PURPOSE OF POSITION:
Provides quality and efficient leadership, advice and oversight in all aspects of People & Culture across the National Office with the aim of optimizing the performance, sustaining the culture and ensuring alignment with World Vision International’s Global People & Culture strategy, the East Africa Regional P&C strategy and the National Office strategy.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Strategic Leadership and Planning:
- Provide guidance and manage the overall provision of Human Resource policies, strategy, services, and programs for the entire organization.
- Lead the P&C team and participate in strategic and tactical planning sessions for organization effectiveness and individual business units to meet organizational goals.
- Lead, plan and co-implement initiatives towards the realization of the organizational vision, mission and strategic and annual operating plan.
- Develop 3 year P&C business plan aligned with Regional strategy and World Vision Kenya (WVK) strategy.
- Guide/support organizational structure design and redesign efforts to ensure the realization of intended business results and impact.
- Provide expertise on business strategies, human resources processes (including but not limited to Recruitment, Employment, Benefits/Medical, Compensation, Orientation, Staff and Leadership Development), and organizational policies and
- practices.
- Provide Organizational Development (OD) budget guidelines for the various units to incorporate in their annual operational planning.
- Contextualize & Implement new partnership wide P&C policies.
- Align WVK priorities with the East Africa Region’s strategy and ensure they are integrated with partnership standards.
- Provide input into People and Culture related research, provides WVK perspective on analysis and reporting.
- Complete National Office P&C Dashboard, targets and other relevant human capital metrics.
- Ensure personnel record management and WV organizational regulations are in line with the local labor laws and WVK policies.
- Assure P&C enterprise risks management by testing P&C Internal controls. (MWRAP)
- Source and implement desired technologies in alignment with global and Regional requirements.
Compensation, Benefits, and Total Rewards and Employee Engagement:
- Responsible for full implementation of Total Rewards Philosophy in line with HWMS.
- Manage the establishment and approval of compensation & benefits benchmarking markets for the National Office.
- Provide oversight for the establishment of salary ranges for each grade in the WVK.
- Provide strategic planning for movement of staff to appropriate positioning within salary ranges.
- Contextualizes and monitors implementation of partnership compensation programs and strategies in WVK.
- Direct organization-wide initiatives that lead to the health, performance and overall satisfaction of staff.
- Ensure employee safety, welfare, wellness and health.
Staffing, Workforce Planning and Diversity:
- Lead in selection, hiring and termination of human resource staff in WVK.
- Ensure local contextualization (legal/industrial) that results in National Office roles are filled with appropriate candidates, whilst maintaining Global standards, processes, policies.
- Ensure compliance with International Staffing Solutions/partnership staffing policy and protocols.
- Provide staff support to recruitment process and participates in selection as appropriate.
- Conduct annual Workforce Plan for WVK.
- Ensure WVK compliance to Partnership Orientation
- Contextualize Partnership Retention Strategy and ensures execution.
- Contextualizes Partnership Diversity Strategy and ensures execution.
Talent Management & Leadership Development:
- Design, implements and facilitates the talent management process in WVK.
- Lead & provide support to replicate integrated talent management programme.
- Lead the development of People & Culture Staff Professional Skills Development Programmes.
- Advise the National Director to review and validate mission critical leadership positions and their successors.
- Be intentional in identifying and developing leadership skills in Leaders and Managers.
- Cascade Succession Planning across WVK for key Positions (discuss readiness).
- Develop a P&C Succession Plan.
- Manage implementation of Personal Development needs assessment and Development Plans for all P&C critical positions.
- In consultation with EAR P&C, implement coaching and mentoring programmes.
- Coordinate learning & development initiative to ensure fit with WVK priorities.
- Within the Leadership Team, lead change initiatives towards the fulfillment of ongoing cohesion and effectiveness of operations and functions.
Performance Management and P&C Compliance:
- Facilitate initiatives towards integration and delivery of organization performance, health and team cohesion organization-wide (both within Kenya and linking the Kenya office to the wider World Vision International Partnership initiatives).
- Ensure effective and efficient performance management and Individual Development plans.
- Review, analyse & submit annual end of appraisal statistics.
- Provide guidance, advice and support to P&C staff in WVK.
- Guide management and employee actions by researching, developing, writing, and updating policies, procedures, methods, and guidelines; communicating and enforcing organization values.
- Provide support to the SMT at all levels to develop appropriate performance management culture.
- Comply with Kenya labour laws, and local legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation; anticipating legislation; enforcing adherence to requirements; advising management on needed actions.
- Provide and monitor P&C operating budget and monthly expenses against the budget.
- Establish and utilize a network of resources internally and externally to meet the organization’s learning and development needs.
- Direct the HR processes to ensure efficient and effective service delivery to key stakeholders, namely staff.
- Be responsible for employee safety, staff -welfare, wellness and health.
Organizational Development and Culture:
- Design, develop, implement and assess Organizational Development strategies and systems in support of the overarching strategic plan.
- Manage the overall performance and resources of Organizational Development to ensure the effective and responsive delivery of services to senior leaders, managers and all other employees.
- Oversee organizational design guidelines to WVK.
- Provides national resources to execute partnership and local change management approach.
- Ensure Change Management capacity in WVK as appropriate.
- Contextualizes and administers staff well-being programs throughout WVK.
- Conduct the Partnership satisfaction and engagement initiatives within WVK and leads efforts to respond to issues surfaced.
- Ensure Employee Relations(ER) policies and programs within WVK and contextualizes as appropriate; Participates in ER investigations as required.
- Sets ER policies as required.
- Administer the program related to international assignees within the region.
- Contribute to the development of strategic directions and priorities for human resources and organisation development.
- Administer programs that address retention issues in WVK.
- Manage Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) capacity across WVK in alignment with WVK Staff Care strategy.
- Collaborate with WVK Security to prioritise staff safety in WVK, and the building of the appropriate culture that is security conscious.
Administration:
- Provide strategic leadership to Administration function while mitigating operational risks and increasing overall security by establishing systems and mechanisms to ensure ministry effectiveness.
Security:
- To provide strategic security leadership to WVK Management so as to ensure efficient and effective security for staff, assets and program continuity/operations.
Other duties.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:
- The position holder must have a Master’s degree in Human Resource Management, Organizational Development, Business Administration or related field.
- Minimum ten years’ experience in strategic human capital management of which six must be in a senior management position in a reputable organization and minimum three years international experience in relief or development programmes.
- Active membership and Certification from a recognized human resources professional body.
- Must be conversant with local and international labour laws.
- Position requires cross-cultural experience, understanding and sensitivity.
- Proven broad – based experience in leadership, strategic management and results based management in human resources matters.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Good interpersonal relation skills.
- Position requires cross-cultural experience, understanding and sensitivity.
Complete compatibility with WV’s Mission, ethos, policies and core values.
More Information
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