Job Openings Head: Organizational Effectiveness

About the job Head: Organizational Effectiveness

Drive culture. Enable performance. Make a real impact.

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:

1. 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

2. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI)

  • Turn DEI strategy into simple, practical behaviours
  • Create clear communication and change plans
  • Support rollout of a gender action plan

3. 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

4. OE Forum Model

  • Improve how Group and Cluster OE teams work together
  • Define clear roles, responsibilities, and ways of working

5. Behavioural Insights

  • Use behavioural science to understand why people act the way they do
  • Design practical solutions that drive behaviour change at scale

6. 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


Apply Now

If you enjoy turning ideas into action and want to make a visible impact in a short time, this role is for you.