Organisation Development and Change Specialist

2 weeks ago


Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Khomeliwa Consulting Full time

Our client is the National Student Financial Aid Scheme (NASFAS), a state-owned entity mandated to provide eligible students with access to finance and other resources.


They seek to appoint the ORGANISATION DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE SPECIALIST on a permanent basis, and to be based at their offices in.


Job Purpose:

Job requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in human resources, Industrial Psychology, Organisational Development, or other related qualification; A Postgraduate degree will provide advantage
  • Change Management Certification (ADKAR or Prosci)
  • At least 8 years' experience in Change Management and Organisational Development, including 3 years in a Specialist/Senior Consultant role.
  • Sound knowledge of change management methodology and tools deployment
  • Experience leading complex and/or largescale organisational effectiveness projects
  • Endtoend project exposure across private and public sector environments preferred
  • Advanced working knowledge of Project Management methodology and approaches
  • Project Management Certification
  • Advanced knowledge of job profiling and job grading

Skills and Competencies

  • Ability to understand and interpret strategy.
  • Oral and written communication skills
  • Facilitation and Coaching skills
  • Managing Complexity
  • Collaboration
  • Flexible and adaptable
  • Resilient and tenacious
  • Persuasiveness
  • Follow up and follow through.
  • Critical analytical thinking
  • Business acumen
  • Strategic thinking

Responsibilities

  • Develop and drive the Change Management Strategy
  • Using a structured methodology, develop a change management strategy to define, lead and support the implementation of required organisational change management activities.
  • Define and implement process of identifying change readiness and assessing the impact of proposed and implemented changes.
  • Complete change management assessments
  • Develop actionable deliverables for five change management levers:
  • Communication plans
  • Sponsor roadmap
  • Coaching plan
  • Training plan
  • Resistance management plan
  • Coordinate efforts with other specialists around change implementation.
  • Integrate change management activities into project plan.
  • Evaluate and ensure user readiness.
  • Track and report issues.
  • Define and measure success metrics and monitor change progress.
  • Manage change resistance.
  • Identify and manage anticipated resistance to change actions.
  • Effectively engage on matters surrounding change resistance.
  • Communicate change effectively to those resisting the change.
  • Develop and drive OD interventions.
  • Develop a process for socialising and embedding values in the organisation
  • Conduct employee engagement surveys through utilisation of various tools
  • Conduct focusgroup sessions to establish priorities from engagement surveys
  • Conduct culture assessments and support leadership with initiatives to drive and maintain
- suitable behaviours.

  • Support senior managers with alignment of departmental structures to ensure futurefit teams that perform optimally.
  • Update and maintain the primary organisation structure in collaboration with Human Resources
  • Business Partners
  • Facilitate job profiling and job grading sessions
  • Update and maintain the jobs library and ensure each role has a job description
  • Support the job evaluation process by providing job profiles and grade required
  • Support talent acquisition and career development teams with interpretation of psychometric assessments
  • Support the performance management team with facilitation of 360degree feedback as well as management of data.
  • Enable the human resources team with required frameworks and toolkits aligned to chosen methodologies.
  • Design, develop and support with the implementation of leadership development programmes
  • Collaborate with teams to create systems and structures that support goals and transformational change.
  • Leads and/or consults on highly complex projects that are typically transformational in nature and have significant departmental or functional impact.
  • Engages in employee review and organizational investigations that require sensitivity, political deftness, and a high degree of discretion and professional judgment
  • Provides thought leadership in the design and development of key organizational design and development projects, including acquisitions/integrations.
  • Support change team
  • Influence line managers and employees to increase understanding of organisation development topics.
  • Support project teams to integrate change management activities into their project plans.
  • Consult and coach project teams and individual employees where appropriate.
  • Develop reinforcing communication campaign after each project.
  • Management of stakeholder relations
  • Keep abreast with applicable legislation changes to inform policy updates and implementations.
  • Manage relationships with stakeholders.
  • Drive the development, approval and implementation of communication & involvement initia


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