Employment Equity Specialist at Sage

To achieve equity in workplace by promoting equal opportunity and fair treatment in employment through elimination of unfair discrimination and implementing affirmative action measures to redress the disadvantaged in employment.

Key Responsibilities

• Define, own and lead the Employment Equity Targets in close partnership and collaboration with People Director, Functional VP’s and People Business Partners including an overall regional EE Strategy.
• EE related consultation and D&I initiatives to drive and support attainment of EE Strategy and Targets.
• Keep track of engagements in accordance with EEA and D&I strategy
• Legislated forum meetings: Preparation of EE reports in EEA formats including leading meeting of annual EE Annual submissions with Executive MD and People Director.
• Perform operational duties to fulfil EEA requirements of reporting, analysis, insights and Functional Targets.
• Continuously review and improve our EE processes by undertaking regular reviews and assisting in reviews, administrative systems and procedures.
• Ensure the accuracy of information by regularly conducting checks and sample audits as appropriate
• Liaising and Partnering with People Business Partners, Vice Presidents and Learning Capability Lead on development plans to support, impact and drive the success of our EE targets and strategy.
•  Tracking employee development for EE purposes and workplace profile statistics
• Manage SLA with L&D team to receive corresponding development data input into EE & SD reports
• Data analysis and insights for various reporting requirements for PBP’s and Functional VP’s/Directors.
• Custodianship of EE data in accordance with the EEA
• Capturing of EE stakeholder reports against internal targets and FSC targets
• Tracking employee movements and workplace profile statistics
• Ensuring reconciliation of data with various systems for accuracy
• Advising and Influencing Functional VP’s/Directors of EE status and gaps
• Manage relationships with Department of Labour by Reporting, Keeping abreast of new developments, Advising and partnering with business and implementing new requirements.
• To be fully aware of reward practices of direct and indirect competitors and market practice and share knowledge as appropriate
• Support driving colleague’s engagement through a culture of incentivization and recognition.
• Responsible for end-to end People Business Partnering for a designated business function within the region. This would cover but not limited to experience in Talent Management and Succession Planning, Organisation Design and Development, Driving Business insights and analytics.

Skills, know-how and experience:

• Experience in an HR Generalist or Specialist role
• 3 years plus experience working in an Employment Equity role
• Expert knowledge and application of the Employment Equity Act and advantageous to have demonstrated experience in BBB-EE Act, BBB-EE Codes of Good Practice.
• Experience with the driving Diversity and Inclusion Initiatives in support of EE in the workplace.
• Understand the LRA, BCEA, SDA and SDLA legislation.
• Compilation of business employment equity targets and reports.
• Strong analytical ability: comfortable with metrics and able to drive others towards data driven decisions.
• Project or program management experience- Strong IT literacy with good MS Excel, MS Word and MS Power Point skills.
• Strong exposure to systems and reporting.
• Demonstrated Experience in implementing Employment Equity Strategies aligned to Business Imperatives.
• Relationship Skills across EXCO and leadership levels within a Country/Regional landscape.  
• Adaptable and flexible solution-based thinking
• Highly numerate and Advanced Excel skills - comfortable with financial data

Technical / professional qualifications:

• Educated to at least first-degree level (or equivalent).
• HR / Industrial Psychology Degree or equivalent 3 year HR Qualification