Overview
This role leads strategic workforce planning and drives organizational design initiatives to align human capital with business priorities and ensure the effective application of the skills framework within job roles.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of the strategic workforce planning (SWP) framework and processes.
- Drive organizational design initiatives, developing robust frameworks and methodologies.
- Lead the governance of WBG Job Architecture, ensuring consistent and accurate job titles and role definitions.
- Apply structured job analysis to identify opportunities for automation, process simplification, and alternative delivery models.
- Collaborate with specialized internal teams to ensure seamless integration of the organization's skills framework into talent architecture processes.
- Leverage talent insights and advanced data science solutions for strategic workforce planning and job architecture initiatives.
- Build and nurture strong working relationships with business leaders, WBG HR colleagues, and key internal and external stakeholders.
- Engage with external peer organizations to stay abreast of emerging trends and best practices.
Required Experience
- Minimum of eight (8) years of relevant professional experience.
- Proven expertise leading strategic workforce planning initiatives, including skill gap analysis and talent action planning.
- Experience contributing to organizational design initiatives, including framework development and supporting alignment of job titles and role definitions within complex organizations.
- Strong understanding of job architecture governance and its operational implementation.
- Familiarity with the integration and application of skills frameworks into job roles, including exposure to maintaining skill profiles in talent systems.
- Strong change management and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Demonstrated ability to build trusted, long-term relationships and collaborate effectively across diverse client groups and WBG HR teams.
- Superb project management, planning, coordination, and organizational skills.
- Exposure to design thinking or human-centered approaches in developing HR or organizational solutions is an advantage.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Experience with AI-enabled tools is an advantage, or a demonstrated ability to quickly learn and apply such tools.
- Ability to interact confidently with senior management.
- Strong learning agility and curiosity.
- Knowledge of data governance and ethical considerations related to talent data is an advantage.
Qualifications
Master’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development/Behavior, or a related field.
