People and Culture Manager

Background

Tushinde Children’s Trust was founded in the UK in March 2010 and was registered as an NGO in Kenya in March 2011.Tushinde works with vulnerable families in the informal settlements of Mathare and Kiambiu with a main focus on providing them with access to education, health care and social support.

Tushinde is a child-focused employer and committed to child protection and the protection of vulnerable adults. All candidates will be screened prior to employment and every candidate, regardless of post applied for, will be expected to understand and adhere to the principles of child protection.

JD FOR People and Culture Manager

• Manage all core HR departmental areas, including payroll, employee relations, HR admin, learning and development, internal recruitment, employee engagement, and maintaining and improving HR systems.
• Provide advice and direction where needed to the HR team on work priorities, budget and staff resources, strategic, policy, organization and staff management issues.
• Current regulation compliance, including accepted professional standards, policies and procedures and legislation
• Manage the implementation of employment policies.
• Ensure employment law, HR policy, best practice and workforce development are applied.
• Ensure the onboarding process is handled in a professional manner to expedite the settling in period.
• Manage the execution of the HR Strategy to ensure achievement of the objectives.
• Support HR staff to ensure that all relevant professional standards are met.
• Continuously improve engagement and welfare activities, maximizing productivity, devolving HR responsibilities to line managers and building leadership capability. Identify HR trends so that attention can be directed to key issues and resources.
• Identify staffing needs and manage the creation of job descriptions and handbooks.
• Develop and implement management talent planning.
• Develop the organizational structure to support future growth, using best practice principles.
• Manage the Trust’s employee programs, staff benefits and packages.
• Control the performance review program to deliver continuous employee development.
• Regularly coach, mentor, and support colleagues to identify individual strengths and development needs
• Ensure employee training requirements are well managed and monitored.
• Manage the training and development plans and ensure they are of a high standard.
• Conduct annual remuneration and benefit surveys and reviews.
• Determine relevant Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for incentive schemes.
• Manage the diversity, equality, and inclusion values and practices within the organization
• Enabled all team members to access appropriate guidance and information to manage their workload.
• Ensure the off boarding process is handled in a professional manner to ensure everyone is consistently treated fairly.
• Ensure internal HR communications, including any issues, initiatives and programs are well planned, coordinated, relevant, timely and adhere to the company’s values.
• Make sure that company values and approach are utilized to strengthen the organizational culture.
• Demonstrate the company values, championing the leadership behavior framework.
• Demonstrate a high-performance ethic with a focus on successful outcomes.
• Develop and maintain effective relationships to encourage retention and ensure the team perspective is fully represented in decision making.

Essential capabilities required

• Working knowledge of employment regulations.
• Good working knowledge and understanding of regulations, accepted professional standards, policies and procedures and legislation
• Excellent understanding of HR practices.
• The ability to manage the implementation of effective employment policies.
• Good understanding and technical abilities within all HR departmental areas including recruitment, employee relations, workforce administration, employee engagement, payroll, reward and recognition, welfare, learning and development and HR systems.
• A confident leader with experience in leading a team.
• The ability to develop strong working relationships and drive collaboration.
• The ability to accept and provide feedback, be challenged on your advice and work well under pressure.
• The ability to assert your opinion and ideas with confidence.
• The ability to understand HR statistical reports.
• Experience in monitoring and driving KPIs.
• The capacity to make quick but rational decisions. The ability to think innovatively and rationally about decisions and come up with creative solutions.

Qualifications and Experience

• Degree/ Higher Diploma in Human Resource Management or related field
• Minimum of 5 years’ relevant experience in HR
• Professional qualifications in CHRP, IHRM or related field
• Certified as a HR practitioner as per IHRM
• Demonstrated knowledge of the National Labour requirements – Employment Act, WIBA, OSHA, NITA, RBA, SHIF, NSSF, PAYE
• A good understanding of compensation and benefits strategies
• Above average competency with MS Office Suite
• Must have proven strong HR systems and process skills
• Must be a registered member of IHRM
• Working experience in Donor funded institution is desirable

Reporting line:

Directly reports to the Country Director

Compensation: Starting salary of kes 118,951/=

Medical cover