Chief Advisor Performance and Talent Management

About the role

Position/Task Grade: G17 Area of specialization: To provide for strategic oversight, design and implementation and continuous optimisation of organisation’s performance and talent management frameworks, policies, procedures, tools, and methodologies while ensuring effective integration with consequence management, and organisational strategy to embed a high-performance culture, strengthen accountability, and enable sustained organisational performance. Department: Performance and Talent Business Unit: Performance and Talent Location: Megawatt Park Reference Number: 50977959LS Closing Date: 02 November 2026

Responsibilities

• Behavioural
• Professionalism
• Adherence to Human Capital code of professional conduct,
• Credibility,
• Trustworthiness
• Ethical conduct
• Leadership
• Living the organisational vision and values
• Developing and growing people
• Ignite passion and commitment
• Leading, consulting, and influencing stakeholders toward continuous improvement
• Fostering teamwork and collaboration
• Knowledge
• Performance and talent management models, frameworks and tools.
• Performance and talent management technologies
• Organisational policies, procedures and processes
• Human Resources related legislation
• Performance and talent management practices
• Organisational behaviour (organisational development, change management, team dynamics)
• Research and development methodologies (qualitative and quantitative)
• Project management principles
• Skill
• Strategy and policy development
• Analytical thinking
• Research and solution design
• Project management
• Facilitation and consultation
• Problem-solving and decision-making
• Effective oral, written, and interpersonal communication
• Key Responsibilities
• Design, develop, champion, and communicate talent management systems
• Design, implement and optimise performance management policies, frameworks and
• Systems
• Define and execute organisation wide talent management strategies
• Scan, analyse, interpret and communicate environmental, legislative and best-practice
• developments. scanning, information analysis and interpretation, and communication
• Provide strategic advisory service with assurance, risk and compliance oversight
• Provide strategic project leadership and governance
• Provide strategic advisory support across the organisation

Requirements

• Qualification(s)
• B Degree/B Tech/Advanced Diploma in Human Resources/Industrial
• Psychology/Business Management/ Commerce/Technical at NQF7 with 360 credits
• Related Experience
• 7 years’ extensive experience in performance, talent management, human capital or consulting environments.