Committee Secretariat jobs

Job Advert Summary

The Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa (Land Bank) is South Africa’s only specialist agricultural bank established in 1912, the bank’s sole objective is to serve South African commercial and emerging farmers and bring specially designed financial services within their reach. These services enable farmers to finance land, equipment, improve assets and obtain production credit. The Land Bank provides financial services that have moved with the times and continues to provide services to agri-business and constantly reviews its offerings to ensure that they match the needs of an industry. As change has swept across the sector in South Africa the socio-economic makeup of agriculture has altered, bringing new entrants from historically disadvantaged backgrounds on to the land, these new farmers, facing the challenges of establishing sustainable agri-businesses across the agricultural value chain, Land Bank has been a commercial lifeline offering appropriately designed financial products that facilitate personal and commercial viability in a sector that is vital to the sustainability of South Africa and its people.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE JOB

Reporting to the Company Secretary, the focus of this role is to assist the Company secretary with the provision of corporate governance services and company secretarial support to the

• Land Bank Board
• Land Bank Board Committees
• Land Bank EXCO
• Land Bank executives
• Land Bank Insurance Board
• Land Bank Insurance Board Committees
• Land Bank Insurance EXCO
• Individual directors and executives
• Land Bank and Land Bank Insurance ad hoc structures

Key Performance Areas

1. Provision of corporate governance services to the Boards and Committees of the Land Bank and its Subsidiary Companies

• Assist with the preparation of board skills matrices.
• Assist with the induction and orientation of directors
• Assist with the provision of legal and corporate governance counsel to the Board, Board Committees, individual directors and individual executives.
• Ensuring that governance instruments are regularly updated.
• Ensuring that board members and exectives are regularly updated of developments in legislation, regulation and corporate governance practice applicable to the Land Bank and its Subsidiary Companies.

2. Provision of company secretarial services to the Boards and Committees of the Land Bank and its Subsidiary Companies

• Ensuring the efficient end to end management of Board, Board Committee, Exective Committee and individual director engagements.
• Taking, writing-up and maintaining minutes of Board, Board Committee and EXCO.

3. Preservation of institutional memory and records management

• Ensuring that institutional memory is preserved and that knowledge which has been accumulated is accessible and shared.
• Ensuring that all information and records which are a responsibility of the Office of the Company Secretary are managed in terms of all applicable legislation, regulation, frameworks, policies, systems, plans, best practice and the Company Secretary Records Management Standard Operating Procedures.

4. Build and maintain stakeholder relations

• Build and maintain effective relations with board members particularly the chairpersons of the Boards of directors and the chairpersons of Board committees
• Build and maintain relationships with members of Executive Management particularly CEO and MD

Preferred Minimum Education and Experience

• LLB, B.Admin (Law), B.Comm (Law), BA (Law) or equivalent qualification
• 4 - 6 years’ experience in company secretarial environment with at least 2 years’ experience as a Committee Secretary in the public sector environment.

Critical Competencies

• Company Secretarial Best Practice
• Corporate Governance Best Practice
• Good Written and Oral Communication
• Project Management Best Practice
• Company Secretarial and Board Systems

Additional Requirements

• Extended hours as and when required