Country People (HR) Manager (HR Business Partner) at Heifer International

Description

Heifer International is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with some form of specially-abled.

Since 1944, Heifer International has helped more than 36 million families lift themselves out of hunger and poverty.

Our goal is to help families achieve living incomes, which will allow them to feed their families daily, educate all their children; and have proper housing, water, hygiene, and other essential resource. When many families gain this new sustainable income, it brings new opportunities for building schools, creating agricultural cooperatives, forming community savings, and funding small businesses.

Heifer Nigeria’s contribution to the Global 10 million households target is to help 1 million of Heifer Africa’s 6.745 million households achieve sustainable living income by 2030. Heifer Nigeria’s maiden Signature Program – Naija Unlock – is setting the pace, focusing on Tomato, Rice and Poultry as primary value chain and small ruminant, horticulture and cattle as secondary value chain. Heifer Nigeria is where it is happening now – impacting the lives of small holder farmers.

At Heifer Nigeria, we are looking for a dynamic, flexible and results focused People Business Partner to fill the role of Country People (HR) Manager. The position holder will support Heifer’s strategic objectives by managing the People Function in the country office of Nigeria as well as contributing to the Africa People Strategy via a matrix management structure.

Are you excited to join the diverse, passionate team and help save lives and increase sustainable living Income for smallholder farmers?

The Role

Reporting Directly to the Heifer Nigeria Country Director with a matrix reporting relationship to the Africa People Director, the position holder, will actively engage in business strategy development and contextualisation, assist business and senior management to identify the emerging people issues, and support organizational change processes as well as broker HR solutions for country programmatic impact. The role will further, develop and coordinate the implementation of the people strategy for Heifer Nigeria in line with the business strategy and the group people strategy.

The role will foster a customer service culture, coordinate with external and internal customers of the HR function and deliver HR services as per the expected standards. Therefore, the role will also provide operational leadership in the areas of performance management, talent management, recruitment, reward, health and safety, learning and development, organizational development, and HR business processes. 

The Person

 You will be a university graduate with significant HR training and 8-10 years experience, 5 of which will be in managing HR function in a dynamic organization. To meet the diverse needs of this role, you will have a strong strategic HR operation, customer service orientation; flexibility, ability to prioritize competing demands, good project management, and interpersonal skills backed with the ability to work within a team, and autonomously.  You will have good computer skills and previous experience in developing teams and working with senior leaders. Knowledge of legal employment obligations in line with the national labor law will be an added advantage. Experience working in an International/Multinational private sector, NGO, and/or governmental environment will be an added advantage.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DELIVERABLES

People strategy

• Develop and monitor overall HR strategies, systems, tactics to respond to country needs while aligning with regional and global People Strategy and objectives.
• Strive to achieve global, regional, and country People Objectives relevant to the country.

Recruitment Talent Acquisition

• Work with country directors and other stakeholders to assess talent needs for proposals and new projects.
• Manage full cycle including, posting, interviews, checking references, background screening, contracting, and onboarding while staying in compliance with Recruitment Policy and SOP.
• Manage Recruitment process documentation and recruitment data base and reporting

 Employee Engagement and Relations

• Ensure legal compliance throughout human resource management processes and guidelines
• Maintain high quality HR records and systems. Keep local and global HRIS systems up to date.
• Produce timely and high quality reports on major personnel changes, department objectives, and global KPIs. Keep secure human resource records and maintain confidentiality.
• Help the Regional HR representative to complete timely internal HR Audits.
• Bridge management and employee relations by addressing demands, grievances, or other issues
• Work closely with Regional HR team to facilitate in Diversity Inclusion initiatives.
• Oversee and manage a performance appraisal system that drives high performance.

Compensation Management

• Participate in compensation reviews and benchmarking and work closely with Regional People team .
• Drives internal equity through following the applicable compensation policies and advising management on compensation levels based on internal equity and external competitiveness analysis.
• Maintain and work with regional and global team pay plan and benefits program.

 Learning & Development

• Identify in country training needs, plan, manage and coordinate the delivery of learning solutions across the business ensuring the completion of training plan including the mandatory training of the Organization.
• Provide advice and coaching to line managers in country according to established HR policies and procedures to enable people management topics.

 ESSENTIAL COMPETENCIES

• Ability to manage complexities, cultivates innovation, is action oriented and plans and aligns work process to drive excellence,
• Ability to manages the culture and environment of the organization relative to country, regional and HQ levels. Ability to adapt and be flexible to act in a changing and complex environment, with a multitasking mindset.
• Deep understanding of INGO or global context. Strong understanding of country labor law.

 QUALIFICATION AND SKILLS 

• Proven 8-10 years experience, 5 of which will be in managing HR function in a dynamic organization.
• Previous experience with an International NGO is highly valued.
• A college degree in Human Resources, Business or a related field. Continued HR education/certification is a major plus
• Comfortable learning new technologies and HR systems. Previous experience with HRIS
• Experience in implementing strategy, meeting objectives, and working within a matrix structure.
• Excellent influence skills, active listening, negotiation and presentation skills
• Competence to build and effectively manage interpersonal relationships at all levels of the company
• In-depth knowledge of Nigeria Labor Law.

The closing date for receiving applications is 30/05/2022.

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