Surveyor-general

Overview

Surveyor-General for Mpumalanga based in Mbombela to manage approval of cadastral documents and land surveying compliance at SMS Level 14.

Requirements

• Minimum requirements: Applicants must be in possession of Grade 12 Certificate and Four-year B or BSc Degree in Geomatics / Land Surveying (NQF Level 7) or related equivalent qualifications as recognised by South African Qualifications Authority (SAQA) and a Nyukela certificate (Pre-entry Certificate to the SMS) submitted prior to appointment.
• Registered as a Professional Land Surveyor with the South African Geomatics Council (SAGC).
• Registered as a Sectional Titles Practitioner in terms of Section 5 (2) of the Sectional Titles Act, 1986.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience at a senior managerial level in a Land Surveying environment.
• Appropriate post- registration experience in cadastral surveying.
• A valid driver’s licence.
• Job- related knowledge: Budget systems.
• Computer accounting software.
• Knowledge of Financial Accounting Systems.
• Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
• Cadastral Survey knowledge.
• Technical System Knowledge.
• Cadastral Spatial Information Knowledge.
• Knowledge of Land Information Systems, Land Administration Systems and Geographical Information Management.
• Knowledge of advances in technology useful to the Cadastral Survey System.
• Performance management and Monitoring.
• Public Finance Management.
• Government systems and structure.
• Government decision making processes.
• Programme setting process.
• Job-related skills: Project management.
• Team management.
• Interpersonal relations.
• Budget forecasting.
• Computer literacy.
• Resource planning.
• Problem solving and decision-making.
• Time management.
• Business and Communication (verbal and written).

Duties

• Manage the approval of diagrams, general plans and sectional title plans that comply with legislation and prove tenure security and sustainable rural and urban development.
• Examine for approval all cadastral documents (diagrams and general plans).
• Examine for approval all cadastral documents (sectional plans) prepared in accordance with the Sectional Titles Act and all applicable statutory consents.
• Examine for approval all cadastral documents prepared in accordance with the Mining Titles Registration Act or any other law requiring the approval of the Surveyor-General.
• Archive, preserve and maintain the currency of all records pertaining to approved land parcels and land rights created in terms of the Land Survey Act and Sectional Titles Act and Regulations.
• Ensure that all approved cadastral documents are registered and housed within a secure documents vault.
• Ensure an electronic repository of scanned images to facilitate information provisioning.
• Update, endorse, re- scan and re-archive the hard copy (original approved) documents because of any lawful approval, withdrawal, cancellation or change to cadastral information.
• Accept and file survey records associated with cadastral surveys.
• Maintain correspondence files relating to cadastral surveys for research purposes.
• Ensure the compilation of a complete, accurate, current and correct cadastral spatial information dataset.
• Update the cadastral geo-spatial database through the addition of every approved cadastral land parcel.
• Ensure that management information systems are created to provide timely and accurate management information constantly.
• Comply with the custodianship responsibility of cadastral spatial information as directed by the South African Spatial Data Infrastructure Act and the Committee on Spatial Information established thereunder.
• Train Professional Land Surveyors, Geomatics Technologists, Survey Technicians and Geomatics Officers.
• Train Professional Land Surveyors, Geomatics Technologists, and Geomatics Technicians in line with the registration requirements set by the South African Geomatics Council.
• Provide in-house training to Geomatics Officers.
• Draft circulars and notices when required.
• Provide support to various programmes including Land and Tenure Reform and Restitution programmes and the Land Administration Institutions.
• Provide technical support and advice as well as information from time to time.
• Assist with research services.
• Undertake field surveys and inspections to re-identify boundaries of state land properties and resolve boundary disputes.
• Issue reports to court, certificates of remaining extent, closure of public places, maintenance of schedules.
• Ensure effective financial management, human resource management and supply chain management.
• Ensure effective budgeting and management of the Provincial Office.
• Manage the recruitment and selection.
• Ensure realisation of Employment Equity targets when filling vacancies.
• Utilise Employee Performance Management and Development System (EPMDS) to measure staff performance on an on-going basis.
• Manage labour relations matters.
• Draft and implement management action plan on audit findings.
• Manage supply chain processes.

How to apply

Applications can be submitted by hand delivery during office hours to: 17 Van Rensburg Street, 7th Floor Bateleur Building, Mbombela, 1200 or by email to Post333@dlrrd.gov.za

Enquiries: Ms M Kekana Tel No: (012) 312 8344

Notes

EE Targets: Coloured and White Males, and African, Coloured and Indian Females, and Persons with Disabilities.