Head: Employee Relations, Employment Equity and HR

4 days ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Santam Full time

What will you do?

**A position as Head**: Employee Relations, Employment Equity & HR Governance exists in Santam Human Resources - the position could be based in either Sandton or Bellville.

To provide direction in Employee Relations and strategic transformation through developing, implementing, maintaining and evaluating employee relations policies and practice in promoting sound business labour relations for the Santam group. What will make you successful in this role?

Manage sound Employee Relations
Ensure that proactive labour relations policies, structures and procedures are in place and that they are properly communicated to all, consistently applied and that they promote cooperation and respect amongst all stakeholders to achieve effective relationships
Maintain and update all IR policies and procedures, ensuring the enforcement and adherence of these policies and procedures by advising and monitoring management and employees
Drive and manage sound Employee Relations with support of an External Labour Lawyer
Manage delivery of external service provider in line with the retainer agreements
Ensure advice provided to HRBP team and line are timeous and in line with SLA
Facilitate the up skilling of HRBP’s and other key stakeholders on latest employee relations developments and legislative changes including the continuous provision of advice and coaching
Communicate and implement the latest SA Labour legislation ensuring compliance by all stakeholders
Ensures legal compliance by monitoring and implement legislative requirements - conducting investigations, driving disciplinary and grievance processes
Maintain management guidelines by preparing, updating and recommending employee relations policies and procedures
Ensure management compliance to all internal procedures on grievances and disciplinary enquiries
Provide oversight on all employee relations dispute cases within the company ensuring that sound, fair and appropriate practices are followed in accordance with legislation, agreements with employees/ union and company policies and procedures
Build and maintain an effective relationship with the Santam union to ensure sound employee relations
Facilitate high level engagement in respect of cases referred to the CCMA and/or Labour Court

Employee Relations Reporting
Implement and maintain a comprehensive ER administration system, ensuring the accuracy and currency of all ER-related information
Complete analysis and reports of Santam group disciplinary enquiries, identifying trends and providing feedback to the HR leadership and Santam Senior Management
Maintain an electronic library of all Santam employee relations cases for referral in ensuring sound business and employee relations within Santam
Provide reports on internal and external trends in employee relations that may impact the Santam business
Stay abreast of latest employee relations legislation, trends and best practice for benchmarking purposes and share with management and the broader HR community

Stakeholder Relations
Build and maintain effective relationships with HR, Santam management, trade union and external partners
Manage the relationship with the external employee relations service provider ensuring compliance to legislation and Santam policies at all times
Ensure that stakeholders are supported in their communication, consultation and negotiations including managerial staff restructuring and redundancy processes
Manage ad hoc projects that are aligned to the annual priorities and HR strategy What will make you successful in this role?

Employment Equity - Strategy, Advice and Support
Custodian of Santam’s Employment Equity strategy, policy and implementation plan
Collaborate with HR Centres of Expertise (COE’s) to ensure alignment of processes, systems and initiatives required to affect the company’s EE strategy and plan
Initiate and coordinate accelerated development programmes and learnerships in liaison with Learning & Development (L&D) and Talent COE.

**Support HR COE’s in diversity work**:
OD - help to drive the delivery of the Diversity strategy working with the CoE and the HRBP communication by:
Assist in designing and engaging with relevant stakeholders in order to ensure the key Diversity actions remain relevant, impactful and valuable.
Project manage the delivery of various Diversity-related initiatives
L&D -development initiatives (including accelerated development programmes)
Talent Management
Recruitment policies and practices
Support the implementation of the Strategic Resourcing plan for Santam
Total Rewards - EE reporting
Ensure that the EE strategies and plans contribute to the Santam and Business units strategic goals
To ensure regulatory compliance and proactive adaptation to pending legislation changes and other external factors
To ensure relevant consulting structures are in place to drive the EE strategy and plan
To ensure the effective functioning of the consulting structures (including training)

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