Senior Officer: HC Business Partner

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: The Senior Officer: Human Capital Business Partner is responsible for all Human Capital functions aimed at enabling and contributing to the improvement of the RAF employee experience.

Key Performance Areas

Human Capital Practices and Compliance

• Maintain the consistent application and implementation of the Human Capital strategy, plans, frameworks, standards, policies and procedures.
• Maintain knowledge of industry trends, best practices, and labor legislation.
• Keep abreast of human Capital legislative compliance changes.

Employee Wellness Services

• Support the Manager: Human Capital business partner in addressing health and wellness issues.
• Implement processes to reinforce positive results and programmes addressing employee health and wellness programmes.
• Market and communicate RAF Wellness Programmes.

Human Capital Administration

• Coordinate a full-cycle recruitment for the fund.
• Ensure that the termination process of exiting employees is complete.
• Ensure transfers and promotions are captured on SAP.
• Facilitate guidance on leave management.
• Facilitate human capital related activities during on boarding and off boarding of employees.
• Conduct necessary investigations into personnel related matters.
• Interprete and provide guidance on conditions of service, pension fund, Medical Aid Rules.

Employee Relations

• Monitor the implementation of the disciplinary and grievance procedures to ensure compliance and consistency.
• Contribute to the resolution of labour related matters and ensure that all grievances are addressed fairly.
• Facilitate information/ advice and guidance to employees and management regarding labour relations issues. E.g. LRA, BCEA, EEA etc.

Learning and Development

• Facilitate all training and development requirements in the processing centres.
• Facilitate skills audit and ensure implementation of the WSP to close identified skills gaps.
• Maintain safekeeping of training records and documentation.
• Monitor training calender for processing centres.
• Process all bursary applications and coordinate the submission of results by bursary holders.

Organisational Effectiveness

• Roll out the application of organisational effectiveness activities inclusive of the organisational structures in the processing centres.
• Provide support to processing centres on coordinate job profiles and job evaluation.
• Facilitate and render support to line managers and employees on the compilation of perfomance contracting and reviews in the processing centres.
• Provide technical support as an administrator on the performance management system.

Reporting

• Contribute to the preparation and submission of regulation reports.
• Aid in the development of functional reporting systems, for management, project or performance reporting.
• Report regularly,periodically and perform necessary submissions as and when required to provide progress updates and/or inform management decisions.

Stakeholder Management

• Aid in proactive and progressive relationships with key stakeholders.
• Deal with inquiries and requests for information from both internal and external stakeholders.
• Aid in the maintenance of relationships with vendors, service providers or procurement teams and ensure that all relevant procured items are invoiced and paid on time.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree/ Advanced Diploma in a Human Resource Management or Industrial Psychology related qualification.

Experience

• Relevant 4 years’ experience in a Human Resource Management related environment of which 1 (one) year must have been on a supervisory level/area of expertise.

Behavioural

• Planning, Organising and Coordinating.
• Personal Mastery.
• Judgement and Decision Making.
• Ethics and Values.
• Client Service Orientation.

Technical

• Understanding of Human Capital operations.
• Understanding of Human Capital systems, software and databases.
• Knowledge of performance management/evaluation.
• End to end Human Capital knowledge.
• Understanding of recruitment/talent sourcing.
• Knowledge of employee relations.
• Knowledge of learning and development.

Road Accident Fund Values

• Integrity
• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect
• Excellence
• Empathy

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.