Aldar Education is seeking an outstanding Group Head
- Rewards to lead the organisation's Total Rewards, Performance Management, and Workforce Planning functions, ensuring competitive reward practices, effective performance frameworks, and workforce strategies that support business objectives, talent needs, and organisational growth.
This is an exciting opportunity to join the highly successful Aldar Education family of schools and play a key role in shaping the technology strategy and service delivery across some of Abu Dhabi’s leading educational institutions.
As the leading education group in Abu Dhabi, Aldar Education provides inclusive and innovative learning that inspires and empowers communities. We offer a range of educational brands for learners from nursery through to adult education, with the broadest choice of curricula across the largest number of locations in Abu Dhabi.
Working collaboratively, our education network aims to empower the next generation to shape our future while directly supporting the educational priorities of the Abu Dhabi Government. Our work is guided by the Abu Dhabi Economic Vision 2030, which seeks to build a sustainable, knowledge-based economy through premium education.
The Group Head
- Rewards will be responsible for market benchmarking, salary reviews, bonus management, performance management frameworks, workforce planning, reward analytics, policy development, and compliance. Acts as a strategic advisor to leadership, driving data-informed decisions on rewards, performance, and workforce requirements, while overseeing benefits and insurance programmes and ensuring competitive, equitable, and business-aligned people practices.
Main Duties
- Define and lead Group reward, performance, workforce planning and organisation design strategies, aligned with business objectives, growth and financial sustainability.
- Oversee Total Reward, including salary structures, benefits, allowances, recognition and incentive programmes, ensuring competitiveness, equity and affordability.
- Lead executive remuneration and short- and long-term incentive design, providing recommendations to the CPO, Executive Leadership and relevant Board committees.
- Own job evaluation, grading and job architecture frameworks, ensuring consistency in role scope, accountability and organisational impact.
- Lead the Group performance management framework, including objective setting, reviews, calibration and moderation, and ensure clear alignment between performance and reward.
- Lead strategic workforce planning, translating business plans into workforce requirements, capabilities, staffing models and manpower budgets.
- Drive workforce productivity and cost efficiency through capacity analysis, scenario modelling and workforce insights.
- Lead organisation design and restructuring, advising on operating models, structures, spans of control, management layers and accountabilities.
- Oversee workforce analytics and market benchmarking, providing insights on pay, performance, headcount, manpower costs and organisational effectiveness.
- Ensure compliance with applicable compensation and benefits regulations and provide leadership, coaching and capability development to the Total Reward team.
Specific Duties
- Ensure regular benchmarking and market related pay research is undertaken when necessary to enable the company to remain competitive and an employer of choice for UAE nationals and expatriates.
- Provide recommendations to management for improvement in reward, performance management and workforce planning related processes and policies. Collaborate with other functions in People & Culture teams, leaders and managers in the organisation and other key stakeholders on all reward, performance management, and…
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