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COUNTRY EXPERIENCE
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Jerry Mutamba

Senior Manager: Strategic Programs
Centurion

Summary

To drive sustainable water security and infrastructure development through strategic leadership, innovation, and cross-sector partnerships, ensuring resilient solutions for current and future generations.

Overview

28
28
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Manager: Strategic Programs (Substantive) / Senior Manager: Binational Initiatives (Acting Capacity)

Trans-Caledon Tunnel Authority
01.2016 - Current
  • Lead the Strategic Programs and Binational Initiatives departments within the Strategy Division. Key achievements include:
  • Designed and led water-related research on security, conservation, wastewater reuse, groundwater, and desalination.
  • Provided strategic direction to align the organization with national and international best practices in infrastructure and water management.
  • Advised senior management on infrastructure development, water security, and policy reform.
  • Developed tools for best practice in strategic infrastructure programs, aligned with South Africa’s National Infrastructure Plan, focusing on water and sanitation.
  • Built sustainable partnerships with national and regional institutions, leveraging synergies to promote effective water governance and infrastructure delivery.
  • Managed multi-disciplinary mega-projects across transport, water services, sanitation, and ports; negotiated and managed strategic partnerships locally and across Africa.
  • Since April 2016, led two multi-billion rand integrated programs under the Presidential Infrastructure Coordination Commission, including major water and sanitation initiatives.
  • Serve on the Technical Advisory Committee advising the Department of Water and Sanitation on procurement for the Lesotho Highlands Water Project.

Guest Lecturer (Water Supply, Demand Management, Vulnerability, Risk & Adaptation)

University of Witwatersrand
01.2020 - 01.2021

e-Tutor: Wastewater Treatment

UNISA
01.2016 - 01.2018
  • Tutored undergraduate students in the Wastewater Treatment Technology module.

Senior Manager: Water Centred Knowledge

TCTA
01.2010 - 01.2016
  • Led new Water Centred Knowledge portfolio of the Knowledge Management Division.
  • Harnessed and generated water related knowledge for internal and external dissemination or sharing.
  • Advised board and management on water security issues.
  • Provided leadership to the organisation in keeping abreast of national and international best practices.
  • Established, built, and managed strategic partnerships, locally and internationally, in the water sector.
  • Conducted applied research on water stewardship and water policy-related issues, including dissemination of outcomes through publications and presentations at local and international platforms.
  • Motivated, planned, and project managed a country-wide multimillion rand groundwater supply project providing safe drinking water to the people of Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Free State, Eastern Cape, KwaZulu Natal, and North and West. Through this project, TCTA and DWS provided water to several households that previously lacked access to water.
  • Originated, planned, designed and project managed small water projects. Some of the research work and projects executed include:
  • Water Conservation Study for Rustenburg Municipality.
  • Water Resources Evaluation Study for Mbombela.
  • Several sector specific Community of Practice and Knowledge Sharing Reports.

Group Water Manager

Lonmin Platinum
01.2007 - 01.2010
  • Headed and led the mine’s water management node comprising 3 distinct sites, ensuring compliance with water and environmental legislation and water use licence.
  • Planned and designed water quality monitoring programs, led water use licence application and renewal, planning and directing design and construction of water management infrastructure (stormwater management dams).
  • Provided advisory on mine water resources requirements.

Senior Engineer: Water Resources Management

Ninham Shand Consulting Engineers
01.2005 - 01.2007

Water Utilisation Engineer (Applied research on wastewater reclamation)

CSIR, Water Programme
01.2002 - 01.2005

Research Scientist (Water & Environment)

Scientific and Industrial Research Corporation
01.2002 - 01.2002

Assistant Resident Engineer

Scott Wilson Africa
01.1999 - 01.2000

Graduate Engineer

Hydro Projects (Pty) Ltd
01.1998 - 01.1999

Education

PhD - Management/Strategy

University of Witwatersrand

Master of Business Leadership - undefined

University of South Africa

MSc - Water Resources Engineering

University of Dar es Salaam

Bachelor of Engineering Hons - Civil

University of Science & Technology

CIS - Governance Professional - undefined

Chartered Governance Institute - SA

Skills

  • Strategic Program Leadership
  • Water Infrastructure Development
  • Infrastructure Coordination
  • Water Security & Conservation
  • Mega-Project Management
  • Stakeholder Engagement
  • Applied Research & Knowledge Management
  • Governance & Compliance
  • Water Demand Management
  • Wastewater Treatment & Reuse
  • Water Resources Management

Websites

References

Available on request

Affiliations

  • Member, Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Managers
  • Member, Toastmasters International

Publications

  • Optimising Stakeholder Cooperation in Infrastructure Development. WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment, 2022.
  • Water Security: Is South Africa optimally using is options, WITS Press, 2019.
  • Where Will Our Future Water-Supply Come From? The Challenge with Non-conventional Options. WaterWheel, 2017.
  • Sustaining Water Infrastructure in a Developing Nation: A Case of South Africa, AWWA, 2017.
  • Infrastructure Delivery Performance – A Global Conundrum. Proceedings from the IRES International Conference, 2016.
  • An Opportune Time to Promote Demand-side Water Management. WaterWheel, 2015.
  • Approaches to Infrastructure Planning and Roll-out: A Comparative Analysis. International Journal of Arts and Sciences, 2015.
  • Fueling Water-intensive Economic Growth: What Hope for Water Conservation? Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection, 2015.
  • Meeting Rural Water Supply Challenges: Lessons from a South African Groundwater Supply Scheme, ESG, 2014.
  • Strategic Coordination for Sustainable Investment in Critical Infrastructure. Journal of Geoscience and Environment Protection, 2014.
  • Water Service Delivery Challenges. What Role for Demand Management? WaterWheel, 2014.
  • Groundwater Development for Localized Water Supply in South Africa. Journal of Medical and Bioengineering, 2014.
  • Effect of HRT on Nitrogen Removal in a Coupled HRP and Unplanted Subsurface Flow Gravel Bed Constructed Wetland. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 2004.
  • Modelling Nitrogen Removal in a Coupled HRP and Unplanted Horizontal Flow Subsurface Gravel Bed Constructed Wetland. Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, 2005.

Training

  • 2018 Scenario Planning and Strategic Thinking, GIBS
  • 2018 Governance in an Evolving Environment, ICSA
  • 2018 Being a Director (Part V), IoDSA
  • 2013 Being a Director (Part II), IoDSA
  • 2011 Managing for Results Programme, GIBS
  • 2011 Corporate Governance, UNISA SBL
  • 2011 Advanced Project Management, Projectpro
  • 2009 Implementing Environmental Management Systems, ISO14001, NWU
  • 2008 Integrated Water Resources Management for Environmental Managers, NWU

COUNTRY EXPERIENCE

Zimbabwe, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Lesotho, Tanzania, and South Africa.

Timeline

Guest Lecturer (Water Supply, Demand Management, Vulnerability, Risk & Adaptation)

University of Witwatersrand
01.2020 - 01.2021

Senior Manager: Strategic Programs (Substantive) / Senior Manager: Binational Initiatives (Acting Capacity)

Trans-Caledon Tunnel Authority
01.2016 - Current

e-Tutor: Wastewater Treatment

UNISA
01.2016 - 01.2018

Senior Manager: Water Centred Knowledge

TCTA
01.2010 - 01.2016

Group Water Manager

Lonmin Platinum
01.2007 - 01.2010

Senior Engineer: Water Resources Management

Ninham Shand Consulting Engineers
01.2005 - 01.2007

Water Utilisation Engineer (Applied research on wastewater reclamation)

CSIR, Water Programme
01.2002 - 01.2005

Research Scientist (Water & Environment)

Scientific and Industrial Research Corporation
01.2002 - 01.2002

Assistant Resident Engineer

Scott Wilson Africa
01.1999 - 01.2000

Graduate Engineer

Hydro Projects (Pty) Ltd
01.1998 - 01.1999

Master of Business Leadership - undefined

University of South Africa

MSc - Water Resources Engineering

University of Dar es Salaam

Bachelor of Engineering Hons - Civil

University of Science & Technology

CIS - Governance Professional - undefined

Chartered Governance Institute - SA

PhD - Management/Strategy

University of Witwatersrand

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