About the Role
We are looking for a strategic, creative, and passionate
person to own key HR initiatives. You will bring fresh insights and a
relentless drive for perfection to all of Apollo’s current HR processes,
including onboarding/offboarding, compliance, policy maintenance, and payroll
and benefits administration, among others. You will ensure that Apollo’s HR
practices can scale as our business becomes more complex, and you will keep
Apollo’s mission to maximize profits for small-scale farmers at the heart of everything
you do. This is an exciting opportunity for an early- to mid-career HR
professional to oversee a global mandate and help us scale Apollo to new
heights!
Reporting
Lines: This
role reports to the HR Lead
Responsibilities:
Proactively identify and take
ownership of key HR Operations across all Apollo entities
Support the HR Ops Team to manage the
full employee experience, from on-boarding to exit management, ensuring all
processes are performed in a timely, efficient, and meticulously documented
manner.
Design and own a structured approach
to performance management for short-term staff, overseeing probation, KPI
reviews, and offboarding processes.
Manage payroll administration,
statutory filings, and reporting in collaboration with the Finance team.
Implement a structured approach to
benefits administration across Apollo entities, ensuring alignment with best
practices.
Independently seek and utilize
information to resolve complex HR issues and compliance matters.
Lead policy updates and conduct
bi-annual reviews of the employee handbook, ensuring it addresses employees
across all entities and adheres to the latest HR updates in national policies.
Proactively ensure legal compliance
across all Apollo entities by actively seeking and leveraging pertinent
information in collaboration with company lawyers as well as your own
independent research, and update the necessary documentation accordingly
Deeply understanding every detail of
the existing HR processes and policies and champion improvements, fostering an
environment of critical thinking and inquisitiveness within the team.
Meticulously document key processes,
and ensure that documentation is accessible and easily searchable by relevant
staff.
Demonstrate an interest in data
analytics, extracting actionable insights, collaborating on stakeholder
reports, and taking a proactive approach to address highlighted gaps for
improvements.
Promote the use and optimization of
systems and tools to streamline processes and enhance the overall employee
experience.
Assist in implementing HR programs,
collaborating with the team and staff to identify and establish efficient and
scalable process improvements.
Contribute as a team member by
challenging traditional practices, bringing fresh perspectives, and
collaborating to drive innovation and performance enhancements.
Participate in the implementation of
HR initiatives, working with the team and staff to help identify and create
streamlined and scalable process improvements across the function
Use existing tech tools to create
efficiency and relentlessly advocate for new ways that technology can increase
scalability and efficiency of HR processes
Requirements:
You don’t have to be an HR expert, but
you should be passionate about HR and ideally have a minimum of 7 years of
experience working in an HR team
You don’t want to do things the way
they have been done – you want to find ways to improve them
You’ve worked in a medium to
large-sized fast-paced start up (or a similarly fast-paced context)
You are a stickler for process, and
you balance this with inquisitiveness, curiosity, and a desire to collaborate
with your team and across Apollo
When faced with a problem, your brain
can’t help but generate solutions.
You want to join a team of passionate
people who love what they do
You care deeply about enabling Apollo
to deliver its mission to help farmers increase their profits.
You own your mistakes and see them as
an opportunity to grow and improve.
You love a challenge and you love the
feeling of owning outcomes. You have a deep sense of
accountability.
You’re an excellent communicator –
you’re comfortable writing documents that clearly explain the context for a
given challenge, as well as your recommendations and next steps.
You love and actively solicit critical
feedback on your performance, because you know this will help you grow
You love to use data to draw
conclusions.
You maintain the highest ethical
standards, particularly around maintaining confidentiality
You may not check every qualification
on this list, but you’re confident you could still excel in this role. You are
resilient when unexpected challenges come your way, because you know they will!
You’re calm and steady in a crisis and set an example for others to
follow
We:
Are a collaborative team of smart and
ambitious people who are dedicated to serving our customers
Make magic happen to solve hard
problems and always come with solutions when challenges arise
Are comfortable taking risks that can
result in radical scale, and understand that failures are opportunities to
learn and improve
Are considerate listeners and take the
time to deeply understand and seek out ideas from the people around us, even
when we disagree
Offer a dynamic environment that
fosters talent, collaboration and growth
Take pride in our work and share the
responsibility to see it through from conception to deployment
Back up our talk with a competitive
compensation and benefits package including equity
How To Apply