Talent Acquisition Specialist

**Job Advert Summary**:
To facilitate, implement and maintain effective systems for workforce planning, talent acquisition, on-boarding, performance management and succession planning to transform Rand Water’s employee profile in line with regulatory requirements

**Minimum Requirements**:

- Applications must be in possession of a National Diploma/ Degree in Social Sciences/ Human Resource Management or Industrial Psychology
- Knowledge of data analytics and metrics would be advantageous.
- HR Practitioner or any category of Registration as a Psychometrist professional registration with the South African Board of people Practices (SABPP) will be an advantage.
- 5years’ relevant experience in Talent Management recruitment and selection, performance management, succession planning, induction (on boarding) and talent retention.

**Primary Duties**:

- Ensure effective recruitment, selection, and retention of high calibre staff in order to meet the operational and strategic objectives.
- Influence recruitment decisions and employment practices at site
- Determine the recruitment budgetary requirement in line with site needs.
- Ensure legal and fair staffing processes and decisions are in accordance with current legislation and diversity objectives.
- Enhance the site’s internal and external image as a preferred employer.
- Facilitate the Hay Job Evaluation systems’ requirements from a site point of view.
- Implement and monitor the performance management system at site level.
- Ensure effective implementation and administration of a succession planning system.
- Conduct competency-based assessments in line with inherent job requirements
- Conduct and maintain an effective induction, socialisation and exit interview processes.
- Collate statistical data relating to talent management to support talent management initiative.
- Maintain strategic business partnership to enhance HR relations across the business units.

**Knowledge**:

- Sound knowledge of Recruitment and Selection; Performance Management; Job evaluation and Succession planning principles.
- Target selection (competency-based interviews)
- Labour legislation
- Microsoft office packages

**Skills**:

- Sound interpersonal and communication skills
- Conflict management skills
- Influencing and negotiation skills
- Decision making skills
- Problem solving skills
- Customer focus
- Innovation
- Change management
- Building business partnerships

**Attitude**:

- Customer-service orientation
- Positive attitude
- Integrity
- Confidentiality
- Attention to detail.
- Result driven.