Cadastral Officer

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**Overview** This position is for a Cadastral Officer within the Directorate: Information Services at the Department of Land Reform and Rural Development. The role is based in KwaZulu Natal (Pietermaritzburg) and offers a salary of R280 278 per annum (Level 06). The reference number for this position is 3/1/1/1/2026/290. **What you will do** The Cadastral Officer will be responsible for a range of duties related to cadastral documents and spatial data. Key responsibilities include: * Capturing, maintaining, and updating alpha-numeric data for all cadastral documents, including information from newly submitted and historical documents, undertaking mathematical consistency checks, and verifying data for proposed new land parcels. This involves updating cadastral survey databases through additions or amendments. * Maintaining cadastral documents in accordance with legislated processes, which includes performing withdrawals or cancellations, deducting, cancelling, and endorsing cadastral documents with registered land parcels, leases, or servitudes. It also involves amending approved and registered documents, inserting newly approved documents into the archive, extracting and issuing cadastral records, refiling returned records, repairing, and keeping records in good usable condition, and conducting technical examinations of cadastral documents. * Checking designations of newly submitted lodgements by updating noting sheets and performing technical examinations of diagrams, general plans, survey records, and sectional title plans. * Supplying cadastral information to internal and external clients, such as issuing survey data to Land Surveyors, disseminating cadastral information to the public in hard copy or digital formats, and supplying aerial photographs, rectified imagery, and maps from NGI according to signed service level agreements. * Capturing, maintaining, and updating spatial data, including capturing newly submitted documents to determine any spatial overlaps prior to approval, adding newly created land parcels to spatial datasets, and maintaining an accurate dataset of cadastral spatial information, including historical data. * Scanning all cadastral documents upon approval, amendment, endorsement, or withdrawal, re-scanning updated documents, and linking the deposited scanned images to the alpha-numeric data. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * **Minimum requirements:** * Grade 12 Certificate. * National Certificate in Geomatics or Survey Officer Certificate (NQF Level 5). * Completion of the training prescribed to fulfil the required qualification. * **Job related knowledge:** * Computer literacy. * Understanding spatial data. * Knowledge of the functions of Surveyors’-General Offices. * **Job related skills:** * Good interpersonal relations. * Good communication (verbal and written). * Computer software. * Good organising ability. **Who should apply** This role is suitable for individuals who possess a Grade 12 Certificate along with a National Certificate in Geomatics or a Survey Officer Certificate (NQF Level 5), and who have completed the prescribed training for the qualification. Ideal candidates will have knowledge of computer literacy, spatial data, and the functions of Surveyors’-General Offices. Essential skills include good interpersonal relations, strong verbal and written communication, proficiency in computer software, and good organising ability. The department’s EE targets for this position include Coloured, Indian, and White Males, as well as African, Coloured, Indian, and White Females, and Persons with disabilities. **Deadline** Not specified **Reference** Original posting: https://www.govpage.co.za/vacancies/department-of-land-reform-and-rural-development-vacancies-from-dpsa-circular-38-of-2026#spani-ref-3-1-1-1-2026-290 Source: govpage

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