Head, Human Resources at The Elevation Church

Job Description

• This role exists to plan, attract, recruit, develop and retain the talent that will ensure delivery of organizational objectives and goals, guarantee continued and sustainable processes.
• This role also leads professional and strategic HR delivery to Management, and creates a high-performance culture.

Responsibilities
HR Strategy:

• Design HR strategy in alignment with organizational objectives
• Ensure measurable indicators to ascertain the value of HR’s role in organizational strategy implementation
• Create an atmosphere that allows talent to thrive and provides ROI on employee acquisition and retention strategy
• Design and deliver programmes that ensure synergy across all business functions and alignment with corporate objectives

Talent Management and Organizational Development:

• Facilitate the design, deployment and implementation of all organizational change projects.
• Design and facilitate various interventions in line with people development needs
• Develop action plans from Employee Engagement Surveys to improve overall employee engagement and organizational performance.
• Implement the Learning and Development Strategy of the Organization in line with TEC’s objectives
• Design leadership framework and implement with management development programmes to ensure a future pipeline for TEC
• Conduct talent reviews and implement succession planning
• Facilitate and monitor performance management systems and cycles
• Review and maintain organizational structures to ensure alignment and optimality.
• Develop and review onboarding and integration/induction process of new employees
• Design appropriate channels for employee communication and review impact for continuous improvement
• Ensure adequate and effective policies, procedures and programs framework for HR service delivery

Employee Services and Administration:

• Design and oversee employee leave administration
• Ensure effective Employee Record Management and adherence to data privacy laws
• Manage and provide data on Employee resumption & exits
• Create and maintain Employee loans process, ensuring zero exposure to the organization
• Ensure remittance to appropriate pension institutions as provided by employees and management of data and process.
• Coordinate relationships with service providers on all benefits and incentives schemes and ensure best practices
• Work with other organizational stakeholders to develop and implement processes aimed at reducing exposure to workplace hazards
• Develop processes to ensure effective education and training of staff on Safety and Health measures
• Facilitate employee health awareness programmes
• Organize employee activities geared towards enhancing work-life balance

Employee Relations Management:

• Manage all employee and employer-related issues and ensure no litigations or any such associated issues to the organization
• Manage all disciplinary and grievance issues for complete resolution
• Ensure an atmosphere of cordiality and an effective conflict management process.

Talent Planning and Acquisition:

• Develop an effective manpower planning process in alignment with Organizational strategy per time
• Determine critical profiles based on organizational requirements and design an appropriate sourcing strategy for the same
• Based on the manpower plan, identify recruitment needs and design effective programmes for selection and retention
• Create and maintain the employee value proposition and employer brand
• Continually provide innovative ways to project the image of TEC as the employer of choice via all media with a special focus on social media
• Maintain headcount as per manpower plan

Employee Compensation and Benefits:

• Conducts periodic Employee costs forecasting and annual budgetary management ensuring cost savings for TEC
• Implement Pay structure design and maintain structure to ensure equity and internal parity of compensation for all employees
• Bonus, rewards and recognition design and implementation to attract and retain best of talents for TEC
• Provide required input for Payroll management
• Conduct effective Tax administration ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements while providing the organization with the best options for increased disposable income for employees
• Design and implement compensation policies and programs that will provide a competitive edge for TEC and guarantee employee retention
• Implement and maintain Group life, Medical scheme and requirements of workmen compensation act as stipulated within the regulatory framework
• Conduct compensation surveys, provide benchmarking data to aid compensation strategy

HR Analytics and Reports:

• Ensure the integrity of HR data
• Provide HR data to support organizational strategy
• Conducts trends and analysis on workforce/HR metrics and provide meaningful data to aid organizational decisions
• Continually review HR processes and workflows to ensure operational efficiency

Skills and Knowledge
Educational Qualifications Relevant Experience:

• A Bachelor's degree from an accredited university
• A professional qualification of CIPMN, CIPD, SHRM, HRCI
• Minimum of 10 years in an HR generalist role 
• Minimum of 3 years of team leadership experience

Functional/Technical Skills:

• Advanced ability to develop and integrate HR strategies and initiatives with the company's strategies with no supervision
• Excellent ability as a consultant/negotiator to influence company senior management
• Knowledge of Human Resources laws and regulations as well as global best practices
• Strong budget and management skills, including proven ability to project/process manage

Attitude and Behavioural Skills:

• Ability to deal with ambiguity, tight timelines, multiple priorities, and demanding customers, in a fast-moving, constantly changing environment
• A high degree of professionalism, maturity, and confidentiality
• Very good interpersonal and presentation skills
• Strong People skills- Building Collaborative Relationships, Highly developed, demonstrated teamwork skills
• Strong oral and written interpersonal skills
• Demonstrated ability to see the big picture and provide useful and strategic advice and input across the company and on the executive team.
• A creative, forward thinker
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills