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Job Summary
The job holder will primarily lead and support all talent management practices across the business as well as deliver and implement basic/technical and soft skills training and development processes that will effect return on investment through improved individual and business performance. This is a strategic role responsible for assessing talent needs across the business and recommending relevant strategies, processes, and systems to advance talent management within Absa Bank Botswana.
Job Description
Main Accountabilities
- Lead People Business Partners with Talent reviews, Talent mapping and designing development interventions for top talent.
- Maintain and implement up-to-date talent practices, procedures, and guidelines pertaining to end-to-end talent management in Absa.
- Partner with People partners to up skill people managers on end-to-end Absa talent management processes including Workday process, tools and assessment methods, career management, development and exit processes.
- Maintain up-to-date country top talent, critical skills, and succession data.
- Implement talent development and retention initiatives as agreed in Talent reviews and talent engagements.
- Monitor and collate outputs from People Plans of the talent and individuals identified as critical the business and follow-up on actions/initiatives agreed for these individuals
- Advise People and Culture leadership on emerging Talent management and retention thought leadership
- Implement creative direct to market talent capturing solutions for the Business, i.e., create and maintain a ‘potential candidate’ database, advertising on web-based job search sites, e.g., LinkedIn.
- Provide advisory and support in psychometric assessments, assessment centres and development centres for different roles and development resulting actions plans.
- Conducting research on peers, build industry networks, attend industry specific events, job fairs, and partner with labour agencies and tap into global networks.
- Aggregate and analyse the development needs of our people within ABB arising from both change and business as usual activity, advising on recommended approach/actions needed.
- Design and deliver curriculum to ensure core technical and leadership competence of ABB staff
- Drive effective delivery of curriculum using cost effective methodologies, taking potential, cultural, educational, and technological issues into account and substantiate, to meet defined performance outcomes
- Continually ensure up to date with the key business imperatives of the functions and correlation between the function and ABB
- Establish monitoring and evaluation of all development activities within ABB to ensure performance improved and return on investment for the business
- Facilitate, co-ordinate and deliver training program and coaching with country L&D plans.
- Manage the end-to-end Graduate Development Program, Internship Program by ensuring ABB attracts, develops, and retains high quality graduates.
- Devise monitoring tools and thereafter monitor effectiveness of training and other ‘people development’ activities.
- Determine with the Head of Leadership, Learning and Talent, what metrics are relevant and ensure that data is collected and captured to measure performance against metrics
- Manage and update Talent Scorecard and vacancy tracker for the business to enable monitoring of performance against sourcing plan
- Support analysis of pertinent statistical data to identify trends and developments related to full spectrum of talent management and contribute to Group policies.
- Ensure proper application of all the Talent Management and Learning Policies across the business.
Education
Bachelor's Degree: Psychology (Required)
