The Road Accident Fund’s mission is to provide timely and equitable assistance to those affected by motor vehicle accidents through the provision of appropriate social benefits to ensure financial relief and recovery for qualifying individuals.
Purpose of the Job: Reporting to the Senior Manager: Acquisition Management, the successful incumbent is responsible for providing technical quality assurance on ICT project requirements or specifications and recommendation on the consolidation of required ICT projects ensuring that all procurement activities are compliant, competitive, technically sound and aligned with the organisation’s ICT needs.
Key Performance Areas
Provide ICT Expertise on Project Requirements or Specifications in Line wit RAF ERP
- Examine avoidable options for the procurement of Goods, services and work required through the procurement process.
- Package options for ITC requirements to achive economies of scale.
- Assess ICT project requirements and provide recommendations/ reviews for efficiency .
- Analyse ICT projects on the procurement plan and ensure that projects of similar nature are consolidated for efficiency.
- Analyse tranversal contracts in line with RAF ICT projects and provide value add recommendations/inputs.
Ensure ICT Procurement Compliance
- Conduct market analysis on the current trends and or replacements of the requirements including recommending particpation on similar projects as arranged by Sita or national treasury for RAF cost efficiency.
- Compare solutions, pricing, sustainability factors, and technical maturity.
- Validate technical alignment with enterprise architecture and existing systems.
- Ensure risks, constraints, and integration considerations are captured and compliant.
Risk Management
- Identify risk related to poorly defined ICT requirements.
- Assess the likelihood of cost overruns, scope creep.
- Analyse trends across quality assurance findings to identify emerging risks pattern.
Policy Review and Implementation
- Align tenders with enterprise ICT strategy.
- Keep up to date with effective policy and practice execution strategies.
- Assist BU’s in developing sourcing strategy in line with DMP.
Reporting
- Report on quality assurance findings and outcomes.
- Report on the adequacy and effectiveness of ICT procurement processes, controls, and documentation.
- Identify process weaknesses, gaps, or inconsistencies across the procurement lifecycle.
- Provide trend analysis on recurring quality issues.
Stakeholder Management
- Coordinate stakeholder participation in governance structures.
- Enable stakeholders to make defensible and strategically sound ICT procurement decisions.
- Manage stakeholder disagreements to ensure that procurement progress is not delayed.
Qualifications and Experience
- Bachelor’s Degree/ Advanced Diploma in Supply Chain Management/ ICT related qualification.
- Member of Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS) would be an added advantage.
- Relevant 5 - 7 years’ experience in ICT procurement environment.
- Experience in conducting quality assurance in the procurement of ICT goods and services.
- Experience with SAP Procurement module or similar ERP systems.
Technical and Behavioral Competencies Required
- Resilience.
- Network and alliance.
- Employee engagement.
- Ethics and values.
- Change management.
- Critical and innovative thinking
- Policy conceptualisation and formulation.
- Risk Management.
- Stakeholder development and relations.
- Reporting.
- Understanding of ICT environments, sourcing of ICT goods/services.
- Knowledge of South African ICT procurement regulatory frameworks.
- Knowledge of ERP layout and environment.
- Knowledge of ICT commodities.
- Knowledge of procurement best practices including sourcing strategies and the different mechanisms for procurement.
- Sound understanding of management accounting and budget and forecasting capabilities as it relates to optimal expenditure management.
- Understanding of cash flow management and executing strategies to manage cash flow.
- Understanding of economy and markets.
- ICT procurement processes and methodologies.
- ICT contracts, licensing models, and vendor agreements.
- Procurement governance and compliance requirements.
- Collaborative and solution driven.
NB: “RAF offers Total Employment Cost packages with no additional contributions from the Employer, successful candidates are required to structure their packages in a manner that will suit their needs”.
The Road Accident Fund subscribes to the principles of employment equity and preference will be given to People with Disabilities.
Applicants who have not received any correspondence from us within six weeks from the closing date can consider themselves unsuccessful.
Security Vetting shall be conducted on all prospective employees.
It is the applicants’ responsibility to have foreign qualification evaluated by the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA) and to provide proof of such evaluation.