Senior Associate-Talent Management (1 - Year Contract)

About Emirates Global Aluminium

Emirates Global Aluminium is the world’s biggest ‘premium aluminium’ producer and the largest industrial company in the United Arab Emirates outside the oil and gas industry.  EGA is an integrated aluminium producer, with operations on four continents from bauxite mining to the production of cast primary aluminium and recycling. EGA employs over 7,000 of these people including more than 1,200 UAE Nationals. EGA operates aluminium smelters in Jebel Ali and Al Taweelah in the United Arab Emirates, an alumina refinery in Al Taweelah, a bauxite mine and associated export facilities in the Republic of Guinea, a speciality foundry in high strength recycled aluminium in Germany, and a recycling plant in the United States.

JOB PURPOSE:
Manage selected OE & Talent Development projects, or project workstreams, ensuring the projects achieve the agreed business objectives, meet KPIS and are delivered in a timely and effective way across the organisation.  Individual projects could be in any area of accountability for the OE & Talent Development Team including, but not limited to:

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
Project conception and initiation
    Support in the identification and development of strategic initiatives enabling projects in line with EGA and HC Function Strategy and Departmental priorities (balanced score card) in order to support the achievement of EGA’s objectives and ambitions for growth.
Project definition and planning
    Developing project charter/scope, outlining the work to be performed in order to calculate budget, timeframe, and determine the required resources for the project. 
    Defining performance measures and baselines to ensure that project can be measured against relevant criteria.
    Defining roles and responsibilities to avoid unnecessary approvals and enable efficient project management, this includes identifying stakeholders such as the project sponsor, subject matter experts, project manager and project team.
Project delivery
    Works on assigned work-streams/ tasks within the overall project plan including the design, development and implementation of key deliverables.
    Takes ownership of the quality and timeliness of deliverables, ensuring that key stakeholders are appropriately involved and issues/barriers to progress are resolved in a timely, effective manner or alternate solutions are identified. 
    Works with key stakeholders across EGA and externally creating collaborative working relations and a focused, results based approach to project delivery.  
    Embodies a positive, learning oriented attitude to project work creating the potential for development and growth in self and others.
Project performance and control
    Reports on project status and progress to plan, and helps in facilitating informed decision making to ensure that projects remain on track as per agreed timelines, specifications and budget.
Project close and handover
    Communicates changes in line with change management good practice and sound methodology to ensure effective implementation and adoption thereby increasing the likelihood of project success.
    Undertakes the necessary tasks and initiatives to ensure effective handover of the project to the concerned operational team when applicable.
Safety, Quality & Environment
    Ensures compliance to all relevant safety, quality and environmental policies, procedures and controls across in order to enable employee safety, legislative compliance and a responsible environmental attitude.

AUTHORITY/ DECISION MAKING:
    Thinking within broadly defined policies and objectives
    Projects which will impact other functional areas usually require approval before being implemented. Work is subject to broad practices and procedures with general direction of output being managed by the job holder.

 QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS:
 Minimum Qualifications:
    Bachelor’s degree in HR Management or equivalent with preferably a post graduate degree.
Minimum Experience:
    5 years relevant experience in HR with leadership experience. 

Knowledge, skills and abilities:
    Knowledge of Employee lifecycle, HR systems and processes
    Understanding of key organisation effectiveness and organisation development concepts (such as employee engagement, training needs analysis, design & delivery)
    Knowledge of project management and change management practices
    Analytical and problem solving skills
    Effective interpersonal, presentation and communication skills
    Negotiation skills
    Ability to plan complex projects 
    Ability to lead and influence teams including lateral leadership (leading without authority)
    Ability and willingness to learn new skills, adapt and grow
    Agile and resilient in the face of changes to project objectives, timeliness and personnel/roles
    Knowledge of modelling tools e.g. excel