point of contact on all delivery matters;
Owning and communicating progress updates to UK programme leadership and key governance stakeholders;
Interacting regularly with FCO, NCA, DFID and other cross government stakeholders working on corruption issues in the Region;
Working closely with the other, in-region, PF Anti-Corruption programme strands (as mentioned, this is principally UNODC and OECD) to ensure coherence with the overall delivery.
Tracking and oversight of programme spend and forecast on a regular basis;
Regional budget reporting to the programme leadership, as required;
Regular reviews and management of key performance indicators (KPIs), by working with the regional teams and Business Analysts in the UK team;
Regional KPI reporting to the programme leadership on a regular basis
Oversight of c. £1m of programme activity in South Africa
Essential qualifications, skills and experience
Bachelor or undergraduate level degree OR at least 3 years work experience in a related field of anti-corruption work and/or programme delivery
Experience of managing or advising large reform programmes, including agile delivery
Experience of KPI monitoring and evaluation
Experience of budget monitoring and reporting
Excellent communication and people skills
Excellent leadership skills
Fluent in English
Desirable qualifications, skills and experience
A formal programme management qualification
Understanding and experience of digital transformation in procurement
Understanding and experience of digital service delivery in government
Experience working in an international environment within the Southern Africa region, managing various levels of stakeholders
Required competencies
Seeing the Big Picture, Leading and Communicating, Collaborating and Partnering, Engaging Internationally
Other benefits and conditions of employment
Learning and development opportunities:
The job provides an excellent opportunity to acquire and/or deepen skills in policy formulation, influencing, including at very senior levels of host government, and programme management.
You will have access to learning and development opportunities through the Prosperity Fund Management Office (London-based) as well as in the role.
Pretoria hosts a Regional Learning and Development Centre.
Once you have successfully completed your probation the British High Commission will contribute 9% of your monthly salary to a Provident Fund.
Annual leave entitlement of 25 days
Working hours per week of 36.5
Additional information
Please complete the application form in full as the information provided is used during screening.
Please check your application carefully before you submit, as no changes can be made once submitted.
The British High Commission will never request any payment or fees to apply for a position.
Employees recruited locally by the British High Commission in Pretoria are subject to Terms and Conditions of Service according to local employment law in South Africa.
All candidates must be legally able to work and reside in the country of the vacancy with the correct visa/work permit status or demonstrate eligibility to obtain the relevant permit.
The responsibility lies on the successful candidate to;
Obtain the relevant permit
Pay fees for the permit
Make arrangements to relocate
Meet the costs to relocation
The British High Commission do not sponsor visas/work permits except where it may be local practice to do so.
Employees who are not eligible to pay local income tax: e.g. certain third-country nationals and spouses/partners of UK diplomats will have their salaries abated by an equivalent amount.
Information about the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Competency Framework can be found on this link: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/civil-service-competency-framework Please note: AA=A1, AO=A2, EO=B3, HEO=C4, SEO=C5
Reference checking and security clearances will be conducted on successful candidates.
Please log into your profile on the application system on a regular basis to review the status of your application.
How to Apply
Interested candidates should apply online by 9 January 2019
For more information and job application details, see; British High Commission South Africa Jobs - Procurement Reform Programme Regional Delivery Manager
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