NSF Locations
NSF’s head office is based in Pretoria. The Pretoria office is home to the NSF Executive Office and staff in the core functional processes and critical support services.
All executive office officials responsible for stakeholder management, communication, governance, risk, compliance and oversight as well as internal alignment (committee structures) are based in Pretoria.
The executive team in Pretoria is supported by staff in core functional processes enabling strategic planning related to skills development, skills development initiation, skills development programme implementation (project and bursary schemes), monitoring and evaluation of skills development programmes. This includes fund management of skills development initiatives.
Staff in support services to enable the day-to-day operations and effective and efficient execution of NSF’s core functional processes are also based in Pretoria.
The NSF’s funding for skills development is the core function of the entity. At project execution, the implementation of funded initiatives is monitored by project managers based out of NSF Regional Offices and including NSF’s Programme Monitoring and NSF Bursaries units.
Currently, two NSF regional offices are based out of the head office, namely; Gauteng, North West and Free State Region as well as Limpopo and Mpumalanga Region.
NSF has a national footprint through its funding injection in education and training, PSET system support and capacity building; skills infrastructure development; and skills development research, innovation and advocacy. These initiatives are managed by the Programme Monitoring Unit based in Pretoria and NSF Acting Director: Programme Monitoring, Kenneth Maluleka provides oversight of this portfolio.
NSF also provides funding to drive key skills strategies, promote equity targets of race and access to higher education through the awarding of undergraduate and postgraduate bursaries and scholarships in scarce and critical. This intervention is spearheaded by the NSF Bursaries Directorate, based in Pretoria and headed up by the NSF Director: Bursaries, Conny Makhabane.
Project managers responsible for NSF’s portfolio of projects in KwaZulu Natal are based out of the NSF Kwa-Zulu Natal Region Regional Office in Durban.
Acting Director: KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape Region, Tshepho Mokoena, provides oversight of regional skills development implementation and monitoring.
The regional office is mainly responsible for NSF clients implementing occupational and workplace-based learning programmes in KwaZulu-Natal from contracting and execution to close-out. This includes public TVET colleges, private skills development providers, community-based organisations, non-governmental or non-profit associations and some government institutions.
The applications for skills development funding are still being coordinated at the NSF Head Office in Pretoria, Gauteng.
Project managers responsible for NSF’s portfolio of projects in the Western Cape and Northern Cape provinces are based out of the NSF Western Cape/Northern Cape Regional Office in Cape Town.
Acting Director: Western Cape and Northern Cape Region, Tendani Moila, provides oversight of the regional skills development implementation and monitoring.
The regional office is mainly responsible for NSF clients implementing occupational and workplace-based learning programmes in the two Western Cape and Northern Cape provinces, from contracting and execution to close-out. This includes public TVET colleges, private skills development providers, community-based organisations, non-governmental or non-profit associations and some government institutions.
The applications for skills development funding are still being coordinated at the NSF Head Office in Pretoria, Gauteng.
Project managers responsible for NSF’s portfolio of projects in the Eastern Cape are based out of the NSF Eastern Cape Regional Office in East London.
Acting Director: KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape Region, Tshepho Mokoena, provides oversight of regional skills development implementation and monitoring.
The regional office is mainly responsible for NSF clients implementing occupational and workplace-based learning programmes in the two provinces. This includes public TVET colleges, private skills development providers, community-based organisations, non-governmental or non-profit associations and some government institutions.
The applications for skills development funding are still being coordinated at the NSF Head Office in Pretoria, Gauteng.
Educational and Training of Learners
Post-School Education and Training
Skills Infrastructure Development
Skills Development Research, Innovation
Address:
178 Francis Baard Street, Pretoria Central, 0002
Phone:
012 943 3101
Email:
info@nsf.org.za
National Skills Fund
Strategic Outcome-Oriented Goals
In the 2020–2025 strategic period, the National Skills Development Plan (NSDP) 2030 and Covid-19 Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Skills Strategy, coupled with the new ministerial vision and leadership drive towards innovation-led skills development within the higher education, science and innovation landscape, form the basis for the National Skills Fund’s (NSF’s) strategic outcomes and outputs.
The NSDP states that the NSF will:
- Skills Development Levy
- Fund and Scale-Up
- Address Needs Of The Poor
- Community Education Training
- Post-School Education And Training
- Develop Human And Infrastructure