Kenya: Director Human Resources

Organization: Save the Children

Country: Kenya

Closing date: 17 Jun 2016

TITLE: Director Human Resources

TEAM/PROGRAMME: Somalia/land Country Office Senior Management Team

LOCATION: Nairobi with 50% travel to field locations

GRADE: Executive

CONTRACT LENGTH: 2 years

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 3 – the role holder will have contact with children and/or young people either frequently (e.g. once a week or more) or intensively (e.g. four days in one month or more or overnight) because they work in country programs; or are visiting country programs; or because they are responsible for implementing the police checking/vetting process staff.

ROLE PURPOSE:

As a member of the Somalia/land Senior Management Team (SMT) the Director of HR shares in the overall responsibility for the direction and coordination of the Country Office (CO). He/she is accountable to the Country Director to be a strategic business partner to advice and provide effective HR services in both emergencies and development programming contexts.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: Country Director with dotted reporting lines to the Regional Director of HR.

Staff directly reporting to this post: 3 staff i.e. National HR Manager, HR Co-ordinator, Child safeguarding Coordinator,

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

As a member of the Senior Management Team, contribute to:

· Leadership of the Somalia/land Country Office

· Support the development of an organisational culture that reflects our values, promotes accountability and high performance, encourages a team culture of learning, creativity and innovation, and frees up our people to deliver outstanding results for children and excellent customer service for our members and donors

· Help design and implement a coherent organizational structure that is consistent with agency practices and appropriate to program needs

· Help establish, maintain, and improve active and regular working relationships with: host government authorities, partner agencies including humanitarian and development donors, and local and international NGOs

· Ensure the Somalia/land Country Office complies with all Save the Children strategy, policies and procedures, essential standards, legal context.

· Ensure that all required support is provided promptly, at scale and in line with the rules and principles during emergencies, working closely with the Operations departments and Regional Office (as necessary)

· Provide ethical and oversight and leadership across the country office

Staff Management, Mentorship, and Development

· Ensure appropriate staffing and organisation of workload within Human Resources and Administration

· Performance manage the HR/Administration teams providing coaching support and capacity building and development opportunities;

· Manage the HR & Admin team; define expectations, provide leadership and technical support as needed, and evaluate direct reports regularly

Pay and Benefits:

· Liaise with Regional HR to ensure that there is an appropriate job evaluation system in place and that there is continuity between job descriptions, titles, salary scale and organizational charts.

· Develop systems that ensure timely and correct assignment of salary grades to job titles as they are developed. Ensure that all staff have job descriptions, updated and current contracts, which are complaint with local labour laws.

Human Resources

· Develop a best practice HR strategy for the country office: reward, resourcing, employee relations/engagement, talent and performance management, and learning & development, using SCI systems and tools.

· Ensure appropriate timely recruitment, retention and succession of staff relevant for both development and emergencies, and career development for staff.

· Ensure that the reward policies are cost effective, competitive, equitable and implemented effectively. Conduct regular reward reviews using Birches data, and use the analysis to develop and implement employee benefit schemes and insurance packages, to ensure best practice arrangements are in place.

· Lead long range people forecasting & HR planning for the country office.

· Partner with the program teams to ensure that adequate HR inputs are provided and incorporated during development and implementation of all projects/programs.

· Supervise the HR function to ensure that advice and support is provided to managers and staff on interpretation and application of policies and procedures and on other HR related matters.

· Supervise the development and implementation HR practices and processes to meet the evolving needs of the organisation to deliver full spectrum programmes

· Ensure appropriate and adequate emergency HR procedures are detailed in the Country Office Emergency Preparedness Plan in order to enable rapid scale up. Facilitate the HR aspects (such as deployment mechanisms) of the Country"s Emergency Response Team

· Monitor and advise on disciplinary matters in accordance with established policies and procedures.

· Mediate conflict, grievances and harassment cases.

· Ensure that staff and Save the Children Associates are aware of and adhere to the Code of Conduct and Child Safeguarding Policies, Safety and Security policies and procedures.

· Manage relations with the Staff representatives

· Incorporate staff development strategies and Performance Management Systems into Learning and Development

· Manage the performance of all staff in the Human Resources work area through:

· Effective use of the Performance Management System including the establishment of clear, measureable objectives, ongoing feedback, periodic reviews and fair and unbiased evaluations;

· Coaching, mentoring and other developmental opportunities;

· Recognition and rewards for outstanding performance;

· Documentation of performance that is less than satisfactory, with appropriate performance improvements/ work plans

SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (our Values in Practice)

Accountability:

· Takes responsibility for decision-making and efficient resource management, and holds team and partners accountable for delivery of their responsibilities by delegating effectively, affording staff professional autonomy, providing the necessary development to improve performance, and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved;

· Creates a managerial environment across the Country Programme to lead, enable and maintain our culture of child safeguarding, achieving results together with children and role modelling Save the Children values.

Ambition:

· Sets ambitious and challenging goals for self and team, takes responsibility for own personal development, and encourages team to do the same;

· Engages and motivates others by widely sharing their personal vision for Save the Children;

· Future orientated, strategic and global thinker.

Collaboration:

· Builds and maintains effective relationships with team, colleagues, members, donors and partners;

· Values diversity as a source of competitive strength;

· Approachable, diplomatic, and supportive, with well-developed listening skills.

Creativity:

· Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions both on a personal level and by building and leading teams willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

· Honesty, openness, and transparency;

· A strong commitment to Save the Children’s vision of a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development, and participation.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE

• Masters and/or postgraduate specialisation in Human Resources or Business Administration (MBA) with specialisation in Human Resources


• Recommended a minimum of 10 years of management experience in a corporate or an NGO environment, including experience in the development of strategic and operational support services plans and their implementation in a professional work environment over a sustained period of time


• Ability to plan and organise a substantial workload that includes complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities in both development and emergency contexts


• Resourcefulness and creativity in developing the role of HR within the programme and ensuring the most effective support to line management


• Willingness and ability to dramatically change work practices and hours, and work with incoming surge teams, in the event of emergencies


• Experience in capacity building and setting frameworks for staff development;


• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English


• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to demonstrate skills in leading a multi- disciplined team through a period of change


• Analytical, decision making and strategic planning skills and the ability to handle multiple priorities


• Ability to coach, mentor, delegate appropriately and provide developmental guidance to supervised staff


• Competent level skills in HRIS, IT applications, particularly MS Office


• A commitment to the values and principles of Save the Children


• Experience of exposure to developing and highly complex contexts, hardship locations and experience in emergency response setting will be an asset

How to apply:

Interested candidates are required to submit a CV and mandatory cover letter quoting the Job Title and Vacancy Announcement No. SCI/SOM/15/16 on the subject line. The file name of the CV and attachments must be the applicants name and sent to Somalia.vacancies@savethechildren.org. For more information please visit

Applications close on 17^th June 2016

Disclaimer:

Save the Children International does not charge any kind of fee at whichever stage of the recruitment process and does not act through recruitment agents