With over 100 years of rich history and strongly positioned as a local bank with regional and international expertise, a career with our family offers the opportunity to be part of this exciting growth journey, to reset our future and shape our destiny as a proudly African group.
Job Summary
As our People Change Specialist, you will assist in translating strategy into everyday actions and habits, accelerating performance, adoption and customer value while shaping how colleagues embrace new systems, processes and ways of working.Role Purpose
You’ll operate as an enabler to business, product and programme leaders, converting business objectives into people centric change roadmaps that deliver measurable value. Leveraging design thinking, data driven insights and stakeholder engagements, you will assist in shaping new behaviours into operating models to drive adoption and materialisation of business benefits.
Working with a Senior People Change Specialist, you’ll co create and scale a best in class People Change practice into a core strategic capability for Home Loans and the wider organisation.
Job Description
Define and govern outcome‑driven change plans:
Scope, roadmaps, stakeholder matrix, risk register and value‑tracking Metrics.
Design Co-creation:
Surface pain‑points, co‑create solutions and co-create solutions based on stakeholder needs.
Engage various Stakeholders across the business:
From senior leaders to frontline colleagues.
Convert strategy into day‑to‑day activities:
Facilitate sessions that turn measures into behaviours, workflows and metrics.
Coaching:
To provide visible, active leadership that contributes to initiatives success.
Coordinate multi‑channel change communications:
Partner with learning and development team on targeted interventions.
Design and facilitate co‑creation forums:
From strategic town halls and retrospectives to cross‑functional design studios, innovation sprints and design‑review labs.
Run adoption analytics:
Maintain live dashboards, mine data for insights of defined adoption metrics.
Embedment continuous improvement cycles:
Introduce feedback, recognition and process updates that sustain new behaviours and supports transformation culture.
Build capability in others:
Enable project teams, human resource partners, and operational leaders with pragmatic change‑management toolkits and coaching.
Experience & Qualifications
- Demonstrated ability to navigate complex social systems; we welcome candidates from diverse social‑science or business backgrounds who bring this skill.
- 4–6 years (or equivalent) experience leading end‑to‑end change in complex multi‑stakeholder environments; financial‑services exposure is advantageous.
- Experience in shaping and delivering significant change programme/s with measurable people‑adoption and business impact.
- Familiarity with structured change methodologies (e.g., Prosci /ADKAR, CCMP, Agile change) certification is advantageous.
- Undergraduate degree in Behavioural Science, Business, Psychology, Design Thinking or a related field.
- Consulting, organisational‑development or culture‑change experience.
Education
Bachelor's Degree: Human and Social Studies (Required)Absa Bank Limited is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer. In compliance with the Employment Equity Act 55 of 1998, preference will be given to suitable candidates from designated groups whose appointments will contribute towards achievement of equitable demographic representation of our workforce profile and add to the diversity of the Bank.
Absa Bank Limited reserves the right not to make an appointment to the post as advertised
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Healthcare Strength — Medical aid, group life, disability, and funeral cover are described as comprehensive, with features such as terminal‑illness advances and beneficiary grocery benefits. Wellness and assistance offerings support overall financial and personal wellbeing.
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Retirement Support — A pension fund and group retirement arrangements are positioned as core benefits within fixed remuneration. Retirement coverage is embedded alongside other protections as part of standard employment.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Employee share‑ownership (eKhaya) and equity‑linked awards broaden wealth‑sharing, with dividends or cash‑equivalent participation in some markets. This provides longer‑term value beyond base pay.
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Absa Group Limited (Absa) has forged a new way of getting things done, driven by bravery and passion, with the readiness to realise growth on the African continent and beyond. We’re a truly African brand, inspired by the people we serve in Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia. We also have representative offices in China, Namibia, Nigeria and the United States, as well as securities entities in the United Kingdom and the United States, along with technology support colleagues in the Czech Republic.
