Entry Date: 11 Feb 2024
Expiry Date: 18 Feb 2024
The Housing Development Agency (HDA) is a national public sector development agency that inter alia has the mandate to identify, acquire, prepare, and develop suitable land for human settlements. The agency also undertakes the programme and project management for development of housing and human settlements. The HDA carries out its functions in partnership with a range of stakeholders including national, provincial, and local government as well as with communities, developers, and financiers. Established in 2009, the Agency was established by an Act of Parliament in 2008 and is accountable through its Board to the Minister of Human Settlements.
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The HDA has the following Three Year Fixed-term contract position:
Officer: Conveyancing
Location: Head Office, Johannesburg
Reporting Line: Manager: Land Acquisitions
Reference: HDAOC016
Main Purpose: To process documents for the registration of transfers, servitudes, bonds (including cancellations), any other real right about land or serviced stands by service providers and related contracts (including leases) and documents required for such transactions in terms of applicable internal policy and legislation.
Key Responsibility Areas
1. Conveyancing
• Process and agree contracts, transfers, mortgages, and leases and draw up all the documents that sellers and purchasers must sign in the course of a transaction.
• Drafting or checking contracts and agreeing terms with the conveyancer acting for the other party to the transaction.
• Collating and sending or checking supporting legal and financial documents for all related transactions.
• Carry out and check pre-contract searches by checking whether the property is affected by local authority proposals, leases, mortgages, land tax, or liability for unsound building structures and repairs.
• Paying Stamp taxes and dealing with the registration of client and lender with the Land Registry.
• To liaise with clients, estate agents, commercial agents, mortgage lenders and solicitors at every stage of the transaction.
2. Land Acquisition
• Undertaking deed searches required for the purposes of the land acquisition or disposal transaction.
• Ensuring that the conveyancing transactions are undertaken in accordance with the applicable policies.
• Processing reports and memos relating to land acquisition transaction for approval by management.
• Navigate the public sector landscape to expedite release of land for human settlements.
• Manage private land acquisition transactions to ensure transparency, accountability, and compliance with these transactions.
• Prepare and/or oversee the necessary documentation and/or correspondence required for the various approvals in the land acquisition value chain from the various role players as well as the HDA Board, National Treasury and Accounting Authority.
3. Reporting
• Compile and collate land acquisition reports on a monthly and quarterly basis.
• Compile all required land acquisition statistics.
• Manage and administer land acquisition budgets.
• Manage and administer land acquisition files and records.
4. Land Transfer
• Assist in the development and implementation of HDA land transfer policies, procedures, and practices.
• Ensure appropriate legal agreements in place to ensure successful land transactions.
• Facilitate signature of disposal agreements by beneficiaries and the relevant stakeholders.
• Manage the legal transfer of land including processing invoices.
• Manage legal service providers to ensure effective transfer of land.
• Engage with relevant local government structures to expedite transfer of land through ensuring that all administrative, financial, and regulatory requirements are met.
5. Qualifications & Experience
• A relevant degree/diploma or a certificate in the legal property and/or conveyancing environment
• Experience in the public sector asset management environment is required.
• 3 – 5 years’ experience in the property acquisition and development environment is required.
• Knowledge of housing and human settlements policy and legislation is recommended.
• Experience in the housing / human settlements environment is preferable.
Remuneration Scale: R 394 200 – R 492 750 per annum (All inclusive)
Closing date for applications is 18 February 2024
To submit your application, please send an email HDARECRUITLAND@thehda.co.za
When submitting your application for a position, please adhere to the following:
1. CVs received after the closing date will NOT be considered.
2. The Job Title and Reference number for the relevant position must appear in the subject line of your application.
3. The CV must be in PDF format.
4. Certified copies of all qualifications must be provided.
5. Certified copies of identity document must be provided.
6. Two contactable references must be provided.
Kindly take note if you have not been contacted within twenty-one (21) working days of the closing date; please consider your application unsuccessful. Should you not comply with the above requirements your application will NOT be considered.
Conditions of service: The HDA is an equal opportunity employer ● Appointments will be made in accordance with the HDA Employment Equity policy ● The HDA reserves the right not to make an appointment. We thank all applicants for their interest.
Communication will be conducted with short-listed applicants only.
The HDA operates in accordance with the Protection of Personal Information Act 3 of 2013 (“POPI Act”), and by submitting your personal information to the HDA (by way of application and/or providing any other documentation as may be required during the recruitment process), you agree that the HDA may utilise and process your personal information in accordance with the POPI Act.
