HR Generalist (Senior) - Marketing Services at Discovery Limited

Key Purpose

Key Purpose: To partner with the HR Manager in delivering HR services and support, throughout the HR value chain, to various departments. Attracting, sourcing & placing the best candidates. Ensuring alignment and implementation of policies, procedures, standards, & projects/initiatives.

Level: Associate Specialist

Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to

Recruitment & onboarding

• Tracking and facilitating on-, cross- and off boarding processes
• Compiling and maintaining job profiles and specifications
• Liaising and partnering with Line Managers to ensure that the correct recruitment process is adhered to
• Liaising with management and candidates to set up interviews/assessments
• Facilitating skills tests when necessary
• Providing feedback to candidates
• Drawing up contracts and transfer letters as well as taking new employees through new joiner documentation

Administration

• Administers all recruitment and on boarding tasks as needed
• Collects and checks HR data, including maintenance of the staff tracker & updating smartpeople
• Assists with the administration required in relation to the execution of employee disciplinary action
• Drafting reports & presentations aligned to the needs of the department/s (e.g., Promotion and EE reports)
• Daily management of the HR related mailbox and calendar
• Responsible for HR admin queries – leave, bursary, maternity, payroll, incentives, finance admin etc
• Assists with HR processes such as exit and stay interviews

Performance and Talent Management

• Distributes, monitors, and ensures that employee performance evaluations are completed in a timely manner
• Monitoring and reporting on competency and skills development to ensure that employee capabilities meet current and future standards
• Facilitating talent reviews, maintaining documentation and compiling presentations
• Strategy and Project Management

Partners with the HRM to draft the area specific HR Strategy

• Implements specific project activities as determined through the HR planning process or aligned to the strategy and participates in functional and cross-functional initiatives/projects
• Reports on key people drivers, proactively highlights key trends, risks and formulates action plans
• Assisting the HRM with their functions from time to time including implementation of People initiatives

Service Excellence

• Recommends new approaches, policies, and procedures to continually improve efficiency of department and services performed
• Acts as a liaison between the business unit and centre of excellence to ensure that HR services are aligned with internal client needs
   

Competencies:

• Takes initiative and works under own direction
• Takes responsibility for actions, projects and people
• Works strategically to realize organizational goals
• Motivates and empowers others
• Strong communication and presentation skills
• Upholds ethics and values
• Demonstrates integrity
• Gains clear agreement and commitment from others by persuading, convincing and negotiating
• Easily establishes good relationships with customers and staff and relates well to people at all levels
• Writes clearly and correctly
• Applies specialist and detailed technical expertise
• Encourages an organisational learning approach
• Consistently achieves project goals

Qualifications & Experience:
Essential

• Completed tertiary qualification in HR at NQF7
• At least 3 years HR Generalist experience or Recruitment experience with prior exposure to the HR Generalist functions

Advantageous:

• HR qualification at NQF8
• At least 5 years Recruitment or Generalist HR Experience

Essential knowledge:

• MS Office – Excel, Word and PowerPoint
• Working knowledge of SmartPeople / SuccessFactors
• Solid understanding of Recruitment & processes
• HR related policies within Discovery
• Understanding of the HR Value Chain and impact through the employee life-cycle

EMPLOYMENT EQUITY   
                             

• The Company’s approved Employment Equity Plan and Targets will be considered as part of the recruitment process. As an Equal Opportunities employer, we actively encourage and welcome people with various disabilities to apply.