Section Commander

CORPORATE SUPPORT: HEAD OFFICE
The generic minimum requirements applicable to the posts, except where it is specified differently, are as follows:
• Competency in the post-specific core functions • A minimum of two years' experience in the field of the advertised post • Fluency in at least two of the official languages, of which one must be English • A Grade 12/Senior Certificate or equivalent N4 qualification.

Section Commander : Financial and Administration Services (Colonel) (Police Act )
Salary level: R495 815 per annum (MMS Band) (all-inclusive remuneration package)
(Ref. TS/01/2011)
Head Office: Pretoria

Additional requirements: • Relevant NQF 6 in the field of the post as well as three (3) years' experience in the field of the post or, alternatively, a Grade 12 (Senior Certificate) or equivalent NQF 4 with 5 years' experience in the field of the post • Two (2) years' managerial experience and a valid driver’s licence.

Core functions: • Manage and control the budget and the monitoring of standards, policies and directives • Manage and control all financial expenditure • Manage and control the financial authorisations and commitments process, on the POLFIN system, for all areas of responsibility • Manage and co-ordinate the loading of budget allocation according to the approved Organisational Structures and shifting of funds as necessary/requested, per SCOA item per programme • Manage and control all bookkeeping aspects • Manage and co-ordinate the regulation, receipt and flow of documents • Manage and co-ordinate the reporting of Access to Information • Manage and co-ordinate the reporting of losses • Manage and control the Human and Physical Resources of the Sub-section.

General: • Only the official application form (newly developed forms will be available from all police stations/on the SAPS website: www.saps.gov.za and at SAPS recruitment offices) will be accepted. The Z83 previously utilised will no longer be accepted. All instructions on the application form must be adhered to, since failure to do so may result in the rejection of the application. The post particulars and reference number of the post must be correctly specified on the application form • A comprehensive Curriculum Vitae must be submitted together with the application form • Certified copies of an applicant's Identity Document, motor vehicle driver's licence (Police Act appointments), all educational qualifications obtained and service certificates of previous employers, stating the occupation, must also be submitted and attached to every application • All qualifications and driver’s licences submitted will be subjected to verification checking with the relevant institutions. The South African Police Service will verify the residential address of applicants and conduct reference checking • Short-listed candidates for appointment to certain identified posts will be vetted in terms of the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Related Matters) Amendment Act, 2007 (Act No 32 of 2007) and the Children’s Act, 2005 (Act No 38 of 2005). A candidate whose particulars appear in either the National Register for Sex Offenders or Part B of the Child Protection Register will be disqualified from appointment to that post • Applicants will be subjected to a medical examination at the expense of the SAPS (only Police Act appointments) • Persons who retired from the Public Service by taking a severance package, early retirement or for medical reasons, as well as persons with previous convictions, are excluded • Applications must be mailed timeously. Late applications will not be accepted or considered
• The closing date for applications is 18 November 2011 at 12:00 • If a candidate is short-listed, it can be expected of him/her to undergo a personal interview • Correspondence will be conducted with short-listed candidates only. If you have not been contacted within 3 months of the closing date of this advertisement, please accept that your application was unsuccessful • Appointments will be made in terms of the SAPS Act, 1995 (Act Number 68 of 1995) • The South African Police Service is under no obligation to fill a post after the advertisement thereof • The South African Police Service is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer and it is the intention to promote representivity in the Public Service through the filling of these posts. Persons whose transfer/appointment/promotion will promote representivity will, therefore, receive preference • Placement of successful candidates will be at no cost to the State.

Enquiries can be directed to Lt Col TS Thobane in Room 12, Opera Plaza Annex Building, Pretorius Street, Pretoria or tel. (012) 393-4505.

Please forward applications to the Section Head (attention: Colonel R Raffieyudeen), Corporate Support, SA Police Service, Private Bag X94, Pretoria 0001.

We welcome applications from persons with disabilities.