HR Intern Job in Nairobi, Kenya

Position Title: Human Resource Intern
 

Location: Nairobi,

Kenya
 

Position Start: Immediate

Overall Purpose:

 M-KOPA Kenya Limited seeks a HR Intern will be

responsible for the execution of a pro-active and comprehensive range of HR

support and advisory services to internal (HR) and external (business) clients,

plus ensuring that policies and procedures are applied consistently and the

delivery of best practice at all times.  

The HR Intern will be involved in all

administration across the full employee life-cycle including support with the

recruitment process, managing changes and amendments to employee data and the

relevant letters involved and managing the onboarding and exit processes,

ensuring accurate measures are taken and necessary parties informed.

About M-KOPA Solar: M-KOPA Solar, headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, is

the global leader of “pay-as-you-go” energy for off-grid

customers.  

Since its commercial launch in October 2012, M-KOPA has connected more than

240,000 homes in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda to solar power, and is now adding

over 500 new homes each day. 

The success of M-KOPA (M= mobile, KOPA= to borrow) stems from making solar

products affordable to low-income households on a pay-per-use installment

plan. 

Customers acquire solar systems for a

small deposit and then purchase daily usage “credits” for Kshs 40, or

less than the price of traditional kerosene lighting.  

After one year of payments customers

own their solar systems outright and can upgrade to more power. 

All revenues are collected in real-time via mobile money systems (such as

M-PESA in Kenya) and embedded GSM sensors in each solar system allow M-KOPA to

monitor real time performance and regulate usage based upon

payments.  

This connected design means that

M-KOPA is processing vast amounts of data (i.e. over 10,000 mobile payments per

day) via the company’s proprietary cloud platform, M-KOPAnet.

As of January 2015 M-KOPA employs over 500 full time staff across East Africa

and sells through a network of 1,000 direct sales agents. It has also commenced

licensing its technology to partners in other markets.  
 

M-KOPA has been recognised for its

pioneering business mode and scale, notably winning the 2015 Zayed Future

Energy Prize, being selected as the top New Energy Pioneer at the 2014

Bloomberg New Energy Finance awards and earning the 2013 FT/IFC Excellence in

Sustainable Finance Award. 
 

• Provide assistance in Recruitment, Selection
  
  and On-boarding processes



• Maintaining employees details on the HR
  
  database


• Monitoring and managing employee records


• Updating information to enable payroll to run
  
  efficiently


• Dealing with employee relations


• Managing and tracking of contracts 


• Provide HR Administration support

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Human Resource or Business

Administration. IHRM Certificate.

Experience:

 None required.

Knowledge / Skills:

• Personable, able to comfortably and pleasantly
  
  deal with a variety of people


• Strong customer service skills


• Problem solving capabilities necessary to
  
  accomplish the duties and tasks of the position


• Ability to correctly make decisions involving
  
  client issues/ problems including when to escalate the problem to a more
  
  senior consultant


• Exceptional written and oral communication
  
  skills


• Excellent organizational and planning skills


• Ability to effectively learn and acquire new
  
  knowledge and skills.


• Ability to share knowledge and work in a
  
  strong team oriented environment.


• Detail oriented


• Proficient in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and
  
  e-mail

To apply, send an updated detailed

copy of your CV and a cover letter expressing why you feel you would be an

excellent candidate for the role to careers@m-kopa.com with the subject EV-HRI-2053

Deadline for applications 5pm on Tuesday 1st December, 2015.

Please Note: Due to the large number of applications received by

us, we regret that you will not be contacted unless you are short listed for

the post and invited for an interview. Therefore, if you have not heard from

M-KOPA within 4 weeks of the date of the deadline your application, you should

assume that you have not been successful on this occasion.

This measure has been taken in the interests of efficiency and cost

effectiveness and we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.