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DEVELOPMENT BANK OF SOUTHERN AFRICA (DBSA) PRINCIPAL CREDIT OFFICER: PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT Details Closing Date 2026/10/16 Reference Number DBS260923-2 Job Title Principal Credit Officer: Portfolio Management Job Type Classification Permanent Location - Town / City Midrand Location - Province Gauteng Location - Country South Africa Job Profile (Downloadable) Principal Credit Officer Portfolio Mngt.docx.pdf (336.62 kb) - 9/23/2026 12:49:03 PM Job Description The role is responsible for the ongoing assessment, monitoring, and optimisation of credit risk within the existing portfolio of investments across South Africa, the Rest of Africa and High Impact. The role is critical to maintaining portfolio health through in-depth credit reviews, financial analysis, and proactive risk mitigation strategies. Applying technical and commercial expertise and legal knowledge, the role supports strategic decision-making, contributes to the credit compliance, and ensures that exposures remain aligned with institutional risk appetite. This role interacts closely with the Credit Origination team responsible for new transactions while maintaining dedicated focus on the post-approval performance of the existing portfolio. Key Responsibilities 1. Credit Portfolio Monitoring and Risk Reviews * Conduct structured, periodic credit reviews on all existing transactions, ensuring timely identification of deterioration of risks. * Initiate/review rapid risk reviews in response to emerging external or internal risk signals, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders for effective intervention. * Track financial and non-financial covenants, monitoring borrower compliance and reporting anomalies. * Review credit quality across sectors and regions, flagging trends and proposing remedial strategies. * Provide early warning indicators and analysis to credit committees and forums to support pre-emptive action. * Perform quick-turnaround risk assessments for urgent or material changes. * Evaluate and recommend credit amendments, waivers, or restructures. 2. Credit Assessment and Financial Analysis * Undertake in-depth financial and cash-flow analysis of portfolio companies, evaluating performance against initial projections and market benchmarks. * Review credit opinions for additional lines of credit for public sector clients, as part of the annual review. * Review accuracy and appropriateness of credit assessments, rating model methodologies applied to ensure correctness and quality of credit assessments to enable decision-making. * Prepare portfolio performance reports, incorporating peer comparisons, geographic and sectors developments, and macroeconomic conditions affecting the Bank portfolio. * Assess amendments to credit terms and provides recommendations for restructuring, covenant waivers, or rescheduling proposals as required. * Conduct scenario analysis and stress testing on key exposures, feeding insights into credit risk appetite and capital allocation decisions. * Support efforts to enhance risk-adjusted return through active management of the credit book. 3. Portfolio Management and Compliance * Adherence to credit-related compliance with internal policies, regulatory standards, and investment mandates across all geographies. * Liaise with team members to ensure seamless handover and continuous oversight of transactions post disbursement. * Support the disbursement process, post-handover, to ensure facility conditions are met as required. * Maintains up-to-date credit ratings and internal loan classifications of all transactions, supporting ongoing monitoring and reporting functions. * Participate in the maintenance and improvement of the credit value chain, identifying process inefficiencies and supporting enhancements to credit systems and processes. Serve as a subject matter expert on portfolio management and credit-related matters for special projects or in pursuit of identifying lessons learnt that can be adopted in origination as well as appropriate forms of credit risk mitigation strategies. 4. Strategic Engagement * Support governance reporting by contributing to reports for Board committees, EXCO, and relevant committees post disbursements. * Support the periodic IFRS 9 provisioning and ECL measurement forum. * Support internal portfolio management committees and forums for early warning identification and intervention. * Contribute to policy development and implementation of portfolio related frameworks and guidelines. * Support audits by preparing necessary reports and documentation in line with best practice and standards. 5. Financial Modelling and Analysis * Build and/or review and challenge model assumptions in financial models for a portfolio of companies. * Conduct cash flow analysis, stress testing, and scenario analysis to test financial viability and draw conclusions / make recommendations to mitigate financial risks identified. * Review ongoing financial compliance of updated financial models and/or recommend and implement new credit risk mitigants (e.g. conditions, collateral, guarantees), as required. * Perform peer benchmarking and sectoral credit comparisons in order to provide valuable insights for the review of the financial modelling assessment. * Support light restructuring and re-scheduling of distressed exposures. 6. Stakeholder Management and Problem-Solving * Collaborate effectively with stakeholders to achieve common goals, facilitating open and clear communication. * Actively listen, share information, and foster a cooperative environment that encourages diverse perspectives and collective problem-solving. 7. People Management * Lead and develop team members by setting clear objectives, providing constructive feedback, and fostering a supportive and collaborative work environment. * Recognising individual strengths, facilitating professional growth, and aligning team efforts with organisational goals to enhance overall performance and engagement. * Provide technical assistance and mentorship to portfolio analysts. * Facilitate training and capacity building within the team on portfolio management, credit tools, and evolving credit practices. 8. Reporting and Monitoring * Stay abreast of sector and country intelligence relevant to portfolio management activities. * Produce accurate, insightful reports and continuously monitoring key financial and non-financial metrics to assess performance and credit migration risk. * Analyse data to identify trends, inform strategic decisions, and provide stakeholders with clear, actionable information that supports ongoing performance improvement and accountability. * Utilise appropriate technologies and tools to enhance reporting efficiency and clarity, while also safeguarding the confidentiality and sensitivity of the information included. * Maintain high standards of accuracy and timeliness to deliver reports that are timely, relevant and precise. Key measurement of output: * Percentage of scheduled and ad hoc credit reviews completed on time and in line with internal standards. * Precision of internal credit ratings aligned with appropriate model methodologies and validated through back-testing or audit reviews. * Timely detection of early warning indicators and escalated through appropriate channels. * Number of covenant breaches identified and resolved and compliance rate across the monitored portfolio. * Average time taken to complete normal and urgent risk assessment and recommend amendments or waivers. * Quality of financial models built or reviewed, stakeholder feedback on model accuracy and usefulness for decision-making. * Percentage of distressed exposures stabilised or improved through active and appropriate credit intervention strategies. * Percentage of reports submitted on time with no material errors; frequency of actionable insights derived from reports; percentage of submissions deferred as a result of substandard quality. * Feedback from internal and external stakeholders on quality, communication, responsiveness, and problem-solving support. Expertise & Technical Competencies a) Risk Identification & Assessment / Technical * Diagnoses significant, unusual and emerging risks to which the business is exposed. * Advises on applicable aspects of risk identification and assessment. * Demonstrate advanced proficiency and up-to-date knowledge in specialised areas, applying this expertise to solve complex problems, drive innovation, and contribute to strategic initiatives. * Continuously expand skills to adapt to industry advancements and enhance organisational capabilities. * Manage effective and efficient execution of tasks and projects by optimising processes, managing resources, and adhering to timelines. b) Risk management policies and procedures * Develops innovative approaches to managing significant business risks effectively and efficiently. * Leads implementation, execution and monitoring activities. * Advises on best solutions and foresees the impact of changes in regulations, policies and procedures for non-complex and increasingly complex business issues. c) Data collection and analysis * Skilled in the use of advanced/complex analytical techniques. * Is able to use judgement to decide upon the most appropriate analytical techniques according to the situation. * Recognises underlying principles, patterns, or themes in an array of related information, and determine whether additional information would be useful or necessary. * Through an in-depth understanding of the business environment, reviews outputs of analysis to identify anomalies and draws conclusions, relating these to operational circumstances. * Can model a range of scenarios covering all potential business circumstances and highlight potential risks/opportunities. d) Planning and organising * Is relied on to helps others plan and organise their workload. * Uses effectively advance time management processes to deal with high workload and tight deadlines. * Organises, prioritises and schedules tasks so they can be performed within budget and with the efficient use of time and resources. * Achieves goals in a timely manner, despite obstacles encountered, by organising, reprioritising and replanning. e) Financial acumen * Makes sound financial decisions after having analysed their impacts on the organisation, partner agencies, and community. * Effectively supports the preparation of budgetary submissions and forecasts for own department. * Knows the internal and external factors that impact on resource and asset availability. * Is able to interpret management account reports in an operational/commercial context and take action as appropriate to maximise revenues and control costs. f) Financial Modelling * Demonstrating expertise in developing, analysing, and interpreting complex financial models to support strategic decision-making and business objectives. This involves creating accurate and reliable models that forecast financial performance, assess business scenarios, and evaluate investments or projects. g) Reporting * Designs / customises reports to meet user needs. * Prepares complex or tailored reports, gathers information from a variety of sources, analyses and includes in a report. * Keeps standard reports under review and proposes improvements to meet user needs. *The KPA’s, competencies and relationships listed in this document, is not exhaustive and the incumbent will be expected to undertake additional duties within their capacity to meet the needs of business and/or the business unit.* Qualifications * Postgraduate degree in Economics, Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or Risk Management or related field. Experience * Minimum of 10 years’ experience in credit risk analysis, portfolio monitoring, or financial analysis within a wholesale, investment banking, or development finance environment. * Proven track record in conducting credit reviews and portfolio monitoring across South Africa and broader African markets. * Extensive experience in credit assessments, financial modelling, and risk analysis for both new and existing investments. * Strong capabilities in financial structuring, with exposure to complex lending instruments, including bilateral and syndicated facilities. * Skilled in negotiating and managing stakeholders, with the ability to assess and structure complex transactions. * Familiarity with ESG, sustainable finance, and blended finance frameworks. * Proficient in credit systems, risk reporting tools, and core credit risk management principles. * Demonstrated ability to prepare high-quality credit analysis and investment write-ups, supported by advanced credit reasoning. * Solid understanding of the loan lifecycle and the end-to-end credit value chain. * Experience in evaluating facility amendments, restructurings, and covenant waivers. Desirable Requirements * Master’s degree in Economics, Finance, Accounting or related field is advantageous. * Professional certification in Financial Risk Management, Chartered Financial Analysis or CA (SA) or equivalent. * Strong understanding and experience of sovereign risk, infrastructure finance, and public sector lending. * Experience in working on bilateral, club or syndicated transactions with multilateral institutions, investment banks, government agencies and private sector sponsors in infrastructure. Required Personal Attributes a) Achievement Orientation * Focuses on new or more effective ways of improving own work and meeting targets. * Focuses on raising quality, customer satisfaction and revenues. * Makes specific changes to systems and processes in order to improve efficiency and quality. * Formulates own objectives and action plans in order to achieve a measurable improvement in the future. b) Customer Service Orientation * Tries to understand the underlying needs of customers and matches these needs to available or customised products and services. * Adapts processes and procedures to meet on-going customer needs. * Utilises the feedback received by customers, in order to develop new and/or improve existing services/products that relate to their on-going needs. * Thinks of new ways to align DBSA’s offerings with future customer needs. c) Self-awareness and Self-Control * Withholds effects of strong emotions in difficult situations. * Keeps functioning or responds constructively despite stress. * May apply special techniques or plan ahead of time to manage emotions or stress. d) Attention to detail * Double-checks the accuracy of information or work. * Ensures that the work produced doesn’t contain any errors. e) Analytical thinking * Identifies the cause-and-effect relationship between two aspects of a situation. f) Strategic and Innovative Thinking * Experiments with new approaches, tests scenarios, questions assumptions and challenges conventional thinking. * Creates new concepts that are not obvious to others, leveraging internal and external sources of information, to build incremental revenue and growth opportunities. g) Teamwork and Cooperation * Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale and resolves conflicts. * Creates opportunities for cross-functional working. * Encourages others to network outside of their own team/department and learn from their experience. Policy The Development Bank of Southern Africa will endeavour to make appointments in line with its Employment Equity Policy and Plan. Applications from suitably qualified designated groups, especially people with disabilities, are encouraged. The DBSA corporate culture fit requires clear, logical and analytical thinking grounded in good interpersonal skills, a sense of urgency and results orientated execution of duties. The ability to work collaboratively and finding practical yet innovative solutions is critical to success in a work environment that demands emotional resilience, accountability and responsible risk taking and management. The DBSA reserves the right to amend or remove vacancies in line with organisational requirements. All vacancies can be viewed on the DBSA website (www.dbsa.org) under Careers. CLICK TO APPLY SENIOR LEGAL ADVISOR: TRANSACTING (SA) Details Closing Date 2026/10/16 Reference Number DBS260922-2 Job Title Senior Legal Advisor: Transacting (SA) Job Grade 00 Job Type Classification Permanent Location - Town / City Midrand Location - Province Gauteng Location - Country South Africa Job Profile (Downloadable) Senior Legal Advisor Transacting_Job Profile May 2026 Final - SA.docx.pdf (317.18 kb) - 9/22/2026 4:00:58 PM Job Description The Senior Legal Advisor is responsible for providing legal advice and support to clients on the financing activities of DBSA, ensuring that all actions, initiatives, and investments are legally sound and protect the investment portfolio. Mitigate legal risks and prevent adverse reputational or other negative consequences for DBSA. Provide guidance and leadership to junior professionals in the legal team, fostering their development and ensuring consistency in legal counsel across the organisation. Key Responsibilities Legal Transaction Structuring, Execution & Advisory * Provide strategic legal leadership across the full transaction lifecycle, including high-value and complex transactions. * Lead, from a legal perspective, the structuring and execution of transactions across project finance, blended and structured finance, equity investments, and public-private partnerships (PPPs), ensuring alignment with institutional mandates, legal frameworks, and risk appetite. * Act as a strategic legal partner to Investment Division and multidisciplinary teams, driving the development of innovative, commercially sound financing structures and solutions, while providing expert legal oversight throughout the transaction lifecycle. * Conduct comprehensive legal due diligence and risk assessments, identifying legal, regulatory, and structuring risks and implementing appropriate mitigation strategies. * Draft, review, and negotiate complex legal documentation, including term sheets, mandates, facility agreements, shareholder agreements, security packages, and intercreditor/co-funding arrangements. * Lead, in support of the Investment Division, Business Support and Recovery and/or Credit Risk and Portfolio management, as the case may be, negotiations with sponsors, borrowers, lenders, co-funders, and counterparties to achieve optimal commercial and legal outcomes. * Provide expert legal input into appraisal reports, credit papers, and committee submissions, and actively contribute to credit committee deliberations. * Provide expert legal support and input in transaction execution through approval to financial close, ensuring legal integrity, enforceability, and compliance. * Manage external legal counsel, including appointment, briefing, performance oversight, and cost control, to ensure efficient delivery of specialised legal services. * Provide ongoing legal advisory support across corporate, operational, and investment functions. Compliance and Regulatory Support * Promote adherence to applicable legislation, regulatory requirements, and internal governance frameworks across all legal and transactional activities. * Monitor and interpret legal and regulatory developments, providing proactive, strategic guidance to the organisation. * Support and strengthen institutional compliance and governance frameworks in collaboration with Compliance and Risk functions. * Review legal documentation, decisions, and processes to ensure alignment with regulatory and policy requirements. Dispute Resolution and Litigation * Manage litigation and dispute resolution processes, safeguarding the organisation’s legal, financial, and reputational interests. * Lead the appointment and oversight of external counsel in disputes, ensuring high-quality representation and cost-effectiveness. * Advise management on litigation risk exposure and recommend appropriate dispute resolution strategies, including alternative dispute mechanisms. * Facilitate timely and commercially sound resolution of disputes. Stakeholder Management & Capacity Building * Collaborate with internal stakeholders to provide practical and commercially sound legal solutions. * Build effective working relationships with business units to support informed decision-making. * Provide legal training and awareness on legal and regulatory developments to internal stakeholders. * Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders, providing practical, solution-oriented legal advice. * Engage effectively with external stakeholders, including clients, co-funders, regulators, and legal advisors. * Provide legal training and guidance to enhance organisational awareness of legal, regulatory, and transactional risks. Key Measurements of Outputs * Achievement of favourable or commercially acceptable outcomes in investment transactions, aligned with the organisation’s legal strategy and risk appetite. * Quality, accuracy and timeliness of legal advice, documentation and transaction support. * Effective handling of disputes to minimise adverse reputational impact on the organisation. * Minimisation of financial losses, penalties, and contingent liabilities arising from disputes and litigation. * Time taken to prepare and or review contracts, agreements and legal opinions. * Quality and accuracy of agreements, opinions and solutions provided. * Effective management of legal claims and litigation risks. * Management of total case/agreement/opinion / other legal costs. * No litigation due to contractual errors and or omissions. * Effective monitoring of the contracts and agreements. * Strong compliance outcomes, including clean audit results Expertise & Technical Competencies Minimum Qualification * A Bachelor of Laws degree (LLB) or Legal postgraduate qualification. * Admitted Attorney/Advocate of the High Court of South Africa. Minimum Experience * A minimum of 8-10 years’ post-qualification experience in a commercial/finance/banking or corporate law environment, providing legal support on investment transactions such as project finance, structured and corporate finance. * Proven experience in complex contract drafting, legal risk management, and regulatory compliance. * Strong track record in drafting and negotiating transaction documentation, including term sheets, facility agreements, shareholder agreements, security documents, and intercreditor agreements. * Demonstrated experience in leading legal due diligence processes and advising on transaction risks, mitigants, and structuring solutions. * In-depth understanding of banking and finance law, corporate law, security structures, and regulatory frameworks, particularly within a development finance or infrastructure investment environment. * Experience working on multi-stakeholder transactions, including engagements with sponsors, lenders, DFIs, regulators, and external counsel. Desirable Requirements: * A postgraduate qualification in development finance or investment banking. * Experience in the financial services or banking industry. * Demonstrated experience dealing with cross-border transactions and multi-jurisdictional legal considerations. TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES Written communication * Understands that different writing styles are required for different documents or audiences. * Write effective correspondence, prepare questions and reports, statements of circumstance and briefing notes. * Reviews others’ documents for clarity and impact. * Has a solid mastery of writing principles such as grammar, sentence construction, etc. Presentation skills * Can reinforce key presentation points with examples. * Can translate technical terminology into language understandable to the audience. * Has insight into the audience’s behaviour and motivation and responds appropriately and professionally, adapting communication style as appropriate. Reporting * Designs / customises reports to meet user needs. * Prepares complex or tailored reports, gathers information from a variety of sources, analyses and includes in a report. * Keeps standard reports under review and proposes improvements to meet user needs. Legal Knowledge * Extensive knowledge and understanding of the principles of DBSA. * Wide-ranging knowledge of industry best practice, and keeps abreast of, interprets and informs on developments in the area of new laws and regulations relevant to DBSA. Legal Policy Knowledge * Ability to represent DBSA in the court of law when required. * Ability to draft non-standard legal documents per procedures. * Ability to draft more sensitive policy and legal procedures to be followed by stakeholders of DBSA, and review and refine in response to inputs from relevant stakeholders, for approval. * Ability to understand legal rights and responsibilities and the possession of authority to make legal decisions. * Protects the organisation’s legal rights, utilising a broad knowledge base of all major legal disciplines. Presentation Skills * Knows how to deliver arguments persuasively by employing a range of advanced presentation techniques (e.g., the appropriate use of body language, how to close a presentation so that the audience continues to think about the subject matter, etc.). * Has knowledge of various feedback mechanisms to check levels of audience understanding. Business Acumen * Takes actions to fit business strategy. * Assesses and links short-term tasks in the context of long-term business strategies or perspectives. * Reviews own actions against the organisation's strategic plan; includes the big picture when considering possible opportunities or projects, or thinks about long-term applications of current activities. * Anticipates possible responses to different initiatives. * Understands the projected direction of the industry and how changes might impact the organisation. Negotiations * Has an appreciation of cultural sensitivities and differences. * Effectively employs a variety of advanced behavioural/interpersonal competencies to control the negotiation situation. * Is able to take the lead in a variety of sensitive negotiation situations requiring high levels of tact and diplomacy. * Is able to place a discrete negotiation situation within the context of a broader long-term relationship and is not threatened by conceding ground to protect the longer-term interests of DBSA. The KPA’s, competencies and relationships listed in this document are not exhaustive, and the incumbent will be expected to undertake additional duties within their capacity to meet the needs of business and/or the business unit.* Required Personal Attributes BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES Customer Service Orientation * Tries to understand the underlying needs of customers and matches these needs to available or customised products and services. * Adapts processes and procedures to meet ongoing customer needs. * Utilises the feedback received by customers to develop new and/or improve existing services/products that relate to their ongoing needs. * Thinks of new ways to align DBSA’s offerings with future customer needs. Self-awareness and Self Control * Withholds effects of strong emotions in difficult situations. * Keeps functioning or responds constructively despite stress. * May apply special techniques or plan ahead of time to manage emotions or stress. Strategic and Innovative Thinking * Experiments with new approaches, tests scenarios, questions assumptions and challenges conventional thinking. * Creates new concepts that are not obvious to others, leveraging internal and external sources of information, to build incremental revenue and growth opportunities. Driving delivery of results * Sets challenging goals that will have a significant impact on the business or support the organisational strategy. * Commits significant resources and/or time to ensure that challenging goals are achieved, while also taking action to mitigate risk. Teamwork & Cooperation * Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale and resolves conflicts. * Creates opportunities for cross-functional working. * Encourages others to network outside of their own team/department and learn from their experience. Policy The Development Bank of Southern Africa will endeavour to make appointments in line with its Employment Equity Policy and Plan. Applications from suitably qualified designated groups, especially people with disabilities, are encouraged. The DBSA corporate culture fit requires clear, logical and analytical thinking grounded in good interpersonal skills, a sense of urgency and results orientated execution of duties. The ability to work collaboratively and finding practical yet innovative solutions is critical to success in a work environment that demands emotional resilience, accountability and responsible risk taking and management. The DBSA reserves the right to amend or remove vacancies in line with organisational requirements. All vacancies can be viewed on the DBSA website (www.dbsa.org) under Careers. CLICK TO APPLY FINANCIAL MODELLING & STRUCTURING SPECIALIST Details Closing Date 2026/10/16 Reference Number DBS251126-1 Job Title Financial Modelling & Structuring Specialist Job Grade 00 Job Type Classification Permanent Location - Town / City Midrand Location - Province Gauteng Location - Country South Africa Job Profile (Downloadable) Financial Modelling & Structuring Specialist _Job Profile November 2025 Final.docx.pdf (251.82 kb) - 11/26/2025 10:07:40 AM Job Description The Financial Modelling & Structuring Specialist is responsible for providing expert financial modelling and structuring, and advisory support for investment projects. This role focuses on supporting high-impact projects through to project financial closure by designing innovative financing solutions. Key Responsibilities Key Performance Areas: Financial Modelling * Build, update, and maintain complex, dynamic financial models for infrastructure and project finance transactions that are in different infrastructure project lifecycles/stages. * Lead the financial modelling component of Pre-feasibility and Bankable Feasibility Studies (BFS), ensuring alignment with project technical, environmental, social, regulatory, and commercial requirements. * Collaborate with technical engineers and sector specialists to assess project feasibility, risks, and development readiness. * Review, validate, and challenge technical and operational assumptions used within financial models. * Support preparation of technical and investment documentation for internal decision-making committees and external stakeholders. * Conduct scenario, sensitivity, and stress testing to evaluate project resilience and identify key value and risk drivers. * Assess financial performance indicators and recommend funding structures that align development impact with financial sustainability. * Present financial modelling outputs, results, and recommendations internally, to project sponsors, investors, and partners. Financial Structuring * Develop and implement innovative and sustainable financial structuring solutions to unlock and accelerate development projects. * Collaborate with project teams in the Unit to recommend suitable funding structures or financing mechanisms. * Develop and implement innovative financing instruments, including blended finance, PPPs, guarantees, local currency funding, derivatives, and other financial solutions. * Conduct detailed due diligence and appraisal of proposed transactions, including commercial, financial, risk, and institutional analysis. * Provide input into the preparation and negotiation of contracts, with a focus on financial structuring and implications. * Review and provide input for financial structuring sections of agreements, progress reports, project planning management, project management, disbursements management, waivers and amendments and contract management. * Facilitate project closure and provide strategic support to senior management as required. * Test market readiness of the Projects with developers, investors, DFIs and OEMs. * Facilitate engagements with project developers and financiers. * Provide transaction structuring inputs to ensure bankability of Projects. * Design of project finance models/structures. * Map financing options across commercial, concessional, blended-finance and climate-finance sources. * Design blended finance structures, combining concessional debt, commercial financing, grants, equity, and guarantees to de-risk the projects. * Engage DFIs and climate funders, prepare concept notes and pitch materials, and support project sponsors in funder outreach. Advisory Support * Engage emerging clients and project developers to understand project vision, context, constraints, and capabilities.. * Facilitate capacity-building to help the clients progress toward independence in information preparation, documentation, and negotiation readiness. * Provide step-by-step guidance to shape project assumptions, cost structures, revenue models, and timelines into credible financial frameworks. * Develop and refine financial models that incorporate realistic inputs, risk adjustments, and sustainability parameters suitable for early-stage initiatives. * Identify funding gaps, affordability considerations, and feasible financial structuring options (e.g., grants, concessionary finance, blended finance). Stakeholder Management * Build and maintain strong relationships with clients at global, regional, and local levels, including businesses, banking and multilateral partners and government officials to further develop specific financing opportunities. * Manage relationships at various levels with the relevant project stakeholders, partners, and lead promoters, in accordance with the project’s preparation objectives and products. * Identify key stakeholders and develop a pipeline of potential funders, contributors and partners for programme development initiatives. Key Measurements of Outputs * Number and quality of new innovative funding models and mechanisms designed * Quality and usability of financial models for screening, due diligence, and investment discussions * Quality and effective financial models and solutions * Financial structuring and capacity-building support provided on projects * Number of projects successfully prepared (structured) and that reach financial close for implementation * Value of infrastructure catalysed * Value of Private & Public Sector partnerships and funding * Management of relationships with new/existing clients and service providers Expertise & Technical Competencies Qualifications and Experience: Minimum Qualification * A Bachelor’s Degree in Business Science, Actuarial Science, Finance, Economics or related field. Minimum Experience * A minimum of 8 years’ experience in financial modelling within project finance, investment banking, infrastructure * development, or corporate finance. * Advanced financial modelling capability. * Experience in project finance and/or infrastructure finance, financial modelling and project finance/investment * banking experience. * Experience in working on investment projects through an established approval process. * Experience in successful investment, appraisal, analysis and implementation is required. * In-depth knowledge of the financing of Infrastructure and Industrial Sector projects. * Proven ability to negotiate and close infrastructure deals. * Experience in supporting the preparation of projects resulting in the implementation of projects on a Corporate * Finance, Project Finance or Structured Finance basis. * Demonstrated experience and understanding of the project preparation cycle and requirements to prepare bankable projects. Desirable Requirements * A post-graduate qualification/ honours degree in Finance, Business, Accounting or Economics. * Development finance experience. Technical Competencies: Business Acumen * Deep understanding of commercial drivers and can make decisions based on an assessment of alternatives concerning complex business situations. * Deep understanding of the economic priorities of South Africa and Africa and how they can be implemented to meet an organisation's strategic objectives. * Deep understanding of the need to coordinate efforts with many government entities, the private sector, community groups and individuals to ensure effective implementation of new policies and regulations. * Takes actions to fit business strategy. * Assesses and links short-term tasks in the context of long-term business strategies or perspectives. * Reviews own actions against the organisation's strategic plan; includes the big picture when considering possible opportunities or projects, or thinks about long-term applications of current activities. * Anticipates possible responses to different initiatives. * Understands the projected direction of the industry and how changes might impact the organisation. Deal Structuring * Uses credit enhancement techniques to structure deals and optimise pricing in terms of Basel principles. * Has an in-depth and practical understanding of how to optimise the Capital Structure, collateral package, and debt repayment profile. * Interrogates financial models, including those with a high degree of complexity, to develop an optimal structure. * Identifies complex structural issues that need escalation and proposes appropriate bankable structures. * Demonstrates knowledge on advanced structuring, including the use of derivatives, syndicated loans, synthetic loans, securitisations, inflation-linked debt, credit default swaps and subordinated debt. * Prepares specialised or tailored reports relating to new innovative instruments, gathers information from a variety of sources, analyses and includes in a report to new product approval committees. * Compiles comprehensive specialist reports as required for inclusion in credit committee submissions. Financial Analysis * Serves as subject matter expert. * Evaluates and determines fiscal, operational, and service impacts; analyses and evaluates legislation; and implements and evaluates statistical models in their subject areas. * Demonstrates in-depth technical and administrative knowledge of the rules and regulations in the subject area and to defend analyses, testimony, and recommendations relating to a variety of issues before management and commissions. Financial Acumen * Makes sound financial decisions after having analysed their impacts on the organisation, partner agencies, and community. * Effectively prepares budgetary submissions and forecasts for own department. * Knows the internal and external factors that impact resource and asset availability. * Can interpret management account reports in an operational/commercial context and take action as appropriate to maximise revenues and control costs. Project Preparation * Demonstrates a sound understanding of limited recourse and balance sheet funding, the process required to prepare projects, and financing documentation required to present projects for investment decisions. * Leads an internal team of sector specialists and analysts to appraise and present transactions to internal committees. * Appoints and leads a team of external consultants/advisors (technical, environmental, financial and legal) to prepare and present the Project Information Memorandum (PIM) to prospective financiers. * Analyses sponsors’ financial statements, understands and reviews financial models. * Demonstrates a sound understanding of the water, transport and energy sectors to identify potential fatal flaws generally associated with these sectors in projects presented and key risks to be mitigated Solution Focus * Identifies broad, highly complex problems based on a multitude of factors, many of which are complex and sweeping in nature, difficult to define and often contradictory. * Creates procedures to articulate the nature of problems and to identify and weigh alternate solutions. * Evaluates the effectiveness of solutions using approaches tailored to the situation. Risk Management * Drives integration and standardisation of risk management processes across the organisation. * Advises on the application of the organisation’s risk management policies, industry best practices and constructs organisation guidelines. * Analyses trends in risk management and internal control, evaluates implications, defines, and implements organisation-wide response. Negotiation * Has an appreciation of cultural sensitivities and differences. * Effectively employs a variety of advanced behavioural/interpersonal competencies to control the negotiation situation. * Can take the lead in a variety of sensitive negotiation situations requiring high levels of tact and diplomacy. * Can place a discrete negotiation situation within the context of a broader long-term relationship and is not threatened by conceding ground to protect the longer-term interests of DBSA. Commercial Awareness * Deep understanding of commercial drivers and can make decisions based on an assessment of alternatives concerning complex business situations. * Deep understanding of DBSA economic priorities and how they can be implemented to meet DBSA's strategic objectives. * Deep understanding of DBSA's core sector role in achieving DBSA's strategic objectives. * Deep understanding of the need to coordinate efforts with many government entities, the private sector, community groups and individuals to ensure effective implementation of new policies and regulations. Communication and Reporting * Able to communicate complex problems or concepts by making them simple and understandable for others. * Adapts language to the level of the audience to ensure that the message has a positive impact and is interesting to the audience. * Is articulate, demonstrates a wide range of vocabulary, and is confident when talking to large/high-level audiences. * Designs / customises reports to meet user needs. * •Prepares complex or tailored reports, gathers information from a variety of sources, analyses and includes in a report. * Keeps standard reports under review and proposes improvements to meet user needs. Presentation Skills * Knows how to deliver arguments persuasively by employing a range of advanced presentation techniques (e.g., the appropriate use of body language, how to close a presentation so that the audience continues to think about the subject matter, etc.). * Has knowledge of various feedback mechanisms to check levels of audience understanding. Required Personal Attributes Leadership/Behavioural Competencies: Achievement Orientation * Focuses on new or more effective ways of improving own work and meeting targets. * Focuses on raising quality, customer satisfaction and revenues. * Makes specific changes to systems and processes to improve efficiency and quality. * Formulates own objectives and action plans to achieve a measurable improvement in the future. Analytical Thinking * Identifies multiple elements of a problem and breaks down each of those elements in detail, showing causal relationships between them. * Uses several analytical techniques to identify several solutions and weighs the value of each. Conceptual thinking * Creates new concepts that are not obvious to others and not learned from previous education or experience to explain situations or resolve problems. * Looks at things in a significantly novel way, breakthrough thinking. Strategic and Innovative thinking * Recognises opportunities or problems emerging in patterns and trends, and their impact on the business and profitability drivers. * Applies learning from previous situations and experiences. * Sees underlying causality in the current situation. Applies business acumen to make sound decisions. * Recognises opportunities or potential problems, before they become obvious, by seeing the connections in a range of sources of information, including insights from outside DBSA. * Restates complex knowledge in a way that makes it easier for others to understand. Teamwork * Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale and resolves conflicts. * Creates opportunities for cross-functional working. * Encourages others to network outside of their own team/department and learn from their experience. Policy The Development Bank of Southern Africa will endeavour to make appointments in line with its Employment Equity Policy and Plan. Applications from suitably qualified designated groups, especially people with disabilities, are encouraged. The DBSA corporate culture fit requires clear, logical and analytical thinking grounded in good interpersonal skills, a sense of urgency and results orientated execution of duties. The ability to work collaboratively and finding practical yet innovative solutions is critical to success in a work environment that demands emotional resilience, accountability and responsible risk taking and management. The DBSA reserves the right to amend or remove vacancies in line with organisational requirements. All vacancies can be viewed on the DBSA website (www.dbsa.org) under Careers. CLICK TO APPLY PRINCIPAL DEAL ORIGINATOR ICT X2 Details Closing Date 2026/10/15 Reference Number DBS260625-1 Job Title Principal Deal Originator ICT X2 Job Grade 17 Job Type Classification Permanent Location - Town / City Midrand Location - Province Gauteng Location - Country South Africa Job Profile (Downloadable) Principal Deal Originator Generic _Job Profile September 2025 NS 001.docx.pdf (260.62 kb) - 10/3/2025 1:11:59 PM Job Description The Principal Deal Originator is responsible for formulating and executing the strategic objectives of the business in collaboration with the Head Coverage, whilst being accountable for deal origination, building and owning client and partnerships and developing projects for the DBSA, ultimately leading to bankable deals. Key Responsibilities QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE Minimum Requirements 1. A postgraduate qualification or equivalent in Business (such as an MBA) or Finance (CA or CFA), or Engineering, or Economics. 2. A minimum of 10 years of experience in infrastructure project financing, structured finance or corporate lending, preferably in a development bank, commercial bank or financial institution focusing on infrastructure. 3. Experience in securing infrastructure investment deals in relevant sectors/geographies in SA and/or Africa. 4. Experience in leading, initiating and developing new business strategies and opportunities to create a pipeline of development impact projects, ensuring deal flow and bankability. 5. Proven track record in originating, structuring and closing large-scale infrastructure deals. 6. Experience in securing deals of appropriate size for the sectors and geographies in question. 7. Strong networks and relations with clients, global and regional private investors and banks to identify and source viable projects/investments. 8. Successful track record in leading project teams with high-level stakeholders and qualified professionals. 9. Comprehensive knowledge of the complex financial and regulatory environments across Africa. 10. In-depth knowledge and understanding of the infrastructure market, financial markets and the macro landscape. 11. Demonstrable experience in identifying client challenges and playing an active part in developing/structuring innovative solutions. 12. Experienced communicator and negotiator (expertise at senior level). 13. Strong negotiation skills with the ability to close deals. 14. Proven experience in working with senior stakeholders in highly political environments in South Africa and the rest of Africa. KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS 1.    Deal Origination * Lead the development and execution of origination strategies and sector initiatives to drive infrastructure investment. * Identify, prioritise, and manage key client relationships to maximise revenue and strategic impact. * Build and maintain a robust pipeline of high-quality investment opportunities through proactive business development and deep sector expertise. * Collaborate with project preparation and transaction teams to ensure successful deal structuring and closure. * Navigate and resolve partnership challenges, staying informed on market products and competitor offerings. * Leverage political, sectoral, and regional insights to inform strategies and broaden business opportunities. * Foster strong networks with internal and external stakeholders to position the bank as a leader in infrastructure finance. * Lead competitor and market analysis to inform strategic decision-making and maintain competitive advantage. * Drive new business development, including fee-generating projects, ensuring consistent deal flow and bankability. * Provide leadership, mentorship, and expert guidance to junior team members and represent deals at Investment committees and boards. * Prepare and provide documentation/reports for EXCO and Board(s) decision-making where applicable. * Present at deal screen reports at Investment Committees where applicable, as and when required. 2.    Business Development * Drive business development to establish DBSA as the preferred lender, investor, and partner. * Lead the drafting, approval and execution of strategies to build a strong pipeline of projects. * Identify and originate viable projects by facilitating preparation, scoping, feasibility studies, and business plans to close deals. * Develop approaches to secure concessional funding for infrastructure projects across Africa. * Expand client base in target countries, fostering long-term relationships. * Design and implement targeted marketing strategies to capitalise on growth opportunities for DBSA. 3.    Relationship Management and Stakeholder Relations * Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, global and regional private businesses, banking and multilateral partners and government officials to further develop specific investment opportunities. * Facilitate continuous communication with clients/ projects that the DBSA has funded to adequately support the Division’s monitoring function. * Network and maintain relationships with key internal and external stakeholders to develop specific investment opportunities further. * Identify clients’ pain points and coordinate DBSA’s solution offerings to address them. * Undertake other tasks as assigned by the line manager, from time to time. Key Measurements of Outputs (The list is not exhaustive) 1. Value and number of new business deals originated 2. Value and number of project approvals, commitments, and disbursements. 3. Value of infrastructure catalysed. 4. Value of projects prepared and committed for DBSA approval. 5. Value of funds under management secured (Infrastructure Delivery business). 6. Quality of investment book (e.g., NPL ratio). 7. Number of transactions that are committed for DBSA funding to black-owned entities. 8. Number of jobs created or "to be created" by projects - Direct and Indirect jobs. 9. Quality of signed agreements/mandates. 10. Clean Audit. KEY INTERNAL LIAISON RELATIONSHIPS (The list is not exhaustive) 1. Divisional Executives and Unit Heads 2. DBSA Committees, e.g., Deal screen, Investment Committees, Asset/Liability Committee 3. Origination, Transacting, IDD, Project Preparation, Risk, Treasury & Finance KEY EXTERNAL LIAISON RELATIONSHIPS (The list is not exhaustive) 1. National Government 2. Provincial Government 3. Local Government 4. Knowledge partners – Universities, think tanks, local/international organisations 5. Investment partners – commercial, DFIs 6. SMMEs 7. Sovereigns 8. Service providers – e.g. EPCs, advisors, O&Ms Expertise & Technical Competencies TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES a)    Business Development * Takes overall lead for proactive business development at the national and international level. * Initiates, reviews, and interprets competitor environment reviews and takes actions accordingly. * Formulates and modifies market approaches based on competitor analyses. * Leads the formulation, development and implementation of the business development strategy to generate new business opportunities in public and private sector delivery of infrastructure. * Identifies and develops new markets, products and clients. * Leads the participation and presentation of an organisation at investment conferences and roundtable discussions. * Coordinates business activities to ensure that investment initiatives are in support of government BEE strategies, broader national and regional economic development strategies. * Promote compliance and alignment with the strategic imperatives of both individual clients and the organisation of investment and development interventions. * Builds capacity to coordinate, control and manage the activities and efforts required for the implementation of the plan. * Builds capacity to conduct project origination exercises. b)    Business Acumen * Deep understanding of commercial drivers and can make decisions based on an assessment of alternatives concerning complex business situations. * Deep understanding of economic priorities of South Africa and Africa and how they can be implemented to meet an organisation's strategic objectives. * Deep understanding of the need to coordinate efforts with many government entities, the private sector, community groups and individuals to ensure effective implementation of new policies and regulations. * Takes actions to fit business strategy. * Assesses and links short-term tasks in the context of long-term business strategies or perspectives. * Reviews own actions against the organisation's strategic plan; includes the big picture when considering possible opportunities or projects, or thinks about long-term applications of current activities. * Anticipates possible responses to different initiatives. * Understands the projected direction of the industry and how changes might impact the organisation. c)    Deal Origination * Utilises extensive networks with developers, sponsors and consultants in DBSA-mandated sectors to identify project preparation opportunities. * Conducts project identification, conceptualisation and preliminary structuring of projects and value preposition for DBSA. * Applies analytical skills to understand the technical, environmental, institutional, financial and legal components of projects to present a structure to prepare the project. * Understands the regulatory and policy environments and offers advice in preparing/structuring projects. * Conducts market research, business analysis and profiling to identify opportunities for infrastructure development in SA, SADC and selected African countries. * Provides and grows the opportunity for DBSA equity investments. * Independently structures and negotiates, and concludes engagement letters, term sheets and facility agreements. d)    Project Management * Defines, plans, and manages large and/or strategic projects, including those with a high degree of technical complexity, with impacts across the organisation and/or with national implications. * Assembles and leads diverse and multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring maximum effective resource utilisation. * Successfully manages substantial project budgets and reports directly to senior managers on the progress and results of projects. * Identifies complex issues that need escalation and proposes appropriate corrective actions. e)    Solution Focus * Identifies broad, highly complex problems based on a multitude of factors, many of which are complex and sweeping in nature, difficult to define and often contradictory. * Creates procedures to articulate the nature of problems and to identify and weigh alternate solutions. * Evaluates the effectiveness of solutions using approaches tailored to the situation. f)    Financial Analysis * Serves as subject matter expert. * Evaluates and determines fiscal, operational, and service impacts; analyses and evaluates legislation; and implements and evaluates statistical models in their subject areas. * Demonstrates in-depth technical and administrative knowledge of the rules and regulations in the subject area and to defend analyses, testimony, and recommendations relating to a variety of issues before management and commissions. g)    Risk Management * Drives integration and standardisation of risk management processes across the organisation. * Advises on the application of the organisation’s risk management policies, industry best practices and constructs organisation guidelines. * Analyses trends in risk management and internal control, evaluates implications, defines, and implements organisation-wide response. h)    Attention to detail * Quickly identifies relevant and irrelevant information to support accurate decision making. * Maps out all the logistics and details of a situation to ensure smooth and flawless implementation. * Consistently identifies all relevant details that are not obvious in complex situations. * Requires the highest standards for accuracy and quality for their work. * Establishes processes to ensure accuracy and quality of services delivered by the team. i)    Negotiation * Has an appreciation of cultural sensitivities and differences. * Effectively employs a variety of advanced behavioural/interpersonal competencies to control the negotiation situation. * Can take the lead in a variety of sensitive negotiation situations requiring high levels of tact and diplomacy. * Can place a discrete negotiation situation within the context of a broader long-term relationship and is not threatened by conceding ground to protect the longer-term interests of DBSA. j)    Commercial Awareness * Deep understanding of commercial drivers and can make decisions based on an assessment of alternatives concerning complex business situations. * Deep understanding of DBSA economic priorities and how they can be implemented to meet DBSA's strategic objectives. * Deep understanding of DBSA's core sector role in achieving DBSA's strategic objectives. * Deep understanding of the need to coordinate efforts with many government entities, the private sector, community groups and individuals to ensure effective implementation of new policies and regulations. k) Research * Demonstrates expert skill levels in strategic and operational research techniques, including process analysis, modelling, and forecasting. * Adapts, creates, and designs new research techniques to meet the organisation's requirements. * Provides specialist coaching and guidance to researchers and other organisation employees. * Promotes the professional reputation of the organisation by maintaining a respected profile with relevant external organisations and the research community in general. l) Communication and Reporting * Able to communicate complex problems or concepts by making them simple and understandable for others. * Adapts language to the level of the audience to ensure that the message has a positive impact and is interesting to the audience. * Is articulate, demonstrates a wide range of vocabulary, and is confident when talking to large/high-level audiences. * Designs / customises reports to meet user needs. * Prepares complex or tailored reports, gathers information from a variety of sources, analyses and includes in a report. * Keeps standard reports under review and proposes improvements to meet user needs. m) Innovation * Develops innovative business solutions that shape industry practices. n) Presentation Skills * Knows how to deliver arguments persuasively by employing a range of advanced presentation techniques (e.g., the appropriate use of body language, how to close a presentation so that the audience continues to think about the subject matter, etc.). * Has knowledge of various feedback mechanisms to check levels of audience understanding. Required Personal Attributes BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES a)    Achievement Orientation * Focuses on new or more effective ways of improving own work and meeting targets. * Focuses on raising quality, customer satisfaction and revenues. * Makes specific changes to systems and processes to improve efficiency and quality. * Formulates own objectives and action plans to achieve a measurable improvement in the future. b)    Analytical Thinking * Identifies multiple elements of a problem and breaks down each of those elements in detail, showing causal relationships between them. * Uses several analytical techniques to identify several solutions and weighs the value of each. c)    Conceptual thinking * Creates new concepts that are not obvious to others and not learned from previous education or experience to explain situations or resolve problems. * Looks at things in a significantly novel way, breakthrough thinking. d)    Strategic and Innovative thinking * Recognises opportunities or problems emerging in patterns and trends, and their impact on the business and profitability drivers. * Applies learning from previous situations and experiences. * Sees underlying causality in the current situation. Applies business acumen to make sound decisions. * Recognises opportunities or potential problems, before they become obvious, by seeing the connections in a range of sources of information, including insights from outside DBSA. * Restates complex knowledge in a way that makes it easier for others to understand. e)    Commercial Business Acumen * Understands business fundamentals. * Analyses and comprehends organisational goals and strategies. * Understands tactical business fundamentals in the public sector environment and incorporates them into decision-making. f)    Teamwork * Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale and resolves conflicts. * Creates opportunities for cross-functional working. * Encourages others to network outside of their own team/department and learn from their experience. Policy The Development Bank of Southern Africa will endeavour to make appointments in line with its Employment Equity Policy and Plan. Applications from suitably qualified designated groups, especially people with disabilities, are encouraged. The DBSA corporate culture fit requires clear, logical and analytical thinking grounded in good interpersonal skills, a sense of urgency and results orientated execution of duties. The ability to work collaboratively and finding practical yet innovative solutions is critical to success in a work environment that demands emotional resilience, accountability and responsible risk taking and management. The DBSA reserves the right to amend or remove vacancies in line with organisational requirements. All vacancies can be viewed on the DBSA website (www.dbsa.org) under Careers. CLICK TO APPLY PROGRAMME MANAGER (PARTNER-A-DISTRICT) Details Closing Date 2026/10/14 Reference Number DBS260929-2 Job Title Programme Manager (Partner-A-District) Job Grade 00 Job Type Classification Permanent Location - Town / City Midrand Location - Province Gauteng Location - Country South Africa Job Profile (Downloadable) Programme Manager PAD_Job Profile September 2026 Final.pdf (309.11 kb) - 9/29/2026 3:46:44 PM Job Description The Partner-A-District (PAD) Programme operationalizes the Bank’s municipal strategy, focusing on transforming the M2/M3 municipal segment through an integrated, programmatic, and partnership-driven approach. It positions districts as strategic entry points for the DBSA to elevate the development impact in alignment with government policies and the District Development Model (DDM). The Programme Manager leads and coordinates the implementation of multiple projects in the PAD programme to advance the Bank’s strategic objectives. The role collaborates with municipalities, government departments, the public and private sector, manages resources, partnerships, and cross-functional teams, to deliver sustainable development outcomes in local government. Key Responsibilities KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS 1. Programme Management * Develop sector-specific programmes for financing, including scope definition and success criteria. * Prepare programme execution plans aligned to partnership frameworks and strategic objectives. * Compile technically sound reports that establish the basis for projects to inform investment decisions. * Oversee programme implementation, track milestones, deliverables, costs, dependencies, risks and issues. * Maintain strong data-capture and reporting capability to support analysis and decision making. * Manage programme inter-dependencies and interfaces to ensure coherent and on-time delivery. * Provide technical status reports for milestone payments, assess service-provider claims, prepare payment instructions and oversee disbursements. * Collaborate with municipal finance team and provide relevant module information to support due diligence. * Manage procurement and contract activities, including dispute resolution, in line with contract policies. * Prepare programme management reports and presentations for EXCO, Board, internal and external stakeholders for progress reporting and decision making. * Provide leadership, mentorship, and technical guidance to junior team members. * Implement appropriate project management methodologies to strengthen organisational maturity and ensure consistent delivery outcomes. * Transfer completed projects to clients and partners and conduct post-implementation and transfer reviews to ensure sustainability and lessons-learned integration. 2. Deal Origination * Lead the execution of origination strategies and municipal sector initiatives to drive infrastructure investment. * Identify market opportunities through comprehensive sector analysis, including demand and supply dynamics and gap assessments, to inform strategic decision-making and maintain competitive advantage. * Navigate political, sectoral, and institutional insights to shape origination strategies and broaden business opportunities. * Build and maintain a robust pipeline of high-quality, bankable investment opportunities through proactive business development and in-depth municipal sector expertise. * Originate financing and non-financing initiatives that strengthen municipal institutions and enhance development impact. * Lead the identification, preparation, and development of viable infrastructure projects by coordinating scoping exercises, feasibility studies, business cases, and other pre-investment activities to ensure project bankability and enable successful deal closure. * Drive consistent deal flow and ensure bankability across all originated opportunities. * Collaborate with planning, project preparation and municipal finance teams to ensure successful deal structuring and closure. * Present transactions at deal and investment committees, providing strategic and technical insights. * Foster strong networks with internal and external stakeholders to position the bank as a leader in infrastructure finance. * Strengthen relationships across municipalities, sector departments, and strategic partners to support origination success. 3. Business Development * Drive business development to position DBSA as the preferred lender, investor, and development partner. * Lead the creation and execution of strategies to build a strong pipeline of development impact projects. * Develop approaches with municipal finance teams to secure concessional funding for infrastructure projects. * Expand municipal client base and secure sustainable revenue streams through relationship building. * Design and implement targeted marketing strategies to capture growth opportunities for DBSA’s services. 4. Stakeholder Management * Collaborate with internal and external stakeholder on integration relating to project prioritisation, resources, scope, cost, commissioning, operational readiness and handover. * Build and maintain strong relations at local, provincial and national IGR structures, including sector and transferring departments. * Foster good working relations with heads of functionaries at municipalities to support programme delivery. * Establish and maintain strategic partnerships, networks, and alliances that enhance the Bank’s development support role in strengthening municipal institutions. Key Measurements of Outputs 1. Successful execution of the programme and assigned strategic projects, in line with the key performance targets of the programme. 2. Value and number of new business deals originated (financing and non-financing). 3. Value and number of project approvals, commitments, and disbursements achieved. 4. Value of projects prepared and committed for DBSA approval. 5. Effective management and oversight of programme management units and deliverables across provinces, districts and municipalities. 6. High levels of stakeholder and partner satisfaction with programme outputs. 7. Clean audits across district and municipal partnership environments. Expertise & Technical Competencies Minimum Qualifications * A Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical or Civil Engineering. * Postgraduate qualification in Engineering, Project Management, Business Management, or Economics. * Registration as a Project Management Professional (PMP) with the Project Management Institute (PMI). Minimum Experience * A minimum of 10 years demonstrated work experience in infrastructure programme development and programme management managing mega or multidisciplinary projects concurrently. * In-depth understanding of the end-to-end infrastructure programme development process including feasibility studies and deal structuring. * Extensive experience in business development/ deal origination and client relationship skills, and ability to focus on client's needs effectively. * Proven ability to lead complex strategic initiatives and projects successfully. * Comprehensive knowledge of regulatory environments across municipalities/ metros, SOEs, and government entities in South Africa. * Strong understanding of government planning cycle and demonstrated experience engaging high-level * government stakeholders. * Advanced technical proficiency with Project Management tools such as Microsoft Project and Planner. * Solid understanding of SCM processes and relevant legislation, including PFMA, MFMA, and PPPFA. Desirable Requirements * A relevant master’s degree. * Registered with ECSA as a Professional Engineer or Professional Engineering Technologist. TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES a) Digital Acumen * The ability to understand, contribute to, and drive the adoption of digital technologies and processes within an organisational context to improve * efficiency, create new value, and transform operations. b) Data Management * Studies the organisational data management requirements and plans accordingly. * Recommends policies, procedures, and standards relating to the organisation’s data management. * Defines an overall file management policy with file storage procedure and policy. * Defines a backup strategy and related policies. * Ensures compliance by users with file storage procedures. * Ensures regular data backup and storage. * Tests the backed-up data and assures backup quality. c) Reporting * Designs / customises reports to meet user needs. * Prepares complex or tailored reports, gathers information from a variety of sources, analyses, and includes in a report. * Keeps standard reports under review and proposes improvements to meet user needs. d) Project Management * Initiates project plans and secures resources for projects that span area or department boundaries. * Uses estimating techniques and develops project risk management approaches. * Has an in-depth and practical understanding of how to maximise the effectiveness of project teams. e) Planning and Organising * Is relied on to help others plan and organise their workload. * Uses effective advanced time management processes to deal with high workload and tight deadlines. * Organises, prioritises and schedules tasks so they can be performed within budget and with the efficient use of time and resources. * Achieves goals in a timely manner, despite obstacles encountered, by organising, reprioritising, and re-planning. f) Quality Management * Ability to develop quality management plans and inspection protocols. Implements systems and processes to ensure quality is built into the design * and planning stages and conducts audits and reviews to verify compliance with standards. g) Continuous Improvement in Technical Processes * The capability to identify, implement, and monitor process and technology enhancements that improve design quality, efficiency, and value for money in infrastructure delivery. h) Innovation * The skills, knowledge, and abilities necessary to foster, develop, and implement new ideas, processes, products, or services that create value and drive organisational growth. This is critical for adapting to market changes, improving competitiveness, and responding to evolving customer needs. Required Personal Attributes BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES a) Teamwork & Cooperation * Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale and resolves conflicts. * Facilitate collaborative cross-functional team working. * Encourages others to network outside of their own team/department and learn from their experience. b) Leading and empowering others * Creates the conditions that enables the team to perform at its best (e.g., setting clear directions, providing appropriate structure, getting the right people, obtain needed resources). * Monitors performance against clear standards, addresses performance issues promptly, and takes action to get performance back to desired levels. * Proactively asks feedback of own performance from team members, aiming to become more effective. c) Driving delivery of results * Identifies and implements a business opportunity that will have a long-term impact on the business (which may include the organisation’s reputation or * brand image). Monitors progress and adapts the plan, if necessary, to ensure optimal benefit to the business. * Makes decisions, sets priorities, or chooses goals based on inputs and outputs: makes explicit considerations of potential profit, return on investment, or cost benefit analysis. * Based on the cost-benefit analysis, make decisions of an entrepreneurial risk nature. d) Achievement orientation * Undertakes challenging assignment and strives to complete them. * Sets priorities and chooses goals on the basis of calculated costs, anticipated benefits, and improvement of performance. * Aims at exceptional performance, setting out to achieve a unique standard. * Constantly analyse outcomes to ensure the achievements of business goal. * Identifies short-term opportunity or potential problems aiming to achieve better outcomes. e) Customer Orientation * Tries to understand the underlying needs of customers and match these needs to available or customized products and services. * Adapts processes and procedures to meet ongoing customer needs. * Utilises the feedback received from customers, in order to develop new and / or improving existing services / products that relates to their on-going needs. * Thinks of new ways to align DBSA’s offering with future customer needs. f) Integrity * Is willing to end a business relationship because it was associated with unethical business practices. * Is capable of challenging senior management (in an appropriate and respectable manner) in order to act on espoused values. g) Self-awareness & self-control * Withholds effects of strong emotions in difficult situations. * Keeps functioning or responds constructively despite stress. * May apply special techniques or plan ahead of time to manage emotions or stress. *The KPA’s, competencies, and relationships listed in this document are not exhaustive, and the incumbent will be expected to undertake additional duties within their capacity to meet the needs of business and/or the business unit. Policy The Development Bank of Southern Africa will endeavour to make appointments in line with its Employment Equity Policy and Plan. Applications from suitably qualified designated groups, especially people with disabilities, are encouraged. The DBSA corporate culture fit requires clear, logical and analytical thinking grounded in good interpersonal skills, a sense of urgency and results orientated execution of duties. The ability to work collaboratively and finding practical yet innovative solutions is critical to success in a work environment that demands emotional resilience, accountability and responsible risk taking and management. The DBSA reserves the right to amend or remove vacancies in line with organisational requirements. All vacancies can be viewed on the DBSA website (www.dbsa.org) under Careers. CLICK TO APPLY QUANTITY SURVEYOR Details Closing Date 2026/10/14 Reference Number DBS261001-1 Job Title Quantity Surveyor Job Grade 00 Job Type Classification Permanent Location - Town / City Midrand Location - Province Gauteng Location - Country South Africa Job Profile (Downloadable) Quantity_SurveyorIDDJob_Profile_Infrastructure_Delivery.docx (003).pdf (302.96 kb) - 10/1/2026 2:34:32 PM Job Description The Quantity Surveyor is responsible for managing and forecasting all costs associated with infrastructure projects, from planning through to completion, ensuring cost efficiency and value for money while maintaining quality and regulatory standards. The role involves monitoring project finances, adhering to statutory building regulations, and delivering professional Quantity Surveying services that meet the needs of the Infrastructure Delivery Division. Additionally, the Quantity Surveyor provides expert guidance and inputs for the development of infrastructure strategies, policies, systems, and technical standards. Key Responsibilities Quantity Surveying and Quality Assurance * Calculate and verify project costs to enhance value and cost efficiency for infrastructure projects in line with regulatory standards and quality. * Estimate and monitor all costs that relate to the infrastructure project from the planning stage until the final stage, when all actual costs are levied. * Verify the accuracy of deriving costs for project ancillaries, labour and material for each item or activity, especially for large volume, high value or high-risk services and works. * Advise contract custodians on bill of quantities and activity schedule composition for large volume, high-value or high-risk services and works. * Monitor execution and update of processes for site audits, where required, to verify quantities and claims for work executed. * Monitor and maintain adherence to local statutory building regulations and the applicable built environment standards and regulations. * Provide surveying inputs and guidance for the development of infrastructure strategies, policies, systems, functional / technical norms and standards. * Provide a professional quantity surveying service and continuous quality assurance to meet the needs of the Infrastructure Delivery division. * Vet bills of quantities and variation orders as received before payment and approve payments to contractors. * Advise on standards, practices and governance relevant to contractual documentation. * Prepare and conduct financial close-out and review project/programme close-out costs. * Compile and present special reports when required. * Prepare quantity surveying inputs for the preparation of the User Asset Management Plan, the final project lists, the budgets and the infrastructure Programme Management Plan. Continuous Improvement of Estimating Services and Cost Engineering * Conduct research and keep abreast of new technologies and procedures, including interaction with professional Councils/ Boards. * Liaise with external quantity surveying firms and the Association of South African Quantity Surveyors regarding documentation, benchmarking rates and alternative procedures to ensure improvements and cost savings. * Contribute to Master Planning, Project Briefing documents, accommodation schedules and operational narratives. * Optimise standard guides, methods and techniques to evaluate the utilisation of available resources. * Evaluate and identify new initiatives or enhanced/ improved products for inclusion in programmes or projects. * Formulate standards and improved bills of quantities and activity schedules for large volume, high value or high-risk services and works. * Identify all risks and devise risk mitigation strategies. Reporting and Analytics * Generate detailed and insightful reports and analyses that support strategic decision-making and drive organisational improvement. * Develop and deliver accurate, relevant, and stakeholder-focused reports, presenting data in a clear, concise, and actionable format using appropriate visualisations and analytical tools. * Identify trends, anomalies, and key insights that influence strategic planning and operational adjustments. Stakeholder Management * Engage and collaborate with key stakeholders to align expectations, gather insights, and ensure successful outcomes. * Build strong relationships, communicating clearly and consistently, and addressing stakeholder needs and concerns with responsiveness and professionalism. * Facilitate cooperation and support for initiatives within the area of expertise, contributing to overall project and organisational success. * Compile and present technical reports, briefing notes, and special reports as required. Key Measures of Performance * Accuracy in project costing and quality assurance * Adherence to applicable regulations and built environment protocols * Accuracy in the approval of bills of quantities and variation orders * Accuracy and completeness of cost estimates and financial planning documents * Number and quality of Bills of Quantities and Variation Orders vetted * Timeliness and accuracy of financial close-out reports and programme cost reviews * Compliance with statutory building regulations and internal standards * Mitigation and prevention of key cost-related risks * Stakeholder feedback on strategic cost advice and technical support * Clean audit Expertise & Technical Competencies Minimum Qualifications * A Bachelor’s degree or a B-Tech in Quantity Surveying. * Registration with the South African Council for the Quantity Surveying Profession (SACQSP). Minimum Experience * A minimum of 8 years’ experience with quantity surveying in engineering and construction contracts, preferably in the public sector. * Experience in estimating and cost engineering of construction services and implementing cost control measures in projects. * Knowledge and understanding of the Quantity Surveying Professions Act of 2000, National Building Standards Act of 1977 and Regulations, Construction Industry Development Board Act of 2000 and Regulations, and Occupational Health and Safety Act of 1993. * Understand how to apply the Provincial Infrastructure Delivery Management System (PIDP) and the IDM Toolkit. * Understand how to prepare budgets, extract and interpret information from related information systems. * Understand the service delivery platform, indicators and service plan and how that links with Infrastructure. * Understand how to undertake a risk analysis and undertake a risk mitigation strategy. * Understand how to interpret existing and develop new Functional- and Technical Norms and Standards. * Ability to process and analyse new and complex information quickly and to prioritise issues for consideration. * Ability to build strategic alliances with key players for business. * Capacity to clarify the needs of others and work with them to develop and implement cost-effective and practical solutions. * Demonstrated experience in successfully managing projects within tight schedules. Desirable Requirements * Postgraduate qualification in Quantity Surveying. * Qualifications in health and safety. TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES Project Management * Defines, plans and manages large and/or strategic projects, including those with a high degree of technical complexity, with impacts across the organisation and/or with national implications. * Assembles and leads diverse and multi-disciplinary teams, ensuring maximum effective resource utilisation. * Successfully manages substantial project budgets and reports directly to senior managers on the progress and results of projects. * Identifies complex issues that need escalation and proposes appropriate corrective actions. Detailed Oriented * Quickly identifies relevant and irrelevant information to support accurate decision making. * Maps out all the logistics and details of a situation to ensure smooth and flawless implementation. * Consistently identifies all relevant details that are not obvious in complex situations. * Requires the highest standards for accuracy and quality for their work. * Establishes processes to ensure accuracy and quality of services delivered by the team. Planning & Organising * Coaches others on advanced planning and organising skills. * Plays a role in transferring advanced planning and organising skills and knowledge to others. * Identifies and acts on opportunities to partner with other units in the department to achieve desired results. * Develops partnership agreements that ensure win-win outcomes for all parties. * Develops integrated plans for the work unit and others that interface with the function’s budget. Reporting & Communication * Designs, reviews and improves reporting processes and provides guidance. * Leads production of complex environment reports, takes an editorial role, determines content and level of detail, and ensures consistent messaging and branding. * Is relied on by others to help them write complex technical and non-technical documents and briefs. * Can determine which aspects of this knowledge area need to be transferred to others to achieve organisational goals. * Coaches others and transfers communication skills and knowledge to others. * Able to communicate complex problems or concepts by making them simple and understandable for others. * Adapts language to the level of the audience to ensure that the message has a positive impact and is interesting to the audience. * Is articulate, demonstrates a wide range of vocabulary, and is confident when talking to large/high-level audiences. Presentation Skills * Knows how to deliver arguments persuasively by employing a range of advanced presentation techniques (e.g., the appropriate use of body language, how to close a presentation so that the audience continues to think about the subject matter etc.). * Has knowledge of various feedback mechanisms to check levels of audience understanding. Written communication * Understands that different writing styles are required for different documents or audiences. * Write effective correspondence, prepares questions and reports, statements of circumstance and briefing notes. * Reviews others’ documents for clarity and impact. * Has a solid mastery of writing principles such as grammar, sentence construction etc. Verbal communication * Able to present a theme in writing in an ordered, intelligible manner with well-structured and relevant supporting detail. * Able to understand topic switches and use vocabulary of attitude. * Reasonably fluent in speaking The KPA’s, competencies and relationships listed in this document are not exhaustive, and the incumbent will be expected to undertake additional duties within their capacity to meet the needs of business and/or the business unit.* Required Personal Attributes BEHAVIOURAL COMPETENCIES Teamwork & Cooperation * Acts to promote a friendly climate and good morale and resolves conflicts. * Creates opportunities for cross-functional working. * Encourages others to network outside of their team/department and learn from their experience. Driving delivery of results * Identifies and implements a business opportunity that will have a long-term impact on the business (which may include the organisation’s reputation or brand image). Monitors progress and adapts the plan, if necessary, to ensure optimal benefit to the business. * Makes decisions, sets priorities, or chooses goals based on inputs and outputs: makes explicit considerations of potential profit, return on investment, or cost-benefit analysis. * Based on the cost-benefit analysis, make decisions of an entrepreneurial risk nature. Achievement orientation * Undertakes challenging assignments and strives to complete them. * Sets priorities and chooses goals based on calculated costs, anticipated benefits and improvement of performance. * Aim at exceptional performance, setting out to achieve a unique standard. * Constantly analyse outcomes to ensure the achievement of business goals. * Identifies short-term opportunities or potential problems, aiming to achieve better outcomes. Customer Orientation * Tries to understand the underlying needs of customers and match these needs to available or customized products and services. * Adapt processes and procedures to meet on-going customer needs. * Utilises the feedback received from customers, in order to develop new and / or improving existing services / products that relates to their on-going needs. * Thinks of new ways to align DBSA’s offering with future customer needs. Integrity * Is willing to end a business relationship because it was associated with unethical business practices. * Is capable of challenging senior management (in an appropriate and respectable manner) in order to act on espoused values. Self-awareness & self-control * Withholds effects of strong emotions in difficult situations. * Keeps functioning or responds constructively despite stress. * May apply special techniques or plan ahead of time to manage emotions or stress Policy The Development Bank of Southern Africa will endeavour to make appointments in line with its Employment Equity Policy and Plan. Applications from suitably qualified designated groups, especially people with disabilities, are encouraged. The DBSA corporate culture fit requires clear, logical and analytical thinking grounded in good interpersonal skills, a sense of urgency and results orientated execution of duties. The ability to work collaboratively and finding practical yet innovative solutions is critical to success in a work environment that demands emotional resilience, accountability and responsible risk taking and management. The DBSA reserves the right to amend or remove vacancies in line with organisational requirements. All vacancies can be viewed on the DBSA website (www.dbsa.org) under Careers. CLICK TO APPLY