Reporting to the Executive Manager: Research and Skills Planning, the incumbent in this position should determine, innovate, and implement CHIETA research and development strategies and priorities to support the organisation’s strategy and policies.
Minimum Requirements:
• B Degree with Research Methodologies as a core subject
• A postgraduate at NQF 8 with Research Methodologies would be an added advantage.
• Must have 3-5 years proven working experience in a research environment of which a minimum of 1 year should be at supervisory level.
Key Performance Areas
• Plans and manages desktop and field research to deliver the 5-year Sector Skills Plan (SSP) and Strategic Plan (SP) and annual reviews.
• Contributes to the development of the annual performance plan for the organisation.
• Engages with stakeholders and interacts with sub-committees for research purposes.
• Performs economic and key trends analysis for subsector skills.
• Reports on a regular basis to the CHIETA Chambers and Research and Skills Planning Committee
(RSPC) on research and skills development in the sector.
• Understand research requirements and utilize technology and innovation to improve tactics for appropriate statistical analysis.
• Assumes responsibility for the collation, categorization, normalization, and maintenance of data.
• End to end organisation of research conferences and stakeholder events
• Packages data, categorizes to be consumed as information to sizeable and easy to understand chunks for better evidenced informed policies.
• Interpret and analyse data using statistical techniques and provide ongoing reports.
• Support the development and implementation of databases, data collection systems, data analytics and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality.
• Acquire data from primary or secondary data sources and maintain databases/data systems
• Identify, analyse, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets.
• Review datasets, reports, and results, to locate and correct code problems.
• Work with management to prioritize business and information needs.
• Locate and define new process improvements.
• Maintain and implement the CHIETA Data Management Strategy
• Identify and categorise all data sources in the organisation.
• Organizing and store storing data in compliance with the data management strategy and CHIETA POPIA policy.
• Disseminates information through to various role players and stakeholders, to ensure the development of better-evidenced and informed plans and policies.
• Communicates and simplifies different concepts and ensures understanding by various stakeholders.
• Complies with applicable regulations and procedures and policies.
• Complies with data management protocols and the protection of the integrity of data.
• Maintains effective working relationships with customers (both internal and external) towards rendering highest quality of services.
• Represents CHIETA in meetings with relevant stakeholders.
• Identifies and solves problems creatively whilst demonstrating a high level of integrity in line with CHIETA’S core values.
• Develops and maintains relationships in accordance with policies, procedures and legal, as well as stakeholder management system requirements.
• Contributes to the budget preparation process.
• Promotes and communicates the effective, efficient, economical, and transparent use of financial and other resources.
• Monitors and controls expenditure against budget and ensures spending occurs within budgetary limits and CHIETA financial guidelines, report deviations to direct Manager.
• Explores opportunities to control and reduce costs.
Skills & Behavioural competencies: High level research and analysis skills • Planning and Organisation Skills • Communication (oral and written) • Problem solving ability • Diversity awareness • Confidentiality, ethics, integrity, and professionalism • Detail orientation • Teamwork • Innovative skills • Self-driven • Computer skills • Time management. Report writing skills.
Interested persons are invited to submit their CV’s to recruitment@chieta.org.za. Should no feedback be forthcoming by 14 August 2023, please accept that your application was not successful. The CHIETA reserves the right to not make an appointment. CHIETA is committed to the advancement of Employment Equity. Successful applicants will be subjected to background checks and to undertake required assessments. Closing date: 14 July 2023
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1. CHIETA is a responsible party in terms of the POPI Act of 2013.
2. CHIETA will take all prescribed and reasonable precautions to ensure that your information is safeguarded.
3. By submitting your Curriculum Vitae and any other relevant personal information in respect of this vacancy, you understand and agree that:
a. CHIETA needs to collect, keep and use your personal information in order to evaluate your application for purposes of potential employment opportunities; and
b. CHIETA will only use the information to carry out the necessary recruitment related activities.
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a. Withdraw consent at any time.
b. Have the right to request access to your data at any time, in the prescribed form.
c. Have a right to request that your data is corrected and updated, in the prescribed form; and
d. Have the right to complain to the information regulator.
CHIETA reserves the right not to make an appointment
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