A leading bank in Sandton is seeking a Head of Organizational Effectiveness for a high-impact 5-month engagement. This role is designed for a seasoned professional who can translate employee insights, culture data, and behavioural science into practical, enterprise-wide interventions that enable measurable culture shift and sustainable high performance.
You will play a pivotal role in helping the organisation move beyond insight and intention — toward real, embedded behavioural change.
What You'll Do:
Employee Insights (Voice of the Employee)
Bring together data from surveys, engagement tools, and feedback
Help design a single, easy-to-use dashboard for leaders
Turn data into clear actions and priorities
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)
Turn DEI strategy into simple, practical behaviours
Create clear communication and change plans
Support rollout of a gender action plan
Culture Enablement
Translate OHI (Organizational Health Index) results into actions
Support key culture shifts:
High performance
Collaboration
Entrepreneurial thinking
Align existing initiatives to work better together
OE Forum Model
Improve how Group and Cluster OE teams work together
Define clear roles, responsibilities, and ways of working
Behavioural Insights
Use behavioural science to understand why people act the way they do
Design practical solutions that drive behaviour change at scale
Employer Brand
Shape a clear internal employer brand story
Align culture, leadership behaviour, and employee experience
Support an internal influencer network to share real stories
What You Bring
8 - 10+ years in:
Organizational Effectiveness / Culture / HR Strategy
OR Management Consulting (people & culture focus)
Proven experience in:
Culture transformation programmes
Employee experience / engagement (VoE)
Change management and communication
DEI initiatives
Highly advantageous
Experience in banking or large corporates
Exposure to tools like:
Organizational Health Index (OHI)
People analytics / dashboards
Experience applying behavioral science
What Success Looks Like
Clear, simple insights that leaders can act on
Culture initiatives that are actually used and embedded
Better alignment across teams and initiatives
Real progress in building a high-performance, inclusive culture