Regional People Partner – Africa

Starting Salary: (KES)6,253,746 – 6,879,122 per annum

Contract: Permanent

Location: Kenya (Hybrid working with minimum 60% of time in our Nairobi office).

*Early applications are strongly encouraged as this role may be closed for applications before the advertised date*

The Regional People Partner – Africa will be responsible for providing HR Partnership and advice across the full spectrum of people management activities including employee relations, organisation design, learning and development, employment law and salary benchmarking to our offices in Africa.

The post holder works alongside a team of People Partners based in the UK who offer peer support to each other in the provision of professional HR Advice and Partnership across the organisation.

The People Partner will work closely with the People Services Officers and be responsible for line managing the People Services Officer – Africa and coordinate the HR Focal Point Network.

They will also work closely with the Recruitment & Talent Partner, Organisational Development Partner, Internal Communications & Staff Engagement Manager, and Safeguarding Advisor. The post holder is line managed by the Head of People Operations.

Key Responsibilities

HR Partnership and Support

• Working with all levels of management to provide strategic support and problem solving in all areas of human resource management by providing advice and support to managers on a wide range of HR issues through the employee life cycle
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with managers, taking an active and accountable role influencing high level decision making on a range of operational matters.
• Support managers in design and shaping of teams and jobs including advice on pay and benefits.
• Ensuring regular communication with managers, building and maintaining strong working relationships.
• Travel to our Africa Offices (Nigeria, DRC, South Sudan) on a frequent basis to develop local capacity for human resource management in particular providing support for HR Focal Points (HRFPs) with Country Representatives with staff handbooks and local employment law.
• Undertake salary benchmarking in Africa Offices to ensure our salaries are in line with the market as directed by the Head of People Operations.
• Coach, support and empower managers to find solutions and implement best practice people management interventions.
• Chair the HR Focal Point Forum and provide training and mentoring to the HRFP’s as appropriate.
• Engage with Staff Associations on people matters alongside the Director of People, Culture and Change
• Ensure safe recruitment practices are consistent across our Africa Offices and in line with the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme and liaise the Safeguarding Advisory Team as and when appropriate.

Employee relations

• Support team leaders with the management of employee relations, including absence management, performance management, grievance and disciplinary.
• Support and provide advice to staff on employee relations issues, offering and sourcing interventions (e.g. mediation) where appropriate

Organizational Development

• Champion organizational learning across all offices in Africa CAFOD by building personal credibility, role modelling desired behaviours and by exercising strategic influence.
• Champion organizational learning across offices in Africa by building personal credibility and role modelling desired behaviours.
• Build managerial capability with regards to effective people management across our managers in Africa
• Provide training and informal coaching to increase the confidence of managers in handling performance issues and formal casework issues.

Support organizational change projects

• Support the delivery of the People Culture and Change strategy through participation and leadership of defined projects within the Africa Region
• Participate in cross-organizational work that shares knowledge and expertise to support CAFODs vision, mission and values.

People Service Support

• Lead, manage, develop and support a People Services Officer by championing our purpose and values through, building strong and safe working relationships, setting SMART objectives and conducting performance reviews, nurturing staff career development.
• Oversee the teams work on contractual administration and correspondence including checking and signing contracts, and other employee correspondence.

The Regional People Partner – Africa will be focal point in the following areas:

• Mentoring program for the Africa teams ensuring mentors and mentees are following the programme.
• Coordinating with the HR Focal point on a regular basis on HR related issues at the country level.
• Travel to our regional offices to conduct HR Audits and recommendations where appropriate.

What We’re Looking For:

The ideal candidate will have the ability to develop a strong rapport and work in collaboration with leaders and managers to enable delivery of organizational and team goals through excellent people management.

Key Competencies:

• Full membership of IHRM (Minimum Bachelor’s degree in HR or related field)
• Experience of working in an HR advisory role within an international organization.
• Ability to manage cross organizational projects.
• Sound understanding of HR processes, including but not limited to change management, organizational development, employee relations case work, resourcing, compensation and benefits, policy development.
• Fluency in French is desirable however not essential.
• The ability to travel to overseas offices for 8 – 12 weeks approximately a year including one trip to our UK Headquarters.

We offer all our employees learning and development opportunities, we provide training, coaching and mentoring to support your development in various aspects of our work.

CAFOD is committed to being an anti-racist organisation and we are keen to increase the diversity of our teams. We are particularly keen to seek out applications from people of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic backgrounds.

There’s room for everyone: Catholics and non-Catholics; people of all faiths and none. We employ people in all corners of the world, of all ages and ethnicities. The result? A friendly and open-minded organisation.

Safeguarding for Children and Vulnerable Adults

CAFOD recognises the personal dignity and rights of children and vulnerable adults, towards whom it has a special responsibility and a duty of care and respect. CAFOD, and all its staff and volunteers, undertake to do all in our power to create a safe environment for children, young people and vulnerable adults and to prevent their physical, sexual or emotional abuse. CAFOD is committed to acting at all times in the best interests of children and vulnerable adults, seeing these interests as paramount. Any candidate offered a job with CAFOD will be expected to adhere to CAFOD’s Safeguarding policy and sign CAFOD’s Code of Behaviour as an appendix to their contract of employment and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these documents. This post does not involve contact with children, young people and vulnerable adults or has responsibility for people who overall will do.

All offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references, and appropriate screening checks can include criminal records and terrorism finance checks. CAFOD also participates in the Inter Agency Misconduct Disclosure Scheme. In line with this Scheme, we will request information from job applicants’ previous employers about any findings of sexual exploitation, sexual abuse and/or sexual harassment during employment, or incidents under investigation when the applicant left employment. By submitting an application, the job applicant confirms his/her understanding of these recruitment procedures.

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