Botho Seboni-Chatsama

Provide Technical Leadership –overseeing a range of services i.e. facilitating change initiatives and leading organisational development processes:

- Recruitment, Training, Performance Management, Employee Benefits & Staff Welfare, Payroll etc.

Provide Strategic Business Partnering and guidance on Human Capital issues to PEEPA and ensure that the organisation operates within the relevant legislation, HR best practices and to build a high performance culture

Assist in Strategy Development and Implementation

Align the department’s operations with the overall mandate of the Agency

Ensure provision of services in line with service level agreements as well as Employee Relations

Oversee the implementation of cost effective and value driven systems, rules, regulations, standards, procedures, guidelines and instruments that are aligned to HR best practices and relevant legislation

¨ The position is responsible for ensuring the adoption of and compliance to good corporate governance in the boards of Public Entities.

¨ Recommends the selection, appointment and assessment of members of boards of Public Entities to enhance the quality, competence and public accountability of Board members.

¨ Chief liaison on all Corporate Governance matters.

¨ Explores, in-depth, the legal regulation of the world of international business and corporate governance.

¨ Facilitates Board inductions for new Board members.

¨ Regular stakeholder engagements, and relationships with the Ministries, particularly with Permanent Secretaries, their Deputies and other key Government officials.

¨ Rationalisation of State Owned Enterprises.

¨ Performance Monitoring and Evaluation of State Owned Enterprises:

o Reviews activities and functions of public enterprises and Government entities and develops appropriate performance indicators and measures to be used to evaluate and monitor performance, including financial, business, operational, and human resource utilisation measures and ratios.

o Reviews performance standards of economic sectors nationally and internally and develops appropriate performance indicators and standards, including mechanisms for international bench marking by sector, and specific entity; e.g power utility efficiency ratios and factors.

o Consults with public enterprises and government entities on performance and efficiency issues and identifies potential areas where interventions could enhance efficiency and performance.

The HR Practitioners’ role focus in PEEPA is to lead the function towards industry best practices and to integrate the function’s outputs with the work of other functions in the organisation.

My portfolio as HR Practitioner at PEEPA entailed the following:-

Relationship Management

Manage the administration function in HR

Processing accurate and timeous pay-roll data for submission and reconciliation of deductions to third parties (Sage VIP Premier administrator)

Produce various monthly reports

Policy formulation and implementation

Drive and coordinate HR initiatives as well as staff welfare initiatives for PEEPA e.g. Teambuilding, Wellness and Staff Awards

Ensure all HR processes are synergized with development for staff resourcing eg. Recruitment/Talent Acquisition

Monitor and ensure consistent adherence and compliance to Human Resource procedures as outlined in the Conditions of Employment

Assist HR Manager to prepare and manage the HR Budget continuously liaising with Finance department on budget and cashflow status; informing them of anomalies that may arise in a particular month when over spent. Review budget as and when the need arises

Assist in managing the Industrial Relations climate of PEEPA

Ensure that PEEPA’s Talent pool is trained, there is a training plan in place and that all training budgeted for and approved is carried out and recorded

Implementation of Performance Management (PMS)

Responsible for Leave administration – Administrator/Super-user of Employee Self Service (ESS-Sage VIP)

Monitor and facilitate staff salary advances/loans including group scheme car, personal & housing loans, loan amortization, ensuring that they are in accordance with Company procedures and that they receive final approval by the CEO

Advise HR Manager on remuneration/benefits, policies, benchmarking and other processes

• enforced company policy and procedures relating to human resources activity.
• Updated key human resource metrics on turnover and terminations using reporting tools on HRMS database.
• Recruitment and talent acquisition.
• Developed and built internal and external relationships with project teams, department managers and teams to improve delivery of HR services.
• Managed change through open communication for addressing employee concerns, allowing for different opinions and publicizing new strategies.
• Provided guidance to managers and employees on talent management, payroll and benefits.
• Coordinated and manage employee leaves of absence.
• Executed redesign of organizational structures to enhance team and leadership effectiveness through operational analysis, needs assessments and process mapping.
• Provided advice to leadership on implementation of HR policies and procedures.
• Collaborated with payroll to complete and upload pay data and worked with managers to support proper wage and hour compliance.
• Delivered strategic workforce planning, benefits administration, labor relations, succession planning and reporting systems.
• Understood, interpreted and mediated human resources inquiries to support administration of human resources policies, procedures and programs.
• Implemented and supervised orientation procedures for new hires.

My role was to:-

As above

Offer Board Support Services

Achievements and notable Projects as Acting Manager, HR:

¨ My highlight was Project Managing the PEEPA Organisational Structure Review during this period (totalling 9 months) which resulted in the successful migration into the new PEEPA Structure.