NDM DEPARTMENT

PURPOSE:
To provide Human Resource Management services.

FUNCTIONS:

1. Manage recruitment, selection, appointment and other life cycle events of employees
2. Manage conditions of service of employees
3. Manage employee training and development
4. Facilitate and monitor implementation of employee performance management system
5. Manage organisational design and post allocation
6. Develop, implement and monitor human resource policies, standards, strategies, and plans
7. Facilitate and manage labour relations (advisory, grievances, disputes, discipline, and collective bargaining)
8. Develop and manage employee wellness programme
9. Manage implementation of occupational health and safety
10. Maintain human resource information and knowledge management, using a human resource information system
11. Manage human resource personnel records

PURPOSE:
To render secretariat, administrative and logistical support to council and council committees.

FUNCTIONS:

1. Compile Year Planners and work-plans for Section 79 Committees
2. Provide logistics to Council and Council Committee meetings (schedules publishing, notices, agendas, meeting packs, deliveries)
3. Take meeting records (written & audio), resolutions, and attendance records
4. Provide administrative support to Councillors (i.e. Declarations of Interest, S & T claims, personal information, other registers, etc.)

PURPOSE:
To render communication services.

FUNCTIONS:

1. Render corporate communication services
2. Render media liaison and monitoring services
3. Render branding, advertising and marketing services
4. Render publication and production services
5. Render events management services

PURPOSE:
To manage records, archives, fleet and facilities of the municipality.

FUNCTIONS:

1. Render records management and archiving services
2. Render a library and information service
3. Render a messenger service
4. Render a reprographic service
5. Render a receptionist service
6. Manage security services
7. Manage cleaning, grounds, gardens, and minor building maintenance services
8. Render a fleet management service

PURPOSE:
To provide administrative and logistical support for public participation process.

FUNCTIONS:

1. Render executive support to the Speaker and Council Whip
2. Develop, implement and review public participation strategy
3. Manage logistics for outreach programmes (incl. developing outreach material, drafting speeches, branding events, etc.)
4. Communicate operational data to management
5. Carry out Speaker’s special projects
6. Develop and implement a Complaints and Compliments Management Policy and Plan (incl. monitoring of Presidential Hotline issues)

PURPOSE:
To render project management services for bulk and community infrastructure projects.

FUNCTIONS:

1. Financial management and control
2. Contract management
3. Maintenance of Municipal Buildings Infrastructure
4. Relationship management and communication of operational information

PURPOSE:
To render project management services for bulk and community infrastructure projects.

FUNCTIONS:

1. Financial management and control
2. Contract management
3. Maintenance of Municipal Buildings Infrastructure
4. Relationship management and communication of operational information

PURPOSE:
To provide financial compliance assurance and systems administration.

FUNCTIONS:

1. Ensure overall compliance with financial regulatory environment
2. Implement, manage and maintain standard charts of accounts (SCOA)
3. Render financial systems administration
4. Report to various structures

PURPOSE:
To provide budget planning and manage expenditure and payments.

FUNCTIONS:

1. Prepare budgets for the municipality
2. Manage budget information and provide in-year monitoring (IYM) and reporting
3. Manage creditors and salaries (Accounts payable)
4. Manage projects expenditure and payments
5. Monitor all expenditure, provide monthly reconciliations, and prepare periodic reports of expenditure status

PURPOSE:
To manage revenue, assets, liabilities and investments.

FUNCTIONS:

1. Render a revenue management service
2. Render asset management service
3. Manage municipality’s investment portfolio
4. Manage long-term liabilities, and insurance
5. Compile Annual Financial Statements

PURPOSE:
To render supply chain management services.

FUNCTIONS:

1. Demand management and compilation of annual procurement plan
2. Acqusition management for requests for quotations and bids
3. Contract management and supply chain performance reporting

PURPOSE:
To coordinate disaster management services and public safety structures and programmes.

FUNCTIONS:

1. Co-ordinate disaster management services for the district
2. Co-ordinate community public safety and crime prevention structures and programmes in the district

PURPOSE:
To provide strategic support to youth development units within local municipalities and to coordinate youth development programmes within the district.

FUNCTIONS:

1. Develop youth development strategies
2. Provide strategic support to youth development units in within local municipalities
3. Co-ordinate youth development programmes within the district

PURPOSE:
To coordinate the mainstreaming of special focus programmes within the district.

FUNCTIONS:

1. Co-ordinate the mainstreaming of HIV/AIDS, Children and Women programmes
2. Co-ordinate the mainstreaming of Gender, Disability and Elderly programmes.

PURPOSE:
To manage intergovernmental relations and provide a social facilitation service.

FUNCTIONS:

1. Manage intergovernmental relations
2. Provide social facilitation service
3. Facilitate provision of community services
4. Render liaison services on projects and shared mandates between municipality and sector departments and public
   entities
5. Co-ordinate and manage activities for the moral regeneration and social cohesion programme

PURPOSE:
To render supply chain management services.

FUNCTIONS:

1. Demand management and compilation of annual procurement plan
2. Acqusition management for requests for quotations and bids
3. Contract management and supply chain performance reporting

PURPOSE:
To identify, evaluate, control and significantly reduce all environmental health risk factors in the environment, thus sustainability improving quality of life of the community within the district.

FUNCTIONS:

1. Provide water quality monitoring service
2. Provide food control service
3. Provide waste management monitoring
4. Conduct health surveillance of premises / building plans
5. Environmental pollution control
6. Surveillance and prevention of communicable diseases
7. Conduct vector control services
8. Inspection and control of the disposal of the dead
9. Control chemical safety

PURPOSE:
To provide fire and rescue services to local municipalities of Thembisile Hani and Dr JS Moroka.

FUNCTIONS:

1. Provide life-saving emergency reponse services (i.e. fire, rescue, first aid, motor vehicle accidents, flooding, etc.)
2. Provide fire prevention and awareness services (i.e. fire inspections, investigations, risk assessments, review of building plans, enforcement of fire by-laws, fire training & awareness)
3. Provide safety assurance services (e.g. bomb threats, bees)

FUNCTIONS:

1. To coordinate the planning, adoption and review of the District Integrated Development Plan (IDP).
2. To develop, manage and regulate the built and natural environment through the implementation and review of the land use management system, the implementation of statutory planning legislation and maintenance of planning procedures in order to ensure a sustainable built environment for the District.
3. To lead, manage and direct sustainable urban growth and spatial transformation through the preparation and implementation of short, medium and long term spatial plans.

FUNCTIONS:

1. To support local municipalities with the regulation of public transport facilities through the development of Transport legislations,
2. Develop and implement integrated transport plans and strategies
3. To improve the public transport system through collaborations with stakeholders in the transport industry.

FUNCTIONS:

1. Local Economic Development

• To create an enabling environment that allows the participation of local residents, with more bias toward previously disadvantages individuals, in strategic and high-impact businesses;
• Facilitate Skills Development and Capacity building for local SMMEs, Cooperatives and informal traders,
• Encourage partnerships in developing tourism infrastructure and market Nkangala as a tourist destination
• Coordinate the support of emerging farmers and develop agriculture value chains and agro-processing processing initiatives
• Diversification of the economy by promoting agriculture, tourism, manufacturing, and green economy.

FUNCTIONS:

1. To ensure that policies are in place to support job creation and related reporting as per EPWP requirements
2. Provide assistance to local municipalities in the implementation of EPWP & CWP Programmes across all sectors,
3. Implement EPWP &CWP programmes in collaboration with National and Provincial departments and local municipalities.

FUNCTIONS:

1. Foster partnerships with local businesses and foreign investors to promote the district as premier investment destination, and development partner.
2. Facilitating feasibility studies & business plans in priority sectors.
3. Facilitating access to funding through DFIs and private funders.
4. Providing opportunities for emerging B-BBEE businesses.
5. Providing counselling and training to SMMEs regarding export issues.
6. Facilitating access to national and local government incentives.
7. Hosting and coordinating business events/exhibitions and delegations to attract trade and investment.