Job Description

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The Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa (Land Bank) is South Africaxe2x80x99s only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the bankxe2x80x99s sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach. These services enable farmers to finance land, equipment, improve assets and obtain production credit. The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry. As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people. MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB To monitor, analyse and report on the implementation and outcomes/results of the Bankxe2x80x99s strategy with particular emphasis on the impact of the Bankxe2x80x99s development strategy. Contribute content for the Corporate Plan, Integrated report and other mandatory/regulatory reporting requirements

Key Performance Areas

1. Design, coordinate and implement a monitoring and evaluation framework to enable Land Bank to report on the outcomes/results of the Bankxe2x80x99s strategy, in particular its development impact

• Develop an overall framework for monitoring and evaluation for Land Bank to report on the outcomes/results of the Bankxe2x80x99s strategy and its development impact at various levels in the organisation
• Align monitoring and evaluation activities with the organisation's overarching strategic initiatives
• Engage with divisional heads to assimilate monitoring and evaluation activities into divisional plans
• Examine and interpret data sets to formulate strategic advisories for the divisional heads
• Pioneer the creation and roll-out of data collection instruments, methodologies, and standards
• Serve as the primary liaison for monitoring and evaluation activities, interfacing with internal, and external stakeholders
• Convey data findings and strategic insights to stakeholders, ensuring clarity and cogency
• Pursue continual professional development opportunities to remain updated with current monitoring and evaluation trends and best practices
• Review the quality of existing data, the methods of collecting it and the degree to which it can be used as a baseline for the Bankxe2x80x99s strategy and its development impact reporting
• Develop baseline data whenever an indicator is identified for strategy and development reporting
• Review the existing approaches and management of information internal and external to the organisation and agree changes, support and resources with relevant parties to enable reporting
• Identify training needs, organise and undertake training on monitoring and evaluation as required
• Collect data on a regular basis to achieve measurement against the performance indicators
• Analyse data, aggregate findings and produce regular reports on progress
• Identify lessons learned, develop case studies and produce documentation to capture and communicate qualitative findings on performance
• Identify indicators to be developed and reported in terms of strategy and development impact assessment

2. Support corporate reporting framework by providing content for the Integrated Report, Corporate Plan and other mandatory/regulatory reports

• As part of the Strategy team, identifies content requirements for Integrated Report, Corporate Plan and other relevant corporate reports related to the Bankxe2x80x99s strategy and development impact
• Identify additional indicators and data to be collected in monitoring and evaluation framework to support corporate reporting process
• Writes relevant content for reports at a standard suitable for external publication
• Supports General Manager: Corporate Strategy and Innovation to collate content and document case studies as required

3. Provide Input and Support in other Product Development Projects

• Based on results of monitoring and evaluation activities, identify opportunities to develop new or refine existing financial products for clients
• Provide input to product development specialist and support process to develop relevant products with the necessary information from the monitoring and evaluation outputs
• Ensure new indicators are identified and incorporated in the monitoring and development framework when new or refined financial products are launched
• Incorporate product related reporting in monitoring and evaluation framework
• Ensure that post-implementation monitoring and evaluation occurs on a regular basis (at least quarterly) and resolve any product related issues identified during the post-implementation phase

Preferred Minimum Education and Experience

• B Degree in Commerce, Finance or Business related field or environmental risk and management

Industry relevant training, for example courses in: -

• Monitoring and Evaluation;
• Corporate Strategy;
• Integrated Reporting
• Agriculture or environmental management
• Developing and refining data collection tools
• Conducting and managing surveys
• Designing and conducting training

• 5 years experience in the monitoring and evaluation space preferably within a Development Finance Intuition of similar;
• 5 years experience in the corporate strategy planning and reporting environment; or
• 5 years experience in statistical analysis software like SPSS and visualisation tools like Tableau and Power BI

Critical Competencies

• Microsoft Office
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Integrated reporting
• Technical writing

Additional Requirements

• Extended hours as and when required.
• Travel as and when required.