People & Culture Manager at Anjarwalla & Khanna

Roles Summary

The People & Culture Manager will work closely with the Head of People & Culture to drive the People Agenda across the region. The role holder will act as a trusted People and Culture Advisor to our legal and non-legal teams and will also have a special focus on performance management, recruitment and onboarding

This role will require a passionate, committed, self-driven and discreet People & Culture Professional who is eager to make a change and learn the A&K way of working.

In more detail, the areas of responsibility include:

Talent Management

• Working closely with the Head of department to ensure timely and effective reviews for all staff across the Firm.
• Recommend any changes aimed at improving the Firm’s performance management cycle to meet changing business needs.
• Managing the end-to-end performance improvement process across the Firm.
• Participate in implementation of innovative employee engagement initiatives for all groups of employees.
• Support the secondment process from contracting and implementation phase and ensure seamless integration of inbound secondees and seamless process for outbound secondees.
• Ensure the mentorship program has run successfully
• Facilitating training around any of the P&C pillars on a need basis.
• Supporting the grievance handling and disciplinary process within the manager’s capacity and escalating as appropriate.

Recruitment and onboarding

• Participate in forums aimed at building our talent pipeline such as career fairs and presentations.
• Support the recruitment process by conducting interviews, negotiating with prospective candidates and overseeing the pre-boarding process.
• Coordinate the onboarding process pre and post joining through preparation of onboarding emails to new joiners, buddy allocation, conducting and coordinating the end-to-end induction process.
• Coordinate the take probation performance review process for new joiners at the end of the probation period.
• Ensuring timely communication on the outcome of the probation performance review process.

 Institutional Strengthening

• Drafting P&C policies to address emerging issues and updating current policies in line with the changing needs of the staff and the business working closely with the Head of department.
• Generate proposals on ways to improve the work, procedures/workflow within the P&C department and the Firm as whole.
• Develop, implement and monitor systems, policies and procedures to ensure compliance with legislative requirements and standards.
• Offering P&C support to ALN member Firms on a need basis.

Additional Roles

• Provide guidance to the P&C team and effectively deputize the Head of department and maintain oversight over the team’s work.
• Manage special projects within P&C and deputise the Head of Department wherever P&C participation is required.
• Act as a trusted People & Culture Advisor across the entire P&C value chain for A&K staff in Kenya, Tanzania and Dubai.

The role will be based in Nairobi, Kenya, with potential travel within East Africa and Dubai.

The following experience is required:

• Bachelor Degree in Human Resources/ Business or a related field from a recognized institution.
• Post Graduate Diploma in Human Resource Management.
• Over eight years’ experience in a HR role in a fast- paced environment with at least one to two (1-2) years being in a management position.
• Experience in a professional services environment will be an added advantage.

The following personal qualities are preferred:

• Must possess strong interpersonal skills and should have a genuine passion for people.
• A commitment to teamwork and working in a professional manner.
• A commitment to ALN’s mission and extremely strong ethical integrity.
• Ability to handle sensitive matters and documents while maintaining utmost confidentiality.
• Firm commitment to the highest standards of quality.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and an ability to communicate clearly with a range of people from diverse backgrounds.
• Excellent organisational skills, great time management skills and a good ability to multitask
• Must be a flexible person with ability to work with minimum supervision.
• Action-orientated and innovative. Must be a hard worker, eager to learn and have a positive can-do attitude.
• Ability to learn quickly in a highly dynamic and fast-moving environment.