Kenya Airways is truly the Pride of Africa. Our global network now reaches 47 destinations, 39 of which are spread across the Africa continent. Our 26 modern aircraft, including four Boeing 777 series, makes us one the youngest fleets in Africa.
Kenya Airways opens a world of opportunity across the continent helping create sustainable development by connecting its people and businesses within Africa and around the world.
At Kenya Airways we believe our greatest asset is our people. When you join Kenya Airways we provide you with training and all the systems and tools you require to perform. And best of all, we provide an environment that enables each and every one of our employees to achieve their full potential.
Brief Description
To provide active leadership in partnership with functional teams on HR issues and development of performance based reward and compensation strategies.
Detailed Description
- To ensure manpower planning exercise is in line with the business goals of the company
- To undertake succession planning for key roles in the organization
- Develop a framework to analyse the organisation structure, identify ways to make it more effective, evaluate people and jobs to match the right individuals to the right roles, define career progressions both from individual roles and across related job groups.
- Ensure that the job grading system reflects the organisational structure and that it has the flexibility to accommodate the subtleties of all jobs across the organisation.
- Review and implement the performance management system throughout the company.
- To design proactive retention strategies, ensure minimal attrition rates for top talent
- Develop and implement reward programs that reflect the business strategy and work culture or the organisation.
- Participate in selected salary surveys and analyse the data to establish whether grading and remuneration systems are competitive.
- Monitor the effectiveness of the compensation guidelines and procedures while recommending revisions as well as new, cost-effective plans.
- Develop procedures and reports to monitor compensation throughout the year in all locations in order to maintain internal equity in compensation structures throughout the company.
- Lead the implementation of the People Strategy and other major change, within functional areas.
- Contribute to the development of the business area’s agenda and strategy and contribute to the leadership of the business area
- Challenge and provoke business leaders on how to engage their teams; address resulting people issues and build people capabilities effectively
- Initiate, design and execute integrated people solutions that address key functional issues, bringing together the resources within the business areas and HR teams in order to achieve timely resolution of people issues
Job Requirements
- Good knowledge of Kenya Labor Laws as well as International Labour Laws
- Strong proficiency in use of IT
- University graduate preferably in Social Sciences
- 10 years HR generalist experience 5 of which must be in a senior managerial
Core Competencies
- Excellent negotiation, communication and interpersonal skills
- Excellent organizational, planning and analytical skills
- Organizational diagnosis
- Influencing (Coaching & Facilitation)
- Transformational change management
- Commercial management
- Delivery management
HR Competencies
- Resourcing
- Employee Relations
- Reward and performance management
- Leadership and talent development
- Employee communications
- Organization development and culture management
Closing Date: 12-Mar-2010
Grade: H15
How to Apply
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