Chief Training Officer

About the role

The Gauteng Department of Roads and Transport is looking for a Chief Training Officer to lead its training and development function. The role covers designing, implementing and evaluating training programmes, managing training resources and overseeing staff performance.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and maintain policies, regulations and standards, ensuring training complies with regulations, standards and departmental policy.
• Conduct needs assessments to identify technical skill gaps and training requirements across business units, and plan and prioritise training interventions.
• Design, monitor and evaluate accredited and non-accredited courses and programmes, including the bearing skills programme, and update them to stay relevant.
• Design and implement job-specific courses and contractor-developing programmes aligned with departmental goals.
• Advise directorates and regions on development practices, such as training for road worker student engineers and candidate engineers.
• Maintain training manuals, guides, handouts and visual materials, and coordinate and facilitate training programmes.
• Evaluate theoretical and practical training in line with unit standard requirements.
• Manage human and equipment resources, and handle administrative tasks such as record-keeping and reporting.
• Oversee coaching, discipline and monitoring of staff, manage performance contracts and assess subordinates, and manage leave of absence.

Required profile

• National Diploma or Degree (NQF Level 6/7) in Education (registered with SACE), Business Administration or Human Resource Development.
• Facilitator, Assessor and Moderator certificates with ETQA, and professional certificates in training and learning and development accredited by a SETA.
• 3-5 years of experience in training and development as a facilitator, assessor and moderator; road maintenance and construction experience is an added advantage.