Job Summary

This role is a Fixed Term Contract for the period of 9 months.

•    At Standard Chartered Group Internal Audit and Investigations (GIAI) people are at the heart of everything we do and are a key factor of our success in meeting our objectives and delivering on our mandate. Standard Chartered GIAI offers a truly global working environment where our people get to collaborate with diverse people across geographies and backgrounds. People who join us get to enjoy a people culture that supports continuous development and provides access to a wide spectrum of career growth opportunities. We have relaunched our people strategy in 2024 to create world leading employee experience, to support the Bank’s and GIAI’s vision we need valued, engaged, and motivated, qualified auditors and SME’s who help us to be world leading audit and investigations team.
•    This position is motivated by the objective of strengthening our Organisational Effectiveness, as well as supporting various aspects of the employee lifecycle, including workforce management and Early Careers.
•    You will work as part of the GIAI COO group. You will be involved in managing and providing support to GIAI on people transformation, organisation effectiveness, workforce management, and other people processes within the lifecycle of the employee. Data analytics and insights would be a key strength to have for the role.

Key Responsibilities

People Transformation
•    Lead organisational change initiatives to foster a culture of continuous improvement and adaptability.
•    Design and implement strategies for talent development, including upskilling, reskilling, and succession planning.
•    Drive employee engagement programmes to enhance morale, productivity, and retention.
•    Collaborate with leadership teams to align people transformation objectives with business goals.
•    Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of transformation initiatives, making adjustments as required.
•    Facilitate workshops, training sessions, and communication forums to support change management.
•    Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion in all transformation activities.
Position Management
•    Oversee the creation, modification, and elimination of organisational positions in line with workforce planning.
•    Ensure accurate maintenance of position data within HR systems and organisational charts.
•    Work closely with HR and business leaders to assess and approve position changes based on evolving business needs.
•    Support compliance with internal policies and statutory requirements regarding position management.
•    Analyse workforce metrics to optimise position structures and support efficient resource allocation.
•    Provide guidance on position classification, grading, and compensation alignment.
•    Contribute to annual and ad-hoc reviews of position frameworks, recommending improvements as necessary
•    Liaise with business stakeholders to understand the skills gap and design the skill development plan.
•    Understand the Audit and investigation realm to design audit specific people initiatives.

Organisation Effectiveness:
•    Design and implement strategies to improve organisational performance, focusing on structure, process, and culture.
•    Collaborate with leadership teams to assess current organisational effectiveness and identify areas for improvement.
•    Lead change management initiatives, ensuring effective communication and engagement across all levels of the organisation.
•    Develop and deliver training programmes to build capabilities in leadership, team dynamics, and continuous improvement.
•    Analyse data related to employee engagement, productivity, and business outcomes to inform decision-making and measure the impact of interventions.
•    Support talent management processes, including succession planning and workforce planning, to ensure alignment with organisational goals.
•    Facilitate workshops and focus groups to gather insights and foster a culture of collaboration and innovation.
•    Stay up to date with best practices in organisational development, applying relevant methodologies and tools to drive sustainable change.
Governance
•    Provide data and insights from the recruitment monitoring activities for feedback to GIAI governance forum on a regular basis. 

Regulatory & Business Conduct 
•    Display exemplary conduct and live by the Group’s Values and Code of Conduct. 
•    Take personal responsibility for embedding the highest standards of ethics, including regulatory and business conduct, across Standard Chartered Bank. This includes understanding and ensuring compliance with, in letter and spirit, all applicable laws, regulations, guidelines and the Group Code of Conduct.
•    Effectively and collaboratively identify, escalate, mitigate and resolve risk, conduct and compliance matters.
Key stakeholders
•    Head of Resources and Organisational Effectiveness, GIAI COO, GIAI AET; GIAI Staff 
Other Responsibilities
•    As part of the wider COO team, you will be expected to support the delivery of the function’s priorities with ad hoc project work as need arises.
•    Perform other responsibilities assigned under Group, Country, Business or Functional policies and procedures where relevant

Skills and Experience

•    Effective Communication
•    Relationship Management
•    Knowledge of the Organization
•    Business Ethics
•    Business Acumen
•    Understanding of the Audit and Compliance Function
•    Data Analytics
•    Understanding of HR processes

• Ideal candidates with 9 to 12 years of working experience in Organizational Effectiveness, Organizational Design. 
• Experience or Knowledge in HR & Organizational Development will be a plus
• Change management, Project Management, Influencing Skills are desired

About Standard Chartered

We're an international bank, nimble enough to act, big enough for impact. For more than 170 years, we've worked to make a positive difference for our clients, communities, and each other. We question the status quo, love a challenge and enjoy finding new opportunities to grow and do better than before. If you're looking for a career with purpose and you want to work for a bank making a difference, we want to hear from you. You can count on us to celebrate your unique talents and we can't wait to see the talents you can bring us.

Our purpose, to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, together with our brand promise, to be here for good are achieved by how we each live our valued behaviours. When you work with us, you'll see how we value difference and advocate inclusion.

Together we:

• Do the right thing and are assertive, challenge one another, and live with integrity, while putting the client at the heart of what we do
• Never settle, continuously striving to improve and innovate, keeping things simple and learning from doing well, and not so well
• Are better together, we can be ourselves, be inclusive, see more good in others, and work collectively to build for the long term

What we offer

In line with our Fair Pay Charter, we offer a competitive salary and benefits to support your mental, physical, financial and social wellbeing.

• Core bank funding for retirement savings, medical and life insurance, with flexible and voluntary benefits available in some locations.
• Time-off including annual leave, parental/maternity (20 weeks), sabbatical (12 months maximum) and volunteering leave (3 days), along with minimum global standards for annual and public holiday, which is combined to 30 days minimum.
• Flexible working options based around home and office locations, with flexible working patterns.
• Proactive wellbeing support through Unmind, a market-leading digital wellbeing platform, development courses for resilience and other human skills, global Employee Assistance Programme, sick leave, mental health first-aiders and all sorts of self-help toolkits
• A continuous learning culture to support your growth, with opportunities to reskill and upskill and access to physical, virtual and digital learning.
• Being part of an inclusive and values driven organisation, one that embraces and celebrates our unique diversity, across our teams, business functions and geographies - everyone feels respected and can realise their full potential.