Senior Specialist: Organisation Design at Auditor-General of South Africa

Job Summary:

Reporting to the Senior Manager: Organisation Development (OD), the incumbent will act as a subject matter expert for the entire organisation development value chain, which include changing the organisation’s culture, modernising organisational functions, re-designing the organisation structure, and will require a combination of change management actions to execute an integrated organisation development function to support, the attainment of the AGSA’s strategic objectives and vision. The key focus being Org Design

Organisation Design

• Develop ,design and maintain the AGSA organisation structure, by understanding the business units’ operations and business priorities.
• Collaborate with business leaders and human capital business partners in creating and maintaining optimal organisation design.
• Conduct regular audits of the organization structure and recommend changes, and identify duplication/overlap of roles across in order to make the organisation structure lean and efficient.
• Design new structures and jobs as well as the development of teams, business units, and overall organisation structure.
• Standardise job titles and content as per the established guidelines, in order to ensure consistency and alignment with the rest of the AGSA.
• Provide inputs in the design of a framework to govern the organisation structure creation and maintenance and facilitate compliance with the framework.
• Diagnose potential organisational problems in terms of reporting lines, position titles, roles and structure and implement solutions.
• Proactively manage, in cooperation with multiple stakeholders, the implementation of projects in job analysis and organisational design.
• Lead review of job descriptions across the organisation and compare job contents in order to ensure consistency of grading for similar roles.
• Develop and maintain job matrix/families of all jobs in the organisation.
• Review and investigate job evaluation requests from line management on upgrading of roles and provide recommendations.
• Continuously maintain the job descriptions database and accurately update all systems as per the latest changes.  
• Facilitate the creation of new job descriptions and continuous improvement of existing job descriptions, to reflect standardised language for crosscutting job skill and complexity levels.
• Develop and apply tools and frameworks to support improved client future-state organizational design and alignment.
• Implement business process reengineering as part of the organisation design process.

Stakeholder Management

• Build and maintain positive and value-adding relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• In liaison with the human capital business partners, support the development and implementation of monitoring systems for business units’ organization design, engagement and culture plans and other initiatives.
• Scan the environment to ensure a clear understanding of stakeholder needs.
• Establish and maintain relations with recognised professional bodies within own professional sphere.

Formal Education

• This position requires a relevant Bachelors’ degree in HR management/commercial or other relevant field. Mimimum NQF 7

Experience

• The ideal candidate will have a proven track record in the execution of strategic and operational OD, specifically Org Design, with the ability to move between strategy and execution.
• You will also need to demonstrate a strong understanding on how organisation effectiveness are enabled through effective design and deployment of staff resources.
• The incumbent is required to have a minimum of 6 years’ experience (post qualification) in a specialist capacity in organization design.
• Good knowledge of state-of-the-art organisation design, methodologies and tools.
• Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal  communication skills.
• Ability to communicate with the senior management level is also needed.