Project Manager – National CWP Skills Audit

Experience Requirements

• Minimum five (5) years’ experience managing projects of similar scale and complexity.
• Demonstrated experience in skills audits, workforce planning, competency assessments, organisational development, human capital development or related assignments.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary and geographically dispersed teams, preferably across multiple provinces.
• Public-sector, community development, public employment programme or skills-development experience is advantageous.
• Experience with high-volume digital assessments, large datasets and management dashboards is advantageous

Core Competencies

• Project and programme management; national operational coordination; stakeholder management; multidisciplinary team leadership; analytical problem solving; risk management; quality assurance; data-driven decision making; report writing; budgeting/resource control; presentation and communication skills; digital literacy; change management.

Key Performance Indicators

• Achievement of project milestones and deliverables within the agreed 12-month period.
• National and provincial assessment completion against approved targets.
• Data completeness, accuracy and quality acceptance rates.
• Timely completion of learner profiles, ILPs and database outputs.
• Effective resolution of operational risks and issues.
• Quality and timeliness of “Public Sector Client” reporting and governance submissions.
• Compliance with POPIA, confidentiality and approved project protocols.
• Successful knowledge transfer, database handover and project close-out.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead project mobilisation, inception planning and finalisation of the national implementation plan.
• Maintain the master project schedule, milestones, deliverables, production targets and reporting cycles.
• Coordinate national implementation across all nine provinces and provide direction to Provincial Team Consultants.
• Oversee deployment and reallocation of resources according to participant volumes, geographical spread, site readiness and performance requirements.
• Serve as the principal operational liaison between Ditshaba and “Public Sector Client” and support the Project Steering Committee.
• Ensure consistent use of approved skills-audit methodology, assessment instruments, electronic data-collection tools and quality protocols.
• Oversee participant verification, sector/workgroup segmentation, competency assessment, learner profiling, career pathway development and ILP production.
• Establish daily, weekly and monthly production targets and monitor completion against the master participant population.
• Coordinate quality assurance, back-checking, exception management and corrective actions.
• Oversee integration of field assessment outputs into the Skills Management Database and management dashboards.
• Maintain the national risk, issue, decision and stakeholder registers and escalate material risks promptly.
• Ensure POPIA compliance, confidentiality, secure handling of participant information and adherence to ethical requirements.
• Prepare and present consolidated monthly progress reports and coordinate the final report and project close-out.
• Coordinate user training, knowledge transfer, technical documentation and handover to designated “Public Sector Client” officials.

Pay: Up to R1 200 000,00 per year

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Gauteng