Job Title: Human Resources & Administration Manager
Industry: Logistics
Location: JKIA
Salary: KShs 250K – 350K Gross
Our client, a well established international logistics company seeks to hire a
seasoned HR & Admin manager.Summary: Reporting to the CEO, the HR and Admin manager will be responsible for development of policies, directing and coordinating human resource activities, such as employment, compensation, labor relations, benefits, training, and employee services by performing the following duties.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Analyzes wage and salary reports and data to
determine competitive compensation plan.
- Writes directives advising department managers
of Company policy regarding equal employment opportunities, compensation,
and employee benefits.
- Consults legal counsel to ensure that policies
comply with federal and state law.
- Develops and maintains a human resource system
that meets top management information needs.
- Oversees the analysis, maintenance, and
communication of records required by law or local governing bodies, or
other departments in the organization.
- Identifies legal requirements and government
reporting regulations affecting human resource functions and ensures
policies, procedures, and reports are in compliance. Studies legislation,
arbitration decisions, and collective bargaining contracts to assess
industry trends.
- Writes and delivers presentations to corporate
officers or government officials regarding human resource policies and practices.
- Recruits, interviews, tests, and selects
employees to fill vacant positions.
- Plans and conducts new employee orientation to
foster positive attitude toward Company goals.
- Keeps records of benefits plans participation
such as insurance and pension plan, personnel transactions such as leave
records, hires, promotions, transfers, performance reviews, and
terminations, and employee statistics for government reporting.
- Coordinates management training in
interviewing, hiring, terminations, promotions, performance review,
safety, and sexual harassment.
- Facilitate Business Continuity/strategies e.g.
seminars and new implementations that ensure the company’s survival.
- Develop and maintain effective internal &
external communication methods.
- Advises management in appropriate resolution
of employee relations issues.
- Responds to inquiries regarding policies,
procedures, and programs.
- Administer effective delegation in all
branches and departments.
- Administers performance review program to
ensure effectiveness, compliance and equity within organization.
Administers salary administration program to ensure compliance and equity
within organization.
- Administers benefits programs such as life and
health insurance, pension plans, vacation, annual leave, sick leave, leave
of absence, and employee assistance.
- Conducts wage surveys within labor market to
determine competitive wage rate.
- Prepares budget of human resource operations.
- Prepares employee separation notices and
related documentation, and conducts exit interviews to determine reasons
behind separations.
- Prepares reports and recommends procedures to
reduce absenteeism and turnover.
- Represents organization at personnel-related
hearings and investigations.
- Contracts with outside suppliers to provide
employee services, such as temporary employees, search firms, or
relocation services.
- Maintenance of office premises and ensuring
renewal of necessary licenses.
Supervisory Responsibilities
- Provides management direction and counseling.
- Supervises clerical assistant and temporary
staffing as needed.
Language Skills
- Ability to read, analyzes, and interprets the
most complex documents.
- Ability to respond effectively to the most
sensitive inquiries or complaints.
- Ability to write speeches and articles using
original or innovative techniques or style.
- Ability to make effective and persuasive
speeches and presentations on controversial or complex topics to top
management, public groups, and/or boards of directors.
Mathematical Skills
- Ability to work with mathematical concepts such
as probability and statistical inference, and fundamentals of plane and
solid geometry and trigonometry.
- Ability to apply concepts such as fractions,
percentages, ratios and proportions to practical situations.
Reasoning Ability
- Ability to apply principles of logical or
scientific thinking to a wide range of intellectual and practical
problems.
- Ability to deal with nonverbal symbolism
(formulas, scientific equations, graphs, etc.,) in its most difficult
phases.
- Ability to deal with a variety of abstract and
concrete variables.
Qualifications and Experience
- Degree in Human Resource Management or in
Business Administration
- Higher Diploma in Human Resource Management
- A member of Institute Of Human Resource
Management (IHRM K)
- 10 -15 years progressive experience as a Human
Resource Manager
- Should proficiently possess technical skills,
soft skills, hard skills, interpersonal and management skills;
- Strong customer focus and problem solver;
- Strong communication skills and superb
inter-personal skills;
- High level understanding of planning,
forecasting and strong financial experience;
- Tactical focus, flexible & change maker;
- Leadership through influence and effective
conflict resolution;
- Should have a good track record and of
unquestionable integrity;
If you are up to the challenge,
posses the necessary qualification and experience, please send your CV only
quoting the job title on the email subject (Logistics HR & Admin Manager
250 – 350K gross) to vacancies@corporatestaffing.co.ke before Tuesday
21st April, 2015
Kindly indicate current/last salary on your CV
N.B: We do not charge any fee for receiving your CV or for interviewing
only candidates short-listed for interview will be contacted.
The Recruiting Manager
Corporate staffing Services
Nabui House, 3rd floor, Westlands.
(Next to Unga House)