The position’s key responsibilities are:

• Ensure seventy-five percent or more of the staff achieve their set targets, remedial or reward actions are completed on time and redundant positions are closed each year. Each supervisory / managerial staff attends at least one capability course.
• Ensure an optimized organizational structure, right people in the right positions, a pipeline of suitable candidates for positions in the expansion plans. Manage headcount costs and turnover targets.
• Promote a forward-looking company culture, ethics and compliance, enforce agreed-on actions against violations at all levels consistently.
• Manage key risk, high-potential, high-performance staff. Ensure less than five percent exits.

SPECIFIC JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Chief People Officer is responsible and accountable for the following core job elements:

• Develop business-aligned HR strategies, achieving annual objectives and targets.
• Translate key data into an effective and commercially focused HR and people strategy, working with senior management and influencing them on the best course of action.
• Lead on HR special projects, communicate and direct on strategy and implementation.
• Direct organizational planning to optimize organization culture, job design, people development and staffing forecasting throughout the company.
• Develop implement and evaluate Human Resources objectives, policies, codes, programs, documentation and procedures for the company regarding employee relations.
• Develop HR budgets including training; on approval manage to achieve objectives and targets.
• Develop and oversee the company compensation strategy and plan execution.
• Develop and implement employee performance management, change management and reward programs.
• Set up, develop and manage the Human Resources department.
• Manage an optimized employee health, safety and well-being plan.
• Lead and direct position establishments, recruitment or headhunting, exits and terminations.
• Lead company-sponsored employee benefit programs such as medical schemes, pension plans.
• Optimize HR recordkeeping by effectively using the Human Resources Information Software.
• Lead company safety and health programs. Monitor and report statutory health and safety data.
• Lead company HR compliance with all existing governmental laws and regulations

EDUCATIONAL & COLLATERAL REQUIREMENTS:

• A bachelor’s degree in human resources or equivalent with a Higher Diploma in Human Resource Management / CHRP qualification.
• Eight or more years of progressive HR generalist and some specialist experience with a track record of delivering measurable HR results. IT sector experience is an added advantage.
• Experience with HR metrics and analytics, labour relations, unions is an added advantage.
• Must be an active member of the HR professional body.
• Excellent interpersonal, coaching, negotiation presentation skills. Good Microsoft Windows skills
• Self-starter, team player, mature individual with outstanding strategic, analytical, numerate, creative skills, communication and presentation talents.