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.

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.