Job Description

Key Performance Areas
New Fund/ Business Development / Strategic Partnerships and Service Provider Management

• Lead the review and establishment of the memoranda of agreements for blended finance fund partnerships for the Bank.
• Where applicable represent Land Bank, as an appointed Board Member/Steering Committee Member, on partner and/or Fund Investee Boards/Steering Committees and ensure:
• Regular attendance of board/steering committee meetings and important related meetings.
• Make serious commitment to participate actively in committee work.
• Stay informed about board or other steering committee matters, including sufficient preparation for meetings, reviews and comments on minutes and reports.
• Building and maintaining collegial working relationships with partners, clients and board/steering committee and management teams.
• Develop briefs and input technical criteria for bids for service provider panels.
• Actively manage and monitor the portfolio to ensure adequate implementation and service delivery in respect of fund services as well as services to beneficiaries.
• Manage the resolution of fund execution disputes and ensure the development of guiding principles where applicable and required.

Management of the fund operations, reporting requirements for funds and funding lines

• Oversee fund execution queries and resolution of fund disputes.
• Review of grant disbursement drawdown requests for Land Bank and other participating financial institutions.
• Develop and review fund process flows, fund brochures and marketing material.
• Develop and review training material, structuring and funding frameworks to support fund execution.
• Develop and review the reporting templates and fund performance progress reports.
• Review and preparation of monthly, quarterly and periodic DALRRD and stakeholder reports as agreed in the respective MoAs of the funds.
• Manage internal fund reporting requirements on a periodic basis (monthly, quarterly, annual and on adhoc basis).
• Manage reporting to National Treasury and on an adhoc basis to Portfolio Committees of Parliament and any other external reporting as may be required from time to time.
• Negotiate funds and/or partnerships and rollout timelines with the relevant parties and dynamically manage expectations.
• Oversee system developments and enhancements to support fund implementation.
• Keep all stakeholders regularly informed of the status of the funds and partnerships.
• Oversee the management of periodic audit programmes and submission of information to internal and external auditors

Client and stakeholder relationship management

• Manage relationships in accordance with policies, procedures and legal requirements.
• Manage relationships within the allocated time frame and resolve client queries and issues relating to the agreements promptly and professionally.
• Manage internal engagements with the funders/partners on funded transactions where restructures or business support is required for previously funded beneficiaries.
• Participates in events to represent Land Bank and project/fund interests including managing the market image of the funds.
• Facilitate meetings / steering committee engagements of the Bank with funders, partners and manage conflicts etc.
• Participation on a non executive director basis on Boards and committees of associated fund entities as nominated by the Bank.

Internal Stakeholder Management

• Provide training to relationship management and supporting business units (frontline divisions and support divisions) on the application of the funds.
• Provide support to internal stakeholders in their utilisation of the different funds.
• Engagement with various internal divisions to create an enabling environment for the utilisation of the funds and actively promote the utilisation of the various funds.
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders to unlock and unblock utilisation of the funds.
• Manage and monitor that execution of transactions is in line with the fund mandate and criteria.
• Participate in resolving internal fund disputes and provide guidance on fund rules where applicable and required.
• Manage fund steering committees and specialist internal departmental inputs to operationalise funds.
• Provide oversight on adherence to fund criteria for front lines transactions and submissions to credit committees / Third Party Funds Committee.
• Manage and track submissions to committees