DEVELOPMENT OFFICER: NORTHERN CAPE

Purpose
The position will work with Civil Society organisations (CSOs) to empower them to: identify their assets, needs, opportunities, rights and responsibilities; plan what they want to achieve and take appropriate action and develop activities to provide and improve on their community development/poverty alleviation programmes and services. In addition, the position will facilitate capacity building programmes for the CSOs in the district.
Reports To: Provincial Manager
Position location: Provincial Office
Salary: Grade 9
Number of Direct Reports: None

MAIN AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
CSOs mobilisation
 Conduct CSOs mobilisations through community entry and engagement processes for purposes of mapping CSOs needs in a local area
 Identify CSOs, including ECD centres and Cooperatives skills, assets, issues and needs for development support;
 Produce CSOs community profiles and needs assessments reports for purposes of developing effective development interventions for local CSOs
 Provide capacity building and CSOs support interventions to ensuring that local CSOs, including ECD centres and Cooperatives have functional structures and systems to support their operations;
 Conduct CSOs dialogues to foster local based networks and provide platforms for CSOs at local level to plan integrated community development programmes driven by the CSOs
 Identify resources with the local CSOs including ECD centres and Cooperatives to support their existing community programmes in line with local development needs;
 Assist CSOs, including ECD Centres and Cooperatives in formally registration processes with relevant registration body
 Develop a data base of all CSOs including ECD Centres and cooperatives with all relevant information required in the database in the Wards you are responsible for in a district municipality.
 Building links with local funders, donors, government departments and other agencies for partnerships with CSOs including ECD centres and Cooperatives at local level;
 raise public awareness, through dialogues and public engagements on issues relevant to the community and CSOs including ECD centres, Cooperatives operations in the local area;
 Liaising with interested groups and individuals to mobilise local resources including financial resources to support local CSOs including ECD centres and Cooperatives work in the local area;
 Mediating in matters of conflict within the CSOs including ECD centres and Cooperatives and within the CSOs sector in general;
 Planning, attending and coordinating meetings and events for CSOs including ECD centres and Cooperatives and community;
 Preparing reports and submit monthly reports with portfolio of evidence on time to the Development Coordinator;
 To mobilise the various kinds of ECD centres to participate in the NDA SAECD Awards at provincial level
 Providing support to CSOs including ECD centres and cooperatives that are non-compliant with their registration requirements
 Participate in the selection, short listing, site visit and adjudication of the national categories and provincial categories.

CSOs capacity building
 Identify institutional Capacity Building needs for CSOs working in the Wards you are responsible for in the District Municipality.
 Identify the interventions needed by CSOs, including ECD Centres and Cooperatives in the district you are working ins
 Group and classify CSOs, including ECD centres and Cooperatives, according to the needs analysis and interventions required to improve their capabilities and quality of service
 Prioritise capacity building interventions required by the CSOs, including ECD Centres and cooperatives, according to the needs of the organisations
 Draw Capacity Building Plan (indicating the dates, venue, number of participants and the intervention).
 Train, mentor, incubate e and support CSOs, including ECD centres and Cooperatives that require institutional capacity strengthening
 Refer and link CSOs, including ECD Centres and Cooperatives that require technical training and support to relevant institutions and conduct follow up to assess progress.
 Manage logistics for all capacity building events; schedules training sessions and ensures facility setup and communication to the participating communities
 Participate in relevant Sector Education Training Ensuring that Capacity building interventions take place as planned
 Monitor and evaluate the use, relevance and impact of training materials
 Continually assess the effectiveness of programs developed and/or administered.
 Ensure compliance to curriculum delivery standards and implement monitoring systems and procedures
 Identify and engage with relevant stakeholders for Capacity Building.
 Liaise and manage relationships with other capacity building strategic partners involved in capacity building.
 Ensure regular information sharing of the activities of the capacity building programme within NDA
 Prepare reports on to Capacity Building with regard to the implementation of capacity building programmes or operational issues.
 Ensure that proper record keeping (statistics) are retained and updated regularly and prepare and submit statistical/statutory reporting as appropriate

KEY RELATIONSHIP INTERFACES
Internal Relationships - other than reporting lines (manager and subordinates). *
 CSOs Mobilisation and Capacity Building Managers and Specialists
 M & E Officers
 District Administrators
 Development Officers in District
 Provincial Manager
 Development Managers

External Relationships (With Local/Provincial structures and other key parties, specify)
 CSOs
 Local government officials
 Community Development Workers in the district

Application details: Full Job profiles for these positions are available on the NDA website – www.nda.org.za. A detailed Curriculum Vitae (CV), with three references must accompany the application and a fully completed application for employment form obtainable on www.nda.org.za must be emailed to careers@nda.org.za.

Correspondence will be limited to shortlisted candidates only. Preference will be given to candidates whose appointment will promote NDA Employment Equity targets.

NB: Use the job reference as a subject line (heading of the email application) e.g. Reference no: 2022DONC- 05 for the first position. An email without the reference number as a subject/heading will be disqualified. Please ensure that the reference number is written the same way as in the advert.

Failure to submit a detailed CV, fully completed application form and comply with the application instructions above will result in the disqualification of your application.

For enquiries regarding these positions, please contact Ms Nonhlanhla Zulu at Tel: 011 018 5523/ 067 839 4087

Should you not be contacted within two months of the closing date of this advert, please consider your application as unsuccessful. All candidates will be subjected to personnel suitability checks, qualification verification and competency assessment where required.

Closing date: 16 November 2022.

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