Director of People and Culture at Eden Solutions and Resources

Job Description

• As the Director of People & Culture, your duties is to lead our client’s company in recruiting, developing, and retaining talented people and create a positive and high performing work climate that employees can boast of.

What do you need to be successful?

• Recruit, develop, and retain the right people needed to achieve the company’s objectives
• Set clear direction and manage priorities across the people function.
• Create, communicate and evolve our policies, frameworks, systems and practices, to ensure all people activities are executed smoothly throughout the employee lifecycle.
• Recruit and maintain a pipeline of talent.
• Implement applicant tracking systems and processes.
• Help build and oversee an employer brand that attracts the very best talent.
• Work with management on compensation and benefits packages

Improve and maintain a high level of team member satisfaction and quality of life:

• Promote a positive company culture and open communication.
• Work with management to create a positive work climate, threw employee surveys, temperature checks, and change management.
• Implement and improve processes around contracts, pay slips, authorizations, sick leave, annual leave, absences due to maternity/paternity, etc. (with HRIS if necessary)
• Develop our DEI strategy, to ensure we are an inclusive employer for all

Empower team members to operate at their full potential:

• Partner with managers and team leads, coaching them and enabling them to foster a culture of high performance, including objective setting, appraisals and employee management and development.
• Work with management to set OKRs and evaluate the performance of each team member.
• Work with management to create a comprehensive training and development program for staff.

Ensure compliance with all employment laws and regulations:

• Proactively ensure offer letters, employment contracts, and confidentiality agreements follow laws and regulations.
• Review and maintain the Employee Handbooks
• Ensure new recruiting and hiring strategies follow laws and regulations.

Be a team player:

• Participate in all monthly 360 feedback sessions.
• Continuously learn by participating in 6 relevant webinars or by reading 6 relevant books per year and share what you learned with the team at monthly lunch & learns and/or through a blog post.

How important are you to the bottom line?

• As the Director of People and Culture, you play a pivotal role in shaping our client’s company success by optimizing its human capital, fostering a positive culture, and aligning HR strategies with business goals.
• Their contributions impact talent acquisition, retention, organizational culture, and overall company performance.

What should you have done in your career?

• Experience working in or with tech startups or tech enabled companies.
• A strong background in technology and in a high growth business (eg a scale-up); you thrive in dynamic working environments.
• International experience with multinational teams and office locations.
• Experience recruiting for C-Suite, technical and non-technical roles in African and global markets.
• Proven expertise in all things people operations: talent, performance, compensation and benefits, employee engagement and retention, org design, career development etc
• Must be willing to roll up your sleeves and get things done
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills
• High level of autonomy and accountability
• Comprehensive ability to liaise with Legal team on employment law across several Jurisdictions.