Position: Divisional Head: Disaster Management
Workplace: DEMS Head Office, 3 Hawley Road, Bedfordview
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Department: Disaster and Emergency Management
Salary: R1 386 163 - R1 712 938 per annum (TCTC)
Key performance areas:
- Provide strategic direction and leadership in the development and management of Disaster Management service delivery plans in alignment with departmental operational and organisational strategic objectives in partnership with the Head of Department
- Advise and coordinate the management of strategic municipal disaster risk issues, challenges and opportunities to provide high-level disaster management strategic planning and policy advice to the Head of Department
- Strategically influence the municipal processes to improve the status of disaster management to occupy the envisaged legislative importance of the Council
- Establish and review key disaster management strategic priorities and translate them into a comprehensive disaster management strategic plan as a core component of the municipal integrated development plan (IDP)
- Lead the municipal implementation of the Disaster Management Act within the context of Disaster Management Framework including the four (4) Key Performance Areas and three (3) Enablers
- Lead the review of the Municipal Disaster Management Plan and any other Disaster Management policies and framework
- Lead and direct whole of municipal operations management responsibility for disaster preparedness and prevention by coordinating and facilitating the preparation and review of municipal departmental sector plans and assuring the adequacy of municipal departmental contingency and preparedness plans
- Advise and expedite the achievement of municipal compliance with all relevant legislative policies/procedures/standards to ensure optimum delivery of the disaster management function
- Establish and maintain strategic relationships for purposes of response expectation in disaster situations, knowledge sharing research, and coordination
- Lead, facilitate and collaborate with agencies of state and other stakeholders and develop and implement initiatives in social responsibility, community emergency preparedness training and disaster resilience programmes
- Oversee the management of the Emergency Call Taking & Dispatching Centres to ensure effective call taking and dispatching of emergency call and monitoring of pending and/or occurring disasters
- Attend to large-scale emergencies, pending and actual disasters to exercise delegated disaster management functional authority as required by legislation
- Lead and manage teams of individuals charged with executing strategies and operations
Core Requirements:
- B Degree / Advanced Diploma in Disaster Management or equivalent NQF Level 7 qualification
- 5 years’ relevant experience with at least 3 years at senior management level in Disaster Management
- Valid Driver’s License
- Strategic leadership skills
- Accountability and ethical conduct
- Knowledge of relevant legislation
- Operational financial management, planning, policy development and reporting skills
- Service delivery innovation
Enquiries: Tel: Valentine Mabena (011) 999 6353.
Note: The successful candidate who does not have the NQF Level 5 Finance Management qualification will be required to obtain it within 18 months, in terms of the National Treasury Requirement.
Appointments will be made on a 5 (five) year fixed term and will be subject to the signing of an employment contract, performance agreement and disclosure of financial interest. Candidates will be subjected to relevant competency assessment as well as security clearance / vetting processes.
Applications will not be considered if the necessary copies of the required qualifications, identity documents, driver’s license (if applicable) and current professional registration (if applicable), are not attached to the application / CV. Candidates may be requested to submit proof of the NQF level applicable to the qualifications they have obtained.
Should candidates not be informed of the outcome of the application within six weeks of the closing date, it should be regarded as having been unsuccessful.
The City of Ekurhuleni subscribes to the principles of the Employment Equity Act and reserves the right to appoint, not appoint or to appoint laterally.
