South African Technology & Innovation Centre (SATIC) is the latest part of PwC, a global brand delivering services for the biggest clients in the world. PwC leads the way in human led, technology enabled professional services, working with clients to transform their business and make it fit for the future.
We are looking for candidates who bring in-depth market experience, who see technology as a way to enable and drive human innovation and who want to be a part of a community of solvers, to tackle the biggest challenges in society.
If you are looking for a career where every day is different, where challenges are complex and where you can make a real difference, then we want to hear from you. By choosing to join SATIC, you are choosing to work with teams all over the world, harnessing the power of world leading tech and making a difference to real people’s lives.
Requirements:
Qualifications / Certifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent/relevant experience
Experience:
- Excellent project management, time & organisational skills
- Good numerical and analytical skills with an intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Excel
- Goal orientated – maintaining focus on agreed objectives and deliverables
- Commercially orientated – keeping commercial aspects continually in mind when taking actions or making decisions
- Proven ability to self-motivate and work independently as well as a track record of working professionally and collaboratively as part of a wider-team
- Ability to manage and prioritise projects and work to deadlines
- Ability to build and maintain good relationships
- Ability to communicate confidently and effectively, both in written and verbal form
- Effectively use online collaboration tools (e.g. intranet, online meetings and Google@Work)
- Positive, can do attitude, particularly when dealing with ambiguity.
- Work flexibly and collaboratively with your immediate and wider L&D team
- Have a flexible approach to hybrid working with some UK travel and overnight stays required (with advanced notice)
Key responsibilities:
- You will partner with managers and senior business leaders to understand learning and development needs and deliver solutions that align with our business objectives.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders to identify the specific L&D needs and skills gaps, as well as the most appropriate way to respond to their needs.
- Engage with various vendors and Alliance Partners to obtain training tokens and other free training certificates and initiatives.
- Create and continuously update the curriculum for the respective teams and ensure that it is:
- Updated
- Aligned to business objectives and global requirements
- Adherence is tracked and reported on
- Prepare training plans for the respective delivery areas and manage the execution thereof.
- When new courses are needed, source vendors, facilitators and materials.
- Provide expert advice on logistics, and effective use and presentation of learning on our learning management system (LMS)
- Identify and source suitable training locations, as well as ongoing monitoring (such as quality, external spend and value for money)
- Source suitable tutors/facilitators/ key speakers where applicable
- Ensure joining instructions (or other communications) are written accurately
- Operate as primary link into our L&D support centre to drive execution of administrative tasks and respond to queries
- Leverage our global network of L&D expertise to recommend learning solutions, frameworks and opportunities that ensure optimum results in a fast paced environment to provide excellence in L&D projects.
- Work with the broader L&D team to define measurement strategies that link the L&D programmes to tangible benefits and return on investment, improving the impact of reporting on training in SATIC.
- Maintain accurate records of programme participation (including for internal and external audit purposes)
- Design and draw reports on completed training and interpret the data in a useful, simple format to be understood by business.
- Prepare data analysis and insights from the reporting.
- Draw reports on Compliance training completion as according to the Business School policy and procedures.
- Work comfortably as part of a team and develop/maintain effective business and peer relationships
- Support the bursary programmes and associated graduate programme administration including contract generation and tracking and programme meeting management
- Drive Learning technology in the business unit where applicable.
- Stay current on industry trends and best practices related to Learning and Development.
- Have a working knowledge of learning methodologies.
- Ability to run effective meetings with stakeholders from all levels – structure and facilitate meetings, interviewing skills.