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Skills Development and Research

Sector Skills Planning

The Skills Planning and Research Unit is responsible for:

Learning Programmes

Strategic Projects

The Strategic Projects Unit is responsible for: 

Operational Projects

The Operational Projects Unit is responsible for: 

Occupational Qualification and Quality Assurance

Occupational Qualifications Development

Quality Assurance

Quality Assurance Learner Achievements

  • Conducts a monitoring and evaluation role by quality assuring learning records including those on the Management Information Systems(MIS), the National Learner Records Database(NLRD) and Quality Management System(QMS) adherence
  • Ensure certification of learner completions including certifications for learning programmes andd issues certificates in line with the Section 26D process

Support Services

Corporate Services

  • Supports the board to provide strategic direction, leadership
  • Determines goals and objectives of the MQA
  • Plays a key role by providing strategic leadership and oversight on roles that include
  • Corporate Governance
  • Legal and Governance Services
  • Marketing and Communication
  • Human Resources; and
  • Facilities and Office Management
Corporate Governance

The Corporate Services Department plays a key role within the MQA by providing strategic leadership and oversight on roles that include corporate governance, legal services and governance, marketing and communication, human resources, and facilities and office management services. It is through these functions that Corporate Services supports the MQA Board and its committees, management, employees and stakeholders in the process of fulfilling its legislative mandate, while ensuring effective engagement with all relevant stakeholders.

Human Resources

Human resources is a strategic function of the organisation and contributes immensely to the creation, enforcement and inculcation of a high-performance culture. The employee life cycle, from entry to exit, is managed by Human Resources (HR). The HR Unit offered services to the MQA, guided by six strategic objectives: workforce planning, organisational development, employee remuneration and retention, governance, HR administration and employee relations.

The Legal and Governance Unit’s key responsibilities focus on the strategic support to the MQA for legal, compliance and governance matters, as follows:
  • Drafting, monitoring and training on all MQA agreements
  • Ensuring that the MQA complies with all relevant legislation
  • Identification, management and mitigation of all legal and governance risks
  • Development and maintenance of all stakeholder and customer relationships
  • Tracking and monitoring of service provider performance against agreed obligations
  • Professional legal service to the organisation
Customer Service and Communication
The Customer Service and Communication Unit is a key strategic unit within the MQA. The key goals of Customer Service and Communication Unit in line with the Communication Strategy are as follows:
  • Provide effective, accurate and reliable communication to the MQA’s stakeholders by implementing structured activities in a planned and structured manner
  • Position the MQA as a recognisable brand among its existing and potential stakeholders in the mining and minerals sector, as well as among its peers, government, other SETAs and the public at large
  • Promote the MQA as a credible brand among its stakeholders
  • Guard the reputation of the MQA by managing the perceptions of stakeholders, guided by informed research
  • Maintain and implement good governance practices in the implementation of the unit’s roles and duties
Facilities and Office Management

The Facilities and Office Management Unit’s role is to operate buildings as effectively and efficiently as possible, while maintaining their appearance, and to provide a clean, safe and healthy work environment, while planning the efficient use of space.

 

Services performed by the Facilities Department include, but are not limited to full preventative maintenance programmes, routine and emergency repairs, OHS Act and Building Code compliances, electrical, plumbing, refrigeration, heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) installation and repair, the management and maintenance of the security system, camera and hardware maintenance, running of the electronic security systems, including card access, and key inventory. The Facilities and Office Management unit also manages and maintains the fleet of MQA pool vehicles.

Financial Management

Finance

The Finance Unit of the MQA is designed to ensure an environment of fiscal prudence managed in a manner that is both transparent and promotes accountability. The Finance Unit has policies, processes and procedures in place that are designed to provide reasonable assurance that the MQA’s broad objectives relating to the management of finance are met. These broad objectives include

  • Operations: the effective and efficient use of the entity’s resources
  • Financial reporting: Annual financial statements that are prepared in accordance with GRAP and fairly present the state of affairs of the MQA, its business, its financial results and financial position of the MQA as at the end of a financial year as prescribed in section 55(2)(a) of the PFMA
  • To ensure compliance with acceptable practices, applicable laws and regulations.
Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Management (SCM) is an integral part of financial management that seeks to introduce internally accepted best practice principles, whilst at the same time addressing Government’s preferential procurement policy objectives. The MQA has an established SCM function that ensures that goods, works or services are delivered to the right place, in the right quantity, with the right quality, at the right cost and at the right time.

The MQA’s SCM function comprises the following elements:

  • Demand management
  • Acquisition management (Procurement)
  • Logistic management
  • Disposal management

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Information Technology
The Information Technology Unit is responsible for providing information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure, computers, application software and mobile communication, and is the first line of support for all the tools of the trade to achieve, acquire and use ICT in a manner that achieves the following:
  • Aligns the ICT strategy to the organisational strategy
  • Leverage economies of scale to provide for cost-effective ICT services
  • Ensure the interoperability of the organisation’s information systems with information systems of other institutions to enhance service delivery
  • Ensure security of MQA information systems
  • Utilises ICT to develop and enhance the delivery of services at the MQA
  • Aligns the use of ICT by staff to achieve optimal service delivery
Risk, Monitoring and Evaluation
Strategy is inextricably intertwined with monitoring and evaluation (M&E). In order to determine the impact of the MQA’s return on investment in the mining and minerals sector’s training programmes, against the number of people trained, the MQA Board established the Risk, Monitoring and Evaluation Unit. It is an integral part of the MQA’s value chain and its contribution towards, among other things, organisational strategy, planning, monitoring, impact assessment and evaluation, and risk management enables the organisation to track its impact on skills development in the sector.
Corporate Governance

The Corporate Services Department plays a key role within the MQA by providing strategic leadership and oversight on roles that include corporate governance, legal services and governance, marketing and communication, human resources, and facilities and office management services. It is through these functions that Corporate Services supports the MQA Board and its committees, management, employees and stakeholders in the process of fulfilling its legislative mandate, while ensuring effective engagement with all relevant stakeholders.

Human Resources

Human resources is a strategic function of the organisation and contributes immensely to the creation, enforcement and inculcation of a high-performance culture. The employee life cycle, from entry to exit, is managed by Human Resources (HR). The HR Unit offered services to the MQA, guided by six strategic objectives: workforce planning, organisational development, employee remuneration and retention, governance, HR administration and employee relations.

The Legal and Governance Unit’s key responsibilities focus on the strategic support to the MQA for legal, compliance and governance matters, as follows:
  • Drafting, monitoring and training on all MQA agreements
  • Ensuring that the MQA complies with all relevant legislation
  • Identification, management and mitigation of all legal and governance risks
  • Development and maintenance of all stakeholder and customer relationships
  • Tracking and monitoring of service provider performance against agreed obligations
  • Professional legal service to the organisation
Customer Service and Communication
The Customer Service and Communication Unit is a key strategic unit within the MQA. The key goals of Customer Service and Communication Unit in line with the Communication Strategy are as follows:
  • Provide effective, accurate and reliable communication to the MQA’s stakeholders by implementing structured activities in a planned and structured manner
  • Position the MQA as a recognisable brand among its existing and potential stakeholders in the mining and minerals sector, as well as among its peers, government, other SETAs and the public at large
  • Promote the MQA as a credible brand among its stakeholders
  • Guard the reputation of the MQA by managing the perceptions of stakeholders, guided by informed research
  • Maintain and implement good governance practices in the implementation of the unit’s roles and duties
Facilities and Office Management

The Facilities and Office Management Unit’s role is to operate buildings as effectively and efficiently as possible, while maintaining their appearance, and to provide a clean, safe and healthy work environment, while planning the efficient use of space.

 

Services performed by the Facilities Department include, but are not limited to full preventative maintenance programmes, routine and emergency repairs, OHS Act and Building Code compliances, electrical, plumbing, refrigeration, heating, ventilation and air-conditioning (HVAC) installation and repair, the management and maintenance of the security system, camera and hardware maintenance, running of the electronic security systems, including card access, and key inventory. The Facilities and Office Management unit also manages and maintains the fleet of MQA pool vehicles.

Finance

The Finance Unit of the MQA is designed to ensure an environment of fiscal prudence managed in a manner that is both transparent and promotes accountability. The Finance Unit has policies, processes and procedures in place that are designed to provide reasonable assurance that the MQA’s broad objectives relating to the management of finance are met. These broad objectives include

  • Operations: the effective and efficient use of the entity’s resources
  • Financial reporting: Annual financial statements that are prepared in accordance with GRAP and fairly present the state of affairs of the MQA, its business, its financial results and financial position of the MQA as at the end of a financial year as prescribed in section 55(2)(a) of the PFMA
  • To ensure compliance with acceptable practices, applicable laws and regulations.
Supply Chain Management

Supply Chain Management (SCM) is an integral part of financial management that seeks to introduce internally accepted best practice principles, whilst at the same time addressing Government’s preferential procurement policy objectives. The MQA has an established SCM function that ensures that goods, works or services are delivered to the right place, in the right quantity, with the right quality, at the right cost and at the right time.

The MQA’s SCM function comprises the following elements:

  • Demand management
  • Acquisition management (Procurement)
  • Logistic management
  • Disposal management

View Tenders and RFIs

Information Technology
The Information Technology Unit is responsible for providing information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure, computers, application software and mobile communication, and is the first line of support for all the tools of the trade to achieve, acquire and use ICT in a manner that achieves the following:
  • Aligns the ICT strategy to the organisational strategy
  • Leverage economies of scale to provide for cost-effective ICT services
  • Ensure the interoperability of the organisation’s information systems with information systems of other institutions to enhance service delivery
  • Ensure security of MQA information systems
  • Utilises ICT to develop and enhance the delivery of services at the MQA
  • Aligns the use of ICT by staff to achieve optimal service delivery
Risk, Monitoring and Evaluation
Strategy is inextricably intertwined with monitoring and evaluation (M&E). In order to determine the impact of the MQA’s return on investment in the mining and minerals sector’s training programmes, against the number of people trained, the MQA Board established the Risk, Monitoring and Evaluation Unit. It is an integral part of the MQA’s value chain and its contribution towards, among other things, organisational strategy, planning, monitoring, impact assessment and evaluation, and risk management enables the organisation to track its impact on skills development in the sector.

Monitoring and Evaluation Support

Strategy is inextricably intertwined with monitoring and evaluation (M&E). In order to determine the impact of the MQA’s return on investment in the mining and minerals sector’s training programmes, against the number of people trained, the MQA Board established the Risk, Monitoring and Evaluation Unit. It is an integral part of the MQA’s value chain and its contribution towards, among other things, organisational strategy, planning, monitoring, impact assessment and evaluation, and risk management enables the organisation to track its impact on skills development in the sector.