People Development Officer

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Performance Management: Work with key stakeholders to review and design changes to performance management systems, policies and processes. Run the annual performance ranking exercise and provide relevant advice to SID’s ranking boards

• Talent Management: Work with key stakeholders to design and implement policies and systems for the deployment and development of SID officers, to ensure that they are well equipped to contribute to SID’s continued mission success; Run SID’s deployment systems to ensure talent flows to mission-priority areas.  Work with stakeholders to reskill, retrain and redeploy officers to ensure officers continue to have fulfilling and meaningful careers

• Leadership & Specialist Management: Work closely with senior leadership to design deployment strategies and developmental interventions to develop SID’s future leaders; run SID’s succession planning exercises to ensure a steady and robust talent bench
  

If you are in a senior role, in addition to the above, you will need to:

• Provide technical and strategic leadership for a team

• Design and implement workplace processes, with future trends and needs in mind

• Plan and guide your team’s professional growth, in both general and technical areas

• Build good relations and workflows with internal and external stakeholders

• Mentor and develop junior team members to maximise their potential

WHAT YOU WILL GAIN

• Expertise as a people development professional by being at the forefront of SID’s people development needs

• In-depth understanding of SID’s employee career pathways

• Good understanding of SID’s manpower and people development needs

DESIRED QUALITIES AND ATTRIBUTES

• Roles for fresh graduates and mid-careers available

• Interest in people development

• Comfortable with data, and with quantitative and qualitative analysis

• Ability to conceptualise and strategise new ideas to develop organisational-wide frameworks

• Ability to thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment

• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills

• Strong written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to see the big picture and also a keen eye for detail

• Strong interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence

• Motivated team player, as well as an independent self-starter