Talent Engagement Lead

The role

The Talent Engagement Lead leads the Talent Development and Experience function. This person sets the direction for learning, leadership development, engagement, performance, and employee experience across a distributed pan-African organisation.

What you will do

• Develop and lead ALX's Talent Development and Experience strategy.
• Lead, coach, and develop the TDX team.
• Oversee the TDX portfolio, budget, external partners, and delivery.
• Advise senior leaders and managers on talent development and employee experience.
• Lead employee learning and development strategy.
• Own manager and leadership development.
• Oversee onboarding, offboarding, role clarity, and growth pathways.
• Lead employee engagement strategy including listening and surveys.
• Lead design and delivery of major employee experiences like retreats and workshops.
• Use employee, learning, performance, and engagement data to identify needs.

Required qualifications

• 8 to 10 years of relevant experience in learning and development, talent development, organisational development, employee experience, human resources, or a related field.
• Experience leading a similar function or multidisciplinary team.
• Strong experience developing learning and development strategies and manager or leadership development initiatives.
• Experience designing learning, employee, and organisational experiences.
• Ability to understand organisational and workforce needs and translate them into solutions.
• Strong people leadership, portfolio and programme management, and senior stakeholder management skills.
• Sound understanding of performance management, talent development, employee engagement, organisational change, and the employee lifecycle.
• Experience using employee, learning, performance, or engagement data to inform decisions.
• Experience working across African markets and within cross-cultural, geographically distributed organisations.
• Strong communication, systems thinking, and operational discipline.
• Ability to use technology, AI, and automation to improve work delivery.

Nice to have

• Experience or qualifications in facilitation, coaching, organisational development, or change management

About the company

ALX Africa is a non-profit organization dedicated to unlocking the potential of Africa's digital future. It provides tech skills training and career acceleration programs to empower Africans to secure sustainable tech careers.