Employee Relations Specialist at Ikeja Electricity Distribution Company

Reporting To: Head Employee Relations

Role Purpose

• Conceptualizes new employee welfare initiatives and think of ways of implementing and monitoring them.

Responsibilities

• Must understand how to design, manage and foster the employee engagement agenda for the Company
• Fosters and supports ways to create a conducive environment, providing employees with counseling and/ or advice on personnel policies.
• Provide interpretive guidance on HR policies, practices, and procedures.
• Understand the design and management of HMO Service Model while ensuring the seamless management of the Company Medical Benefit Scheme.
• Maintains up-to-date knowledge about employment law as it relates to employee relations.
• Oversees leave management, leave data analysis and introduction of initiatives to promote effective leave utilization.
• Organization (HMO) and act as the liaison between employees and the HMO, mitigating issues to the minimum.
• Design and update the policies as it relates to wellness, engagement and welfare for staff
• Responsible for sending potential candidates on pre-employment medical
• Review service level agreements on medical plans and ensures effective negotiation with the service providers.
• Responsible for overseeing and ensuring the effective management of the HR Helpdesk
• Conducts various engagement initiatives and ER communication for employees as required.
• Oversees the onboarding/induction of new employees, liaising with the appropriate function to ensure that new hire have a good experience
• Provides interpretive guidance on leave and medical policies, practices, and procedures.
• Fosters and supports ways to create a conducive environment, providing employees with counseling and/ or advice on personnel policies.
• Ensures the availability of right terms and conditions of service and enabling the right infrastructure and facilities that will enable a healthy work climate.
• Provide interpretive guidance on HR policies, practices, and procedures.
• Supervises all activities related to terminal benefits, voluntary retirement cases, loans and allowances, employee grievance and establishment matters.
• Creative with the ability to engage diverse stakeholders and have a strong communication and writing skills
• Support in the development and deployment of the IE Culture transformation strategy.
• Comply with Quality Management System / Occupational Health & Safety requirements including objectives and applicable regulations relating to assigned jobs
• Perform any other duties as requested by the Unit Head and Head Of Department

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in HR or related field
• Minimum of 7 years’ experience within the employee relations space
• Good knowledge of Nigerian labor laws and Global HR best practice standards
• Ability to manage HR project roll outs and employee engagement processes within a large organization

Behavioral Competencies:

• Strong Oral and Written Communication Skills
• Interpersonal Relations
• Supervisory/Managerial Skills
• Problem Solving and Decision Making
• Managing Resources
• Business Focus
• Analytical Skills
• Creative and Innovative
• Vendor Management