HR Business Partner at Telkom Kenya

Reporting to:          Chief Human Resource Officer

Band:                           4.1

Department:           Human Resources 

Role Purpose

Reporting to the Chief Human Resource Officer (CHRO), this position is a key partner to management on broad business issues by integrating HR functional expertise with Business-wide business objectives. With the guidance from Chief Human Resource Officer, this role provides support to the respective business divisions by driving and delivering employee-centred programmes as well as services to support the digital growth of the business.

Working For Us, We Expect You To:

• Acquiring the desired talent for the respective business units
  • Identifying core organizational competencies and individual capability requirements
  • Developing diverse, flexible, safe and alternative work arrangements
  • Conducting talent succession and retention planning
  • Installing Career development and employee assistance practices that assist employees in managing their own career
  • Embedding the recruitment, selection and promotion methods to hire, orient and assimilate the desired talent.
• Engaging the workforce
  • Installing Performance Management systems that attune individual and team behavior with strategic direction, core values and Telkom Competencies
  • Linking total rewards to capability and performance
  • Contributing to the creation of recognition systems that reinforce strategic direction, core values and Telkom Competencies
• Organizing High Performing teams
  • Understanding, designing and developing teams
  • Developing programs that reward and reinforce teamwork.
• Creating a Learning Culture
  • Embedding learning and intellectual capital quickly across the organization by all employees
  • Providing feedback on HR measurements and driving the attainment of various HR KPIs within the business.
  • Creating ways to encourage creative thinking and innovation within the business
• Facilitating Cultural Change
  • Engaging in a continuous process of communications, dialogue, discovery and assessment to deepen everyone’s shared understanding of the organizations vision and desired culture verses its current status
  • Shaping and developing collective management skills (Telkom Leadership Competencies) in support of desired culture
  • Designing and organizing structures and people management roles
• Collaborating with stakeholders
  • Developing the knowledge, awareness and skills of employees to operate in a global environment while being relevant in our market place.
  • Understanding, developing and maintaining strategic alliances and networks including outsourcing
  • Maintaining positive people environment and competitive advantage in the marketplace

Academic background & Professional Knowledge

• Bachelor’s Degree in HR or related field
• Extensive leadership and successful HR experience in a variety of disciplines, especially employee engagement, recruitment and compensation & benefits
• 8 years proven work experience in HR with at least 3 as an HR subject matter expert
• Previous experience of direct supervision of a team of HR professionals
• Minimum 5 years in a HR role in a comparable environment, 3 years at senior management level, on a consultative or partnership capacity.
• Extensive leadership and successful HR experience in a variety of disciplines, especially employee engagement, recruitment and compensation & benefits
• Proven experience in complex change processes
• Previous experience of direct supervision of a team of HR professionals
• Must be an active member of IHRM.

Here Are The Skills We Are Looking For:

• Unquestionable integrity, confidentiality and professional maturity
• Energetic, drive, assertive and ability to take own initiative, possess a “can do” attitude
• Ability to influence, collaborate and build consensus
• Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines
• Build and sustain effective relationships within the business
• Excellent communication