RBB Senior ER / Wellness Specialist at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• Enable organisational changes; drive sound employment relations; give direction; assurance and provide specialist advice and support to People managers, colleagues and other People product areas within RBB in the application of the adopted Employee Relations (ER) policies and procedures, enabling a fair, respectful, diverse and high performance culture.
• Be a trusted subject matter expert that draws external and internal insights to advance and create knowledge that benefit the management of People.

Job Description

Accountability: Strategy Input; Direction & Assurance

• As part of the ER, Wellness and Culture SME team, provide fact based inputs and insights into the development of the Cluster ER strategy.
• Give direction on the application of ER/Wellness policies & procedures to managers.
• Conduct ER audits in the cluster.
• Provide assurance of the proper implementation of ER/Wellness policies & procedures within the cluster
• Suggest improvements to policy and process in the cluster.
• Identify initiatives for the improvement of ER/Wellness Practices in the cluster.
• Identify and implement positive employee relations programs, in consultation with the relevant stakeholder groups, that will lead to a more efficient and motivated workforce.
• Ensure ER policies and processes are current, conform to employment legislation and, where appropriate, are coherent with other government departments’ practices

Accountability: Capability Building

• Identify capability gaps in consultation with the People partners and develop or source relevant solutions to close the gaps
• Conduct training programs to improve the capabilities of People Managers and People partners.
• Track cases, identify trends and implement solutions to ensure efficient case management across the cluster.
• Participate and influence the community of practice

Accountability: Consulting & Advisory Services

• Monitor and Coordinate all Disciplinary, Capability, Whistleblowing and Grievance cases across the cluster.
• Provide advice to People Managers on complex, advanced and high risk cases on the appropriateness and fair application of relevant procedures intervention in regard to misconduct, operational requirements and incapacity, encompassing inter alia:
• Suspension, disciplinary charge formulation, and disciplinary investigations, procedural and administrative requirements for employees and/or exceptional cases that have potential reputational risk.
• Manage in conjunction with the Employment Legal Team all disputes that involves employees and/or on cases that have potential of reputational risk.
• Escalate all cases not actioned by the respective case managers and follow up on cases that have stagnated to the relevant Cluster Heads.
• Guide the people change of cluster restructures, including redeployment and redundancy and ensure that these are completed within timescales and budgets. Ensure that the appropriate ER support mechanisms are in place for staff and line managers.
• Participate in group wide projects
• Represent RBB at external forums such as the CCMA
• Provide support to People Managers and People Partners on the management of Wellness related issues and cases.

Accountability: Generation of MI and Management of Risk

• Coordinate all cluster reporting on ER and provide input into monthly; quarterly and annual reports.
• Analyse all ER related MI and share insights and propose solutions
• Understand and remedy all ER related risks identified by the People Risk unit
• Understand and remedy all ER related audit findings identified by Internal audit
• Create case records on the ER system and maintain the accuracy thereof.

Accountability: Collective Engagements & Stakeholder Management

• Participate in the consultation engagements with our recognized trade union
• Periodic vetting of business cases to be presented to trade unions
• Interact with counterparts in the industry to share information, engender co-operations and gain a common understanding of the threats and risks.
• Build and maintain relationships with the RBB People partners to ensure that their co-operation can be obtained when required for key investigations.
• Ensure that there is adequate support and evidence collection activities for cases dealt with by Employment Legal and Litigation Teams.
• Represent the company externally at the CCMA where required

Education

• Bachelors Degree and Professional Qualifications: Law (Required)

Deadline: 22nd, February 2022