Entry Date: 22 Jan 2025
Expiry Date: 29 Jan 2025
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.
For more information about the HDA, please visit our website: www.thehda.co.za
The HDA has the following: Three-year Fixed Term contract position.
Postion: PROJECT MANAGER: ENGINEER
Location: Head Office – Johannesburg
Reporting Line: Programme Manager
Ref: HDAPME001
Main Purpose: To define, manage and monitor the HDA Engineering, infrastructure, and project technical support to the province as well as capture or develop support products and tools, lessons learnt and good practices. Coordinates interface between Project Controls and Project stakeholders to develop, monitor and control project. Application of skills and methods to execute projects on time, budget and specifications.
Key Performance Areas:
Project Development
- Conduct detailed site inspection(s) and data analysis
- Develop and maintain the programme
- Align programme to HDA strategic direction, policy, and plans
- Take into account and accommodate sector development and changes in the programme approach and strategy tailored for specific service offering to organs of state
Project Management Support
- Ensure that the established planning and scheduling methodology is followed in developing project schedule.
- Develop project milestone and progress tracking baselines.
- Ensure projects are viable, feasible and all projects go through the stage gates as defined by Engineering Council South Africa, South African Council for the Project and Construction Management Professions, Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineers and National treasury regulations.
- Assess compliance of projects with HDA policies and standards.
- Support the development of the Work Breakdown Structure to support project delivery.
- Perform analysis of schedule data; identify trends, issues, and areas requiring attention to the relevant department.
- Contribute to schedule reporting, including schedule forecast updates and schedule contingency management.
- Support schedule performance updates, analysis, and reports in a timely manner.
Programme Support and Services to Clients
- Develop project plans to ensure achievement of agreed services
- Define project feasibility factors, resourcing requirements and project deliverables and time frames
- Develop project plans in line with HDA’s project service offerings
- Develop appropriate terms of reference for appointment of project resources
- Reporting in terms of service(s) to client
- Accommodate any changes and/or specific related client request as part of programme offering
Programme Resource Management and Alignment
- Procure required project resources by meeting the requirements of HDA SCM policy
- Monitor performance and provide feedback to identified resources on performance
- Ensure alignment of external resources to project, regional and internal capacity support on the programme
- Perform close out of contracts – (ensuring proper month end, quarterly and year end close-outs)
- Oversee multiple integrated product development teams – (through Preliminary Design, Detail Design, and Verification and Validation)
- Establish, manage and track project plans for the new development programmes
- Determine, manage, and mitigate any programme risks
Programme Budgeting and Financial Management
- Develop project/programme budgets in line with agreed feasibilities and available funding
- Monitor project schedule, expenditure against budget and project deliverables
- Address any project budget variance
- Provide feedback and input to overall HDA budget
Develop support tools, products, lessons learnt and Best Practice
- Identify project design, planning, implementation, management and monitoring best practices that emerge from HDA projects and programmes interventions
- Identify and develop possible support tools and product and opportunities
- Identify and develop opportunities to enhance and improve any existing support tools and products
- Review best practices developed and amend to accurately reflect lessons learnt
- Integrate lesson learnt into new project design, planning, implementation, management, and monitoring methodologies.
Qualifications & Experience
- Civil Engineering Degree Qualification: (BSc in Civil Engineering / BEng Civil Engineering/ B-Tech in Civil Engineering)
- Registration with Engineering Council of South Africa (ECSA) or relevant professional body (i.e. SACPCMP)
- Project and programme management qualification required
- At least 5 -10 years’ experience in related construction sector and/or government programmes in the Human Settlements sector and policies required
- Must have knowledge of Construction Contracts
- Willing to travel extensively
- Computer literate
Remuneration: R807 700 – R 1 050 000 per annum (all-inclusive package)
Period: Three year contract
Closing date for applications is: 29 January 2025.
To submit your application, please send an email to HDARecruitSSPPC@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. Copies of all qualifications must be provided.
5. 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 and priority given to people living with disabilities and females 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.
