Senior HR Consulting Associate at Rose Avenue Group

• RACG People & Change wish to recruit a Senior HR Consulting Associate to assist in analyzing client needs, developing strategies, and delivering HR solutions, ensuring compliance to RACG Policies and professional Standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Participate in the development of a work plan, budget and quality plan to ensure efficiency, high performance and high quality work on engagements.
• Maintain a progress tracker of engagement milestones, tasks and deliverables.
• Schedule and conduct engagement (internal and client) kick-off, progress and close out meetings.
• Keep all engagement stakeholders updated on progress.
• Ensure financial closure of all engagements.
• Ensure engagement files are compliant.
• Lead and participate in the preparation of proposals, bids, quotations, etc. and including pitching for jobs.
• Manage revenue, maintain a cross-selling value, meet individual revenue targets and ensure proper billing of clients.
• Supervise staff on engagements including leading, coaching, training, directing and reviewing work products of team members who may include Seniors, Associates, etc. and as necessary.
• Build industry knowledge through involvement in events, articles and thought leadership.
• Ensure all pre-engagement risk activities, including at the proposal stage, are undertaken and signed off.
• Any other duties and responsibilities as may be assigned from time to time.

Academic/Professional Qualifications and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree qualification in humanities or any other related field.
• Master’s degree in Human Resources is an added advantage.
• Membership of a relevant professional bodies such as CIPD, IHRM.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in human resource consulting.
• Experience in managing HR engagements, e .g., organization structure review, workload analysis, change management etc.. in East Africa.

Technical Competencies and Personal Attributes:

• Strong consulting skills. Be able to effectively support all aspects of engagement delivery, end-to-end, with minimal supervision and high accountability.
• Strong analytical & problem-solving skills, with the ability to proactively engage and consult with others across all levels.
• Good communication skills (written and verbal).
• Ability to organize and prioritize workload to meet deadlines.
• Strong business writing, report writing, presentation and research skills.
• A high standard of integrity.
• A high aptitude for learning new approaches and innovation.
• Self-driven and results-oriented.
• Team player with good people management, work organization and coordination skills.
• Networking and stakeholder management skills.
• Training/ facilitation skills.
• Diligent and committed to excellence.
• Excellent coordination and planning skills.
• Resilience and Tenacity: must be able to always sustain motivation and commitment and can contain and absorb stressful moments and issues.
• Willingness to travel within and outside the region on a need basis.