Manufacturing
Industry
Industrial
Relations Manager
Job
Description
- Co-develop
IR strategies, policies and processes and monitor the implementation.
- Manage
individual Employee Relations cases to ensure that they are properly
documented and is responsible for issuing complete reports and
recommendations
- Responsible
for monitoring and managing the administration of all disciplinary /
grievance issues as per disciplinary / grievance handling procedure
- Proactively
work to address IR issues through strategic management interaction
- Develop,
implement, and monitor strategy for employee engagement and communication,
ensuring alignment with the business objectives.
- Provide
responsive, high quality expert guidance and advice to Line managers for
appropriate management of IR issues especially in grievance handling,
disciplinary actions and implementation of change initiatives.
- Facilitate
building of managerial capability on employee and Industrial relations and
coach managers to handle disciplinary issues through facilitation of
Training programs.
- Proactively
manage the interphase with external bodies and partners i.e. Formal Union,
COTU, FKE and Ministry of Labour on all issues relating to Employment laws
and practice.
- Drive
effective interface between the business, industry, government and other
relevant bodies.
- Support
the CBA negotiation process and champion the CBA administration,
interpretation and application across the business
- Be
conversant with and ensure compliance to labour law, government
regulations and CBA relating to staff issues
- Liaising
with legal section and company lawyers on all legal issues relating to
ER/IR.
- Drive
company IR programs and do external benchmarking to migrate and implement
IR practices into the company
- Develop,
implement and monitor policies and practices to improve the ability to
manage diversity effectively
Qualifications
- Degree
in Social Sciences; Human Resource management, Industrial
Psychology/Industrial Relations
- Professional
HR qualifications an added advantage and evidence of continuous
professional development will be required.
- At
least 5 years of relevant experience in related work in Human resource
management functions, specifically in labour and employee relations and
Industrial Relations.
- Knowledge
of Labour laws of the country
Qualified
candidates to send their CVs to mary.mweni@cdl.co.ke stating current and
expected salary