Chief Advisor Business Support

Reference Number: 50978070LS

Closing Date: 06 November 2026

Job description

Behavioural

• Embrace diversity
• Customer orientation
• Results orientation
• Learning orientation
• Trustworthiness
• Professionalism

Leadership

• Strategy generation and alignment
• Change leadership
• Mentoring and coaching
• Team developed, player
• Building effective teams
• Represent Eskom
• Living the Eskom values

Knowledge

• Transmission and Eskom business, policies and guidelines
• Involve technical, financial and legal experts
• Reporting on business
• Ability to organise a business unit
• Eskom governance processes
• South Africa’s electricity laws

• Business awareness and management
• People and interpersonal
• Project management
• Business planning and strategy formulation
• Communication, engagement and report writing
• Facilitation
• Financial
• Programme management
• Stakeholder management
• Service level agreement (SLA), contract negotiation and management
• Political astuteness
• Able to handle interfaces
• Sound judgement and decision making

• Plan, organise, control and coordinate resources and commercial assets
• Develop and manage contracts and service level agreements
• Coordinate, align and implement the function’s operational plan
• Establish, implement and manage integrated management systems
• Provide strategic leadership and guidance to the function.
• Plan audits.

Minimum requirements

Qualification(s)

• B Degree/B Tech/Advanced Diploma in Finance/Commerce/Electrical/

Marketing at NQF7 with 360 credits

• 7 years’ Experience in Operations and maintenance, business support