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Role Summary

Reporting to the Global Head of Talent Development, the Talent Development Specialist will support our global efforts to build our Talent Development service. Offering a full suite of complementary services across Assessment, Coaching, Leadership Development, and Outplacement, you will help build the business through service development, client support and engagement to ensure the highest quality delivery for our clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Global Head of Talent Development in modifying current talent development services to respond to client needs and proactively react to the external market
• Support the Global Head of Talent Development to deliver our talent development services to our clients in a timely manner and to the utmost quality
• Administer talent development services, such as psychometric analysis assessments to ensure timely delivery to our clients, promptly responding to related inquiries
• Meet with potential talent development service vendors, building and managing solid relationships for the effective delivery of our services
• Research current trends and market direction to ensure that our talent development services are current, following best practices, meeting market needs, and to enable us to maximise opportunities
• Support the Lead Engagement team by meeting with clients during the discovery stages of client engagement; and later support the Global Head of Talent Development by helping to nurture the potential client in follow-up meetings, including closing sales
• Draft talent development service proposals based on current solution offerings and terms of delivery
• Share talent development service updates and promote new initiatives with key members in the talent advisory team
• Promote our talent development services throughout Robert Walters, with a particular focus on client facing associates to develop our internal network and facilitate business opportunities
• Give feedback to the Global Head of Talent Development on the talent development services to inform future development and continuous improvements in our services
• Carry out internal administrative and external operational tasks related to our talent advisory and talent development services
• Respond to internal and external inquiries regarding our talent development services to support the Global Head of Talent Development and the Talent Advisory Lead Engagement Team
  
  

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Behaviour or Psychology, Business Administration, or a related field (Master's degree preferred but not required).
• Strong understanding of the talent development sector including awareness of best practices, industry trends and methodologies
• Experience in creating various talent development solutions (some experience in delivering the solutions preferred but not required).
• Proven track record of managing client relationships and delivering successful projects.
• Ability to collaborate with internal teams and external partners effectively.
• Strong organizational skills to manage multiple tasks, ensuring timely delivery of services.
• Experience in client and vendor engagement, account management or similar role within the talent advisory or HR consulting sector
• An understanding of the recruitment sector and how talent advisory services align within the traditional recruitment service delivery model
• Ability to operate in an agile and responsive environment
• Capacity to operate with both timeliness and quality of delivery at the forefront
• Excellent communication, negotiation and presentation skills
  
  

• A unique opportunity to drive projects such as Employer Branding, Talent pipelining, Recruitment Innovation, Candidate Experience
• A track record of high performance and an ability to deliver excellent results consistently is key. In return for your hard work, you'll be offered a competitive top salary and benefits package with bonuses/commission and fantastic incentives programme
• Private medical insurance
• A fantastic training and development programme
• Volunteer time off
• The opportunity to partake / qualify for our Global incentive weekend
• Employee wellbeing through various programmes
• You'll have plenty of opportunities to progress your career, both in your country and other locations around the world. That's the benefit of working for a large global organisation. One that is at the forefront of recruitment innovation, and a specialist in RPO and MSP
  
  

• Seniority level Associate

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Human Resources
• Industries Staffing and Recruiting

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Talent Development Partner

Location: South Africa
Type: Permanent | Talent & Succession Strategy

Shape potential. Drive performance.

This is a strategic role for an experienced HR professional who thrives on building talent pipelines, enabling performance, and unlocking leadership capability. If you're ready to embed future-fit people practices across a business, this is your opportunity to lead.

About the Role

You’ll lead the talent and performance agenda across the organisation — from designing talent frameworks to enabling succession planning and high performance. Working across HR and business teams, you’ll provide toolkits, insights, and interventions that embed talent mobility and career growth at scale.

What You’ll Do

• Design and implement the organisation’s talent and performance strategy
• Lead talent reviews, succession planning, and career development initiatives
• Develop career ladders and competency frameworks across functions
• Build and optimise toolkits, processes, and talent technology
• Analyse talent data to inform strategy and close capability gaps
• Drive talent acceleration programmes and build internal pipelines
• Manage the full performance cycle — from goal-setting to reviews
• Align performance management with growth and retention strategies
• Partner with business and CoEs to influence and enable action

What You Bring

• Degree in HR, Organisational Development, or related field (postgrad an advantage)
• 10+ years total experience, with 5+ in talent and performance
• Proven record in designing and rolling out talent frameworks
• Strong understanding of career mobility, succession, and assessment tools
• Analytical and pragmatic, with a performance and growth mindset
• Excellent collaboration, facilitation, and stakeholder influence skills

What Success Looks Like

• Strong succession pipelines and internal mobility
• Embedded talent practices linked to business goals
• Performance culture that drives accountability and growth
• Measurable reduction in regrettable losses and talent risk

As part of the People Shared Services that will provide excellent service and employee experience for our employees, the Talent Development Consultant’s primary responsibility is talent development operational implementation within skills development, learning design and delivery. The incumbent will ensure professional consultation with the business (relevant line managers and employees) focused on delivering best customer service in a continuously improving efficient and effective way that achieves Service Level Agreement standards.

As the Talent Development Consultant, your responsibilities will be:

• The delivery of talent development activities for skills development, learning design and delivery, by building relationships (internal; third parties) to ensure the execution of operational activities.
• Ensuring the end-to-end instructional design of all training requirements (management skills; competencies; technical; product; systems; projects; etc).
• Ensuring the end-to-end management of all SETA funded programmes; BBBEE scorecard improvements; programme completion and absorption; and detailed tracking of all SETA activities to best meet reporting requirements.
• Ensuring the end-to-end delivery of TFG funded learning and development interventions - internally or externally.
• Identify and manage potential risk related to all talent development activities.
• Continuous focus on identifying opportunities for improvement in talent development processes.
• Continuous focus on identifying risk to delivery and timeous escalation of any deviation to policy and company practice.
• Assist broader People Shared Services according to resource needs (valley periods, emergencies, projects).

To apply you need to have:

• HR Degree or relevant Qualification (essential).
• More than 5 years functional experience in Talent Development across the board (essential).
• Working understanding of Skills Development, Learning Design and Delivery.
• Registered as a Skills Development Facilitator.
• Proven experience in managing SETA funded programmes end to end, from grant applications, managing accreditation to managing the Claims process.
• Solid experience in Learning Design and Learning Delivery.
• Effective project management, processes and timelines and the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
• Passionate about the user experience / customer service.
• Planning and Organising Skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• A ‘can do’ attitude with high service delivery.
• Continuous improvement performance mindset.
• Understanding of related policies and legislation and Retail context.
• Understanding of Retail, Financial Services, etc. highly advantageous.
• Resilient in the face of obstacles.
• Ability to work in fast paced environments.

Preference will be given, but not limited to, candidates from designated groups in terms of the Employment Equity Act.

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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

We are building a Talent Development function that is future focused and driven to define the future of the workplace, within a global, growing open source software company, pioneers in remote-first collaboration and employment.

This is an opportunity for a person with outstanding leadership, organisation and intellect, to build our Talent Development team to enhance our leadership and people management practices in our remote setting. We are now 1,200+ colleagues across 75+ countries. We would like to create a new team to focus on Talent Development - to deepen our insights and effectiveness as a remote-first and globally distributed organisation.

We know that being effective remotely requires discipline and good habits, and we would like to invest in the research needed to understand that, the training and policymaking which enables it, and the selection mechanisms that ensure consistency of behaviours. We'd like to understand what really makes a distributed, remote-first workplace work. We think we're pretty good at this, remote-first for almost 20 years, but we know there is a lot still to understand, and the frontier of possibility continues to move outward. We'd like to invest in research, analytics and tooling which raises the bar even further for remote collaboration, organisation and leadership. Most importantly though, we'd like to invest in training and multi directional communications to ensure that our leadership team is consistent in setting and maintaining expectations, driving desired team practice and behaviors, as well as expected management practices are effectively embedded across the company .

This role is the fourth remaining Lead role in our People function, which is a cross-disciplinary group of organisational psychologists, engineers, statistics / analytics experts, talent science and employee relations specialists. We are recruiting globally, and believe we are bringing in outstanding new colleagues in a way that is fearlessly global. Naturally, they come from a wide range of backgrounds, norms and experiences, and our goal in setting up the Talent Development team is simply to lead the leaders to a position of consistent clarity on who we are, how we roll, and how that changes over time.

Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.

The role entails

• Define and implement an inspiring and comprehensive talent development program
• Develop, drive and embed effective programs of management and leadership development within our remote organisation
• Design and deliver core training programs, partnering with specialist vendors where appropriate
• Create and implement leadership performance indicators and metrics
• Own our leadership skills matrix for performance management, talent assessment, succession planning, mentorship, virtual learning and career development.
• Set up a global learning framework for training and career fulfillment
• Build and manage a new team of Talent Development specialists
• Take a data focused lens to understand trends to strategise and define career development frameworks
• Own and enhance the impact of the learning budget
  
  

• An exceptional academic track record from High school and beyond
• Possess insight and experience on what makes people successful in a globally remote tech company at the management level.
• Demonstrated experience with strong insight and perspective on the key conditions and practices that create high performing teams
• Ability to create, lead and execute strategy, and drive change across a company
• Strong business acumen with the ability to balance strategy with execution
• Analytical and problem solving skills, for data driven decision making with particular experience in measurement of the impact of development programmes
• Experience in people management and being accountable for a budget
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
  
  

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
  
  

• Seniority level Executive

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Human Resources
• Industries Software Development

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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

We are building a Talent Development function that is future focused and driven to define the future of the workplace, within a global, growing open source software company, pioneers in remote-first collaboration and employment.

This is an opportunity for a person with outstanding leadership, organisation and intellect, to build our Talent Development team to enhance our leadership and people management practices in our remote setting. We are now 1,200+ colleagues across 75+ countries. We would like to create a new team to focus on Talent Development - to deepen our insights and effectiveness as a remote-first and globally distributed organisation.

We know that being effective remotely requires discipline and good habits, and we would like to invest in the research needed to understand that, the training and policymaking which enables it, and the selection mechanisms that ensure consistency of behaviours. We'd like to understand what really makes a distributed, remote-first workplace work. We think we're pretty good at this, remote-first for almost 20 years, but we know there is a lot still to understand, and the frontier of possibility continues to move outward. We'd like to invest in research, analytics and tooling which raises the bar even further for remote collaboration, organisation and leadership. Most importantly though, we'd like to invest in training and multi directional communications to ensure that our leadership team is consistent in setting and maintaining expectations, driving desired team practice and behaviors, as well as expected management practices are effectively embedded across the company .

This role is the fourth remaining Lead role in our People function, which is a cross-disciplinary group of organisational psychologists, engineers, statistics / analytics experts, talent science and employee relations specialists. We are recruiting globally, and believe we are bringing in outstanding new colleagues in a way that is fearlessly global. Naturally, they come from a wide range of backgrounds, norms and experiences, and our goal in setting up the Talent Development team is simply to lead the leaders to a position of consistent clarity on who we are, how we roll, and how that changes over time.

Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.

• Define and implement an inspiring and comprehensive talent development program
• Develop, drive and embed effective programs of management and leadership development within our remote organisation
• Design and deliver core training programs, partnering with specialist vendors where appropriate
• Create and implement leadership performance indicators and metrics
• Own our leadership skills matrix for performance management, talent assessment, succession planning, mentorship, virtual learning and career development.
• Set up a global learning framework for training and career fulfillment
• Build and manage a new team of Talent Development specialists
• Take a data focused lens to understand trends to strategise and define career development frameworks
• Own and enhance the impact of the learning budget

• An exceptional academic track record from High school and beyond
• Possess insight and experience on what makes people successful in a globally remote tech company at the management level.
• Demonstrated experience with strong insight and perspective on the key conditions and practices that create high performing teams
• Ability to create, lead and execute strategy, and drive change across a company
• Strong business acumen with the ability to balance strategy with execution
• Analytical and problem solving skills, for data driven decision making with particular experience in measurement of the impact of development programmes
• Experience in people management and being accountable for a budget
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence; in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

We are building a Talent Development function that is future focused and driven to define the future of the workplace, within a global, growing open source software company, pioneers in remote-first collaboration and employment.

This is an opportunity for a person with outstanding leadership, organisation and intellect, to build our Talent Development team to enhance our leadership and people management practices in our remote setting. We are now 1,200+ colleagues across 75+ countries. We would like to create a new team to focus on Talent Development - to deepen our insights and effectiveness as a remote-first and globally distributed organisation.

We know that being effective remotely requires discipline and good habits, and we would like to invest in the research needed to understand that, the training and policymaking which enables it, and the selection mechanisms that ensure consistency of behaviours. We'd like to understand what really makes a distributed, remote-first workplace work. We think we're pretty good at this, remote-first for almost 20 years, but we know there is a lot still to understand, and the frontier of possibility continues to move outward. We'd like to invest in research, analytics and tooling which raises the bar even further for remote collaboration, organisation and leadership. Most importantly though, we'd like to invest in training and multi directional communications to ensure that our leadership team is consistent in setting and maintaining expectations, driving desired team practice and behaviors, as well as expected management practices are effectively embedded across the company .

This role is the fourth remaining Lead role in our People function, which is a cross-disciplinary group of organisational psychologists, engineers, statistics / analytics experts, talent science and employee relations specialists. We are recruiting globally, and believe we are bringing in outstanding new colleagues in a way that is fearlessly global. Naturally, they come from a wide range of backgrounds, norms and experiences, and our goal in setting up the Talent Development team is simply to lead the leaders to a position of consistent clarity on who we are, how we roll, and how that changes over time.

Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.

• Define and implement an inspiring and comprehensive talent development program
• Develop, drive and embed effective programs of management and leadership development within our remote organisation
• Design and deliver core training programs, partnering with specialist vendors where appropriate
• Create and implement leadership performance indicators and metrics
• Own our leadership skills matrix for performance management, talent assessment, succession planning, mentorship, virtual learning and career development.
• Set up a global learning framework for training and career fulfillment
• Build and manage a new team of Talent Development specialists
• Take a data focused lens to understand trends to strategise and define career development frameworks
• Own and enhance the impact of the learning budget

• An exceptional academic track record from High school and beyond
• Possess insight and experience on what makes people successful in a globally remote tech company at the management level.
• Demonstrated experience with strong insight and perspective on the key conditions and practices that create high performing teams
• Ability to create, lead and execute strategy, and drive change across a company
• Strong business acumen with the ability to balance strategy with execution
• Analytical and problem solving skills, for data driven decision making with particular experience in measurement of the impact of development programmes
• Experience in people management and being accountable for a budget
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence; in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer

Overview:

The Talent & Organisational Development Specialist leads the execution of all talent management, talent development and performance management interventions within the People & Culture function. This includes but is not limited to processes that govern the following: talent identification, succession planning, leadership assessment and development, and performance reviews. The role focuses on identifying ways that support the P&C strategy to drive a high performing culture that attracts and retains talent by making use of data-driven insights.

Reporting to the Head of Talent & Acquisition, the role is a key contributor in supporting the employment equity priorities through implementation of our organisational development plans. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of external best-practices and talent management strategies combined with a track record of leading action plans.

Responsibilities:

• Talent Identification and Assessment
  • Design and implement psychometric assessments, 360-degree feedback, and exit interviews
  • Implement fit-for-purpose assessment models and frameworks to align and enable the talent strategy and business need
  • Utilise talent intelligence analytics to derive workforce insights
  • Develop post-assessment action plans to support career development

• Talent Management & Development
  • Implement a talent management framework that ensures alignment with business objectives
  • Lead annual talent reviews and succession planning initiatives
  • Analyse data to identify and recommend talent retention strategies to reduce turnover and retain high performers
  • Collaborate with Learning & Development to establish career development pathways

• Performance Management
  • Lead the implementation of performance management systems aligned with business strategy
  • Ensure continuous feedback mechanisms and performance appraisal processes are in place
  • Utilise data analytics to report on performance trends and make strategic recommendations

Requirements:

• Honours degree in Organisational and/or Industrial Psychology
• Registered Psychometrist
• 5 - 8 years’ experience in Organisational Development, Talent & Performance Management
• Strong project management and proven stakeholder management capability
• Excellent data analysis and problem-solving skills, with strong attention to detail
• Excellent communication, presentation and influencing skills at various organisational levels

An Agritalent client, a leading agribusiness, seeks a Training & Development Specialist at its Head Office. The incumbent will be mainly responsible for supporting organisational effectiveness by coordinating, developing, and implementing training and development programmes in line with the identified needs of the Group.

Duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

1. Organising and planning all training for the Group and managing the training and development team, which includes the compilation and management of the annual training budget.
2. Coaching, mentoring, and developing employees and providing career development planning and opportunities according to the department's training focus areas, the individual's development plan, and company strategic focused training initiatives based on the identified needs of the employees.
3. Providing a consultation and advisory function to management on human resource related issues and assessing and anticipating HR-related needs.
4. Managing job grading processes as well as advising and assisting business units in the process (including job profiles, job descriptions, and organograms).
5. Ensuring that the quality and relevance of the training programmes are aligned with the Group’s business needs and standards.
6. Assisting line management in identifying departmental needs for training/team performance, intervening in low overall performance as well as managing internships and related programmes.
7. Managing requirements relating to disbursement of discretionary grant payments for internships and related programmes.
8. Reporting on all planned and implemented training activities on a monthly basis.
9. Managing relationships with external training providers and assessing the effectiveness of training provided.
10. Providing feedback on statutory reporting and legislative changes.
11. Compiling, submitting, and monitoring the relevant information required for the BBBEE Skills Development Element of the scorecard.
12. Providing input on the employment equity and BBBEE reports and participating in the BBBEE verification processes.
13. Preparing employee opinion surveys and reporting results.
14. Leading and supporting various HR projects as requested, such as talent management, organisational development, and employee relations.
15. Developing, facilitating, and presenting various training courses and programmes.
16. Annual training and development reporting (WSP/ATR) as well as communication with relevant SETAs for grant applications, mandatory and discretionary grants.
17. Assisting in succession planning and drafting of talent matrixes for the Group’s departments.
18. Administering psychometric assessments and providing feedback and professional guidance in accordance therewith.

1. Tertiary qualification in Human Resources Management, Business Administration, and/or Industrial Psychology, or related field.
2. Post graduate degree in Industrial Psychology.
3. A minimum of 3 years' experience in a HR generalist role, as well as experience in training and development.
4. Professional registration as psychometrist and/or industrial psychologist at HPCSA.
5. Knowledge of legislation governing skills development (i.e. Skills Development Act, Skills Development Levies Act, National Qualifications Framework (NQF) Act, etc).
6. Knowledge of legislation governing employment equity and BBBEE.
7. Registered as an assessor and facilitator.
8. Experience in working with SETAs, compiling of WSP/ATR and application for funding.
9. Fully bilingual in Afrikaans and English.

The following will serve as a recommendation:

• Registration as moderator.
• Registration as a generalist with the SABPP.
• Trained in MBTI, WAVE, LPCAT.
• Qualified as a life coach.