ALX Africa - Talent Engagement Lead
Requirements
• Oversee onboarding, offboarding, role clarity, employee development, and growth pathways. • Lead the developmental aspects of performance management and partner closely with Talent Operations. • Partner with managers to understand team capability, development, performance, and workforce needs, and connect them to the right support and solutions. • Provide talent and development insights that help leaders make informed decisions about employee growth, capability, and succession. • Employee Engagement, Culture and Organisational Experiences • Lead ALX’s employee engagement strategy, including employee listening, surveys, insights, and action planning. • Oversee organisational rituals, employee communications, community initiatives, and experiences that strengthen connection and bring ALX’s culture to life. • Lead the end-to-end design and delivery of major employee experiences, including organisation-wide retreats, leadership retreats, and strategic workshops. • Support organisational change management by equipping managers and employees with the communication, learning, and engagement needed to navigate change effectively. • Insights, Systems and Continuous Improvement • Use employee, learning, performance, and engagement data to identify needs and advise senior leaders. • Establish clear measures of success and use evidence and feedback to continuously improve TDX initiatives and employee experiences. • Oversee the systems and tools that support learning, engagement, onboarding, performance enablement, and talent development. • Identify opportunities to simplify and automate TDX processes through technology, AI, and improved ways of working. • 8 to 10 years of relevant experience in learning and development, talent development, organisational development, employee experience, human resources, or a related field. • Experience leading a similar function or multidisciplinary team. • Strong experience developing learning and development strategies and manager or leadership development initiatives. • Experience designing learning, employee, and organisational experiences that translate clear objectives into meaningful, practical participant journeys. • Ability to understand organisational and workforce needs and translate them into practical talent, development, and employee experience solutions. • Strong people leadership, portfolio and programme management, and senior stakeholder management skills. • Sound understanding of performance management, talent development, employee engagement, organisational change, and the employee lifecycle. • Experience using employee, learning, performance, or engagement data to inform decisions and improve approaches. • Experience working across African markets and within cross-cultural, geographically distributed organisations. • Strong communication, systems thinking, and operational discipline, with the ability to use technology, AI, and automation to improve how work is delivered. • Experience or qualifications in facilitation, coaching, organisational development, or change management would be advantageous. • Person Specification/Attributes • Courage: Willingness to speak up, challenge the status quo, and embrace new challenges. • Courage: • Humility: Openness to learning, seeking help when needed, and a focus on serving others. • Humility: • Adventure: A passion for setting ambitious goals, tackling difficult tasks, and finding joy in the journey. • Adventure: • Initiative: Proactive problem-solving, a sense of ownership, and a willingness to go above and beyond. • Initiative: • Resilience: The ability to bounce back from setbacks, persevere through challenges, and emerge stronger. • Resilience: • Strategic Thinking: Ability to connect organisational priorities, employee evidence, and talent solutions. • Strategic Thinking: • Systems Mindset: Ability to see how learning, leadership, performance, culture, technology, and employee experience interact. • Systems Mindset: • Collaboration: Strong partnership and influencing skills across senior leaders, managers, teams, and external partners. • Collaboration: • Communication: Ability to simplify complex information and communicate with clarity and credibility. • Communication: • Execution Excellence: Strong planning, prioritisation, judgement, and follow-through. • Execution Excellence:
Responsibilities
• TDX Strategy and Team Leadership • Develop and lead ALX’s Talent Development and Experience strategy in line with organisational priorities. • Lead, coach, and develop the TDX team, setting clear priorities, standards, and performance expectations. • Oversee the TDX portfolio, budget, external partners, and delivery across the function. • Advise senior leaders and managers on talent development, team capability, employee experience, engagement, and organisational needs. • Learning, Manager and Leadership Development • Lead ALX’s employee learning and development strategy and translate organisational needs into relevant development opportunities, pathways, and resources. • Own manager and leadership development, working with internal specialists and external partners where required. • Ensure employee learning and development initiatives are practical, well-designed, and evaluated for quality, application, and impact. • Build and manage the internal and external partnerships needed to deliver high-quality learning and development, including facilitators, coaches, subject-matter experts, and learning providers.
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