The position of Chief Compliance Officer is vacant. The Chief Compliance Officer will report directly to the Principal Officer and will be based at Head Office, Pretoria.
The total remuneration package will be market related and is negotiable, based on qualifications and experience.
The role of Chief Compliance Officer is to provide strategic direction and drive the execution of the Risk Management and Compliance Strategy aligned to the overall organisation strategy, ensuring compliance by the Scheme to Legislation, the King IV Report on Corporate Governance, applicable regulations and governance controls.
The Chief Compliance Officer will be required to lead the Risk and Compliance Function: through the implementation of the following KPA’s
Key Performance Areas (KPAs):
- Responsible for the development and integration of an overall Risk Management and Compliance Strategy which is aligned to the overall Scheme objectives
- Managing and monitoring the execution of operational plans for the Risk Management, Compliance, Ethics Management, and Fraud, Waste and Abuse
- Introducing controls aimed at ensuring compliance with the Scheme rules by Scheme members, Scheme officers and contracted service providers
- Performing quality assurance reviews of policies and procedures to ensure effective compliance with the Scheme’s governance practice
- Maintaining effective relationships with stakeholders while maintaining a reporting structure for the Risk and Compliance Division
- Providing a central source of guidance and advice to the Risk, Social and Ethics Committee together with the Board and its Committee’s in respect of risk and compliance issues, including compliance with statutory regulations and with King IV
- Developing and maintaining measures that guide and monitor ethical conduct by Trustees, Committee Members, management and staff members in the Scheme
- Overseeing the management of trustee and employee vetting services
- Keeping abreast of, and when appropriate informing the Board of current governance thinking, governance best practice, both locally and internationally while ensuring that the Annual Integrated Report is aligned to same
- Monitoring regulatory activities performed by the Council for Medical Schemes and Registrar of Medical Schemes
- Lead the development of the Scheme’s Annual Integrated Report as part of the Scheme’s Statutory Compliance function
- Facilitating an appropriate organisational response to legislative requirements and addressing compliance
- Responsible for implementing methods to monitor compliance with regulatory reporting and disclosures
- Maintaining an effective and efficient legal gate keeping function
- Ensuring that Scheme role players are adequately trained on the requirements of pertinent legislation including the Promotion of Access to Information Act, the Financial Advisory Intermediary Services Act and the Consumer Protection Act
- Confirming that the Scheme’s service providers are adequately accredited
- Monitoring usage of Scheme registered trademarks by contracted providers and other entities
- Ensuring that the appropriate scheme responses are developed to the unauthorised use of scheme registered trademarks
- Ensuring that contractual relationships between the Scheme and participating employers are defined in accordance with Board decisions
- Ensuring that legal documents are compiled in accordance with relevant legislature and safe guards the Scheme
- Ensuring that sufficient protocols are in place to minimise Fraud, Waste and Abuse and to detect suspicious occurrences early
- Ensuring compliance with environmental laws and general best practice for environmental management
Qualification requirements are:
- Honours/ Postgraduate/Professional qualification at NQF8 Level in Law or equivalent in a related field;
- Twelve (12) years of functional experience with five (5) to eight (8) years leadership in a highly strategic Governance Senior Management role which includes but is not limited to staff supervisory, budgetary, and management responsibility.
The following is an added advantage:
- Knowledge of King IV Report on Corporate Governance
- Accreditation with a relevant Compliance and/or Risk Body
Behavioural Competencies
- Conceptual and strategic thinker with strong operational capabilities and business acumen;
- The ability to exercise good judgement in a variety of situations with strong written and verbal communications skills;
- The ability to maintain a realistic balance between multiple priorities;
- Negotiation and influencing skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Good analytical problem solving skills
- Good leadership skills fostering excellence
- Ability to think strategically and formulate operational plans
- Ability to integrate and manage large projects
- Ability to think conceptually and deal with complex problems
- Maintains awareness of new trends and developments in the field
- Stakeholder relationship management
Desirable
Experience in a Healthcare funding industry would be beneficial.
Should you be interested, please apply for the position by emailing your CV to careers@ditshaba.co.za
The closing date for applications is 23 December 2022. Should you not hear from us by 31 March 2023 please consider your application unsuccessful.
*** GEMS employs people with the highest level of integrity – submission to the appropriate pre-employment assessment is obligatory to be considered for the position.
*** Kindly note that the information provided on application of the position may be shared with a third party for vetting purposes and will be stored by GEMS for a period of 5 years.
*** Kindly note that information is required for Employment Equity Purposes and information gathered is strictly used according to the intended purpose of collection, unless there is a legal need or permission is granted from the applicant themselves to make use of it for other purpose
*** Should you wish to have your information removed from the GEMS database, kindly send a request in writing to jobs@gems.gov.za.
*** GEMS adopts a hybrid work model
***GEMS is guided by the principles of employment equity. Preference will be given to groups who are underrepresented in accordance with GEMS employment equity plan.
The position of ICT Integration Specialist is vacant. The ICT Integration Specialist will report directly to the Senior Manager: Application Development and forms part of the ICT division. The position is based at GEMS Head Office, Pretoria.
The total remuneration package will be will be based on qualifications and experience.
The ICT Integration Specialist will be required to participate in the planning, coordination, and solution development and implementation activities related to the integration of applications and technologies within the organizations application integration environment. Proven communication skills, problem-solving skills, proficiency in programming languages and data structures, and knowledge of integration best practices are critical to successful performance in this role and providing support to the SM: Applications Development through the following KPA’s:
Key Performance Areas (KPAs):
- Develop and maintain services used in application integrations.
- Design integration solutions and document the design in accordance with best practices.
- Work with development teams to architect, design, build, and implement application integrations.
- Develop and maintain data integration components such as SQL queries, stored procedures, data extraction and cleansing, and integration with system front end components.
- Write PL-SQL code to retrieve appropriate data as derived from requirements.
- Build reports and/or data extracts to support business analysis.
- Support development on resolving system defects, acting as liaison in developing solutions.
- Coordinate directly with business analyst to best understand and analyze application integration business specifications.
- Provide technical assistance to troubleshoot and resolve integration errors.
- Assist application software developers and engineers in development of Application Program Interface (APIs) to interact with the application integration environment
- Design, develop, and deploy solutions within the organization’s architectural principles, policies, and guidelines
- Continually develop skills in the integration technologies in place in the AI environment, as well as staying informed on new developments in integration technology.
- Implement audit, logging, and monitoring solutions to provide proactive operational support in the AI environment.
Qualification requirements are:
- National diploma or university degree in the field of computer science, information technology, information systems or relevant degree
- Application Integration Certification is must.
- Experience in Application Integration role is a must.
- Full systems development life cycle experience.
- Minimum of 8 years relevant work experience in Application Architect.
- Certification in Application Integration is a must.
- Systems Development Lifecycle Management is essential. Project Management is an advantage.
- Knowledge of HealthCare Solution is an advantage.
- Competency with XML constructs and schemas.
- Technically fluent in programming languages, including .Net environment/ platform
- Experience with business and technical requirements analysis, business process modeling/mapping and methodology development, and data mapping
- Confidence and experience with API protocols and schemas such as SOAP and REST
All external candidates, please apply via Career Junction using the following link :
https://www.careerjunction.co.za/companies/35144/government-employees-medical-scheme
The closing date for applications is 2 September 2022. Should you not hear from us by 30 November 2022 please consider your application unsuccessful.
*** GEMS employs people with the highest level of integrity – submission to the appropriate pre-employment assessment is obligatory to be considered for the position.
*** Information is required for Employment Equity purposes.
*** Kindly note that the information provided on application of the position may be shared with a third party for vetting purposes and will be stored by GEMS for a period of 5 years.
*** Should you wish to have your information removed from the GEMS database, kindly send a request in writing to jobs@gems.gov.za.
***Gems is guided by the principles of employment equity. Preference will be given to groups who are underrepresented in accordance with Gems employment equity plan.
The position of ICT Integration Specialist is vacant. The ICT Integration Specialist will report directly to the Senior Manager: Application Development and forms part of the ICT division. The position is based at GEMS Head Office, Pretoria.
The total remuneration package will be will be based on qualifications and experience.
The ICT Integration Specialist will be required to participate in the planning, coordination, and solution development and implementation activities related to the integration of applications and technologies within the organizations application integration environment. Proven communication skills, problem-solving skills, proficiency in programming languages and data structures, and knowledge of integration best practices are critical to successful performance in this role and providing support to the SM: Applications Development through the following KPA’s:
Key Performance Areas (KPAs):
- Develop and maintain services used in application integrations.
- Design integration solutions and document the design in accordance with best practices.
- Work with development teams to architect, design, build, and implement application integrations.
- Develop and maintain data integration components such as SQL queries, stored procedures, data extraction and cleansing, and integration with system front end components.
- Write PL-SQL code to retrieve appropriate data as derived from requirements.
- Build reports and/or data extracts to support business analysis.
- Support development on resolving system defects, acting as liaison in developing solutions.
- Coordinate directly with business analyst to best understand and analyze application integration business specifications.
- Provide technical assistance to troubleshoot and resolve integration errors.
- Assist application software developers and engineers in development of Application Program Interface (APIs) to interact with the application integration environment
- Design, develop, and deploy solutions within the organization’s architectural principles, policies, and guidelines
- Continually develop skills in the integration technologies in place in the AI environment, as well as staying informed on new developments in integration technology.
- Implement audit, logging, and monitoring solutions to provide proactive operational support in the AI environment.
Qualification requirements are:
- National diploma or university degree in the field of computer science, information technology, information systems or relevant degree
- Application Integration Certification is must.
- Experience in Application Integration role is a must.
- Full systems development life cycle experience.
- Minimum of 8 years relevant work experience in Application Architect.
- Certification in Application Integration is a must.
- Systems Development Lifecycle Management is essential. Project Management is an advantage.
- Knowledge of HealthCare Solution is an advantage.
- Competency with XML constructs and schemas.
- Technically fluent in programming languages, including .Net environment/ platform
- Experience with business and technical requirements analysis, business process modeling/mapping and methodology development, and data mapping
- Confidence and experience with API protocols and schemas such as SOAP and REST
All external candidates, please apply via Career Junction using the following link :
https://www.careerjunction.co.za/companies/35144/government-employees-medical-scheme
The closing date for applications is 2 September 2022. Should you not hear from us by 30 November 2022 please consider your application unsuccessful.
*** GEMS employs people with the highest level of integrity – submission to the appropriate pre-employment assessment is obligatory to be considered for the position.
*** Information is required for Employment Equity purposes.
*** Kindly note that the information provided on application of the position may be shared with a third party for vetting purposes and will be stored by GEMS for a period of 5 years.
*** Should you wish to have your information removed from the GEMS database, kindly send a request in writing to jobs@gems.gov.za.
***Gems is guided by the principles of employment equity. Preference will be given to groups who are underrepresented in accordance with Gems employment equity plan.
