Head Learning: Leadership Development, Standard Bank Group at Standard Bank Group

Job Description

We are looking for a senior manager to enhance the effectiveness of our leaders in delivering on our strategy and moving towards our vision – Africa is our home, we drive her growth.  In this role, you will deliver on our leadership effectiveness framework by supporting leaders through diverse development opportunities – personalised learning journeys, scaled fundamental programmes, masterclasses, succession programmes, executive education, and coaching. 

The ideal candidate will be a strategic designer and problem solver, who can translate strategy into plans and initiatives, and manage complex learning delivery.  We need someone ready to work in a changing environment, with strong influencing and stakeholder management skills, leadership skills, and business acumen.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications

• Degree in Social Science or equivalent.

Experience required

• Minimum of 8 -10 years demonstrated workplace experience in Learning, with at least 3-4 years managing and leading a team.
• Research, design, develop and implement a multi-year strategy for leadership development.
• Design and lead sustainable and well managed programmes and processes.
• Engage People and Culture (P&C) community on the needs of our leaders, the value of leadership development, and optimal design.
• Experiment with and ongoingly stabilise the use of learning and insights technology to optimise the value of learning experiences.
• Engage with a range of learning modalities to create impactful learning experiences.
• Use strong stakeholder management and communication skills to maintain momentum in the leadership development domain.
• Scan the global environment and integrate macro trends in leadership development, geopolitics, self-mastery, social impact, business management, organisational culture and behavioural sciences into our work.
• Use data to generate insights about leadership gaps and strengths within the organisation.
• Develop, implement, and continuously improve a value tracking model to measure results.
• Coach leaders about development choices.
• Collaborate across P&C centres of excellence and all learning teams across the business.
• Lead a small team to deliver world-class learning experience.
• Manage relationships with local / international business schools for executive education decisions.
• Devise a world-class approach to coaching and enhance processes to manage coaching.
• Select and manage optimal leadership learning content libraries and maintain leadership learning site/s and platforms. 

Additional Information
Behavioural Competencies

• Articulating Information
• Developing Strategies
• Providing Insights
• Establishing Rapport
• Making Decisions
• Challenging Ideas
• Interacting with People

Technical Competencies

• Learning and Development: Strong experience in Learning and Development.
• Leadership Development: Strong understanding of and experience in leadership development.
• Programme Design and Management: Exceptional multi-year programme oversight and design skills. Experience in designing and delivering leadership and management development at scale.
• Learning Design: Instructional design or learning experience design strength and experience.
• Strategy and Execution: Experience in devising organisation-wide strategy and execution plans.
• Communications: Strong stakeholder engagement, negotiation and presentation skills. Ability to discuss how leaders and leadership effectiveness play a role in ways of work, culture, and business performance as the business context changes.
• Leading Teams: Excellent leadership capabilities to engage team members and excel in team performance. Experience in leading teams in a matrix environment.
• External Partnership: Experience in partnering with vendors for learning value.