Mpumalanga Department of Education
Functions:
- Develop, evaluate and maintain policy, programmes
and systems for general and further education and
training, including ABETand ECD.
- Provide education policy, planning and development
support services for the department.
- Manage and render corporate services.
- Render financial management services as well as
provisioning and logistical services.
- Render internal audit services.
- Execute the requirements of the Public Finance
Management Act pertaining to the responsibilities of
Accounting Officers.
MEC for Education
Purpose/Function:
- The rendering of ministerial services
Chief Directorate: General- and Further Education and
Training
Functions:
- Develop, evaluate and maintain policy, programmes
and systems for general education and training,
including ABETand ECD.
- Develop, evaluate and maintain policy, programmes
and systems for further education and training.
- Develop and maintain a quality assurance system and
the management of systems concerning public
examinations.
Chief Directorate: Systems and Planning
Functions:
- Render services concerning the strategic research
and co-ordination of macro policy and planning
processes, legislative services, projects co-ordination
as well as nutrition programmes.
- Render integrated education resource planning and -
management information services.
- Develop human resources.
- Render communication - and related services.
- Co-ordinate regions.
Chief Directorate: Corporate Services
Functions:
- Render human resource management services.
- Render information technology services.
- Render legal services.
Chief Directorate: Financial Management
Functions:
- Manage and render services i..r.o the department’s
budget and revenue, bookkeeping and system (BAS)
control.
- Manage and render services i..r.o the department’s
general expenditure, salaries and salary accounts.
- Assist the Accounting Offices in discharging all the
duties allocated in terms of the Public Finance
Management Act
- Manage and render provisioning and logistical
management services.
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Security Management Unit
Functions:
- Formulate departmental security policy.
- Ensure the availability and existence of proper
security systems.
- Give advice on security systems and general security
measures within the department.
- Ensure safety of departmental documentation,
personnel, communication, computers and physical assets.
- Conduct the vetting / screening of officials.
- Conduct investigations on security related matters.
Directorate: Internal Audit
Functions:
- Conduct performance/compliance audits.
- Render internal control services.
Chief Directorate: General - and Further Education and
Training
Functions:
- Develop, evaluate and maintain policy, programmes
and systems for GET, including ABET and ECD.
- Develop, evaluate and maintain policy, programmes
and systems for FET.
- Develop and maintain a quality assurance system and
the management of systems concerning public
examinations.
Directorate: General Education and Training
Functions:
- Promote the development and implementation of
curriculum for the intermediate and senior phase.
- Promote the development and implementation of
policy, programmes and systems for the provisioning of
early Childhood Education and ABET, as well as for the
provisioning of educational support services.
- Promote the development and implementation of
policy, programmes and systems for learners with special
educational needs.
Directorate: Further Education and Training
Functions:
- Promote the planning, research and establishment of
a co-ordinated system for FET and the facilitation of
the design of programmes relevant to the development
needs of the province.
- Promote the development and implementation of FET
curriculum in line with the 12 fields of learning.
- Render a FET institutional management support
service.
Directorate: Quality Assurance
FUNCTIONS:
- Conduct systemic evaluation on all levels of the
education system.
- Promote the improved performance of learners at all
learning sites.
- Manage systems concerning public examinations.
- Co-ordinate and monitor the implementation of Whole
School Evaluation.
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Chief Directorate: Systems and Planning
Functions:
- Render services concerning the strategic research
and co-ordination of macro policy and planning processes
legislative services, projects co-ordination as well as
nutrition programmes.
- Render integrated education resource planning and -
management information services.
- Develop human resources.
- Render communication - and related services.
- Co-ordinate regions.
Directorate: Strategic Planning and Co-ordination
Functions:
- Strategically co-ordinate-, monitor- and report on
macro policy and planning processes, and render
legislative services.
- Initiate, develop and co-ordinate all educational
projects, in support of the macro strategic plan.
- Ensure the implementation of nutrition programmes,
as well as assessing the impact thereof.
Directorate: Resource Planning
Functions:
- Develop and manage plans for the strategic
provisioning of physical resources and institutional
registration.
- Strategically develop and operate education and
training management information systems.
- Assist with strategic financial planning.
Directorate: Human Resource Development
Functions:
- Develop provincial education management- and
governance capacity, and the rendering of support to
teachers in presenting learning systems
- Develop Public Service Staff (PSS) through training
and education.
- Plan, develop and maintain a workplace skills
development strategy.
Chief Directorate: Corporate Services
Functions:
- Render human resource management services.
- Render information technology services.
- Render legal services.
Directorate: Human Resource Management
Functions:
- Manage human resource planning and -provisioning.
- Manage human resource remuneration and -performance
matters.
- Manage labour relations, incapacity/inefficiency and
misconduct
Chief Directorate: Financial Management
Functions:
- Support the Accounting Officer in the execution of
operational plans and strategic financial planning.
- Determine whether the objectives, programmes and
projects of the department are clearly described and
measured.
- Ensure that physical asset plans support the
strategic plan of the department and conforms to Asset
Management requirements.
- Monitor control on expenditure and revenue
collection, develop and determine effective systems of
internal control.
- Ensure that financial management measures exist to
reveal inefficient and irregular use of state money,
goods and other aids and advise the Accounting Officer
on the establishment and improvement of such measures.
- Prepare monthly reports and contribute to the annual
report for the department.
- Determine and monitor proper systems of performance
management, debt-, liability- and risk management.
- Determine and monitor policies and procedures of
effective management of losses and claims.
- Monitor the cash management performance of the
department.
- Advise the Accounting Officer on all matters
relating to finance including budgetary matters, as well
as how to promote efficiency and effectiveness in the
pursuance of departmental objectives.
- Advise Programme Managers with regard to financial
and accounting matters.
- Ensure sound provisioning and logistical management
services for the department.
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Directorate: Management Accounting
Functions:
- Render departmental budget- and revenue management
services.
- Render bookkeeping management services.
- Render system control (BAS) services.
- Perform duties of Departmental Accountant.
Directorate: Financial Accounting
Functions:
- Render general expenditure management services.
- Render departmental salary- and salary account
management services.
- Perform duties of Departmental Accountant.
Directorate: Provisioning and Logistical Management
Functions:
- Render departmental provisioning management
services.
- Prepare, administer and inspect building projects.
- Render departmental office auxiliary management
services.
