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: Reporting to the Manager: Human Capital Business Partner, the successful incumbent 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.

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 or advice and guidance to employees and management regarding labour relations issues. E.g. LRA, BCEA, EEA etc.

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.
• Provide technical support as an administrator on the performance management system.

Reporting

• Coordination of required reports and submit to management.
• Development of functional reporting systems, for management, project or performance reporting.

Stakeholder Relations

• Engage with recruitment agencies.
• Deal with inquiries and requests for information from both internal and external stakeholders.
• Acts as a bridge between people management and the business.

People Management

• Ensure that good employee relations are maintained.
• Provide ongoing operational support to employees.

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree/ Advanced Diploma in Human Resources Management or Industrial Psychology related qualification.
• Relevant 4 years’ experience in a Human Resource Management-related environment of which 1 year on a supervisory level will be advantageous.

Technical and Behavioral Competencies Required

• Planning, organising and coordinating.

• Personal mastery.
• Judgment and decision making.
• Ethics and values.
• Client service orientation.
• Understanding of Human Capital operations.
• Understanding of Human Capital systems, software and databases.
• Knowledge of performance management or evaluation.
• End to end Human Capital knowledge.
• Understanding of recruitment or talent sourcing.
• Knowledge of employee relations.
• Knowledge of learning and development.

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.