About Organisation:

Pride Bank Limited (PBL) was licensed at a Tier II Credit Institution by Bank of Uganda (BoU) in November 2024 and has a capital base of Ugx175.8 billion. Pride aims at transforming lives responsibly by focusing on three High Impact Goals: boosting sustainable agricultural value, growing sustainable SMEs to drive economic transformation and fostering economic resilience through financial inclusion while offering innovative financial and non-financial solutions to people at the base of the economic pyramid and serving customers through 43 networked branches and 4 contact offices across the country.

Job Summary: The Manager, Talent & Learning will report to the Head of People & Culture and will be based at the Head Office. He / She will be accountable for providing specialist support to the business, serving as the subject matter expert in all areas of Talent Management (TM), Learning & Development (L&D), and Organizational Development (OD)

Key Duties and Responsibilities: Specific responsibilities include:

• As the subject matter expert, lead and guide the development of Talent Management and Learning & Growth processes, systems, frameworks, and tools for Pride Bank. This ensures that talent management & learning and growth challenges are addressed strategically and not handled on an ad hoc basis.
• Compile talent management metrics, provide analysis and insight and drive the use of talent data as a fundamental input into HR decision making.
• Entrench and coordinate the talent planning and review processes and structures to anticipate and meet its talent requirements in the short, medium, and long term.
• Drives the implementation of the staff development infrastructure, in anticipation of need, including career paths, capability frameworks, competency definition, curriculum design, critical learning interventions, skills sustainability programmes and systems.
• Provide specialist support to the People and Culture Partners during engagements with internal stakeholders such as functional heads on all matters related to learning and development.
• Develop and manage relationships with external partners such as training institutions and service providers.
• Support the alignment of Learning & Development processes, practices, frameworks, and tools in all functions, as appropriate in line with Pride’s strategy.
• Implement and review effective Learning & Development metrics, to drive and support functional / technical performance.
• Implement integrated capability building initiatives as support to the on- boarding process, programs driven by Talent Management.
• Develop and maintain a well-equipped resource center and ensure its efficient and effective management.
• Develop deep understanding of the organisation’s operating model, with specific focus on functional areas where specific competences are required for the short term and medium term.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of learning methodologies, including ROI on interventions.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

• Bachelors’ Human Resource Management, Organizational Psychology, Education or a related humanities discipline.
• Post Graduate Diploma in HRM as an added advantage.
• At least 6 years of combined experience in HR practice with at 3 years’ experience in leading Talent Management processes including Talent Planning, Development of Competence Management Frameworks, Learning & Development, Programs implementation etc.
• Computer, Interpersonal and Networking skills
• Innovation and creativity
• Must be a person of impeccable integrity.

Interested candidates should forward their applications to the HEAD PEOPLE & CULTURE, via email: recruitment@pridebank.co.ug with a detailed curriculum vitae, letters of recommendation from 3 referees, copies of academic transcripts, postal address and a daytime telephone contact.