Specialist: Integrity

Sars; Pretoria; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

SARS is seeking a Specialist: Integrity to strengthen culture of integrity and ethical behaviour across the organisation. The role requires expertise in policy development, integrity risk assessment, and governance frameworks, with responsibilities spanning reporting, training, and stakeholder engagement.

The successful candidate will lead integrity initiatives, analyse data, and translate policy into practical action while ensuring transparent decision making and sustained compliance across the

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in a related field with 8–10 years of ethics, integrity, governance, and anti-corruption experience.
• Senior Certificate route requires extensive related experience (15 years) in similar environments.

Responsibilities

• Analyse and improve specialist systems, policies and practices.
• Develop governance and policy documents, SOPs and training materials.
• Coordinate integrity promotion initiatives, reporting and stakeholder engagement.
• Manage change, data analysis and internal communications related to integrity.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Attention to Detail

Continuous Learning

Conceptual Ability

Contextual Expertise

Fairness & Transparency

Honesty & Integrity

Organisational Awareness

Respect

Trust

Business Knowledge

Compliance & Change Management

Data Collection & Analysis

Governance, Ethics & Values

Policy & SOP Development

Risk & Compliance

Reporting

Education

Bachelor’s degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in related field

Alternative: Senior Certificate (NQF 4) with 15 years experience

Job description

Career Opportunities: Specialist: Integrity (11635)

Requisition ID11635-Posted07/10/2026- Region (1) - Location (1)

Position Reports to: Senior Manager: Integrity Promotion

Division: Chief of Staff and Office of the Commissioner

Advert Closing Date : 15 October 2026

About the Position

SARS is seeking a dynamic and highly professional individual who demonstrates honesty, integrity, ethical courage, accountability, fairness, objectivity, confidentiality and sound judgement to support the creation and entrenchment of a culture of unquestionable integrity and ethical behaviour. The successful candidate must have strong technical knowledge, practical experience in ethics, integrity and corporate governance. Candidate must have knowledge of implementing enterprise integrity and anti-corruption frameworks, conducting integrity risk assessments, lifestyle integrity audits and managing conflicts of interest . The role also requires expertise in policy and code-of-conduct development, compliance monitoring, integrity-related data analysis, reporting , programme, project management, stakeholder engagement and change management . The candidate must be able to develop promotional, measurement materials, facilitate training, workshops, campaigns, ethical dialogues, evaluate integrity interventions at individual and organisational levels, translate policy into practical action, specialist advice, produce high-quality management reports for employees and leaders at all levels.

Job Purpose

To enhance organisational capability to promote and maintain a culture of integrity within SARS.

Education and Experience

Minimum Qualification & Experience Required

Relevant Bachelor’s degree / Advanced Diploma (NQF 7) in the related field, with minimum 8 - 10 years' experience in Ethics, Integrity, Governance, Communication, Planning, Reporting, and Anti-Corruption (Integrity promotion and assurance) environment within the Public Sector/Law Environment/ Highly Regulatory Corporate Governance Space or similar environment, of which 3 - 4 years at a junior specialist level.

#Alternative

Senior Certificate (NQF 4) with a minimum 15 years related experience in Ethics, Integrity, Governance, Communication, Planning, Reporting, and Anti-Corruption (Integrity promotion and assurance) environment within the Public Sector/Law Environment/ Highly Regulatory Corporate Governance Space or similar environment, of which 3 - 4 years at a junior specialist level.

Minimum Functional Requirements

Job Outputs:

Process

• Analyse and make recommendations about improvements to specialist systems, procedures, policies and practices.
• Contribute to the optimum utilisation of org. resources, advising on effective planning and development of area of specialisation resource plans.
• Develop a single practice area in alignment with operational activity and procedural frameworks and ensure tactical implementation.
• Draw on own technical or professional expertise, knowledge and experience to identify and recommend tactical solutions to defined problems in practices.
• Integrate business information, compare, analyse and produce reports to identify trends, discrepancies and inconsistencies for decision making purposes.
• Optimise goal achievement through tactical strategy implementation and optimisation of practises, processes and systems across an internal value chain.
• Plan for value-added, continuous practice and system improvements to deliver on objectives to enhance tactical implementation and excellence.
• Proactively identify interconnected problems, determine its impact and use to develop best fit alternatives; best practice implementation solutions.
• Recommend changes to optimise processes, systems, practice areas and associated procedures and execute the implementation of change and innovation.
• Translate top-down policy, apply modification in relation to own practice area and communicate impact to relevant stakeholders.
• Consult in area of expertise to provide specialist input into the development and amendment of policies, processes and SOPs across the organisation.
• Manage the development and implementation of suitable internal communications processes.
• Coordinate implementation of plans and initiatives in area of accountability.
• Liaise with all employees and management to create and heighten awareness regarding critical issues and challenges.
• Plan and manage projects in area of accountability.

Governance

• Develop and /or align governance and compliance policies for own practice area to identify and manage risk exposure liability.

People

• Develop and /or align governance and compliance policies for own practice area to identify and manage risk exposure liability.

Finance

• Implement and monitor financial control, management of costs and corporate governance in area of specialisation.

Client

• Develop and ensure implementation of a practice that builds service delivery excellence and encourages others to provide exceptional stakeholder service.
• Participate in the specialist practice community and contribute positively to organisation knowledge management.
• Provide authoritative, specialist expertise and advice to internal and external stakeholders.
• Accountability
• Analytical Thinking
• Attention to Detail
• Commitment to Continuous Learning
• Conceptual Ability
• Expertise in Context
• Fairness and Transparency
• Honesty and Integrity
• Organisational Awareness
• Respect
• Trust
• Business Knowledge
• Compliance and Change Management
• Data Collection and Analysis
• Governance, Ethics and Values
• Functional Policies and Procedures
• Risk and Compliance
• Reporting

Compliance Competency

GOC Confidential - (a) sensitive information, the unlawful disclosure of which may be harmful to the security or national interest of the Republic or could prejudice the Republic in its international relations;(b) commercial information, the disclosure of which may cause financial loss to an entity or may prejudice an entity in its relations with its clients,

Employment Equity

The Employment Equity policy of SARS will be considered as part of the recruitment and selection process and Persons with Disabilities are encouraged to apply. Successful candidates will be required to undertake an oath of secrecy, pre-employment screening, case study, pre-assessment, psychometric assessment and or vetting, and a declaration of private interest. The appointment is also subject to appropriate reference(s) and security clearance where applicable.