HR Coordinator

About the job

The HR Coordinator is responsible for providing overall advice, coordination, and technical support to the Human Resources team in the Regional Office.

The role has a Regional Office focus and ensures compliance to DRC procedures and guidelines within the office. The role contributes to the development of office strategies, which are translated into action plans and day-to-day tasks. The role provides support and/or technical guidance to Regional Office operations while overseeing activities.

More specific responsibilities of the HR Coordinator are:

• Oversee recruitments in the regional office and ensures recruitments are compliant with the recruitment policies and that staff and hiring managers are familiar with the process.
• Ensure the annual performance evaluation process is followed and all staff and managers are familiar with the process
• Drive the onboarding and induction process in the regional office, for national and international staff
• Advise managers or staff on training and development opportunities
• Support people well-being initiatives
• Ensure that national staff contracts are aligned with DRC minimum standards and the local labour law.
• Ensure high quality HR data
• Implement and maintain the Global and Regional HR policies in the Regional Office, ensuring that the local labour law is taken into account
• Proactively pursue continuous process improvement in Human Resources related practices in order to enhance the quality and efficiency of output/delivery.

About you

• To be successful in this role we expect you to have minimum 3 years of relevant experience working in HR in Humanitarian or Development NGO’s.

Moreover, we also expect the following:

• Demonstrated understanding and working knowledge/experience of Human Resources Management principles, concepts & processes
• Extensive knowledge on Kenyan labour law
• Excellent skills in handling and advising on complex people management issues
• Experience in developing Human Resources strategies and policies, and driving implementation
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate clearly.
• Positive attitude and service oriented. High level of personal initiative and ability to work with minimum supervision.
• Awareness and sensitivity to multicultural work – development and ability to form and facilitate dialogue between a diverse group of people with diverse skills and working styles;

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