Overview
The HR Specialist - Workforce Planning and Skills will support priority initiatives across workforce planning, organization design, and skills and digital talent solutions. The role involves providing structured analysis, developing materials, and translating concepts into actionable outputs.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute analytical inputs and insights to workforce planning processes, including mapping, scenario modeling, and data analysis.
- Manage defined components of organizational design and job architecture initiatives.
- Develop high-quality materials, analysis, and presentations.
- Support data alignment activities between workforce planning systems, Position Management and budget planning platforms.
- Contribute to the design, implementation, and refinement of the WBG skills framework.
- Support the design and execution of skills review engagements.
- Support the integration of skills across key talent management processes.
- Be responsible for the effective functioning and continuous improvement of digital talent platforms.
- Own the quality and integrity of talent data.
- Conduct structured analysis to generate insights.
- Develop clear, concise outputs that translate analysis into key messages and actionable implications.
- Contribute to the design and development of talent intelligence products and dashboards.
- Prepare standard and ad-hoc reporting.
- Contribute to the design and delivery of cross-cutting talent initiatives.
- Develop practical, user-oriented tools and materials.
- Integrate external insights and emerging practices to inform design and continuous improvement.
Required Experience
- A minimum of five (5) years of relevant professional experience.
- Familiarity with workforce planning, organization design, or job architecture concepts, and their practical application in talent management contexts.
- Experience designing and/or implementing core HR programs and processes (e.g., talent management, workforce planning, performance, rewards, or related areas) and understanding how they connect.
- Exposure to structured HR frameworks (e.g., job families, skills frameworks, compensation benchmarking frameworks, or comparable approaches) is desirable.
- Experience working with data, including analysis, reporting, or interpretation in an HR or business context.
- Exposure to HR systems, digital tools, or data visualization approaches is an advantage.
- Experience contributing to the implementation of HR programs or initiatives, including stakeholder engagement and change management support.
Qualifications
Master’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Development, Data Science, or a related field.