Organisational Development Specialist at Blue Label Telecoms

Job Purpose

• To support and enable effective Organisational Development in a high-performing and agile work environment. This role designs, plans, and executes a variety of programs to support organisational transformation and assists managers with implementing these changes using Change Management and Organizational Development best practices.

Responsibilities

• To develop and implement the organizational development and change management strategy and initiatives aligned to the broader Organizational strategy, Human Resources strategy, and relevant initiatives
• Support and implement interventions to enable the adoption and embedment of the company's culture and values
• Support and implement interventions for the adoption and embedment of a hybrid way of work in line with the company's cultural initiative
• Design and/or implement employee engagement and other employee-related surveys to gather insights and measure employee engagement, readiness, and effectiveness for various interventions and projects
• Lead and drive implementation of organisational and divisional action plans coming out of the employee engagement and other surveys, collation of data
• Conduct research on current and future well-being trends, including internal and external trends
• Provide data and analytical support through research, data mining, distillation, and communication of findings relevant to Human Resources, Change Management, and Organizational Development strategies and plans
• Research, identify, and provide best practices relevant to the organizational development processes e.g. culture enablement, diversity, equality & inclusion, leadership enablement, employee wellbeing, productivity assessments, and measurement work design etc
• Develop and implement stakeholder engagement and communication plans to support the change management and organisational development plans for various initiatives and projects
• Conduct change impact and readiness assessments for various projects and initiatives
• Contribute and provide change management insights to the Agile and Lean Portfolio Management committees
• Regular engagement with the business divisions to understand their business strategies and design interventions to enable high-performance teams
• Engage, advise, and coach management and leaders to obtain buy-in and to also support them on the various change management and organisational development processes
• Design and implement leadership enablement initiatives in line with the Human Resources, Organizational Development strategy, and Learning and Development strategy and track implementation progress
• Identify and manage technology platforms related to organizational development initiatives
• Partner with the Learning and Development team to design and develop learning and development programs to enable change management initiatives and projects
• Sourcing of relevant service providers to support the Change Management and Organizational Development strategy and plans
• Develop quantitative and qualitative reports to Manco and Exco on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis and as and when required

Requirements

Education

• Relevant HR degree (HRM, Industrial Psychology, etc) preferably postgraduate

Experience

• Solid OD & change management experience – 5 years of working experience and at least three years of OD specialist experience at a group level
• Experience operating at a group level (Looking after the needs of multiple subsidiaries)