Specialist: Planning

2 weeks ago


Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa Technology Innovation Agency Full time

Job Advert Summary:

Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) is a talent driven, customer
- centric and impact focused organisation. In our endeavour to support technology innovation with socio-economic outcomes, we seek to infuse the organisation with team players that find resonance as value creators, agile thinkers, progressive attitudes, customer-centricity, dynamic work ethic and an optimistic disposition. We aim to harness these attributes in a manner that they culminate into a culture of teamwork, impact and accountability.

Job Purpose:

Responsible for strategic planning (annual performance planning and five-year strategic planning), external environment intelligence and analysis, operational planning (business unit operational planning and annual operational planning) and secretariat for the Operational Committee ('OpsCom').


Minimum Requirements:

Qualification and Experience

  • Three (3)year degree in social or natural science
  • Three (3)
  • Five (5) years' experience working in operational planning or research, development and innovation programme management or related (e.g. performance monitoring)

Knowledge and Skills

  • Statutory strategic planning, reporting, monitoring and evaluation requirements in the public sector
  • Science, technology and innovation policy
  • Socioeconomic development policies
  • Macroeconomic trends
  • Due diligence knowledge
  • Report writing skills
  • Analytical skills
  • Presentation Skills
  • Resilience and tenacity
  • Communication Skills

Duties and Responsibilities:

Financial Perspective

  • Manage the supply chain/procurement process of soliciting specialist research reports
  • Manage the costs relates to logistics of annual strategic planning events (Senior Management Team, Exco and/or Exco-Board level)
  • Provide inputs into development of the business unit budget

Stakeholder Management

  • Maintain good relations with key internal stakeholders
  • Executives, Heads of Business Units, Portfolio Managers and Coordinators
  • Maintain good relations with key external stakeholders
  • DSI, DPME, external auditor and others
  • Maintain personal and professional networks and participate in the activities of professional organisations in the NSI

Internal Processes

  • Support the coordination and development of TIA's fiveyear Strategic Plan
  • Lead the development of TIA's Annual Performance Plan, including engaging with the report editing and designing external service provider
  • Lead the coordination of the development of Operational Plans for all business units
  • Lead the development of TIA's Annual Operational Plan
  • Act as Secretariat for OpsCom
  • Undertake external environment analysis as an input for TIA's strategic planning and reporting process using conventional and nonconventional tools (e.g. SWOT, PESTEL and sociotechnical systems analysis)
  • Undertake STI policy analysis for the Board Technical Committee
  • Assess policy developments relevant to TIA, including the Presidential state of the nation address, National Treasury and DSI budget speeches, and other major developments potentially impacting on the NSI
  • Maintained detailed records of plans developed and related documents on Sedibeng (Sharepoint)
  • Identify, manage and coordinate the implementation of knowledge systems, tools and initiatives to improve the performance of TIA
  • Ensure that the unit's planning standard operating procedure/s are updated
  • Respond to internal and external audit findings

Learning and Growth

  • Live the values and culture of TIA
  • Identify and implement development opportunities to ensure continuous improvement of work effectiveness and efficiency
  • Live the values and culture of TIA
  • Identify and implement development opportunities to ensure continuous improvement of work effectiveness and efficiency


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