Human Resources Specialist, January 2025

Human Resources Specialist

Kampala – Uganda

Danish Refugee Council, one of the world’s leading humanitarian NGOs, is currently looking for a highly qualified Human Resources Specialist for our operations in Uganda.

The role has a country focus and ensures compliance to DRC procedures and guidelines in Uganda.

About the job

The HR Specialist supports the HR & Admin Manager in providing HR advice, coordination and management to the HR teams in the country as well as to senior management.

Your main duties and responsibilities will be:

Drive and support recruitment and selection activities ensuring compliance with recruitment process.
Support the implementation of retention strategies and initiatives.
Ensure proper onboarding process by availing of tools and templates to managers and staff.
Support staff development activities including promoting the DRC Learning Catalogue.
Proactively respond to and manage performance counselling with a focus on building manager competency and ensuring that documentation is kept.
Lead the performance management process
Define and review salary structure in partnership with the Senior Management team and coordinate annual compensation review process and compensation adjustments
Lead people well-being initiatives.
Ensure maintenance and communication of staff insurance, liaising with service provider on awareness sessions and monitoring service leave agreement.
Provide guidance on available staff welfare resources for expatriates and national staff.
Act as an impartial mediator in disciplinary procedures and ensure it is administered in an equitable and fair manner and meets all legal and labour regulations and requirements
Ensure proper application of ERP HR processes in the country.
Ensure quality and compliance of HR data and provide reports and data analytics to improve performance in the country.
Ensure staff are aware of Staff Human Resources Handbooks as necessary through training and regular guidance

About you

To be successful in this role we expect you to have a minimum of 3 years’ working experience in Human Resources with at least 2 years in Senior human resources management role in an INGO. Moreover, we also expect the following:

Required

Demonstrated understanding and working knowledge/experience of Human Resources Management principles, concepts & processes
Extensive knowledge on local labour law
Excellent skills in handling and advising on complex people management issues
Experience in developing Human Resources strategies and policies, and driving implementation
Experience using an online system for recruitments
Full professional proficiency in English

In this position, you are expected to demonstrate DRC’ five core competencies:

Striving for excellence: You focus on reaching results while ensuring an efficient process.

Collaborating: You involve relevant parties and encourage feedback.

Taking the lead: You take ownership and initiative while aiming for innovation.

Communicating: You listen and speak effectively and honestly.

Demonstrating integrity: You uphold and promote the highest standards of ethical and professional conduct in relation to our values and Code of Conduct, including safeguarding against sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment.

We offer

Contract length: 1 year

Band: G Non-Management

Designation of Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

Start date: Soonest possible

Salary and conditions will be in accordance with Danish Refugee Council’s Terms of Employment for National employees; please refer to drc.ngo under Vacancies.

Application process

All applicants must upload a cover letter and an updated CV (no longer than four pages) in English. Applications sent by email will not be considered.

Closing date for applications: 19 January 2025

For further information about the Danish Refugee Council, please consult our website www.drc.ngo.

More Information

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Danish Refugee Council (DRC)

The Danish Refugee Council is currently implementing a broad range of activities relevant to conflict affected communities and persons. The activities are categorized in ten sectors:

Shelter and Non-food Items, Food Security, Protection, Income Generation, Coordination & Operational Services, Community Infrastructure & Services, Humanitarian Mine Action, Armed Violence Reduction (AVR), Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH), and Education.

Here you can read some short exemplifications of what types of activities the respective sectors include:

Shelter and Non-food Items: Provision of emergency shelter, emergency cash grants, rehabilitation of housing, distribution of non-food items (NFIs) and provision of return and repatriation kits.

Food Security: Emergency food provision or food voucher programmes. Training and capacity development in agriculture, agricultural inputs (e.g. tools and seeds), agricultural grants.

Protection: Advocacy for the rights of displaced people in their context of displacement, child protection initiatives, individual protection assistance based on vulnerability, legal aid, land & property rights, sexual and gender-based violence prevention, registration services for the internally displaced and refugees, monitoring of rights and rights awareness-raising, facilitation of return and repatriation processes.

Income Generation: Business training and SME development, business grants, life-skills training, literacy and numeracy training, vocational training, micro-credit loans, savings groups, group enterprise development and facilitation.

Coordination & Operational Services: Coordination and management of refugee and IDP camps, active participation in UN cluster coordination, humanitarian surveys and studies, facilitation of NGO Networks focused on displacement solutions, capacity development, training and support to local NGOs, secondment of experts to UN emergency operations worldwide

Community Infrastructure & Services: Provision of physical infrastructure like roads, bridges, community centres, irrigation systems or other community structures, facilitation and training of infrastructure management groups at community level, facilitation and funding of community development plans, initiatives for disaster risk reduction at community level.

Humanitarian Mine Action: Manual or mechanical mine clearance, clearance of former battle areas, education for affected communities – with special focus on children on how to avoid harm from mines and UXO, surveys of expected and confirmed mined or UXO areas, explosive ordnance disposal and stockpile destruction, capacity building of national demining institutions.

Armed Violence Reduction (AVR): Education in procedures for safe storage and safe handling of small arms and light weapons (SALW), capacity building of institutions for safety, local and community level conflict management and mitigation.

Water, Sanitation & Hygiene (WASH): Emergency water supply, hygiene item distribution, hygiene information and education, construction of latrines, installation water points, wells and water storage. Water purification.

Education: Education grants and fee support, school feeding programmes, teacher training and support, school materials provision and construction or rehabilitation of school structures.

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