Human Resource Management Officer at The Veterinary Medicines Directorate

REF NO: 03/2022

Qualifications and Requirements:

For appointment to this grade a candidate must have:

• Bachelors Degree in Human Resource Management, Development, Business Administration or Management, Public Administration, Social sciences or any other relevant field from a recognized institution.
• Proficiency in computer applications;
• Fulfilled the requirements of Chapter Six (6) of the Constitution.

Responsibilities:

Duties and responsibilities entail assisting in;

• Updating the leave and absence management master plan and roster;
• Capturing data in the Human Resource Management Information System (HRIS);
• Carrying out periodic data cleansing and compiling HR reports based on the ERP activities;
• Carrying out background checks on all employees on new appointment;
• Ensuring that statutory deductions and reports are submitted as per set guidelines;
• Verifying medical records, processing final dues, opening and closing staff files;
• Maintaining and updating a database for interns and attaché’ applicants;
• Drafting and verifying routine HR correspondences;
• Processing of salaries, allowances, benefits and final dues and payroll administration;
• Collating and analyzing training applications;
• Processing employee recruitment, promotion and exit documents;
• processing of leave applications, sick sheets and sick offs;
• Updating of Staff Medical details, Insurance Agency details and National Social Security Agency (NSSF) records;
• Ensuring compliance with the KRA, HELB, CID, NITA, EACC and CRB requirements for all employees;
• Carrying out leave administration;
• Updating human resource database;
• Analyzing data on work environment and employees’ satisfaction surveys.
• Inducting staff and on-boarding programs;
• Undertaking training needs analysis, projections and developing training programs;
• Developing training materials for in-house courses; and
• Administering performance appraisal, collating performance related data, analyzing and preparing related reports.

Competencies and skills

• Report writing
• Communication.
• Presentation

Others

• Scale: VMD 6
• Basic Salary: Ksh 59,500 X4,500-93,500X6,000-99,500
• Terms of Service: Permanent and Pensionable