*Position to be located within a jurisdiction (country or US State) where WVI is registered to operate.
PURPOSE OF POSITION:
The Director, Talent Management, is responsible for creating, leading and delivering an integrated global talent management strategy supporting Our Promise 2030 ‘people’ requirements focusing on both the organisational needs, and the individual perspectives. A key part of this role is understanding external trends, current internal workforce capabilities and delivering talent management models and ‘people’ pipelines for the implementation waves of, and enabling, strategic connections between Our Promise 2030 initiatives (i.e. 1-3 years, 5-10 years and Fragile and Transitioning Economies), workforce planning, and organisational design. This will ensure that executive/senior leadership positions (top 100) are defined and this group of global individuals are identified, assessed, developed and monitored for placement into key leadership roles driving maximum talent effectiveness and efficiencies, as well as building the organization and its sustainability.
Another important aspect of this role, is actively provide coaching, education and supporting leaders in owning their talent management activities including talent-related risk; driving the integrated talent management cycle; creating leadership career case management – one on one coaching and tracking of identified leaders ensuring they are on the right on-track. This position will lead the new Talent and Succession Forum.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Leads the global integrated talent management strategy including succession planning process across the partnership:
- Responsible for delivering ‘best in class’ new integrated talent management strategy, working plans and practices across the Partnership. Works closely with Executive/Senior Leaders and P&C leaders to ensure implementation, monitoring, evaluation and reporting on the strategy through the following:
Leadership Career Coaching:
- Provides leadership coaching and individually focused development support to selected leaders either as part of prgramme development (i.e. SLDP, Leaders Forum) or as part of talent career management.
Talent and Succession Forum:
- Leads the Talent and Succession forum. This forum will ensure deeper, broader and more integrated approach to leadership talent identification and sharing, (i.e. talent spotting, mapping and talent exchanges – after each GLO, SLDP exchange of insights and data on talent), understanding partnership trends, proactively recommending talent for open positions and career planning/discussions across the partnership. Initially launched for the SMT level roles, and then identifying and moving into ‘next generation’ leaders for long term organization sustainability (time frame to be agreed upon).
- Participate in various P&C cross functional projects as needed
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:
Required:
- Master’s Degree in one of the following; Business Management, Education/Professional Education and Training; HR/Human Resource Development; Organizational Development.
Preferred:
- Humility to be led by others, strength and confidence to provide strong leadership when required; wisdom to recognize when each is needed and the ability to help others do the same.
Work Environment:
- The position requires ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally up to 30% of the time with period of peak travel to align to organizational needs