Role Summary

Husk is seeking a skilled HR Operations Specialist to focus on the practical, day-to-day activities that support the HR department’s functioning and the business’ workforce at large. This includes managing payroll, ensuring compliance with labor laws, maintaining the Human Resource Information System (HRIS), overseeing the onboarding and offboarding processes. The HR Operations specialist will also play a crucial role in executing strategic initiatives, such as improving employee engagement, developing structured onboarding programs, and facilitating a positive work environment.

Key responsibilities:

General

• Talent Acquisition: Support manpower planning and drive the recruiting strategy for the company, while bringing a high level of clarity surrounding hiring plans and metrics.
• Talent Retention: Support the design & and implementation of various short-term and long-term plans for various levels to ensure the retention of critical talent and high performers.
• Training and Development: Evolve systematic Training needs identification, prepare a training calendar and events, and schedule the same as per business requirements.

Payroll & Employee Benefits

• Payroll Management
• Administer health and life insurance programs
• Inform employees about additional benefits they’re eligible for (e.g extra vacation days)

Learning & Development

• Create and execute learning strategies and programs
• Evaluate individual and organizational development needs
• Implement various learning methods companywide (e.g. coaching, job-shadowing, online training)
• Design and deliver e-learning courses, workshops and other trainings
• Assess the success of development plans and help employees make the most of learning opportunities
• Help managers develop their team members through career pathing
• Track budgets and negotiate contracts

Administration

• Update employee records with new hire information and/or changes in employment status
• Update internal databases with new hire information
• Maintain organizational charts and detailed job descriptions along with salary records
• Monitor budgets by department
• Prepare reports and presentations on HR-related metrics like total number of hires by department
• Develop training and onboarding material

Compliance

• Process employees’ queries and respond in a timely manner
• Stay up-to-date and comply with changes in labor legislation

Employee Engagement

• Design an employee engagement engagement strategy.
• Come up with noble employee engagement initiatives.
• Coordinate and evaluate the employee engagement strategy.

Human Resource Operations Specialist

• Abuja, Abuja, Nigeria
• Full-time

Company Description

About Us

Husk Power Systems (“Husk”) is an award-winning clean energy company serving rural India and Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2023, it was named “World’s Best Challenger Brand” in the energy industry and is a 3-time Global Cleantech 100 company. The company’s AI-powered rural energy platform provides 24/7 renewable power to rural households, commercial customers, institutions, and small factories. It also delivers a range of other products and services, including e-commerce and credit financing of branded appliances for home and commercial use, as well as community-based solutions for e-mobility and the agricultural value chain. Husk’s mission is to supercharge economic growth and social well-being in rural communities that are unserved and underserved.

Husk Values

Honesty and Integrity; Act with discipline and integral to your job; Respect each other; Respect Human rights within our responsibility and contractual obligations. Frugal Innovation, Quality and Reliability; Respect for environment, health, and safety. Excellence as an attitude; We shall align perception to a common understanding of performance rating and measures., We > I, Fail Fast and Learn Faster Continuous Learning.

Husk is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity and inclusion and welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, or religion. Husk is committed to improving gender balance within its teams in Nigeria and globally. Female candidates are therefore highly encouraged to apply even if not all requirements are met.

Benefits

Husk offers flexible working conditions with employee benefits that are in line with global best practices. These include clear career growth planning, transparent annual review processes that are gender inclusive, maternity, and paternity leave, gender-inclusive workplace conditions, family health insurance, and frequent training to assist the employees to grow in and to the next roles. Husk does not believe in micromanagement and encourages its employees to have a healthy work-life balance hence giving them the freedom to manage their workload to be compatible with their life.

Job Description

Position Name: Human Resource Operations Specialist

Division / Function:  HR/Admin

Location of the Job: Abuja, Nigeria

Reports to: Assistant Manager, HR & Admin 

Role Summary

Husk is seeking a skilled HR Operations Specialist to focus on the practical, day-to-day activities that support the HR department’s functioning and the business’ workforce at large. This includes managing payroll, ensuring compliance with labor laws, maintaining the Human Resource Information System (HRIS), overseeing the onboarding and offboarding processes. The HR Operations specialist will also play a crucial role in executing strategic initiatives, such as improving employee engagement, developing structured onboarding programs, and facilitating a positive work environment.

Key responsibilities:

General

• Talent Acquisition: Support manpower planning and drive the recruiting strategy for the company, while bringing a high level of clarity surrounding hiring plans and metrics.

• Talent Retention: Support the design & and implementation of various short-term and long-term plans for various levels to ensure the retention of critical talent and high performers.

• Training and Development: Evolve systematic Training needs identification, prepare a training calendar and events, and schedule the same as per business requirements.

Payroll & Employee Benefits

• Payroll Management

• Administer health and life insurance programs

• Inform employees about additional benefits they’re eligible for (e.g extra vacation days)

Learning & Development

• Create and execute learning strategies and programs

• Evaluate individual and organizational development needs

• Implement various learning methods companywide (e.g. coaching, job-shadowing, online training)

• Design and deliver e-learning courses, workshops and other trainings

• Assess the success of development plans and help employees make the most of learning opportunities

• Help managers develop their team members through career pathing

• Track budgets and negotiate contracts

Administration

• Update employee records with new hire information and/or changes in employment status

• Update internal databases with new hire information

• Maintain organizational charts and detailed job descriptions along with salary records

• Monitor budgets by department

• Prepare reports and presentations on HR-related metrics like total number of hires by department

• Develop training and onboarding material

Compliance

• Process employees’ queries and respond in a timely manner

• Stay up-to-date and comply with changes in labor legislation

Employee Engagement

• Design an employee engagement engagement strategy.

• Come up with noble employee engagement initiatives.

• Coordinate and evaluate the employee engagement strategy.

Location and Travel

This role is based in Abuja, Nigeria

Salary

NGN 200,000 to NGN 300,000 based on experience.

Required Skills & Attributes

• 4+ years of human resources, talent acquisition, and Business Development experience preferred. 
• Relevant HR Certification obtained would be advantageous.
• Work experience in the power sector, FMCG, or consumer durable industry will be an advantage.
• Strong understanding of staffing principles, laws, and procedures and solid working experience in the end-to-end recruitment process. 
• Demonstrated experience in Learning & Development 
• Able to provide high-level management support to various business units.
• Ability to drive engagement with relevant internal and external stakeholders.
• Clear and concise communication and presentation skills in both verbal and written contexts.
• Commitment to continuous process improvement in people strategies and initiatives.
• Meticulous in documenting and reporting. Can create working processes and databases for building robust role pipelines.
• Experience within the off-grid (power) sector is a plus.