Talent & Development Partner

NBC is the oldest serving bank in Tanzania with over five decades of experience. We offer a range of retail, business, corporate and investment banking, wealth management products and services.

Job Summary

To support the bank in meeting its Strategic Intent by ensuring employees receive relevant learning interventions to enhance performance in their current role or to build future capabilities that are of strategic importance to the bank and/or to their career growth

Job Description​

Accountability:  Leadership and Talent Management

• Work closely with HR L&D partners and the business leaders to deliver exceptional business performance through the provision of first class people development initiatives as per the training plan
• Analyse staff training needs identified through various processes including PD and Talent Management by line management as per business requirements
• Build and maintain strong relationships with third party training partners and manage trainers to deliver agreed development interventions to specified quality service and cost standards
• Build and maintain strong relationships with HRBPs, People Managers and Departmental Heads to gain excellent understanding of business strategy and objectives to ensure alignment  with  the learning interventions
• Compile learning related reports for various stakeholders, monitoring and tracking of progress against learning targets
• Provide robust reporting on Leadership and talent management activities as required
• Support the Head of Talent to implement Talent Management Process as per the Talent Framework and Business Strategy
• Support the Head of Talent to implement Leadership Development Programmes as per the Leadership Framework and Leadership Curriculum
• Provide reports from e-learning platforms as per ad hoc request from business
• Participation in job fairs and events, maintaining contacts with educational institutions
• Support Business Units in defining training needs to ensure that the identified training solutions are geared to address employees Competency and/or performance gaps required to facilitate execution of business strategy or to support Employee Career Growth
• Compile Annual Training Plan in conjunction with the Head of Talent and Business units by ensuring that the plan is aligned with business training requirements and is within the approved budget 

Accountability:  Design and Develop Training Programmes

• Design and develop or source learning solutions that meet the identified training needs and performance gaps
• Manage the design of tailored learning and development interventions in collaboration with Business Subject Mater Experts
• Keep abreast of available trainings that suit the NBC training requirements e.g. by communicating with the training institutions/providers.
• Ensure collaborative relationships with Group LLT and local training providers
• Develop training materials for in-house training programmes e.g. preparation of Training Manuals, Training Aids, etc.
• Leverage availability of the Learning Programmes at the Group to meet NBC training requirements

Accountability:  Deliver Training and Talent programs

• Deliver training programmes in partnership with the Business Subject Mater Experts, ensuring fully attendance and active participations.
• Support Head of Talent in creating and delivering talent programmes to address talent gap in the organization
• Co-ordinate with Head of Talent and Strategic Sourcing Team on the sourcing of learning solutions from external suppliers
• Manage and support NBC staff in their learning process through Digital Platforms such as TLS, Group Digital Campus, Group Learning Portal, etc.  
• Ensure adherence to policies and standards, Governance and internal controls relating to learning activities.
• Collaborate with the Head of Talent and Business Units to determine and implement evaluation criteria for successful implementation of the Learning solutions
• Monitor and evaluate impact of training programmes to ensure continuous improvement and contribution to business objectives
• Provide feedback and solutions in terms of problem areas identified
• Proactive Monitoring and evaluating consistency and harmonisation of learning policies, processes and solutions as appropriate

Accountability:  Administration and Reporting

• Compile all training materials and attendance list for record keeping and archiving
• Provide reports for all training activities as per stakeholders requests and monthly/quarterly report needs
• Reconcile Training Accounts and proactively manage training budget and spending to ensure a disciplined and cost effective approach is implemented
• Compile learning related reports for various stakeholders, monitoring and tracking of progress against learning targets
• Manage payments applications in relation to training matters from staff & vendors, ensuring they are correctly and timely processed.
• Manage other training activities such as arrangement of Venues, Invitations, Accommodations, photocopying, compiling and binding Training Materials, etc.
• Liaise with the in-house travel agent to do travel bookings for domestic and international trips and follow the required travel approval process.
• Take charge of general office administration including ordering of stationery and refreshments, restocking printers etc. Ensure that adequate reserve stock is ordered.
• Assist in all issues pertaining to the digital learning platform
• Ensure that LLT unit has the necessary administrative support to perform their roles.
• Ensure vendor documentation is filled and submitted for on boarding is done and completed for payments

Education and Experience Required

• Bachelor Degree  or its equivalent and/or relevant professional in Banking, Human Resources, Education  or  Business Administration
•  4 years+ of experience in Banking, Training  or HR  Environment   

Relevant  Competencies:  

• Effective communication
• Emotional intelligence
• Digital familiarity
• Learning and researching
• Relating and networking
• Adapting and responding to change
• Persuading and influencing
• Creating and innovating

Qualifications

Bachelor`s Degrees and Advanced Diplomas - Business, Commerce and Management Studies, Customer Excellence - Service Delivery (Meets all of the requirements), Digital familiarity (Meets some of the requirements and would need further development), Effective communication - Basic (Meets all of the requirements), Emotional intelligence (Meets all of the requirements), Enabling team success (Meets some of the requirements and would need further development), Ethics and values (Meets all of the requirements), Experience in a similar environment at junior specialist level, Learning and Development (Meets all of the requirements), Openness to change (Meets some of the requirements and would need further development)