Director: Local Government Supply Chain Management

**Job Purpose**:
The Western Cape Government is looking to employ a dynamic, high performing individual to effectively manage the Directorate: Local Government Supply Chain Management. This is a demanding and exciting position at the head of a high performing Treasury team.

**Minimum Requirements**:

- A appropriate B degree;
- A minimum of 6 years relevant middle management experience;
- The successful completion of the Senior Management Pre-entry Programme (see paragraph 4 in notes below).

**Recommendation**:
None

**Key Performance Areas**:
**1. Line Management**: Strategic management, guidance and advice in respect of local government supply chain management and asset management. This includes the following functional areas of service delivery:

- Setting best practice norms and standards.
- Ensure and enforce compliance, i.e. proper assessment, guiding and monitoring to norms and standards.
- Support and assist municipalities to improve their functional capacity.
- Manage information and collate data related to bid awards to assess supplier spread, socio-economic (BEE and buy local) impact and actual bid practices.
- Guide appeal processes and responding to supplier complaints after due process has been followed.
- Assess alleged malpractices and possible collusive tendering practices and recommend to the relevant Council.
- Guide and assist municipalities with asset management implementation
- Supporting municipalities through technology efficiencies to improve supply chain management and asset management governance and performance.
- Foster BBBEE / SMME development (shared across the provincial and municipal spheres), which would include developing relationships with specifically SMME vendors in support of a preferential procurement strategy.

**2. Strategic Management**:

- Define and review on a continual basis the purpose, objectives, priorities and activities of the Directorate.
- Participate in the Branch strategic planning process.
- Active involvement in the development and management of the strategic and business plans for the Directorate.
- Evaluate the performance of the Directorate on a continuing basis against pre-determined key measurable objectives and standards.
- Report to the Senior Executive Manager on a regular basis on the activities of the Directorate.
- Monitor and ensure compliance with relevant legislation and prescripts in respect of adequate and appropriate record keeping of the activities of the Directorate, and of the resources employed by it.

**3. Human Resource Management**:

- Participation in the recruitment of staff in the numbers and grades appropriate to ensure the achievement of the Directorate’s Business Plan.
- Motivate, train and guide staff within the Directorate, to achieve and maintain excellence in service delivery.
- Actively manage the performance, evaluation and rewarding of staff within the Directorate.
- Monitor information capacity building within the Directorate.
- Active involvement in the compilation of a human resource plan, a service delivery improvement programme, and an information resources plan for the Directorate.
- Promote sound labour relations within the Directorate.
- Actively manage and promote the maintenance of discipline within the Directorate.

**4. **Financial Management**:

- Active participation in the budgeting process at Branch level.
- Preparing of the Annual and Adjustment Budgets for the Directorate.
- Assume direct responsibility for the efficient, economic and effective control and management of the Directorate’s budget and expenditure.
- Assume direct responsibility for ensuring that the correct tender and procurement procedures are adhered to in respect of purchases for the Directorate.
- Report to the Programme Manager on all aspects of the Directorate’s
- Perform diligently all duties assigned by the Programme Manager.
- Assume overall responsibility for the management, maintenance and safekeeping of the Directorate’s
- Ensure that full and proper records of the financial affairs of the Directorate are kept in accordance with any prescribed norms and standards.

**Competencies**:
**Knowledge**
- Knowledge of the human resources management function.
- Knowledge of Constitutional, legal and institutional arrangements governing the South Africa public sector
- Knowledge of provincial policy development processes.
- Knowledge of the policies of the government of the day.
- Knowledge of strategy development, strategy management and strategy monitoring and review processes.
- Knowledge of financial management processes.
- Proven knowledge on Strategic Sourcing and Preferential Procurement / BEE.
- Broad knowledge on procurement activities.
- Knowledge on industry trends and best practices per commodity groups.
- Knowledge of procurement best practices including sourcing strategies and the different mechanisms for procurement.
- Knowledge on Procurement policies/procedures/contract management.
- Research and reporti