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POST 10/01 : CHIEF DIRECTOR: CURRICULUM IMPLEMENTATION AND MONITORING
Key details
Job Highlight
Requirements
Competencies
- Knowledge Management
- Service Delivery Innovation
- Problem Solving and Analysis
- Client Oriented, customer focus and communication skills. Core COMPETENCIES: Strategic capability and Leadership
- Programme and project management
- Financial Management
- Knowledge management
- People management and Empowerment
- Promotion of communication, Innovation and Creativity.
Duties
Directorate
- Curriculum Implementation and Monitoring in its objective to improve the quality of Basic Education for the 0-4 years olds in Grades R to 12 through 4 improving teacher capacity and practices
- Increasing learner participation and success rate to meet the National Development Plan and Action Plan 2019 towards Schooling 2030
- Collaborating with state institutions, National and International Bodies as well as NGO’s
- Developing and ensuring implementation of Norms and Standards in line with section 3 and 8 of the National Education Policy Act
- Strengthening School Based Assessment to enhance teaching practice
- Developing and implementing a strategy to promote the utilisation of data to enhance teaching quality and efficiency
- Developing and implementing business processes on the work done to inform Norms and Standards
- Improving the quality of Early Childhood Development (ECD)
- Improving the access of children to qualify for ECD below Grade 1 as well as the grade promotion of learners through Grade 1 to 9 phases of school
- Improving the access of Inclusive Education
- Ensuring that all children remain effectively enrolled in school up to the year in which they turn 15
- Development and maintaining of policies and programmes to ensure quality implementation of the NCF and the CAPS, including having responsibility for quality programmes for children experiencing barriers to learning
- Increasing the number of learners in Grade 6 who have mastered the minimum language and mathematics competencies
- Increase the number of learners in Grade 9 who by the end of the year have mastered the minimum language and mathematics competencies
- Implementation of the IIAL and GET Strategy and increasing the number of Grade 12 learners who became eligible for a Bachelor’s programme at University.
How to apply
Email: ECHRM@dcs.gov.za
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Notes
Closing Date
10 April 2026 @ 15h45.
It is the sole responsibility of an applicant to ensure that their application reaches DCS before the closing date. NOTE : Please take note that correspondence will only be conducted with the shortlisted candidates.
If you have not been contacted within three (3) months of the closing date of the advertisement, please accept that your application is unsuccessful.
Please do not call the department to enquire about the progress of your application.
Applicants must note that further checks will be conducted once they are shortlisted and that their appointment is subject to positive outcomes on these checks, which include security clearance, security vetting, qualification verification and criminal records verification.
Appointment will be provisional, pending the issue of a security clearance.
If you cannot get a security clearance, your appointment will be re- considered/possibly terminated.
Fingerprints may be taken on the day of the interview.