Senior HR Advisor at BBC World Service

Role Responsibility

Reporting to a (London based) International HR Business Partner, you will provide operational day to day HR support to our Kenyan teams and if required, more widely across our African operations. You’ll work across a full range of employee life-cycle activity, advising the business across a wide spectrum of fast-moving people-related issues, ensuring compliance with local legislation.

You will be dealing with local reward and benefits matters, helping to deliver corporate and local reward and benefits strategy as well as advising on local compliance considerations. In this role you will also be playing a part in staff training development initiatives and helping us recruit fantastic and diverse talent for our Kenyan operations.

You will be working as part of a wider international HR team based in the UK and in other territories, who together have a global remit – so there will be opportunities to support global and pan-regional projects.

Are you the right candidate?

Registered by the IHRM in Kenya and holding a CHRP qualification you will bring a solid generalist HR background to this role  Experienced in handling a wide variety of people-related issues both formally and informally you will be an excellent relationship builder with experience of supporting local management teams.  You’ll ideally have industrial relations experience and have worked with local trade unions and delivering employee engagement activity and implementing change.

A team player with experience in a multi-national work place would be desirable but not essential as would experience of or an interest in the media industry.  Fluency in English is necessary, language skills in Swahili, Somali or BBC Horn of Africa languages would be advantageous