People & HR Coordinator at Educate!

Roles for the People & HR Coordinator Job

Recruiting, Onboarding, Compensation and Contracting

• Source and recruit high performers to build our growing team in Kenya.
• Run a structured and efficient interview process to select top candidates, ensuring a seamless experience for both hiring managers and candidates.
• Build on and represent Educate!’s brand in the Kenya talent market.
• Negotiate and finalize offers with new hires.
• Draw up and maintain employee contracts, including ensuring that contracts meet Kenyan legal and regulatory standards.
• Run a welcoming, high-quality orientation and onboarding experience to ensure that new staff are well prepared for their roles, understand the organization, and are engaged from the beginning.
• Manage and negotiate contract renewals and promotions.
• Communicate compensation philosophy to team and conduct market research to regularly update salary scale .

HR Administration and Reporting

• Secure, track, and/or administer employee benefits including insurance and annual leave.
• Secure and maintain work authorization for foreign employees as needed.
• Work together with Finance & Operations Coordinator to administer payroll efficiently and accurately.
• Maintain employee personnel files.
• Compile monthly HR report concerning staff, contractors, and volunteers.

Culture, Engagement and Performance Management

• Run performance management and goal-setting and reporting systems for staff, focused on strong individual growth.
• Ensure that the entire team understands and lives Educate!’s culture, including fostering open and strong relationships within the team.
• Establish an environment of open and honest communication and high engagement among Educate! staff in Kenya.
• Manage performance and disciplinary challenges, including administering disciplinary procedures and performance improvement plans when necessary.

Policies, Procedures and Compliance

• Propose, write, and revise and write HR policies as needed and ensure staff know, understand and abide by these.
• Lead creation of training manuals, HR manual and employee handbook, drawing from our manuals in other countries and with support from our Regional Operations and Finance Director.
• Ensure that all policies and procedures are in compliance with the employment law, engaging the services of lawyers where necessary.
• Have knowledge and mastery of the Employment Act and other legal instruments for reference purposes and to inform policy.

People & HR Coordinator Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree, preferably in human resources or a related subject.
• At least 2-3 years of professional experience, with at least some exposure to human resources administration or a related area.
• Some experience working in a startup or social enterprise environment strongly preferred.
• Passion for recruiting and developing top talent.
• Fits our Five Cultural Tenets (see What is Educate! About? below); Learn more by looking at Educate!’s culture deck here.

Terms

• Compensation will be competitive for the social enterprise sector and commensurate with experience.
• Benefits include a generous vacation policy and medical insurance.
• This position will be based in our office in Nairobi.

Why You Will Brag About Working At Educate!

• We’ve got the impact.
• Educate! is designed for scale. We quadrupled operations in 2014, going from 54 to more than 200 schools served. We carefully measure our outcomes, and — here’s the best part — we are maintaining quality at four times the size.
• We believe in local leadership — 96% of our staff is African.
• Our model has gone nationwide in Uganda — Educate!’s model is now incorporated into the national curriculum and exams, impacting many thousands more students than we can reach directly.
• Educate is a well-oiled learning machine. We built our model by methodically testing hundreds of assumptions and we are constantly experimenting, evaluating, and improving.
• We’re honored that luminaries and leaders like Oliver Wonekha, the Ugandan Ambassador to the US, and Ann Veneman, a former Secretary of Agriculture and head of Unicef, believe in us enough to have joined our advisory board.