Job Title:Organization Associate (Human Resource Director)
Job Code:OA/MRI
Number of Vacancies open:1
Reports to:CEO
Location: Kenya
Closing Date:Open Until Filled
Summary:
Our client designs, manufactures and sells highly functional, highly
affordable vehicles as a transportation platform empowering local
entrepreneurs to mobilize the developing world. They
recognize that appropriate transport is a key enabler
to socio-economic development in deprived communities across the
developing world and aim to unlock this vast potential by designing,
manufacturing and selling a new vehicle for Africa, starting in Kenya.
They are looking for exceptional individuals who share their vision and
possess the skills and attitude necessary to make a valuable
contribution to our work in Africa.
Primary Responsibilities
Our client is seeking a minimum two year commitment from exceptional
early-mid career human resources professional to enhance and improve
upon organizational capacity building efforts to support the growth of a
driven and ambitious start-up social business – a truly unique
opportunity to create impact on a global scale. The role will require a
close working relationship with the venture’s CEO, Operations Director,
Financial Director, Operations Officer and future production and
strategy teams and across the entire organization as a whole. Specific
duties include, but are not limited to:
Internal Development
• Values System: formalize a clear and compelling values system for
the venture with the CEO and lead initiatives to translate this into a
strong, understood and lasting organization culture.
• Systems Development: develop robust and scalable HR and
Administrative systems across the organization, from tactical to
strategic.
• Recruiting: facilitate leadership discussions around the staffing
strategy and manage the end to- end recruitment and on boarding of
international and local staff, including developing job descriptions and
managing job postings.
• Professional Development: assist the future Training Manager to
roll out professional development trainings for our corporate and
production staff, including integration with performance management.
• Performance Management: lead the development and roll out of
performance management processes and tools across the organization,
including integration with career paths.
• Career Paths: develop a structured promotion pathway for each role,
including timescales, remuneration, performance requirements, and
reporting lines.
• Human Resource Manual: develop and maintain a simple, clear and structured Human
• Resources Manual for the organization aligned to the employment laws of Kenya and UK.
• Knowledge Management: assist the future Technology Officer to
develop a robust and scalable knowledge management system and ensure
that historical knowledge is transmitted and built upon by current
staff.
• Staff Incentives: develop and maintain a compelling but cost
effective employee incentive scheme across the organization to maximize
recruitment and retention of world-class staff, including pay scale
benchmarking, bonus packages, responsibility scope and other incentives.
• Internal Communications: facilitate initiatives to formalize ad-hoc
and periodic internal communications across the organization.
• Process Improvement: assess current HR and Administrative processes
to identify and action further improvements on an on-going basis.
External Relations
• Proposal Support: support the development of our client’s funding
and partnership proposals, specifically on content concerning our
organization strategy, structure and culture.
• External Communications: prepare and manage communications with
funders and other external stakeholders on a periodic and ad-hoc basis.
• Funder Management: support on-going funder relationships, including executing associated administrative tasks and reports.
• UK Office Liaison: liaise with our client’s UK office as needed to support administrative and reporting requirements.
Required qualifications:
• Bachelors Degree (minimum) in Business, Human Capital, Marketing, Communications, Economics or similar
• 3.4 GPA or higher from a top university worldwide
• 3-5+ years of professional work experience in business administration, human capital ,marketing or communications
• Ability to strategically plan and lead teams of international and local Kenyan staff through to exceptional success
• Ability to lead cross-functionally; coordinating, leading and
communicating information clearly Exceptional attention to detail and
high quality deliverable outputs
• Ability to analyze and solve complex problems
• Ability to grasp complex concepts and systems quickly, and express them in simple ways
• Ability to multi-task in a fast paced environment and to remain graceful under pressure
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and make sense of multiple data sources that may sometimes be contradictory in nature
• High degree of resourcefulness; looking beyond the normal channels
of information to dig out data necessary to understand the ultimate
solution
• Ability to effectively communicate timelines and project progress with both internal and external management teams
• Ability to take ownership and accountability of project timeline and results
• Exceptional written communication skills and with experience is
writing compelling messages to external stakeholders; enthusiasm to
communicate clearly, confidently, and precisely
• Strong presentations skills, including excellent oral communication
skills; passion to make yourself understood in an engaging and pleasant
way at all times
• High sense of drive and urgency in achieving our vision
• Ability to adapt to a dynamic working environment and work within a diverse team
• Extreme patience and a good sense of humor
• Excellent relationship management; capable and enthusiastic of
working with multiple personalities across the organization, from
production workers, to Kenyan office staff, to international staff, to
the CEO - all coming from a variety of backgrounds and experiences
• Excellent interpersonal skills to work effectively with others
• A start-up personality; entrepreneurial, ambitious, independent,
systematic attention to detail, structured thinker, goal-oriented,
flexible and able to deal well with setbacks
• Comfort with extensive travel throughout Kenya when needed – especially to regularly visit our production facilities
Skills & Certification:
aster’s degree (or higher) in Business Administration (MBA), Economics,
Marketing, Communication or similar, Professional work experience with a
top tier human resources consultancy internationally, Passion for the
automotive industry and social enterprise in Africa, Administrative
management experience Fluency in Kiswahili (the national language of
Kenya), Proficiency in Excel, Project, Power Point and Word
How To Apply:
Interested candidates holding the necessary requirements, good
performance and / or references are encouraged to apply with detailed
CV’s, inclusive of names and contacts of 3 referees, current telephone
number and email address by scrolling down and clicking on the following
link: Organization Associate