Specialist: People Change Manager

Absa Group; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Absa Group as a People Change Specialist and help transform strategy into impactful actions. You will enable leaders by defining effective change plans and facilitating stakeholder engagement to drive business success. Ideal candidates will possess a degree in social sciences and have 4–6 years of experience in change management.

Qualifications

• 4–6 years' experience leading end-to-end change in complex environments.
• Experience in significant change programme delivery with measurable impact.
• Familiarity with structured change methodologies like Prosci or Agile.

Responsibilities

• Define and govern outcome-driven change plans.
• Engage various stakeholders across the business.
• Run adoption analytics and maintain live dashboards.

Skills

Complex social systems navigation

Stakeholder engagement

Co-creation solutions

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Human and Social Studies

Undergraduate degree in Behavioural Science or related field

Job description

Empowering Africa’s tomorrow, together…one story at a time.

With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.

Job Summary

As our People Change Specialist, you will assist in translating strategy into everyday actions and habits, accelerating performance, adoption and customer value while shaping how colleagues embrace new systems, processes and ways of working.

Role Purpose

You’ll operate as an enabler to business, product and programme leaders, converting business objectives into people centric change roadmaps that deliver measurable value. Leveraging design thinking, data driven insights and stakeholder engagements, you will assist in shaping new behaviours into operating models to drive adoption and materialisation of business benefits.

Working with a Senior People Change Specialist, you’ll co create and scale a best in class People Change practice into a core strategic capability for Home Loans and the wider organisation.

Job Description

Define and govern outcome‑driven change plans :
Scope, roadmaps, stakeholder matrix, risk register and value‑tracking Metrics.

Design Co-creation:
Surface pain‑points, co‑create solutions and co-create solutions based on stakeholder needs.

Engage various Stakeholders across the business :
From senior leaders to frontline colleagues.

Convert strategy into day‑to‑day activities:
Facilitate sessions that turn measures into behaviours, workflows and metrics.

Coach ing:
To provide visible, active leadership that contributes to initiatives success.

Coordinate multi‑channel change communications:
Partner with learning and development team on targeted interventions.

Design and facilitate co‑creation forums :
From strategic town halls and retrospectives to cross‑functional design studios, innovation sprints and design‑review labs.

Run adoption analytics :
Maintain live dashboards, mine data for insights of defined adoption metrics.

Embed ment continuous improvement cycles :
Introduce feedback, recognition and process updates that sustain new behaviours and supports transformation culture.

Build capability in others :
Enable project teams, human resource partners, and operational leaders with pragmatic change‑management toolkits and coaching.

Experience & Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to navigate complex social systems; we welcome candidates from diverse social‑science or business backgrounds who bring this skill.
• 4–6 years(or equivalent) experience leading end‑to‑end change in complex multi‑stakeholder environments; financial‑services exposure is a dvantageous.
• Experience in shaping and delivering significant change programme/s with measurable people‑adoption and business impact.
• Familiarity with structured change methodologies (e.g., Prosci /ADKAR, CCMP, Agile change) certification is advantageous.
• Undergraduate degree in Behavioural Science, Business, Psychology, Design Thinking or a related field.
• Consulting, organisational‑development or culture‑changeexperience.

Education

Bachelor's Degree: Human and Social Studies (Required)

Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.

Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised