People Lead

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Africa Practice Full time

POSITION:

PEOPLE LEAD

REPORTS TO :
SENIOR DIRECTOR,

EXCO

LOCATION:
NIGERIA/KENYA/SOUTH AFRICA/

BOTSWANA

TYPE OF CONTRACT:
FULL TIME, PERMANENT

ABOUT THE ROLE
Africa Practice is an Africa-focused strategic advisory firm operating at the nexus of industry and government.

We supply insights and advocacy solutions to corporations, investors, governments and foundations in Africa, enabling them to see more clearly, engage with confidence and unlock value to drive sustainable, equitable development.


Guided by our vision - an influential and prosperous Africa, inspiring the world - we empower organisations to deploy capital and execute development programmes at scale.

Our solutions are rooted in a deep appreciation of stakeholders and a conviction that sustainable performance depends on building trust, respecting the environment, solving social problems and creating opportunity.


We operate as one company, with a diverse team working on a hybrid basis in Abuja, Lagos, Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, Gaborone, Johannesburg, Cape Town and London.

Our people are strategists, political analysts, economists, journalists, policy advisors, lawyers and communications specialists by background. We blend these disciplines to deliver customised and integrated consulting solutions for our clients. Over 80% of our staff are African and over 50% are women.


Our performance depends on our ability to mobilise people with rare combinations of skills, experience and perspectives, to deliver impactful assignments across borders and time zones, in multiple languages, for prestigious clients.

As a highly dynamic business with a diversified consulting portfolio by geography and industry, we need to maintain agility in our resourcing and ensure we have the right talent in the right roles at the right time.


The role of our People function is to build a purpose-led, high-performing and resilient organisation by identifying and nurturing talent, enhancing the employee experience and ensuring the motivation, productivity and wellbeing of our people.


We are seeking a Talent Enablement Lead for Africa Practice who will play a pivotal role in delivering our business plan and growth agenda by maintaining an enabling environment for our people to flourish, strengthening diversity, equity and inclusion and ensuring compliance.

This will include designing and updating people-related policies and processes, ensuring contractual and operational compliance with all relevant national level legislation and regulation and global best practice, ensuring a competitive and equitable remuneration framework, delivering a robust and transparent performance management framework and managing employee engagement.


RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Policies and process
  • Design new peoplerelated policies to support certification programmes (e.g. BCorp)
  • Deliver training to staff and ensure compliance with existing policies
  • Continually review peoplerelated processes to ensure they are fit for purpose and reflect evolving needs
  • Contractual and operational compliance
  • Work with legal counsel to ensure our employment and subcontractor contracts and peoplerelated processes are updated to reflect any changes to labour law
  • Competitive and equitable remuneration framework
  • Implement the findings of the salary benchmarking study and ensure annual salary reviews are fair and equitable across the business
  • Review individual remuneration within the context of the framework and make recommendations to ExCo and RemCo
  • Robust and transparent performance management framework
  • Ensure half year and annual appraisals are delivered effectively, with detailed guidance and training given to career stewards on performance assessment and KPI setting
  • Employee engagement and wellbeing
  • Ensure employee requests for information, clarification, support and guidance are promptly and effectively addressed both individually and via the People Resources Centre GChat group
  • Manage physical and virtual teambuilding activities across the group with support from the admin team
  • Support implementation of the action plan arising from the employee survey and act as the primary liaison with the Wellbeing Lab
  • Support the wellbeing of our people by checking in regularly and acting on feedback shared
  • Manage regular communications to the business around new joiners, leavers, promotions, training, internal vacancies and life milestones

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE
Essential

  • 58 years' experience managing peoplerelated policy and process, contracting, remuneration frameworks, performance management frameworks and employee engagement
Demonstrated use of data to drive and track the impact of functional activity on performance

  • Ability to work at pace and under pressure.
  • Selfstarter and proactive in taking initiative.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Ability to demonstrate a high level of integrity and confidentiality.
  • Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills.
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