Job
Title: Organization Associate (Human Resource
Director)
Job
Code: OA/MRI
Number
of Positions Open:
1
Reports
To: CEO
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.
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.
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
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
and Certification:
Master’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
Master’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
