Entry Date: 27 Mar 2025
Expiry Date: 03 Apr 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 5 Years Fixed-Term contract Position:
Senior Town Planner: Bloemfontein
Location: Region C: Bloemfontein
Reporting Line: Project Manager
Reference: HDASTP001
Main Purpose: To formulate Land Strategies with partners for realization of integrated human settlements and to design local concepts plan in the Land Assembly processes for financing and implementation
Key Performance Areas:
1. Business Plan and Strategy
- Develop a Business Plan for Land Assembly Strategies and Housing support services.
- Develop a Framework and operational plan for implementing the approach to land assembly strategy in line with government policies.
- Support Land Assembly strategies and Land Management approaches with partners for the delivery of integrated human settlement.
- Analyze local areas Spatial Development Plans including environmental and bulk infrastructure services.
- Manage and coordinate the land assembly strategy implementation processes with provincial and municipal partners.
2. Land Use Assessment
- Review the Identified land and landed properties by the HDA.
- Examine the emerging development opportunities for identification of Priority Housing Development Areas
- Assess the opportunity in line with the HDA mandate and land assembly strategy.
- Review development feasibility studies in support of regional partners initiatives
- Asses identified land in line with the HDA land identification criteria and relevant HDA tools.
- Engage with key stakeholders on land development proposals and associated financing arrangements.
- Formulate Report on recommendations detailing the land development objectives and potential impact for acquisition, holding and/or release by HDA.
3. Land Assembly & Development Financing
- Coordinate the development of the Local Area Design Concept in land assembly process for development planning options and financing.
- Ensure that that the spatial transformation principles as expressed in government policies and programmes are supported.
- Engage with key public and private partners for support and required commitments.
- Align development finance and programming in accordance to government multi-year budgetary cycles
4. Resource Management and alignment
- Procure required project resources ensuring the requirements of the HDA SCM and finance policy are adhered to.
- Manage and/or advise service providers as required for projects.
- Monitor and manage performance of service providers and other project resources in terms of meeting project deliverables and outcomes and provide feedback to identified project resources.
- Ensure alignment of external resources to project, regional and internal capacity support on the programme.
5. Budgeting and Financial Management
- Develop project/programme budgets in line with agreed feasibilities, available funding, and project/operational planning.
- Monitor project expenditure against budgets and project deliverables.
- Address any project budget variances.
- Provide feedback and input to the overall HDA budget as required.
6. People Management
- Select, assign, lead and manage people.
- Set clear objectives for self and others and measure achievements against these objectives through implementation of the performance management system.
- Build and manage relationships with staff members.
- Manage and support staff development.
- Develop and manage the implementation of succession plans for key individuals and critical positions
- Implement the HDA HR policies and procedures as required.
- Manage risks and address issues as they rise.
7. Qualifications and Experience
- A relevant degree in the Built Environment, Urban Design and/or Town Planning environment preferred.
- Experience in GIS or related spatial information systems
- Experience in AutoCAD
- A minimum of 6 years’ experience in the built environment
- Experience in development financing will be an added advantage
- Be prepared, willing and able to travel extensively, so a code 8 (B) drivers’ license is essential
Remuneration Scale: R906 100.00 – R1 177 900 per annum (all-inclusive package)
Closing date for applications is 03 April 2025
To submit your application, please send an email to : ARecruitRegCFS@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.
