SAO Senior Change Practitioner
PRETORIA
Human Resources / Recruitment
Pretoria – Gauteng
SAO Senior Change Practitioner
PRETORIA
R376 413.00pa
12 month fixed term contract
Purpose of the post:
The GPAA Human Resources department is currently looking for applications to fill a temporary role of SAO – Senior Change Practitioner at the GPAA Head Office for 12 months. The purpose of the role is to facilitate and implement change management / transformation programmes and processes in achieving the GPAA’s strategic goals.
Key performance areas:
The incumbent will be responsible for a wide variety of tasks which includes but are not limited to the following:
Responsible for employee engagement programmes:
- Facilitate group sessions and discussions in workshops
- Analyze data and drafting of reports for Change Management projects
- Proactively identify opportunities for organisational development interventions and advise Management
- Conduct advocacy campaign on change management
- Analyse and compile report with recommendations to management.
- Assess the change impact and readiness for change initiative, identifying key barriers
- Engage with stakeholders to obtain buy-in to the change initiative.
- Promote the need for and benefits of change management as part of the change initiative
- Provide feedback to stakeholders on change initiative progress and risk.
- Evaluate change initiative through post project management implementation review
Provide support in the development of the change management strategy and programmes:
- Provide support is the development of change management initiatives (culture, behaviour, systems, organisational climate assessment)
- Support the process of developing a change management strategy
- Support development of change management materials, tools and content for GPAA
- Support communication with all clients and all levels of management
- Assist in determining client needs and ensures that the needs in terms of all investigations are met
- Provide support in implementation and delivery of Operations Management Framework
- Support the design of tools or systems that can assist in dealing with organisational problems of the GPAA proactively and on request by Management.
- Provide support in the development and co-ordination campaigns on sector transformation and gender mainstreaming
- Facilitate the implementation of change management strategy for all projects in the Department
Assists in the successful business culture and transformation:
- Assist in the implementation of the Employment Equity plan and administrative support thereto
- Support the initial compilation of the Gender Equality and Job Access Reports
- Support the coordination, development and implementation of survey material and tools to analyse culture of the Department
- Responsible for the coordination of client feedback surveys and related duties (analysis and reporting) thereto within the GPAA
- Act as problem solver and coach for staff during the execution of culture change investigations
- Responsible for effective stakeholder management (good client relations) during change management process to ensure Organisational culture alignment
Provide administrative support to the unit:
- Data capturing for Change Management projects
- Completion of forms and document claims, payment invoices and consultant fees relevant to the office
- Provision of support to Change Management Specialist
- Coordination of all interventions (workshops and in-house engagements) and invite delegates to attend
- File office correspondence, documents and reports
- Draft and type standard correspondence and documents
- Document management (Drafting and filing of correspondence/reports)
- Build a Change Repository (Tools/Research)
- Ad-hoc Office duties (stationery, equipment, refreshments, travel coordination) and related administrative support thereto for the unit
Minimum requirements:
- A three-year National Diploma/B Degree/B Tech or three-year qualification in Industrial Psychology/Organisational Development/ Management Services/ Human Resource / Social Sciences or related
- A Post-graduate qualification or equivalent with a PROSCI Change management certificate will be an advantage
- At least three (3) years relevant experience in change management and development of interventions / project management in the public service of which at least one to two years relevant experience is/was within a Change Management and Transformation environment
- Computer literacy in Microsoft Office packages.
Knowledge and Competencies:
- Knowledge of Adkar model
- Knowledge of Change/Transformation legislation/Directives
- Knowledge of DPSA Prescripts
- Knowledge of Change Management processes & Transformation
- Knowledge of Organisational Culture & Human Behaviour
- Knowledge of Transformation Management
- Analytical skills
- Excellent organising skills
- Project Management skills
- Document management skills
- Administrative skills
- Problem solving skills
- Facilitation skills
- Customer oriented
- Ability to communicate at all levels
- Outgoing personality
- Good customer relations
- Ability to prioritize work and urgent matters
- Ability to deal with confidential matters
- Teamwork
Closing date for applications: 26 November 2024
Should you not hear from us within 7 days of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful
