HR Officer at Healthy Entrepreneurs

Main objective:

Ensure smooth HR processes, implement, and improve structures and systems. Identify organizational HR needs.

Responsibilities:

• Strengthening the HR system.
• Improve and execute HR contract management & remuneration
• Further develop and support Performance Management.
• Encouraging the HE Core values:
  • Customer-centricity
  • Empowerment & Inclusion
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Communication & Collaboration
  • Transparency & Integrity
• Employee Relations: Provide an excellent internal customer experience by creating clear channels for employees to raise questions or concerns.
• Support the establishment of a positive working culture.
• Review, update, classify and reclassify job descriptions for existing and new positions.
• Execute and improve HR Admin, supporting implementation of Odoo for HR.
• Execute and optimize the recruitment strategy, including assessments.
• Compliance to employment and labour laws.
• Develop and review of HR policies/manuals (monitor and follow-up) and processes.
• Ability to facilitate internal trainings, mainly on soft skills and growth.
• Further build the learning function (HE Academy, implement elements of continuous learning).
• Support development and coaching of the HE teams managers.
• Capacity building on gender inclusive HR strategies and safeguarding/SHE (safety, health, environment).
• Handling Disciplinary and HR issues.
• HR Law & Tax Compliance.
• Bring in Best HR practices, tools, new technologies in HR, talent management.

The Senior HR Officer and the HR officer will work closely together with the Global HR Manager and the HR officer in Uganda.

Work experience:

• For the senior role: a minimum of 6 years working experience in an HR role, out of which at least 2 in a senior role.
• For the officer role: a minimum of 2 years in an HR role.
• Master’s degree in HR for the senior role and a bachelor for the officer role, management, or related topic.
• Professional experience in a likewise dynamic organization or social enterprise will be an advantage.

Skills & requirements:

• Excellent communication skills, interpersonal skills, and strong work ethic.
• Extensive respectively good knowledge of HR structures, systems, procedures and policies and tools.
• Experience in recruitment, remuneration and contract management.
• Thorough knowledge of employment and labour related laws and regulations.
• You are a good planner and have well developed analytical skills.
• You have good facilitation and presentation skills.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and Outlook, Odoo would be an advantage.
• Flexible, upbeat, determined, and able to work in a dynamic and agile environment.
• A true team player: collaboration is one of our core values, we are doing this together.
• Language: English is a must and preferably Luganda.
• Able to work smoothly in an international or a multicultural setting.
• Committed to our business model: a social enterprise.
• Keen to join an innovative, dynamic organization with a business mindset, no nonsense culture and very ambitious plans