Career Opportunities at RVR
Rift Valley Railways (RVR)
Ltd is in the middle of a Ksh. 25 Billion (USD.287M) turnaround
process with major investments going towards expanding and modernizing the
fleet, improving rail infrastructure, introducing high-end technology with a
vision of becoming the premier rail and logistics provider.
Purpose: We require all-rounded HR Business Partner-Shared
Services.
HR Business Partner Administration
1 Post
To provide support with meeting HR operational objectives in Shared Services, through effective administration, planning, organizing and co-ordination of the HR Administration services team.
Key Strategic Deliverables
Administration
- Responsible for the management and maintenance
of the RVR’s physical assets, including fleet management, office
equipment/furniture’s buildings, and office services.
- Co-ordinates all administrative functions and
oversees the delivery of office services and utilities for the RVR. e.g.
cleanliness, safety, access control. Etc.
- Preparation and management of the
Administration unit budget, assets/equipment acquisition and maintenance
in line with the RVR’s overall business strategy.
- Oversees the supervision and management
of approved administrative projects, including designing and
developing Terms of Reference.
- Ensures the RVR’s compliance with the Health
Safety and Environmental (HSE) Laws
- Ensure proper record keeping and up to date
filing of Admin Records.
- Negotiates and agrees effective service level
agreements (SLAs) with suppliers and monitors their implementation.
- Initiates and formulates administrative
procedures and policies
- Provide effective guidance and coaching of
staff and facilitate in developing their skills and abilities to ensure
optimal performance
Management Reporting:
- Ensure availability of accurate and up to date
admin reports, Risk assessment and compliance reports, statutory returns
and other reports as required
- Ensure all service contracts related to
administration function are up to date and secure
- Ensure that reception is functional and well
managed with 95% issue resolution
- Ensure all important documents and information
is saved on the HR shared drive
- Ensure all regulatory and compliance
requirements such as licenses etc. are up to date.
- Any other management duty that may be
allocated.
Key Performance Measures
- Compliance with HR and Admin procedures.
- Prompt turn-around times for information
- Effective maintenance of both internal and
external customers and other support structures.
- Green Internal Audit and Compliance report
findings.
- Deal with diverse problems in own area, using
judgment and discretion to resolve them.
Key Skills, Knowledge, Experience and
Personal Competencies
Knowledge / Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree preferably in Facilities
Management, Civil Engineering, Project management
- KCSE B
Experience
- At least 10 years HR generalist Administration
experience
- Good understanding of the laws and legislation
regarding buildings, licenses etc.
- Demonstration of Project Management and
Relationship management experience
Personal competencies
- Integrity
- Assertiveness
- Communication – Applying effective verbal and
written communication to achieve desired results.
- Prioritization and Time Management
- Customer service-orientated.
- Results-orientated and committed to meeting
deadlines.
HR Business Partner Learning and
development
1 Post
Scope of Role: To understand the Learning and Development requirements of the entire Rift Valley Railways and to continually support building capability in our people to achieve business objectives
To facilitate learning interventions
using blended learning model in a professional manner
Key Strategic Deliverables
Consulting Role
- Develop a Training Policy and Philosophy in
line with our Policies
- Establish and maintain a relationship with key
business managers to anticipate future skills, needs & plans
- Translate departmental requirements into
learning and development needs.
- Assist and develop facilitator skills to move
to blended delivery approach.
- Conduct high-level business needs analysis and
identify “L&D related” issues.
- Collate the annual training plan/calendar and
ensure the plan is shared in advance with stakeholders.
- Track & report against Training Plan using
training metrics appropriately
- Ensure statutory payments to the Director of
Industrial Training are done and refund received.
- Support Management training programs as well
as Talent development programs,
Training & Development Role
- Conducting pre-progress and post Learning
Assessments and reporting.
- Learning Event reporting i.e. Problems,
concerns (feedback loop) reporting.
- Develop /leverage Training modules for various
programs
- Deliver coaching and mentoring programs
- Conduct induction programs for new staff.
- Assist in preparation of the annual training
budget
- Monitoring and reporting on the training
vendors service delivery and quality
- Any other management duty that may be
allocated
Key Skills, Knowledge, Experience and
Personal Competencies
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree – in HR or a Business
related field
- KCSE B
Knowledge
- People Management Skills
- Relationship building skills
- Consulting Experience
- Conceptual understanding of the interface
between business and learning
- Understanding of the elements of effective
learning design and technologies that support development of knowledge,
skills, competence and performance required to attain business objectives
Experience
- +7 yrs. relevant working experience in Learning
and Development with proven consulting ability
- Hands on experience in developing,
implementing and driving learning interventions
- e- Learning design and implementation
including development of e-learning modules.
Personal competencies
- Integrity
- Excellent verbal and written communication
skills
- Passion for human development
HR Officer Learning and Development
1 Post
Purpose: To provide a quality and professional coordinating and administrative support to the training function
Key Duties / Responsibilities
Planning
- Sending out invites for training to
participants and their managers
- Confirmation of all training plans to the
concerned parties
- Booking training in a conducive learning
environment
- Business Continuity Management
Organizing
- Organizing logistics for training including
venue, travel, materials, accommodation, projectors etc
- Arranging staff to travel and accommodation
for training within the country
- Ensuring the management of training premises
& facilities to support training
- Coordinating learning initiatives motivated by
Centre and rolled out within the country
- Arranging accommodation, transport &
facilitation for external trainers when required
Knowledge, experience and personal
competencies
Knowledge
- Computer literacy
- Logistics or planning knowledge
Experience
- Currently on a HR role with at least 3 years’
experience in HR
- Personal competencies and skills
- A HR Bachelor’s degree in Humanities,
preferably HR
- Young and trainable (below 30 years)
- Knowledge and practice of labor laws
Behavioral Competencies
- Integrity
- Ability to communicate well (oral and written)
with people at all levels.
- Proactive team player.
- Strong sense of urgency.
- Good planning skills.
- Detail orientated
How to Apply
Suitably qualified applicants should
submit their application letters, with detailed CVs with clear of duties
done including a day time contact phone number and email addresses citing
the relevant job title on the subject line to:- recruitment@rvr.co.ke
Note: The deadline for submitting application is before by close of business on 15th October, 2015
NB: In the event that you are successful, we will require that you provide us with a certificate of Good Conduct that is not more than 6 months old.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
Note: The deadline for submitting application is before by close of business on 15th October, 2015
NB: In the event that you are successful, we will require that you provide us with a certificate of Good Conduct that is not more than 6 months old.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted
