Regional Human Resources Advisor, Ipas Alliance, April 2024

Overview:

Ipas works globally so that women and girls have improved sexual and reproductive health and rights through enhanced access to and use of safe abortion and contraceptive care. We believe in a world where every woman and girl has the right and ability to determine her own sexuality and reproductive health.

Ipas, a global, non-profit reproductive health organization, seeking a Regional Human Resources Advisor for Africa located in the Africa Alliance office in Nairobi, Kenya. The Regional HR Advisor is primarily responsible for supporting the Africa Regional HR Manager in identifying staffing needs and facilitating staff recruitment, on-boarding, separation management, enrollment of staff on relevant benefits, and assignment of staff to appropriate training programs across Ipas’s country programs in Africa. Working closely with the country program offices to provide technical expertise and guidance, the Regional HR Advisor supports the development of updated benefits packages and salary benchmarking across the region, based on local markets and international NGO norms. This position submits operational and personnel budgets and reviews and reports on these budgets as required. The Regional HR Advisor implements, reviews and changes organizational and office policies as needed to work towards improving the organizational climate. This position supports Anglophone and Francophone Africa.

Responsibilities:

Works closely with counterparts in English and French-speaking country offices across the Africa region to provide technical expertise and guidance in Human Resources
• Responsible for supporting all of Africa region’s country programs in meeting recruitment needs and supporting onboarding of selected individuals.
• Support in managing any consultants hired to provide human resource services for the Africa regional Country programs.
• Supports Africa region country programs in evaluating and updating benefits packages and salary benchmarking for local market norms
• Ensures all Africa region country programs comply with minimum Human Resources standards (maintaining personnel filing systems, ensuring availability of an up-to-date HR handbook) and local labor laws
• Works closely with Regional HR Manager in Africa Alliance and HR at Ipas’s North Carolina global headquarters for management and technical support
• Prepares annual staff and consultant contracts, tracking and managing renewals or terminations as may be necessary
• Work with Regional HR Manager to design and support relevant learning and development programs for Africa program teams
• Support with HR policies dissemination and interpretation as may be required
• Supports country programs with performance management process guidance
• Conducts employee satisfaction surveys, reports back on their outcomes, and works with Program Country Directors in improving organizational climate
• Coordinates with NC Global HR on human resources programs, trainings, and policies
• Collaborates with in-country Finance Manager in reference to monitoring standard operating procedures compliances and budget utilization
• Works with Program Managers on HR updates, adherence to office policies, and understanding office requirements
• Collaborates with country program staff in reference to office requirements, including staff on-boarding where applicable
• Performs other duties as assigned

Requirements:

Minimum Requirements
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management, Social Sciences or related field
• 8 years’ experience in human resources, especially in a global/multi-country context
• Professional qualification in human resource management
• Demonstrated professional-level oral and written fluency in English and additional French greatly valued
• Previous supervisory experience
• Experience with coaching and mentoring staff related to human resource processes
• Working knowledge of an array of African country labor laws and recruitment strategies
• Experience working in a global matrix organization

Preferred Requirements
• Some international NGO experience
• Relevant Human Resources certification
• Working knowledge of HR policies and procedures
• Ability to travel 30%

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Job City Nairobi

Ipas

Ipas is a global non-profit organization that works around the world to eliminate deaths and injuries from unsafe abortion and increase women's ability to exercise their sexual and reproductive rights. Ipas’s work is grounded in the belief that women everywhere must have the opportunity to determine their futures, care for their families and manage their fertility.

Ipas works to improve women's access and right to safe abortion care and reproductive health services by:

Training doctors, nurses, and midwivesin clinical and counseling skills for abortion, postabortion care and family planning;

Improving health-service delivery to make abortion safer and more accessible for women and less costly for the health system;

Researching the impact of unsafe abortion and documenting best abortion care practices and policies;

Working with advocates and policymakers around the world to support women’s reproductive rights and increase access to safe and legal abortion services;

Engaging with women and men in their communities to expand their knowledge of reproductive health and reproductive rights

Increasing access to reproductive health technologies, including manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) and medical abortion.

Beginning in 1971, the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Office of Population funded Battelle Laboratories’ work to develop nonelectric vacuum aspiration for uterine evacuation. But in 1973, Congress passed the Helms Amendment to the US Foreign Assistance Act, prohibiting the use of any US foreign aid to support abortion services overseas. In response, a group of researchers and others affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill came together to complete development of the manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) technology that Battelle had begun. IPAS — International Pregnancy Advisory Services — was born.Along with the manufacture and distribution of MVA instruments, Ipas’s initial focus was on establishing freestanding abortion clinics in developing countries. Between 1974 and 1980, Ipas supported the opening of 13 clinics in 11 countries.Throughout the 80s and early 90s, Ipas increased its role in the international health arena, helping to increase understanding that unsafe abortion is a significant cause of maternal deaths and injuries, and therefore a public health concern. Ipas coined the term “postabortion care,” which was rapidly embraced by the reproductive health community, including USAID. We undertook important research to inform health systems and guide decisionmaking for service delivery. We began working with national and international policymakers to improve reproductive health policies at every level. And we continued to train health-care providers to deliver woman-centered abortion and postabortion care to the full extent of the law in their countries.We quickly outgrew our original name. But because we were well-known in international reproductive health circles, we didn’t want to lose it completely. Hence, we left the acronym behind and became simply “Ipas” in 1993.

0 USD Nairobi CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week Ipas

Overview:

Responsibilities:

Works closely with counterparts in English and French-speaking country offices across the Africa region to provide technical expertise and guidance in Human Resources • Responsible for supporting all of Africa region’s country programs in meeting recruitment needs and supporting onboarding of selected individuals. • Support in managing any consultants hired to provide human resource services for the Africa regional Country programs. • Supports Africa region country programs in evaluating and updating benefits packages and salary benchmarking for local market norms • Ensures all Africa region country programs comply with minimum Human Resources standards (maintaining personnel filing systems, ensuring availability of an up-to-date HR handbook) and local labor laws • Works closely with Regional HR Manager in Africa Alliance and HR at Ipas’s North Carolina global headquarters for management and technical support • Prepares annual staff and consultant contracts, tracking and managing renewals or terminations as may be necessary • Work with Regional HR Manager to design and support relevant learning and development programs for Africa program teams • Support with HR policies dissemination and interpretation as may be required • Supports country programs with performance management process guidance • Conducts employee satisfaction surveys, reports back on their outcomes, and works with Program Country Directors in improving organizational climate • Coordinates with NC Global HR on human resources programs, trainings, and policies • Collaborates with in-country Finance Manager in reference to monitoring standard operating procedures compliances and budget utilization • Works with Program Managers on HR updates, adherence to office policies, and understanding office requirements • Collaborates with country program staff in reference to office requirements, including staff on-boarding where applicable • Performs other duties as assigned

Requirements:

Minimum Requirements • Bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management, Social Sciences or related field • 8 years’ experience in human resources, especially in a global/multi-country context • Professional qualification in human resource management • Demonstrated professional-level oral and written fluency in English and additional French greatly valued • Previous supervisory experience • Experience with coaching and mentoring staff related to human resource processes • Working knowledge of an array of African country labor laws and recruitment strategies • Experience working in a global matrix organization

Preferred Requirements • Some international NGO experience • Relevant Human Resources certification • Working knowledge of HR policies and procedures • Ability to travel 30%

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