Director, Human Resources - Africa Regional Office at Rockefeller Foundation

This position requires frequent work with confidential information including employee information, compensation, and benefits. The Director of HR will be responsible for providing strategic advice to hiring managers, counseling managers and employees on labor, leading recruitment for departments, expanding recruitment sources, facilitating compensation policies to managers, overseeing the performance management process, managing benefits plans and programs, supporting learning and development programs, supporting career development plans for staff, ensuring regulatory compliance, and supporting the roll-out of new HR systems. The position will supervise administrative staff.

This role is located in Nairobi, Kenya and valid Kenya work authorization is required.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Serve as the HR thought partner to the MD, Africa, and regional staff.
• Manage recruitment activities for regional staff and on-boarding new staff. On-boarding includes ensuring new staff is briefed on all policies and procedures, structure, history, and work of the Foundation, with appropriate introductions made. Coordinate professional staff’s NY orientation with the NY HR team.
• Manage and coordinate visa and work permits for international staff.
• Manage the selection of benefits for local staff, working with the MD ARO and the NY HR team (for Benefit Committee approval when necessary).
• Manage benefits administration – enrollment, renewals, and troubleshooting issues for staff.
• Manage all employee requests and needs related to Human Resources policies and procedures.
• Maintain up-to-date policies and ensure these policies are updated in the Employee Handbook and distributed/communicated to staff.
• Work with the NY HR team to manage annual merit increase processing for the regional office.
• Identify training needs of staff through the annual Performance Appraisal process and ongoing discussions with staff, and coordinate the appropriate training for each staff member, partnering where useful with NY HR.
• Prepare the annual HR budget working and manage the budget use and expense throughout the year.
• Assist managers and employees with compensation and pay-related issues to ensure fair and equitable application of compensation policy; oversee the performance management cycle and ensure all employees receive formal and written annual reviews.
• Provide employees with advice and coaching on employee relations Works with senior leadership in the regional office and MD Compensation to develop compensation strategies to support the short-term and long-term needs of the business.
• Design and implement broad-based, equity and executive compensation programs.
• Partner with business partners, talent management, talent acquisition, and other HR areas to ensure that compensation programs are aligned across HR.

Education, Experience, and Skills

• Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science in a related field, Master’s degree highly desired.
• Generally expected to have ten years of related HR generalist experience with three to five of those years in a managerial role.
• Experience working in a matrix environment.
• Experience working in an organization with both local and international staff.
• Experience hiring and managing HR processes for staff in multiple countries/jurisdictions including understanding labor laws, benefits, taxes, etc. in those jurisdictions and advising hiring managers on requirements.
• Experience managing reorg/restructuring environments as relates to HR.
• Knowledge of compensation administration and design.
• Experience managing employee relations.
• Demonstrated experience in supervising staff and/or managing small teams.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills and detail orientation, as well as the ability to prioritize tasks, manage projects, and meet deadlines.
• Excellent judgment and decision-making skills.
• Ability to work with all levels within the organization and with a diverse employee population.
• Excellent computer skills, including proficiency in MSWord, Excel, and HRIS/HRMS.
• Ability to handle confidential information.
• Experience administering performance review processes.

Qualifications and Competencies

• Balances Stakeholders: Anticipates and balances the needs of multiple stakeholders.
• Develops Talent: Develops people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.
• Directs Work: Provides direction, delegating, and removing obstacles to get work done.
• Manages Complexity: Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
• Values Differences: Recognizes the value of different perspectives and commits to inclusion, equity, and diversity in every aspect of work.