The Role:

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 the legal and non-legal teams and will also have a special focus on performance management, recruitment and onboarding.

Key Roles and Responsilities:

• 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 innovation and implementation of 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.
• 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
• 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 5/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.
• 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 company member Firms on a need basis.
• Provide guidance to the P&C team and effectively deputise 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 all staff in Kenya, Tanzania and Dubai.

The Candidate:

• Bachelor Degree in Human Resources/ Business or a related field
• CHRP K.
• 8+ years’ experience in a HR role with at least 2 years being in a management position.
• Experience in a professional services environment is key.