About Public Service Sector Education and Training Authority (PSETA)

The Public Service Sector Education and Training Authority (PSETA) is a statutory body in South Africa dedicated to developing skills within the public service sector. It focuses on transversal skills he essential functions of government such as administration, management, policy development, and public finance.

Job Purpose

To facilitate high level stakeholder engagements towards the development of a credible Sector Skills Plan for the Public Service Sector, monitor the implementation of the WSP and its annexures and provide research capacity to implement PSETA research projects.

Duties and responsibilities

• Monitors the sector development, submission and implementation of the WSPs and ATRs.
• Analyses, assesses, verifies and interprets WSP and ATR data to feed into the SSP update, skills gaps and priority skills and the Organising Framework of Occupations (OFO).
• Analyses WSPs and ATRS and write up consolidated on findings for internal and external use.
• Designs, develops and maintains WSP and ATR quality monitoring systems and templates on the Indicium System aligned to the reporting requirements of the Department of Higher Education & Training and PSETA.
• Receives and evaluates WSP’s/ATR’s; coordinates the annual review of the WSP/ATR system and provide feedback to SDFs.
• Assists with recruitment of departments, legislatures and public entities to submit WSPs to PSETA.
• Advises Projects, Learning Programmes and QA departments on priority skills identified through the SSP for inclusion into the PSETA Annual Performance Plan.
• Provides input into the PSETA Research Agenda and annual Research Plan as well as preparation of individual research proposals/concept papers.
• Contributes to the development and updates of the Sector Skills Plan in line with DHET requirements.
• Designs relevant research methodologies and conducts research in line with the PSETA Research Plan.
• Contributes to organisational operational planning and implementation processes.
• Monitors the sector development, submission and implementation of the WSPs and ATRs.
• Assists in the development of the five year SSP.

Requirements

• B Tech / Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources, Education, Social Sciences,
• Management or Business / Public Administration or equivalent (NQF 7)
• 5 years’ experience in Research or Education or Skills planning environment, of which 1-
• 2 years should be at the Supervisory level
• Management and Supervision
• Time Management
• Decision Making
• Creativity/Innovation
• Conflict Management
• Adaptability/Flexibility
• Teamwork
• Interpersonal Relationships and Skills