Overview
Provides advisory services to Africa Region units and leadership teams, contributing to business and talent strategy, career management, and policy formulation.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide advisory services to Africa Region units and leadership teams.
- Contribute to business and talent strategy, career management framework, policy formulation and implementation of people management related agenda.
- Routinely lead complex projects and integrate the work of other professional staff.
- Contribute to strategy, analysis and policy formulation and interact with clients at policy level.
- Establish close partnership with clients in thinking strategically about business model and in providing scenarios to support business strategies and direction.
- Provide in-depth analysis and insight on available and needed talent.
- Provide guidance on change process and engagements.
- Partner in implementation and provide advice on necessary capacity building for staff.
- Proactive use of HR analytics to effectively map out the staffing landscape and trends.
- Partner with managers in developing their talent strategies and create an effective and holistic framework.
- Advise on staff development and succession planning.
- Help establish staffing levels, skills mix, and work force diversity.
- Advise staff and managers on HR policies and practices.
- Provide expert level strategic advice to develop innovative HR approaches and solutions.
- Contribute to policy development by actively working with the Policy Unit.
- Support client managers and staff in proactive talent and performance management.
- Advise managers on developing a high performance culture.
- Advise client managers on talent identification and career development options.
- Provide expert level of support on managing complex cases.
- Assist in identification of learning and development needs, and design and implementation of capacity building interventions.
- Mentor junior staff.
- Contribute to Corporate HR programs and deliverables.
- Advise and support managers in the design and implementation of organizational effectiveness interventions.
- Lead teams and/or participate as a team member on HR projects, working groups, task forces.
- Develop sound understanding of the Bank operational business.
- Support the effective functioning of the Bank's matrix organization.
Required Experience
- Eight or more years of relevant HR experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- HR Functional Excellence - Knowledgeable about HR best practices, demonstrates command of institutional HR policies, priorities and practices.
- Business Acumen - In-depth understanding and knowledge of the Bank's business, the working of Matrix organization, line of sight between clients' business strategy and direction, and capacity to deliver on work programs.
- HR Policy Acumen - Demonstrate command of institutional HR policies.
- Staffing, Workforce Planning, and Analytics - Able to advise and assist client managers in moderately complex issues related to strategic staffing.
- Development and Performance - Ability to roll out the annual Talent and Performance Management cycle.
- Manage Organizational Change - Lead, contribute and project manage the implementation of clients' organizational changes.
Qualifications
Master’s Degree in Human Resources Management, Organizational Development, Business Administration, Public Sector Management, or related disciplines.
