Manager: Organisational Development
Salary: R434 505 per annum (Level 11) (Ref. 2034)
Pretoria: Head Office
Requirements: • B degree or diploma in Behavioural Sciences • At least 5 years’ experience in organisation development/HR role with significant exposure to leading and enabling major change programmes • Knowledge of change management principles and methodologies • Solid understanding of how people go through a change and the change process • Experience in project management approaches, tools and phases of the project lifecycle • Proven experience with large-scale organisational change effort • Experience in managing change projects and driving transformational change initiatives • Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal • Ability to coach and develop others • Results oriented • Excellent active listening skills • Problem solving and root cause identification skills • Team player and able to work with and through others • Influential with ability to move others towards common vision or goal • Driver’s licence.
Duties: • Develop frameworks and guidelines for organisational change management process and provide effective coaching to management and employees • Develop a change management strategy based on a situational awareness of the details of the change and the groups being impacted by the change • Identify potential people side risks and anticipated points of resistance, and develop specific plans to mitigate or address the concerns • Diagnose employee resistance to change and help employees transition through the change process • Conduct readiness assessments, evaluate results and present findings in a logical and easy to understand manner • Develop a set of actionable and targeted change management plans, including communication plan, sponsor roadmap, coaching plan, training plan and resistance management plan • Be an active and visible coach to executives sponsoring the change initiatives • Create and manage measurement systems to track adoption, utilisation and proficiency of individual changes • Create and enable reinforcement mechanisms and celebrations of success • Work with project teams to integrate change management activities into the overall project plan • Work with colleagues in HRM&D and other stakeholders, including communication in the formulation of particular plans and activities to support project • Develop and implement equality and diversity strategies and forge successful partnerships with a wide range of stakeholders.
Before you apply:
For applications to be accepted:
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General:
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The NPA is an equal opportunity, Employment Equity Employer. Disabled persons are encouraged to apply. In the filling of vacancies, the objectives of Section 195 (1) (i) of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996 (Act 108 of 1996) and the Employment Equity Act, 1998 (Act 55 of 1998), will be taken into consideration.
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Note: Successful candidates will be subjected to a security clearance at least up to a level of Top Secret. Appointment to these posts will be provisional, pending the issue of security clearance. If you cannot get a security clearance, your appointment will be re-considered/possibly be terminated.
Closing dates for applications: 12 December 2011 (applications will not be accepted after the closing date).
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