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CrossBoundary
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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