ORGANISATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS MANAGER

Agricultural Research Council; Alberton; On-site; ZAR 300 000 - 400 000; Full time

Job summary

A research organization in Alberton is looking for a candidate to implement strategies that enhance organizational effectiveness. This role involves driving the organization’s effectiveness agenda, providing guidance to HR teams, and leading change management initiatives. The successful candidate will develop tailored change management strategies and communication plans, ensuring employee engagement and alignment with organizational goals. Strong skills in data analytics and organizational design processes are essential for this position.

Qualifications

• Experience in organizational design processes and change management.
• Strong skills in data analytics and organizational effectiveness.
• Ability to develop communication plans for change initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Implement organizational effectiveness strategies focused on design processes and employee engagement.
• Drive the Organization Effectiveness agenda and support HR teams.
• Guide development of change management strategy tailored to ARC's needs.

Job description

• Responsible for implementing organisational effectiveness strategies focusing on innovative and holistic organisational design processes, employee engagement, change management programmes, culture awareness to create a workplace reflecting ARC’s values.
• To drive the Organisation Effectiveness (OE) agenda and to provide subject matter expertise and guidance to the HR teams as required.
• To support and enable the effective management of organisational design and change management strategic objectives through identifying and leading the development and implementation of OE projects and initiatives that will include, amongst others, organisation design and diagnosis, data analytics, organisation effectiveness & efficiency, maintenance of organisational job architecture as well as change and cultural transformation.
• Guide the development of a comprehensive change management strategy and framework that is tailored to ARC’s needs and objectives.
• Work closely with project teams to ensure the successful execution of change initiatives, monitoring progress, and adjusting strategies as needed.
• Conduct readiness assessments to evaluate an organisation's preparedness for change, identifying potential barriers and resistance.
• Develop clear and effective communication plans that inform employees about changes, timelines, and the rationale behind them.
• Collect and analyse feedback from employees and stakeholders, adjusting change strategies to improve effectiveness.
• Ensure the departmental structures across ARC support the achievement of strategic objectives through continuous consultation and monitoring.
• Drive the communication, understanding and adoption of organisational design principles and policies (job architecture principles, naming convention principles, organisational design principles, levels of work principles).
• Review workforce planning, staff establishment and costing thereof for alignment with strategy and budget.
• Oversight into maintenance and system management of the staff establishment and develop procedure for management of org structure changes.