ASSISTANT MANAGER URBAN PLANNING (SASOLBURG)

POSITION: ASSISTANT MANAGER URBAN PLANNING (SASOLBURG) Minimum requirements: • B Degree in Urban Design/Town and Regional Planning/equivalent Planning Degree. • Registration as a professional Planner/Urban Designer/Architecture. • 5 - 8 years relevant experience. • Computer Literacy: MS Office. Pa g e 7 | 23 Cri t i c al V ac anci es (Ci t y press ) INTERNAL MEMORANDUM ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CORPORATE SERVICES Enquiries: NM Ngwenya Telephone: 016 973 8392 Email: [email protected] • Valid code 08 driver’s license. Competency requirements: • Planning and Organisation. • Attention to detail. • Planning and Organising. • Problem solving skills. • Communication skills (Oral and Written) Main Duties: Monitoring and Control • Establish a system to follow up on projects / tasks / assignments. • Vigilantly watches over project processes, tasks, and work products to ensure freedom from errors, omissions, or defects. • Initiates action to correct quality problems or notifies others of quality issues as appropriate; and • Gathers information on the probability of success and the consequences of failure. Negotiation • Understands the issues and positions of the parties to the negotiation and seeks a win win solution through a give and take process. • Wins concessions without damaging relationships. • Can be direct, but still maintains a high degree of diplomacy and politeness. • Stays focussed on resolving the deadlocks and avoids personal issues and attacks. • Presents and seeks practical, fair and equitable solutions or positive course of action; and • Ensures that all parties are aware of agreements and required actions when the issues are resolved. Planning and Organizing • Develops integrated plans for the work unit and that interface with the department’s budget. • Taps into the resources of other units and departments, employing methods such as cross functional teams, secondments, developmental assignments and collaborative funding to achieve results. • Develops scenarios on projects. Spatial Planning Pa g e 8 | 23 Cri t i c al V ac anci es (Ci t y press ) INTERNAL MEMORANDUM ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CORPORATE SERVICES Enquiries: NM Ngwenya Telephone: 016 973 8392 Email: [email protected] • Able to translate the vision for the municipality into appropriate land use and spatial plans. • Creates the context and policy content for planning zones and precincts (public open spaces, green belts, etc.). • Able to formulate policy responses to defined problems. • Critically analyses and evaluates the impacts of planning proposals on the municipality, and on municipal services plans. • Sets strategic direction in the allocation of funding based on the utilization of cost-benefit. Land Use Management • Monitors land use management trends on a district level and can identify policy and process interventions to support achievement of the municipality’s spatial development plans. • Makes practical recommendations to the appropriate approval structures. • Assists in the development of land use management policies and operational requirements. • Displays strong analytical ability and judgment in undertaking research and audits. • Has in-depth knowledge of research methodologies and processes and is able to apply these under the appropriate circumstances. • Leads external and internal consultation processes on land use policy issues. • Advises applicants and developers on complex land use development applications and land use management processes. • Displays in-depth knowledge of municipality’s supply chain management policies and processes and can review and assess tender documentation for municipality projects. Research, Information Analysis and Policy • Has detailed knowledge of the municipality’s socio-economic and demographic databases and is able to manipulate the data to create reports in the required format. • Is aware of internal and external research (is networked), can assess the research and make recommendations for the inclusion of the data in the municipality’s databases. Pa g e 9 | 23 Cri t i c al V ac anci es (Ci t y press ) INTERNAL MEMORANDUM ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CORPORATE SERVICES Enquiries: NM Ngwenya Telephone: 016 973 8392 Email: [email protected] • Develops cost effective and practical research programmes and plans that facilitate improvement in service delivery (identifies and analyses options). • Has detailed knowledge of research and survey methodologies. • Establishes support and projects authority and credibility; and • Engages line and executive managers on research strategies and facilitates the executive decision making on the change agenda of the department. Urban Design • Creates the platform for the development of useful, attractive, safe, environmentally sustainable, economically successful, and socially equitable places. • Critically analyses and evaluates the impacts of urban design proposals on the city, and on municipal services plans (WSDP, ITP, WMP, etc.). • Sets strategic direction in the allocation of funding based on the utilization of cost-benefit thinking to established IDP priorities. • Displays an in-depth knowledge of national policy and legislation impacting on municipal planning; and • Displays in-depth understanding of Provincial and National Planning • Programmes and priorities can translate into planning initiatives for the municipality (PGDS and other programmes). Salary: R 603 337.25 pa fixed (post level 02) subject to job evaluation, plus transport allowance based on 850 km per month.