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Land and Agricultural
Development Bank of South AfricaCareersManager: Strategy Planning, Monitoring and EvaluationDetailsClosing Date 2024/05/20
Reference Number LAN240513-2
Job Title Manager: Strategy Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
Division Land Bank Insurance Company
Unit LBIC
Job Type Classification Permanent
Location - Country South Africa
Location - Province Gauteng
Location - Town / City Centurion
Job Advert Summary(Land Bank) is South Africas only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the banks sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach. These services enable farmers to finance land, equipment, improve assets and obtain production credit. The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry. As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people.MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOBPrime contributor to the development of the Land Bank Insurance (LBIs) strategic plan/corporate plan in support of the Head of Risk and Strategy. To produce strategy documents which are instrumental in facilitating the definition and execution of the LBI strategy and to lead the planning process to achieve the intended objectives and positioning of the Insurance through strategy themes. Responsible for the monitoring, evaluating and reporting on the execution of the Insurance s Corporate Strategic Plan - including the Insurance s Corporate Performance Scorecard, Quarterly Reports to National Treasury, and the Integrated Annual Report.
Key Performance Areas1. Design, coordinate and implement a monitoring and evaluation framework to enable LBI to report on the outcomes/results of the LBI strategy, in particular its development impact

• Develop an overall framework for monitoring and evaluation for LBI to report on the outcomes/results of the Insurance strategy and its development impact at various levels in the organisation
• Develop baseline data whenever an indicator is identified for strategy and development reporting
• Identify training needs, organise and undertake training on monitoring and evaluation as required
• Collect data on a regular basis to achieve measurement against the performance indicators
• Analyse data, aggregate findings and produce regular reports on progress
• Identify lessons learned, develop case studies and produce documentation to capture and communicate qualitative findings on performance
• Identify indicators to be developed and reported in terms of strategy and development impact assessment.

2. Support corporate reporting framework by providing content for the Integrated Report, Corporate Plan and other mandatory/regulatory reports

• As part of the Risk and Strategy team, identifies content requirements for Integrated Report, Corporate Plan and other relevant corporate reports related to the LBIs strategy and development impact
• Identify additional indicators and data to be collected in monitoring and evaluation framework to support corporate reporting process
• Writes relevant content for reports at a standard suitable for external publication
• Supports General Manager: Corporate Strategy and Innovation to collate content and document case studies as required

3. Provide Input and Support in other Product Development Projects

• Based on results of monitoring and evaluation activities, identify opportunities to develop new or refine existing financial products for clients
• Provide input to product development specialist and support process to develop relevant products with the necessary information from the monitoring and evaluation outputs
• Ensure new indicators are identified and incorporated in the monitoring and development framework when new or refined financial products are launched
• Incorporate product related reporting in monitoring and evaluation framework

4. Project manage and facilitate the Strategy Planning Process for the Insurance Business

• Communicates planning requirements to stakeholders
• Ensures milestones are not slipping during planning process.
• Conducts analysis to inform the strategic decisions
• Prepares the approach and content for the Board Strategy session
• Ensures that strategy documentation is filed and archived
• Ensures planning is carried out in accordance with the allocated time frame
• Analyses and reviews the planning implementation schedule on an on-going basis throughout the planning in order to make planning recommendations to line management
• Attends regular progress meetings with internal and external stakeholders to obtain feedback on the status of the planning

5. Monitor, Evaluate and Report Progress for internal (Insurance) and external (including shareholder/National Treasury, regulator and other Key Stakeholders) communication.

• Project manages and facilitates content compilation of the Integrated Annual Report.
• Coordinate service provider delivery.
• Identifies and escalates organisational impediments to achievement.
• Proactively evaluates progress towards achieving the strategy and identifies risk areas of non-achievement.

Quarterly Reporting - Internal Committees; Board and National Treasury * Generate reports (including Managing Directors reports and Quarterly NT Reports) and slides for submission to shareholders e.g. National Treasury.

• Managing board level communications by preparing and creating meeting materials, presentations, report outs, memos and minutes,

Strategy performance

• Develops strategy maps to enable key themes or commitments to be properly tracked.
• Allocates appropriate metrics to each strategy map to enable the Business to measure achievement effectively.
• Implements, tracks and reports on strategy achievement in the Business at divisional, management and individual level.
• Provides data on key functional commitments by the Business and tracking on achievement of these commitments to enable shortfalls to be addressed timeously by senior management.

Preferred Minimum Education and Experience

• A relevant Bachelors degree in Business Management, Economics, Financial Management or related field.
• 5 years experience in the monitoring and evaluation space preferably within a Development Finance

Intuition of similar; or * 5 years experience in strategy planning, strategy formulation and strategy development

• 5 years experience in the corporate strategy planning and reporting environment
• 5 yeras experience within the monitoring evaluation and reporting
• 5 years Co-ordination and preparation of performance monitoring and reporting against organisational strategy and corporate plan

Critical Competencies

• Advanced Microsoft Office
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Integrated reporting
• Technical writing
• Planning Software Principles
• Business Acumen
• Presentation Skills
• Agriculture and Environment Management
• Developing and refining data collection tools
• Conducting and Managing surveys
• Designing and Conducting training

Additional Requirements

• Extended hours as and when required.
• Travel as and when required.

PolicyPreference will be given to suitably qualified Applicants who are members of the designated groups in line with the Employment Equity Plan and Targets of the Land Bank.Registered Credit Provider: NCRCP18 | VAT number: 4560121081xc2xa9 LAND BANK. All rights reserved.ProcessingDelete Account?Remove Personal Information?Cancel Request to Remove Personal Information?Terms & ConditionsIncomplete ProfileYou need a complete profile before you can make applications. Would you like to complete your profile now?Incomplete ApplicationsYou have incomplete applications, view the application to completeApplyNothing yet!Profile Import OptionsLog In Only: Just log in and do not change my profile.Import and Keep: Import my profile and update matched sections. KEEP sections that do not match. Be sure to clean up any duplicates.Import and Delete: Import my profile and update matched sections. DELETE sections that do not match.

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