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The Focus Group

HR Job Design Specialist (Contract)

The Focus Group

  • R10,000 - R20,000 per month
  • Contract Senior position
  • Olivedale
  • Posted 17 Sep 2025 by The Focus Group
  • Expires in 34 days
  • Job 2622579
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About the position

Job Purpose

To provide expert support in the review, editing, and creation of job profiles across the organization, ensuring alignment with organizational design principles, job architecture principles and market best practice. This role contributes to the development of accurate, consistent, and fit-for-purpose job documentation that supports HR processes including recruitment, performance management, and remuneration.

Key Responsibilities
Job Profile Development & Review

  • Provide end-to-end job profiling support.
  • Collaborate with business units and HR partners to gather role-specific information.
  • Develop, edit, and standardise job profiles in line with organisational templates and frameworks.
  • Ensure job profiles reflect current responsibilities, required competencies and skills.
Quality Assurance & Governance

  • Maintain consistency and compliance with job architecture and job family frameworks.
  • Conduct audits of existing job profiles to identify gaps, overlaps, or misalignments.
  • Support the governance process for job profile approval and version control.
  • Analyse job profiling data and trends and provide regular progress updates and reports to management.
Stakeholder Engagement

  • Facilitate workshops or interviews with line managers and subject matter experts to validate job profile contents.
  • Provide guidance and support to HRBPs and line managers on job profiling standards and processes.
  • Work collaboratively within and across teams to advise on integrated talent practice implications of OD and JA.
Data & Systems Management

  • Ensure accurate capturing and storage of job profiles using the approved company templates.
  • Continuous Improvement
  • Monitor trends and best practices in job profiling and job architecture.
  • Recommend improvements to job profiling tools, templates, and processes.
  • Manage time and resources to complete work efficiently and on time by setting priorities, establishing timelines, and leveraging relevant resources.
Qualifications & Experience

  • Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Industrial Psychology, or related field.
  • 5-8 years’ experience in HR, with a core focus on job profiling, job architecture and organisational design.
  • Working knowledge and practical skills and experience in job design / job profiling.
  • Proven track record in writing quality job profiles.
  • Experience with job evaluation methodologies (e.g., Paterson, Hay, Mercer) is advantageous.
  • Experience partnering successfully with stakeholders (i.e. Line and HR community)
  • Experience working with different levels of leadership across an organisation.
  • Strong understanding of competency frameworks, skills frameworks and HR systems.
  • Skilled in coordinating and facilitating group discussions, workshops and design sessions
Skills & Competencies

  • Exceptional written and verbal communication and editing skills.
  • Analytical thinking and attention to detail.
  • Stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills.
  • Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities.
  • Proficiency in MS Office
  • Planning and organizing
  • Hyper-collaboration
  • Communicating in the digital age
  • Facilitating change

Desired Skills:

  • Analytical
  • Architecture
  • Collaboration
  • Data Analysis
  • Design
  • Evaluating
  • Human Resources

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The Focus Group

About the agency

THE FOCUS GROUP was formed in 1989 and has offices in Johannesburg and Cape Town. We are a full service Human Resource Consulting Company, encompassing Black Empowerment joint venture partner Focus Kamoso, and offering a comprehensive range of integrated recruitment, assessment, employee relations, training and development, HR, employee benefit and payroll management services to a wide range of South African, African and international business organisations. Our commitment is to enter into a partnership with you, the Client, which adds value to your business and profit to your bottom line, by tailoring solutions that assist you to • Source, assess and select the best possible human resources. • Design and implement competency based training programmes, which ensure that your employees are capable of delivering the service excellence that your clients demand, and the competitive edge which you seek to maintain. • Create a business environment in which you manage change to your advantage and an organisational climate that allows your team to perform to its maximum potential. • Design employee benefit and remuneration structures which ensure that your people take ownership of your business and which protect you against losing your most valuable resource to your competition. • Implement an employee relations framework that promotes workplace harmony and minimises the occurrence of disruptive legal disputes.

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