Deadline: 17 June, 2021
Location: Abidjan, Ivory Coast
The African Development Bank (AfDB) is seeking to fill the role of Leadership Development Assistant.
AfDB’s mission is to spur sustainable economic development and social progress in its regional member countries (RMCs).
Responsibilities
- Support in the data generation and analytics in the design of the leadership development programme
- Provide assistance in identifying, collecting, analysing, and assessing leadership training needs across the bank
- Provide support in the coordination of logistics before, during and after leadership training sessions
- Support the development of leadership learning packs that will enable alignment to the bank’s core values and vision
- Support the maintenance of an overview of best practices in respect of leadership and development issues
- Assist in administering and analysing post-training evaluation to determine relevance and impact of programmes offered
- Support the creation of measurement systems to track adoption, utilisation, and proficiency of individual changes due to the delivered leadership learning programmes
- Conduct periodic benchmarking exercise and comparative analysis of sister organisations to improve the quality of leadership development programmes in the bank
- Assist in all phases of the content development cycle, including needs analysis, planning, designing, developing, implementing, evaluating, and reporting
- Provide support for identifying innovative staff leadership development opportunities available both in-house and externally and their implementation
- Support in designing a feedback process for improving required leadership capabilities
- Assist in the preparation of the annual reports (including statistics and key performance indicators) on leadership development activities and recommend process improvements
- Act as a point of contact for administrative queries relating to leadership development from internal customers
- Collect and maintain up-to-date records and data relating to leadership development initiatives and programmes within the bank
- Perform any other duties assigned by the Task Manager
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources Management, Organisational Development, Learning and Development, Talent Management, or a relevant field
- Additional leadership development accreditation will be a plus
- Four years, minimum, of relevant experience in HR assignments related to human resources management, learning and development, organisation development
- Knowledge of principles and practice of adult learning
- Experience in working with training and development providers
- Strong analytical and numerical skills
- Advanced knowledge and mastery of spread sheets, database software and related tools
- Ability to compile, analyse complex data with high numerical proficiency
- Ability to plan, organise, coordinate, multitask and prioritise under pressure with minimal supervision
- Ability to work accurately with attention to detail
- High level of integrity and ability to recognise and correct mistakes and maintain continuous improvement
- Ability to work as a member of a team to ensure excellent service provision levels are met
- Ability to work proactively and under own initiative to ensure that deadlines are met or queries resolved
- Excellent organisation and time management skills
- Ability to build relationships
- Sense of confidentiality and knowledge of data protection and document management
- Understanding of distance/eLearning
- Team spirit
- Client orientation
- Competence in the use of standard Microsoft Office applications
- Ability to communicate effectively (written and oral) in French or English
- Proof of citizenship or evidence of permanent residency or work authorisation in the proposed country of employment
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