Director, Africa People Operations at Andela

About You

• This is anything but your standard “HR Operations” role. ​You’ll be the leader and guardian of our Andelans. ​ From performance and productivity, community to culture, this is a challenging role with high expectations.
• The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of meaningful experience in an HR operations leadership role in a challenging and changing environment. Your knowledge and experience are both broad and deep from employment law and best practices to talent management. Experience with design and implementation of a shared service model preferred.

Responsibilities

• Key contributor to the functionality of core people systems: BambooHR, Small Improvements and leverage our HR Systems to reduce administrative burden and improve people data integrity;
• Directs fulfillment and maintenance of team’s regulatory reporting, compliance programs and records retention;
• Develop effective training, support tools, and communication to support the implementation of processes, policies and programs;
• Responsible for project planning from conception to delivery of key people operations initiatives. Including; determining and documenting business requirements, streamlining and improving current processes and presenting new programs to relevant stakeholders as appropriate;.
• Lead a team of HR specialists who are responsible for HR operations, payroll, benefits, and HR tools, policies, processes across 6 countries;
• Create visibility into the impact of the Africa People Ops function, initiatives and progress.

Qualifications

• Strong track record of problem solving and leveraging data to inform decisions;
• Extensive experience and familiarity working across East and West Africa;
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to communicate complex thoughts and strategies with simple, actionable recommendations;
• 9+ years relevant experience;
• Highly collaborative and enjoys working cross-functionally;
• Meaningful experience in a global role and comfortable working in a high growth, fast paced environment;
• Ability to prioritize and succeed in a highly ambiguous environment with competing demands;.
• Comfortable negotiating and managing expectations, influencing up, challenging thoughtfully;
• Expert in leveraging Human Resources Information Systems to achieve growth at scale while providing a great experience to employees;
• Exercise sound judgment and discretion, exceptional ethical leadership;
• Detail orientation with excellent organizational, prioritization skills.

Benefits & Compensation

• Full-time compensation
• Full medical coverage
• Opportunity to work with the brightest minds on the planet
• Oh, and a chance to change the world!