Area HR Strategic Partner

Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg, South Africa (On-site)

To meet the needs of the Church, we seek to build teams that represent the diverse perspectives, broad life experiences and backgrounds of our global Church membership. With that in mind, we encourage all qualified applicants to apply.

The Human Resources Department accomplishes the Church's religious mission by partnering with Church departments to enable a qualified and engaged workforce to labor diligently in the Lord's vineyard, hastening the work of salvation and exaltation. The purpose of this role is to support strategic HR and talent functions in an area. Employees at this level work under minimal supervision, have comprehensive working knowledge, and handle complex issues and problems. This role reports to Area HR Manager with frequent partnership with workforce and area leaders, area HR team, and headquarters COEs.

• Consult regarding employee development tools such as stretch assignments, developments assignments.
• Lead Area talent efforts and develop Talent Development Strategy.
• Lead succession planning efforts and talent councils.
• Partner with leaders to leverage workforce analytics and guide strategic workforce planning decisions that strengthen organizational capability and performance.
• Lead and implement organizational change initiatives.
• Help Managers build high-performing teams and healthy workforce culture.
• Consult on and support organizational design efforts.
• Assess organizational performance, operating models, structures, workflows, and team effectiveness.
• Conduct organizational assessments, surveys, focus groups, and stakeholder interviews.
• Align organizational design and people practices with business strategy.
• Translate strategic priorities into workforce and operating initiatives.
• Help managers design or redesign structures, reporting lines, and spans of control.
• Advise senior leaders.
• Partner with Total Rewards in designing recognition initiatives.
• Champion culture and engagement initiatives.
• Leverage workforce analytics to generate strategic insights and inform organizational decision-making.
• Implement employee engagement survey action plans.
• Where applicable, review and develop local adaptations of global policy, guiding principles, or practices.

• Must be in possession of a Current Temple Recommend or be certified by their priesthood leader to be worthy to hold a temple recommend.

Required:

• Relevant Bachelor's degree coupled with a minimum of 6 years progressive professional experience.
• Deep strategic and HR experience with the ability to align people strategies to organizational priorities and business outcomes.
• Strong knowledge of HR best practices across core people functions, including talent management, workforce planning, organizational development, and change management.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with leaders to support workforce planning, organizational effectiveness, and data-informed decision-making.
• Strong consulting, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across multiple levels of leadership.
• Excellent analytical, communication, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage complex and sensitive organizational matters with discretion.
• Strategic thinking.
• Business acumen.
• Change leadership.
• Data analysis.
• Systems thinking.
• Executive facilitation, and coaching.
• Influence without authority.
• Project management.
• Communicate effectively in writing and verbally through influence and compromise.

To successfully perform the essential functions of the job there may be physical requirements, such as traveling to different countries.