Talent Manager – Botswana Power Corporation

Main purpose of the position

Manage the implementation of the Corporation’s Talent Management Strategic initiatives and Organisational Design activities by providing analytical & advisory support and solutions to management to enhance organisational effectiveness.

Job Responsibilities

• Provide guidance/advice on the implementation of the Talent Management Strategy to support retention of high performing employees as well as to keep them motivated.
• Analyse and report on Talent Metrics including but not limited to retention rate, turnover rate, diversity & inclusion.
• Provide advice to Management on the risks identified from talent metrics reports and advise Management on the measures to be taken to close gaps identified.
• Plan for & prepare presentations as needed to convey talent management information to Management using charts, graphs, and other presentation resources.
• Provide guidance in the development of annual manpower plans & consolidate inputs from departments for approval.
• Monitor the Corporation’s establishment by regularly carrying out staffing audits and reconciling headcounts with the establishment register.
• Design organisational structures as per the approved manpower plans.
• Approve vacancy requisitions as per the requests & assign relevant recruiters to proceed with advertising.
• Create positions in the HR system and review them as and when required.
• Provide guidance to employees on alignment of scorecards to their performance contracts.
• Calibrate employees’ contracts & performance assessments to ensure alignment with the corporate scorecard targets & initiatives.
• Review, monitor and analyse performance results corporate wide and reports them accordingly.
• Monitor implementation of Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs) & provide support to ensure that all assigned objectives are completed as per set timelines.
• Monitor implementation of the OD Scorecard through reporting on key initiatives.
• Plan & conduct Job Profiles review & validation, schedule & facilitate all sessions to ensure that all Job Profiles are properly written/reviewed as per the set standards.
• Evaluate jobs & provide guidance to the internal Job Evaluation Committee (JEC) during job evaluation sessions.
• Prepare job evaluation reports & present them to Management for decision making.
• Advise Management on technical inconsistencies realised during evaluation & facilitate corrections before sending results for validation by the external consultants.
• Provide advice and support to HR and Management on related activities such as job design, job description development & job evaluation.
• Create and maintain an electronic database of job descriptions, evaluations, and historical data.
• Recommend and document best practices/standard operating procedures related to job evaluation systems.
• Create Talent Management dashboards for OD Manager, HR Business partners and Line Management.
• Analyse and report Talent Metrics weekly, monthly, quarterly & yearly.
• Consolidate HR data audit findings, identify possible resolutions and track for action and resolution.
• Maintain staff databases, analyse data, data integrity, and run report queries.
• Analyse HRIS performance metrics to assist in decision making.
• Identify and recommend inclusion of new HRIS processes for efficient HR management.
• Train employees & respond to their queries in relation to the use of the system.
• Develop Succession Planning policies, procedures & tools with the input from relevant HODs.
• Identify mission-critical roles based on the Corporation’s needs & maintain approved catalogue for the same.
• Guide departments in the development of their Succession Plans to ensure that BPC has readily available future leadership for critical positions.

Qualifications

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources Management, Social Sciences, or related field.

Experience

• Seven (7) years post qualification experience in Organisation Development, 5 of which should have been served in a Talent Management role.
• Knowledge of reporting on Talent Metrics & HRIS, MS Office
  Suite, Job Profiling, Performance Management & Organisation design is required (should have accumulated at least 3 years’ experience on these fields).
• Membership to an HR Professional body will be an added
  advantage.

Competencies