Executive Manager: Human Resources (5 Year Fixed -Term Contract)

KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS:

Leadership

• Live the Mintek values, foster a culture of collaboration within Mintek.
• Create an environment for the division to succeed and manage outputs.
• Maintain consistently visible leadership.
• Lead HRD.

Governance and Risk Management

• Risk profiling and mitigation activities for the Division’s activities, including SHEQ.
• Accountable for adherence to all Mintek’s policies and ethics within agreed thresholds.
• Implement divisional and Mintek policies.
• Ensure divisional compliance with applicable legislation.

Relationship Management and Reporting

• Ensure the right data is available for accurate and useful reporting, making crucial data available “at the fingertips”.
• Timely providing consolidated monthly and quarterly reports.
• Monitor and report on Divisional performance, including financials.
• Reporting value, ensuring critical issues and key results areas are addressed.
• Stakeholder engagement, including the development of relationships with new stakeholders, stakeholder
  management and satisfaction for both internal and external stakeholders.
• Drive standardisation, automation, and process optimisation to improve service quality and turnaround times.

Strategy

• Drive the Human Resource Division strategy and operations, and develop plans for the implementation of the strategy.
• Provide strategic leadership in the continuous management of performance, Human Resource information and remuneration systems.

Financial Sustainability

• Deliver user-friendly, cost effective administrative and transactional business and employee support services.
• Annual expenditure budget of R20m.
• Must be able to apportion expenditure accurately and correctly according to funding source (Science Vote, Mintek or earmarked funds).

Performance Management

• Deliver on the division’s KPI’s.
• Undertake performance management for the Division.
• Ensure that systems and tools are in place to monitor and measure the delivery of the divisional activities.

Governance and Risk Management

• Risk profiling and mitigation activities for the Division’s activities, including SHEQ.
• Accountable for adherence to all Mintek’s policies and ethics within agreed thresholds.
• Implement divisional and Mintek policies.
• Ensure divisional compliance with applicable legislation.

Relationship Management and Reporting

• Ensure the right data is available for accurate and useful reporting, making crucial data available “at the fingertips”.
• Timely providing consolidated monthly and quarterly reports.
• Monitor and report on Divisional performance, including financials.
• Reporting value, ensuring critical issues and key results areas are addressed.
• Stakeholder engagement, including the development of relationships with new stakeholders, stakeholder
  management and satisfaction for both internal and external stakeholders.
• Drive standardisation, automation, and process optimisation to improve service quality and turnaround times.

Minimum requirements

JOB KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:

• Master's degree level Human Resources Management or relevant (NQF – level 9).
• 10 years’ experience on the relevant field of which 5 years must be on management position.
• Good business insight.
• Knowledge of Mintek’s business products and activities.
• A thorough knowledge of PFMA and applicable legislation.
• Report writing skills.
• Policy and procedure writing.

COMPETENCIES:

• HR Expertise.
• Demonstrated ability to function at senior or executive management level.
• Sound practical knowledge of leading talent management and business re-engineering processes.
• Ability to initiate, implement and monitor Human Resource service delivery processes.
• Ability to establish, manage and lead effective teams as well as optimal use of resources to achieve business results.
• Strategy and business plan development and implementation.
• Ability to lead diverse teams to ensure delivery and efficiency.
• Ethical Practices.
• Business and financial management.
• Leadership of people and operations management.

SKILLS:

• Excellent communication and presentation skills.
• Excellent numerical and quantitative skills.
• Good management and leadership skills.
• Self-driven.
• People skills.
• Strategic thinking.
• Ability to multi task.
• Ability to get things done.
• Ability to lead by example.