Senior Specialist: Organisational Development at Absa Group Limited (Absa)

Job Summary

• The job purpose is to design and deliver Organisational Development (OD) programs and innovative initiatives to support the strategic culture transformation intent and plans. Harmonise all elements of the culture journey packaged for effective employee engagement and experience. To provide advice and support in practice formulation with reference to TD&I and Culture journey and associated best practice improvement tactics; enabling the provision of specialist human resources expertise in OD processes to assess, diagnose, design and deliver custom solutions needed to enhance colleague experience.

Job Description

Assist in the delivery of the Transformation, ER & Wellness Strategy:

• Works with the OD Lead to create the framework for aligning and engaging people, the people management systems, and the structure and capabilities (including organisational culture) to the strategy of ABSA.
• Develops key enabling methodologies including Organisation Design, Employee Engagement and Change Leadership to support execution of initiatives across ABSA Builds organisational capability and facilitate capability building sessions for People Partners to meet businesses’ organisational development requirements.
• Provides advisory support and mentoring to People Partners

Effectively analyse business requirements to provide opportunities for OD intervention:

• Analyses trends and developments within and external to ABSA to proactively diagnose the need for targeted interventions

Effectively manage OD initiatives as required:

• Leads and facilitates the implementation of ABSA wide organisational development initiatives.
• Monitors the implementation of the organisational development programmes to provide additional support and resources as appropriate (primarily through People Partners).
• Identifies criteria to evaluate the effectiveness of organisational development initiatives and define measures to be used.
• Assesses the effectiveness of organisational development initiatives

Education

• Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas: Business, Commerce and Management Studies (Required)