Manager: Organisational Design

The Road Accident Fund’s mission is to provide timely and equitable assistance to those affected by motor vehicle accidents through the provision of appropriate social benefits to ensure financial relief and recovery for qualifying individuals.

Purpose of the Job: Reporting to the Senior Manager: Organisational Effectiveness, the successful incumbent is accountable to managing, design, job analysis, job evaluation, organisational structure design and organisational development.

Key Performance Areas

Organisational Design Governance

• Design and maintain organisational design related policies and SOPs for approval.
• Ensure that all organisational design processes are in line with the approved policies.
• Ensure that all HRIS input that impact organisational structure are applied and executed as per SOP.

Develop and Implement Organisational Design Processes and Systems

• Develop and implement resource optimisation frameworks related to organisational design and development.
• Facilitate the alignment and integration of organisational design and job evaluation initiatives.
• Ensure that best practice methods are implemented with regards to org design and development initiatives.

Organisational Structure Management

• Design, develop and implement functional and operational structures.
• Manage the compilation and submission of accurate approved and budgeted organisational structure as required.
• Ensure that the organisational design architecture that guides the organisational structure is implemented.

Oversee Organisational Design Databases and Records

• Ensure that organisational design records (soft and hard) are properly managed.
• Ensure that the master database of job profiles and job evaluation is in place and continually optimised.

Job Evaluation Process Management

• Ensure that all job evaluations are in accordance with the Job Evaluation and Design Policy.
• Liaise with stakeholders and share information and processes pertaining to job evaluation and grading.

Job Profile Development and Management

• Ensure that job profiles are developed, managed and updated according to best practice.
• Conduct job analysis and facilitate the development of job profiles with subject matter experts.

Policy Review and Implementation

• Contribute to the development and implementation of departmental policy, procedures and processes.
• Keep up to date with effective policy and practice execution strategies.

Stakeholder Management

• Facilitate and manage communication with relevant internal and external stakeholders and proactively and progressively manage the relationships.
• Communicate with all levels of stakeholder contact.

Reporting

• Prepare and submit regulation reports as and when required to provide progress updates and/or inform management decisions.
• Develop reports or policies or procedures and guide the process through the alignment of the documents to the overall RAF’s strategy.

People Management

• Ensure the sourcing, development and retention of a high-performance team.
• Manage staff in the department to ensure that they achieve their objectives in line with the strategic objectives of the RAF.
• Allocate, direct, motivate and evaluate subordinates to help them achieve their individual goals.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree/ Advanced Diploma in HR/ Behavioural Science/ Organisational Design/ Development/ Effectiveness/ Industrial Psychology related qualification.
• Postgraduate in HR/ Behavioural Science/Organisational Design/ Development/ Effectiveness/ Industrial Psychology related qualification advantageous.
• Relevant 6 - 8 years’ experience in Organisational Development environment of which 2 years must have been on management or supervisory level.

Technical and Behavioral Competencies Required

• Resilience.
• Network and alliance.
• Employee engagement.
• Ethics and values.
• Change management.
• Critical and innovative thinking
• Policy conceptualisation and formulation.
• Risk Management.
• Stakeholder development and relations.
• Reporting.
• Present and implement change initiatives.
• Manage diversity within the workplace.
• Project Management.
• Advanced knowledge of organisational structure and job design processes and systems.
• Advanced knowledge of job evaluation methodologies and processes.

NB: “RAF offers Total Employment Cost packages with no additional contributions from the Employer, successful candidates are required to structure their packages in a manner that will suit their needs”.

The Road Accident Fund subscribes to the principles of employment equity and preference will be given to People with Disabilities.

Applicants who have not received any correspondence from us within six weeks from the closing date can consider themselves unsuccessful.

Security Vetting shall be conducted on all prospective employees.

It is the applicants’ responsibility to have foreign qualification evaluated by the South African Qualification Authority (SAQA) and to provide proof of such evaluation.