People & Culture Manager Employment Opportunity – Grant Thornton
Job Title: People & Culture Manager
Organisation: Grant Thornton
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
Grant Thornton is one of the world’s leading organisations of independent assurance, tax and advisory services. Grant Thornton Uganda is a member of Grant Thornton International Limited, with offices in Kampala and Jinja. Grant Thornton boosts an opportunity to be part of 38,500 dynamic people working cohesively to provide seamless services to clients in more than 130 countries across the globe.
Job Summary: The People & Culture Manager will provide you with the opportunity to make a difference by helping to fully leverage the skills and talents of all our people. You will focus on helping in driving the Firm’s people strategy, creating a unique people experience, and supporting our Firm wide values by working with the core competencies that measure, drive individual, and Firm wide success in the marketplace.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- People experience: delivering the experience to make Grant Thornton place people love to work.
- Talent management: managing the firm’s talent to ensure maximum productivity
- Board representation: a representative of the people agenda at the Board
- Culture alignment: assessing and driving the firm to a high performance culture.
- Communication: main communication channel from leadership to employees and vice versa.
- Strategic leadership: spearhead the firm’s strategy, develops, implements and monitors the HR Strategy and monitors the entire firm’s strategy implementation
- Employment laws compliance: knowledgeable of employment law and ensures compliance to all labour laws
- People analytics: analyzing HR information/data to make sound decisions. Developing monthly reports on human capital matters
- Workforce planning: identifying and analyzing all human capital needs of the firm and aligning them to the recruitment plan
- Measurement: carrying our employee engagement surveys annually.
- Leadership development: developing all Directors and Partners to ensure attainment of the firm’s objectives.
- Recruitment & selection: delivering a candidate experience while ensuring timely selection of quality candidates.
- Orientation: delivering a warm welcome to the new hires while deeply embedding the firm’s values
- Training and development: carrying out the firm’s training needs analysis and ensuring training opportunities for all, completely monitoring the ROI and effectiveness of training. Focus on both technical and soft skills.
- HR Audits: leading annual HR Audits to ensure compliance and relevance of HR policies and employment Act
- Performance management: managing performance
- Discipline management: setting up and managing the employee discipline process in line with Kenya Employment Act
- Employee relations: responding to employee queries.
- Compensation & Benefits: overseeing all company benefits administration, carrying out compensation surveys to ensure competitiveness in remuneration.
- Employee separation: leading the separation process while ensuring the brand is maintained and protected while monitoring staff turnover and developing retention strategies.
- Exit management: managing the exit of employees both voluntary and involuntary
- Alumni relations: maintaining relations with alumni
KPIs
- Deliver a people experience across the firm.
- Creation of a good working environment.
- Effective recruitment in both quality and time factors.
- Prompt response to employee needs/requests.
- Creation of performance driven culture
- Effective workforce planning.
- Alignment of P&C to the overall strategy.
- Cost effectiveness in line with human capital.
- Staff retention
- Realization of growth in employees through unlocking their potential.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold a Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources Management or Social Sciences.
- Professional certification is highly desirable
- Master’s Degree in a relevant field will be an added advantage
- At least 5 years of mid-senior management experience in an HR lead role
- Previous team experience and knowledge of team dynamics desirable.
- Remains productive when under pressure.
- Demonstrates a systematic and efficient approach to work.
- Works collaboratively with team members to achieve results.
- Relates and works well with people of different cultures, gender and backgrounds.
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Flexibility and prepared to work additional hours
- Prepared to seek advice and guidance from People and Culture lead and other HR Colleagues.
- Good time management skills and flexibility to continuously re-prioritize
- Ability to multi-task
- Willingness to take both initiative and direction;
- Ability to create a welcoming and comfortable environment for all staff members;
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team;
- Able to respond rapidly to changing environments, yet remain productive and focused;
- Strong and fast computer skills (primarily Word, Excel, and Power Point);
How to Apply:
If you fit the description, please send your CV to the following email address: lynette.musyimi@ke.gt.com
Deadline: 26th December 2019