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The Focus Group

Organizational Effectiveness, Culture & Behavioral Insights Consultant (Contract)

The Focus Group

  • R100 - R800 per month
  • Permanent Senior position
  • Kramerville
  • Posted 20 Apr 2026 by The Focus Group
  • Expires in 34 days
  • Job 2637524
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About the position

PURPOSE OF THE ENGAGEMENT

  • The consultant will support the Organizational Effectiveness (OE) portfolio.
  • The role focuses on translating employee, culture, and behavioral insights into practical, evidence?based interventions.
  • Interventions will enable:
    • Culture shift
    • Inclusion
    • Sustainable high performance
  • The role spans Group and cluster environments.
  • The consultant is expected to enable decision?ready insights, leadership action, and scalable behavior change.
WORKING APPROACH

  • Collaborative, co?creation?based engagement with:
    • Organizational Effectiveness
    • Human Resources
    • Business stakeholders
  • Evidence?based and insight?led (not opinion?driven).
  • Strong focus on:
    • Practical application
    • Decision support
  • Iterative delivery approach with:
    • Regular check?ins
    • Continuous refinement
SCOPE OF WORK WORKSTREAM 1: EMPLOYEE INSIGHTS (VOICE OF THE EMPLOYEE) 

  • Create an integrated, decision?ready view of the employee voice.
  • Enable informed culture, leadership, and people decisions.
Consultant Responsibilities

  • Review existing employee data sources, including but not limited to:
    • Employee engagement surveys
    • Organizational Health Index (OHI)
    • Pulse surveys
    • Qualitative feedback
    • Open?ended employee comments
  • Lead the design and concept development of a single, integrated Voice of the Employee (VoE) dashboard.
  • Work in partnership with a data and analytics consultant, who will:
    • Build the dashboard
    • Provide guidance on data sources and data science
  • Ensure insights are:
    • Clearly prioritised
    • Easy for leaders to interpret
    • Explicitly linked to culture outcomes
    • Explicitly linked to leadership outcomes
Key Outputs

  • One integrated VoE insights dashboard:
    • Prototype or live version (depending on access)
  • Clear explanation for leaders covering:
    • What the data is telling them
    • Where action is required
    • How insights should be used in leadership and culture discussions
WORKSTREAM 2: DIVERSITY, EQUITY & INCLUSION (DEI) 2.1 ALLYSHIP AND INCLUSION CHANGE & COMMUNICATIONS 

  • Enable practical, everyday allyship and inclusive behaviors.
  • Move DEI from awareness to action through focused change and communication.
Consultant Responsibilities

  • Translate the DEI strategy into:
    • Clear
    • Accessible
    • Practical allyship and inclusion messages
  • Design a change and communication approach that supports:
    • Leader behavior change
    • Employee understanding and buy?in
  • Develop practical DEI content that embeds inclusion in daily behaviors.
Key Outputs

  • Allyship and inclusion change narrative
  • Communication materials and/or talking points suitable for:
    • Leaders
    • Employees
  • Practical guidance on:
    • “What good looks like” in everyday behaviors
2.2 GENDER DIFFERENCES ACTION PLAN ROLLOUT 

  • Support effective rollout of an existing gender differences action plan.
Consultant Responsibilities

  • Translate the action plan into:
    • Clear
    • Practical
    • Executable implementation steps
  • Support rollout by:
    • Clarifying roles and responsibilities
    • Identifying key milestones
    • Surfacing risks and dependencies
  • Support communication and engagement activities as required.
Key Outputs

  • Simplified rollout plan with:
    • Clear milestones
    • Defined responsibilities
  • Practical execution guidance for:
    • Leaders
    • HR partners
WORKSTREAM 3: CULTURE ENABLEMENT 3.1 ORGANIZATIONAL HEALTH INDEX (OHI) ENABLEMENT 

  • The McKinsey Organizational Health Index (OHI) survey has been completed.
Objective

  • Turn OHI results into active, owned culture workstreams.
  • Drive measurable improvement, not just diagnostics.
Consultant Responsibilities

  • Analyse and interpret OHI results in collaboration with:
    • Internal stakeholders
    • OE and HR partners
  • Translate survey insights into:
    • Practical actions
    • Tangible initiatives
  • Support leaders in:
    • Bringing OHI to life across the organization
Key Outputs

  • Defined OHI?linked culture workstreams with:
    • Clear focus areas
  • Practical recommendations for embedding OHI into:
    • Leadership practices
    • Daily ways of working
3.2 ENABLING PRIORITY CULTURE SHIFTS Objective

  • Support enterprise?wide culture shifts focused on:
    • Sustainable high performance
    • Entrepreneurial energy
    • Collaboration
Consultant Responsibilities

  • Work closely with the following portfolios:
    • Wellbeing
    • Recognition
    • Performance Enablement
    • Leadership
  • Identify where existing initiatives can:
    • Be better aligned
    • Be amplified
  • Provide insight?based recommendations on:
    • Behavioral levers
    • Reinforcing mechanisms, including:
      • Recognition
      • Leadership practices
      • Ways of working
Key Outputs

  • Clear view of how existing portfolios:
    • Collectively enable target culture shifts
  • Recommendations to:
    • Strengthen alignment
    • Increase behavior change impact
3.3 OE FORUM PARTNERSHIP MODEL Objective

  • Strengthen collaboration between:
    • Group Organizational Effectiveness
    • Cluster Organizational Effectiveness Forum participants
  • Enable delivery of culture and leadership solutions in clusters.
Consultant Responsibilities

  • Design an enhanced OE Forum partnership model that clarifies:
    • Roles
    • Expectations
    • Ways of working
    • Contribution to Group culture and leadership priorities
  • Support embedding of the model through:
    • Practical guidance
    • Tools
    • Enablement resources
Key Outputs

  • Defined OE Forum partnership model
  • Practical guidance for:
    • Consistent application across clusters
WORKSTREAM 4: CULTURE BEHAVIORAL INSIGHTS UNIT (CBIU) Objective

  • Use behavioral science and evidence to enable:
    • Scalable
    • Measurable
    • Sustainable behavior change
Consultant Responsibilities

  • Partner closely with the Culture Behavioral Insights Unit to:
    • Identify priority behavior challenges linked to culture outcomes
    • Diagnose root causes using behavioral insights
  • Translate behavioral insights into:
    • Practical interventions
    • Scalable solutions
  • Ensure all recommendations are:
    • Evidence?based
    • Testable
    • Linked to measurable impact
Key Outputs

  • Behavioral insights aligned to priority culture challenges
  • Practical, scalable behavior change recommendations
  • Clear linkage between:
    • Insight
    • Intervention
    • Expected impact
WORKSTREAM 5: EMPLOYER BRAND Objective

  • Strengthen the internal employer brand by ensuring:
    • Lived employee experience
    • Leadership behaviors
    • Culture narrative
      are consistently and credibly reflected internally and externally.
  • Support a credible internal influencer network that amplifies:
    • Authentic culture stories
    • Desired behaviors
    • Employee voice
Consultant Responsibilities

  • Translate culture priorities, VoE insights, and OHI themes into a:
    • Clear internal employer brand narrative
  • Support alignment between:
    • Culture priorities
    • Leadership behaviors
    • Employee Value Proposition (EVP)
  • Identify “moments that matter” where employer brand is shaped, including:
    • Leadership actions
    • Recognition
    • Development
    • Wellbeing
    • Ways of working
  • Provide insight?based recommendations to strengthen:
    • Authenticity
    • Consistency
  • Develop guidance, tools, and messaging playbooks for an internal influencer network to:
    • Share authentic stories
    • Reinforce culture shifts
    • Model desired leadership and employee behaviors
  • Support light?touch management of the influencer network to ensure:
    • Sustainability
    • Relevance
    • Credibility
  • Advise on mechanisms to measure:
    • Employer brand impact
    • Culture outcomes driven by the network
Key Outputs

  • Clear internal employer brand narrative aligned to:
    • Culture
    • Employee Value Proposition
  • Practical guidance on how leaders and employees:
    • Reinforce the employer brand through daily behaviors
  • Recommendations to strengthen alignment between:
    • Culture initiatives
    • Employer brand signals
  • Practical influencer content guidelines and playbooks
  • Recommendations for measuring:
    • Employer brand impact
    • Culture impact
DELIVERABLES SUMMARY

  • Integrated Voice of the Employee insights dashboard
  • DEI change and communication materials
  • Gender differences action plan rollout support
  • OHI?linked culture workstreams
  • Culture shift enablement recommendations
  • OE Forum partnership model
  • Behavioral insights and scalable behavior change interventions
  • Internal employer brand narrative aligned to culture and EVP
  • Internal influencer network design, enablement, and management guidance

Desired Skills:

  • Change Management
  • Design
  • Insights
  • Leadership
  • Organization Strategies
  • Translation

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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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