Senior Human Resource Officer Job Placement – Mengo Hospital
Job Title: Senior Human Resource Officer
Organization: Mengo Hospital
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
Mengo Hospital was founded in 1897 in Kampala, and is the oldest hospital in Uganda. It currently serves as an urban community hospital that provides modern medical care. Mengo Hospital provides comprehensive care including radiology, obstetrics, dentistry, orthopedics, and surgery. Additionally, Mengo Hospital provides critical training and education to health professionals through its various programs in midwifery and nursing, health sciences, and laboratory technology. Mengo Hospital also has a dedicated research and development team that works to find new solutions to health issues in Uganda.
Job Summary: The Senior Human Resource Officer will contribute to the strategic objectives of Mengo Hospital (MH) by building effective working relationships with all the department heads, line managers and team leaders throughout the organization to understand the drivers (critical issues & priorities) of the organization and individual needs so that processes are developed to align with needs and in this way create value to the Hospital. (Maximizing productivity of the people and organizational performance).
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- The Senior Human Resource Officer will deputize the HR manager from time to time
- Coordinate Hospital learning and Development function by Identifying training and development needs through training needs analysis, PMS reports, consultation from Program or Unit Heads.
- Coordinate the development of Annual training plan.
- Conduct refresher trainings on HR policy and procedures, occupation health and safety among others.
- Inform Department and unit heads about available trainings from time to time.
- Coordinate training evaluations, training report submissions and bondings of trained staff as per HR policy and procedures.
- Monitoring and reviewing progress of trainees through discussions with Department Heads and immediate supervisors
- Provide necessary support to learners during training interventions from time to time.
- Coordinate development and management of the HR Budget from time to time
- Coordinate the development of the HR business plan and ensure that the plan is
- closely implemented from time to time.
- Coordinate organizational analysis and design with the guidance of the HR Manager and ensure that the organization structures are kept updated and are accurate at all times.
- Champion the formulation of HR policies and procedures; advising the HR Manager where policy amendment is required on a periodic basis
- Identify, trouble shoot and analyze problems / issues that affect delivery of service by HR to the Hospital and solve them with a report to the HR Manager
- HR Correspondence: Implementing Hospital wide communication within and outside the Department on HR related issues as needed from time to time
- Develop good practice, innovative Human Resource initiatives to assist the Hospital to achieve excellence and become an employer of choice
- Leads the design and implementation of improvements to HR programs and systems particularly as it relates to
- Leads the design and implementation of improvements to HR programs and systems particularly as it relates to
- Monitoring HR related contracts and other special contractual arrangements.
- Perform any other duties as assigned by your supervisor from time to time.
Key Performance Indicators:
- Timely and quality service delivery on all training aspects
- Continuous communications & good relationship with external and internal stakeholders
- Timely report submission as required from time to time
- Timely submission of the Monthly HR training status reports
- Timely information dissemination as required from time to time.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The Senior Human Resource Officer must hold a Master’s Degree in Human Resource Management/Business Administration (Management Option), Industrial /Organization Psychology
- Professional Membership to HRMAU (Added Advantage)
- Five years of progressive Human Resource management experience; two years of which should have been in a mid-level management position.
- Four years of progressive experience in Human Resource in a mid-level management position in a similar environment
- Experience in business networking across functional lines and highly skilled in verbal and written communication (persuasive)
- Must understand the MH strategy and create work plans that link that to the HR strategy to create value
- Experience in demonstrating functional leadership
- Skilled in design of employee training and development strategies
- Skilled in process facilitation and coaching
- Planning and organizing skills
- Strong analytical skills
- Team building
- Innovativeness and flexibility
- People management skills – ability to gain leadership and employees trust while influencing positive organizational outcomes
- Strong problem identification and solving
How to Apply:
All interested candidates are required to send their applications, enclosing their CVs , copies of academic and professional certificates along with the names and contacts of three referees. Applications should be sent by post, courier, hand delivered or emailed to reception@futureoptionsug.com and addressed to The Director Executive Recruitment , Future Options Consulting Ltd, 4th Floor, DTB Centre Kampala Road, P.O. Box 34934, Kampala. Uganda
Deadline: 21st May 2018
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