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Imagine a world where people live healthier, more enhanced and protected lives… A world in which each organisation is a powerful influencer and responsible corporate citizen, committed to being a force for social good. As a leading innovator in healthcare, wellness, insurance, investments, financial and life planning, Discovery works ceaselessly to...
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Key Purpose
The Talent Acquisition Specialist is responsible for the strategic sourcing of IT Specialists for our South African and international teams. As a Talent Acquisition Specialist, you will collaborate with hiring managers and Hr Business Partner to ensure that the hiring process runs smoothly and that the company is effectively finding and hiring the talent it requires to meet its objectives
Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to
- Works in partnership with the hiring manager, HR Manager and Heads of Department to manage sourcing and recruiting activities.
- Advises hiring managers on recruitment approach and process and leads the sourcing process from end-to-end.
- Spends time with stakeholders to fully understand the business, the key talent needs, and the value proposition for prospective candidates. This includes maintaining relationships with hiring managers to stay abreast of current and future hiring needs.
- Reviews and selects appropriate candidates to be evaluated by hiring managers, ensuring objectivity of the process and compliance with standard processes and best practices.
- Supports hiring managers in the evaluation and assessment of candidates to determine suitability for a given position.
- Compiles all recruiting related documentation in line with the Discovery standard recruitment process and vendor management process.
- Communicates with candidates to provide status updates on their employment consideration and maintain relationships.
- Responsible for administration around employee onboarding (organising assessments and forensics, booking induction, ordering assets, compiling contracts, etc).
- Maximises recruitment as a lever for transformation.
- Ensuring timeous on boarding of employees is conducted by line managers by providing regular reports to business.
Personal Attributes and Skills
- Outcomes based interviewing and candidate selection
- Knowledge of local and international recruiting/talent landscape
- Proficiency in MS Office and web-based recruiting and sourcing tools
- Knowledge of online technology platforms and providers within Technology in South Africa
Education and Experience
Education:
- Relevant tertiary qualification
- Bachelor’s degree in the human sciences (advantageous)
Experience:
- A minimum of 3-5 years proven experience within the Recruitment field in e.g. a professional and international search & selection agency or within a corporate recruitment environment. The successful incumbent will be a seasoned interviewer coupled with extensive experience in the professional use of social media/LinkedIn as sourcing channels.
- Proven interview experience across a variety of roles and levels including a minimum of 1-year bulk recruiting IT contractors.
- Previous experience with candidate head hunting, active candidate research and networking to find suitable individuals.
- A solid understanding and experience in recruiting complex specialised diverse functional roles (Java Developers, Business Analyst, IT Project Managers, Dev Managers, etc.)
Knowledge:
- Vendor management experience
- Experience working in Tech or Finance Organisation
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Key Purpose
The Development Manager will be a technical owner of a set of applications including managing relationships with Business Product owners. This role will ensure that business objectives are reflected in the technical processes which they manage. The Development Manager will join and manage a team of IT Specialists, specifically resourcing and scheduling in the SDLC Processes. This role will also manage a set of projects (potentially across teams) ensuring that the applications remain adaptive to emerging client needs in its lifetime.
Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to:
The successful candidate will be required to perform but not limited to the following key outputs in respect of the Digital Health Solutions portfolio:
Delivery and Support of Specific Applications
Client Relationship Management & Networking
- Ensuring alignment to business requirements
- Building trust with clients by displaying managerial competence
- Understanding business requirements, business strategy and direction, risks, and impact
- Participating in client forums (MANCO, planning/strategy sessions, reporting)
- Acting as consultant to internal and external clients
- Interfacing to other teams where required
Project/Delivery Management
- Management of activities within the SDLC (Acting as process owner)
- Participating and enabling the business prioritisation process
- Scheduling and prioritising tasks and resources
- Capacity management
Project budget tracking and management
- Taking ownership of production issues and driving to resolution
- Adherence to Quality, Standards, SLA’s and SDLC standards
- Human Capital Management
Team management
- Capacity planning
- Driving skills development
- Mentoring/Coaching of team members
- Recruitment, conflict management, creating a welcoming environment
Performance management
- Contribute to Health Systems Strategy
- Contribution to Health Systems and Clinical Systems Strategy
- Technical Direction
- MANCO
Competencies
The successful candidate must demonstrate the following competencies:
- Great stakeholder management
- Passion for delivery and quality
- Time management
- Innovative/Creative thinking
- Tenacity and urgency
- Change readiness
- Influential Leader
- Presentation and facilitation skills
- Strong stakeholder management skills
Education and Experience
- Tertiary Degree (B. Engineer, B. Com, BSC)
- 5 to 8 years’ experience in software development for large commercial entities or has demonstrated leadership capabilities
- Must have managed a software development team
- Project Management experience
- Solution Architecture
- Software Development and Testing
- SDLC (Agile experience would be advantageous), ITIL (Incident, change, Release, Problem Management)
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Key Purpose
The role of the Linux Administrator entails the administration and maintenance of the Linux infrastructure for Discovery Limited, which includes the Sandton Campus and all International business units. The suitable candidate should also have the ability to assist in implementing new solutions based on business requirements. Automation will play a big part of your contribution towards building and achieving the vision of this team.
Areas of responsibility may include but not limited to
- Administration of Linux infrastructure
- Administration of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure etc.
- Automation of repeatable tasks and processes
- Working against project timelines
- Assist in developing and implementing new solutions based on business requirements
Personal Attributes and Skills
- Strong focus on deliverables
- Strong ownership and accountability
- Ability to work according to project deadlines, under pressure and cope with a highly stressful environment.
- Mature, optimistic, energetic and positive
- High degree of accuracy and attention to detail essential
- Self-motivated , self-thinker and pro-active
- Deadline driven and willing to work overtime when necessary
- Sound work ethics
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- High degree of literacy
- Team player
- Willing to learn and develop one self
Education and Experience
- Grade 12
- Linux certifications such as LPI
- 2+ years Linux experience
- Aware of automation tools such as Ansible, SaltStack, etc
- 1+ year scripting or programming experience preferable
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Key outputs
The successful applicant will be responsible for but not limited to the following job functions:
- Servicing all key stakeholders telephonically and via other servicing channels as required until the query has been resolved
- Servicing our members in a customer centric way to ensure that we live by our service principles
- Keeping up to date with product changes to ensure that all key stakeholders are accurately serviced
- Continuously staying abreast of all digital servicing tools within the business and ensuring that the functionality is fully understood
- Achieving and exceeding key performance metrics relating to service delivery
Competencies and Skills
Behavioural Competencies
- Delivering results and meeting customer expectations
- Presenting and communicating information
- Writing and reporting
- Analysing
- Deciding and initiating action
- Working with people
- Achieving personal work goals and setbacks
- Following instructions and procedures
Skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills;
- Excellent administration skills;
- MS Office and PC literate
- Time Management
Personal Attribute and Skills:
- Customer Centric
- Empathetic
Education and Experience
Education:
- Matric with Mathematics or Accounting
- Having a achieved a minimum of 50% in English in Matric
- Basic MS Office Skills
Experience
- At least 12 months working experience in a customer services environment
Advantageous
- The Business Writing Skill
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