About Kaelo

Kaelo provides innovative, essential healthcare solutions enabling the physical and psychological well-being of all South Africans. Our one goal is to provide more South Africans with access to quality healthcare. We are progressive in our design, simple in our approach, and sincere in the way we engage, changing the way healthcare is delivered to meet the needs of our people. Our Kaelo people and our culture are important to us, and building a human capital capability in our business is a priority to support the growth and sustainability of our business.

The incumbent will be accountable for project managing the human capital and people strategy across the Kaelo businesses. The individual will play a crucial role in driving the company culture set by the board and ensuring it is deeply embedded within the company and its divisions.

They will be responsible for supporting the business to achieve its strategies and growth ambitions by embedding this company culture in order to attract and retain the correct talent for Kaelo.

Key Responsibilities:

Utilise project management skills to:

• Provide direction and leadership to the human capital team and enable knowledge sharing across the human capital and payroll function
• Manage all elements of the employee life cycle, from talent identification, recruitment, and onboarding to the end of the employment relationship
• Provide people and human capital data to business leaders to enable strategic decision-making
• Partner with the business to build organisation-wide capabilities for the future
• Set a robust medium to long-term recruitment, graduate development, and internship strategy
• Lift the brand and company culture as part of the recruitment strategy
• Provide input on setting incentive structures
• Collaborate with the Finance department on matters of employee compensation, despite Payroll being housed in Finance.
• Manage internal and external HR Business Partner relations.
• Manage the relationship with external parties such as LabourNet and the Department of Labour.
• Drive the company culture set by the board and ensure it is deeply embedded within the company and its divisions. This includes indoctrinating the culture so that employees start living it.
• Lead and manage human capital projects to ensure timely and successful delivery. This includes planning, executing, and overseeing projects related to talent management, employee engagement, and organizational development.

Required Capabilities, Skills, and Competencies:

• Project Management mindset.
• Strong project management skills – proven ability to lead and manage projects, ensuring they are completed on time, within scope, and within budget.
• Emotional intelligence – strong interpersonal skills and empathy.
• Business strategy understanding and integration - the ability to translate broad business strategy and imperatives into a compelling Human Capital strategy and deliverables.

• Employee Centricity.
• Effective communicator and strong at managing stakeholder relationships.
• Operational effectiveness and efficiencies – the ability to deliver the people strategy in an effective, efficient, and optimised way.
• Culture carrier – a role model of the Kaelo values and culture and the ability to shape the desired behaviours in the organisation.

Required Minimum Qualifications, Experience, and Knowledge:

Required Qualification: Graduate degree, ideally in human sciences. A post-graduate degree would be preferable.

Experience:

• Project Management - proven ability to lead and manage projects
• 3-5 years in middle management

Senior management experience and experience in leading a team would be advantageous.

Knowledge Required:

• Human Capital best practice and policies
• Knowledge of human capital legislation in order to guide processes, or when necessary, challenge outcomes from external parties.

An understanding of the healthcare and/or financial services industries would be advantageous.

•       Accountability
•       Action orientated
•       Collaborative
•       Communication
•       Business writing skills
•       Manage complexity
•       Problem solving skills
•       Decision thinking
•       Encourages engagement
•       Resilient and adaptive
•       Resourceful
•       Demonstrates self-awareness
•       Purpose driven
•       Significance and values orientated