
Performance Specialist
Crossboundary
Nairobi | Full Time | Banking / Financial Services
Closing in 1 week from now
Primary Responsibilities
Refine our performance review design
- Translate our performance goals, philosophies, and frameworks into simple, consistent processes that strengthen culture and business needs.
- Apply human-centered design to our performance process to reduce friction and improve user experience.
- Configure and optimize our learning and performance platforms to support the process
Deliver a seamless performance review process
- Design our schedule in advance and ensure buy in and commitment across all key contributors
- Prepare all tools and materials needed to make the cycle successful, including:
- Resources and guides for team members
- Data on each team member’s career progression and performance metrics, and qualitative feedback to inform the benchmarking process
- Structuring feedback questionnaires in our Performance Management System
- Communicate and shepherd all participants through the multi-step process:
- Ensure participants across the firm have clear and advance communication about the cycle timing and steps
- Conduct training to ensure that everyone understands and can get the most out of the process
- Deliver seamless customer support, rapidly troubleshooting individual issues as they arise
- Serve as the primary administrator of our performance management system, ensuring the platform is easy to use, data is accurate, and issues are resolved quickly
- Project manage the contributors involved in each cycle, keeping timelines on track and resolving bottlenecks
- Facilitate the Career Management Council CMC sessions, ensuring that we use our time efficiently without compromising the goal of benchmarking performance consistently across all cohorts
Constantly iterate on the process
- Capture feedback from managers, employees, and leadership to identify improvements.
- Track and analyze participation, feedback quality, and process data to refine future cycles.
- Enhance system configuration, reporting, and automation.
Connect the outcomes of the process to firmwide initiatives to improve performance
- Use feedback and data insights to inform and adapt learning and development offerings.
- Partner with leaders and individuals to link review outcomes to career growth and firm-wide performance initiatives.
Qualifications
Required skills and qualifications:
- Experience: 4 years in People Operations, HR, or a related field, with a strong focus on performance management, talent development, or people processes.
- Process management: Proven ability to design and run structured processes end-to-end, balancing meticulous attention to detail with efficiency.
- Project management: Skilled at managing timelines, tracking key dependencies, coordinating stakeholders, and keeping complex initiatives on track.
- Communication: Excellent written and verbal communicator who can distill complex concepts into clear, practical guidance.
- Facilitation: Comfortable leading discussions with senior leaders and ensuring balanced, constructive dialogue.
- Analytical skills: Ability to work with data, identify trends, and translate insights into recommendations.
- Tools: Familiarity with performance management platforms e.g., Engagedly, Lattice, Culture Amp, BambooHR and general HR systems.
- Mindset: A blend of operator and designer — excited both to build systems and to run them with consistency, cycle after cycle.
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