The Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB) was established in 1995 in terms of the PanSALB Act 1995, as amended in 1999. The Board was first constituted in 1997.
The purpose of the Pan South African Language Board is to promote
multilingualism in South Africa by:

• Creating the conditions for the development of and the equal use of all official languages;
• Fostering respect for and encouraging the use of other languages in the country;
• Encouraging the best use of the country's linguistic resources, in order to enable South Africans to free themselves from all forms of linguistic discrimination, domination and division and to enable them to exercise appropriate linguistic choices for their own well being as well as for national development.

PanSALB’s Vision is to achieve the equal status and use of all official languages of South Africa.

PanSALB’s Mission is to provide for the recognition, the promotion and the development of all South African languages, with particular attention being given to those languages that were previously marginalized.

PanSALB's strategic objectives are to:

• To raise the public profile, visibility and influence of PanSALB and the organization’s impact on its constitutional mandate backed by cooperative governance and partnerships
• To introduce enforcement and monitoring of language policy implementation in addition to the ongoing role of language policy development and monitoring
• To focus on language education, with emphasis on enabling mainstream economic access to previously disadvantaged language groups
• Actively to promote, develop and empower the official languages, with more emphasis on the previously marginalized languages, the Khoe and San languages and SASL, to raise their status to that of lasting, visible symbols provincially and nationally, e.g. through a language monument to showcase South Africa’s language development history among local and international tourists
• To influence, promote and enforce multilingualism in all organs of society

Like all other institutions that are funded through public funds PanSALB is duty bound to have a three-year strategic plan in place.
PanSALB is thus seeking to appoint a service provider to develop the strategy.

The service provider would be required to prepare a full proposal on how it will undertake the task including the consultation processes.

The cornerstone of the development of the strategy will include:

• Consultation with the Managers and the Board.
• An analysis of the mandate of PanSALB and a reconfiguration of programmes to address the mandate.
• Costing of the strategy to reflect the METF allocation of PanSALB.
• Synergising the organisation in terms of programmes.
• Reviewing the PanSALB structure to enable the organisation to deliver on its mandate.

The incumbent service provider must have:

• A track record of strategy development in the public sector;
• Knowledge of the PFMA and Treasury Regulations;
• Knowledge of the PanSALB Act; and,