Committee Secretary: Advanced - Centurion, South Africa - Land Bank Careers

Land Bank Careers

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Centurion, South Africa

1 week ago

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Thabo Mthembu

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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 following:

Land Bank Board
Land Bank Board

Committees

Land Bank EXCO
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 executives are regularly updated of developments in legislation, regulation and corporate governance practice applicable to the Land Bank and its Subsidiary Companies.
Assisting with the management of legal and administrative proceedings on behalf of the board of directors and board committees.
Developing and supervising the implementation an annual nonexecutive director training and development programme.
Managing all individual and collective board and board committee evaluations.

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

Taking, writingup and maintaining minutes of Board, Board Committee and EXCO.
Keeping a register of Board, Board Committee and EXCO resolutions as prescribed and assisting in ensuring that the resolutions, instructions and wishes of the board and board committees are executed.
Attending to all director, prescribed officer and invitee disclosure requirements.
Ensuring that the annual JSE compliance letter is filed if required.
Drafting and distributing SENS announcements as required.
Liaising with internal and external stakeholders as delegated by the company secretary.
Submission of statutory returns to the CIPC
Preparing an annual business plan and budget for the areas own area of responsibility.

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.
Maintain minute books and other statutory documents in accordance with legislative requirements and best practice
Influence the design and implementation of the necessary information architecture to manage information in the Secretariat Unit, the Land Bank Intranet and Website

3. 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
Build and maintain relationships with other members of staff of the Land Band and its Subsidiary Companies.
Compile and maintain a database indicating the role players, expected outputs, contact details

Preferred Minimum Education and Experience:

Minimum: LLB, B.Admin (Law), B.Comm (Law), BA (Law) or equivalent qualification.
At least 6 years' experience in company secretarial environment with a