People Lead

Overview

Reference: JOB0125209
Type: Permanent
Position: PEOPLE LEAD
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Industry: Not for Profit and Charities
Salary: US$101 - US$1000 per annum

Is People Management your thing? Do you see the value in supporting managers and colleagues with professional people practice. Could you work in an adaptive environment, with new projects, new locations and new people a daily occurrence?
VSO has recently organised the oversight of their programme implementation into a global team. The team operates from a range of different countries, and we are looking for an experienced People Lead to work with them. This is an operational HR job, working with employees and volunteers across a range of different contexts and countries in Africa and Asia. We are looking for an energetic experienced people professional to join us. This is an excellent time to join this newly forming team, a time to influence change, and to embrace the development in people practice and work that are emerging as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Responsibilities

Responsibilities

1. Maintain VSO People systems and processes as suitable for use in Programme Implementation
2. Support Project Leads and Project People Managers to monitor performance across blended teams of employees and volunteers in ways that allow for effective compliance and management.
3. Support Project Leads and Project People Managers to monitor team engagement levels with the work of their project and the VSO approach.
4. Provide leadership in working with VSO people processes, values and approaches across the
5. range of project implementation teams.
6. Provide professional coaching and mentoring to Project People Managers
7. Produce straightforward, valuable, people-based management information, by project, to improve processes, performance and decision making.
8. Maintain an overview of employment law and volunteering conditions across all jurisdictions where VSO are implementing work.
9. Maintain an overview and report regularly on pay ratios and gender pay gaps by project, work with Project Leads to mitigate risks as they emerge and action plan to reduce gaps.

Collaboration

• On learning systems and identification of development opportunities with Learning and organizational Development Network to influence organisation learning and allocation of resource
• With global people team to maintain alignment and inform the VSO pay framework with pay, benefits levels, and market-rate information.
• With the Global People team to inform VSO’s global people framework, policies, and talent management.
• With portfolio implementation managers ensure that our people practices are in place throughout all stages of project implementation.
• With programme development and set-up team ensure effective project team people details, including costs, are captured accurately in VSO systems.
• With global implementation team management ensure duty of care capacity is maintained within project teams.
• lead and support effective people incident, case management, and safeguarding responses and contribute people input to incident response process improvement from within the implementation team.
• With global implementation management to ensure early detection, identification, mitigating and management of risks across the portfolio of work.
• Contribute to and lead as required on project team design within the VSO Proposal Development Process (Magenta)

Education

• Diploma In Human Resource Management
• Degree in Human resource Management
• Masters in Human Resource Management

Additional education

A recognized professional qualification in Human Resources Management or equivalent experience.

Use of digital applications.
Knowledge and experience of Human Resource Information systems (preferably Salesforce) and Microsoft 365, with the ability to produce HR/
People data reports and analyse for decision making.

Experience

Additional experience

• Significant generalist Human Resources or People Business Partner experience gained working in a volunteering/ non-governmental organizational context.
• Substantial experience in creating, influencing, and developing a high performing, globally dispersed team,

Skills

• Open minded
• Commercial and Financial Awareness

Additional skills

• Ability to understand business/organization purpose and the role that people management can play in adding value.
• Sound commercial and financial awareness of people costs, operational costs, and working with grant and contract funding.

Relationship Building

• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to build relationships and influence across the organisation.
• Considerable experience managing professional and collaborative relationships with managers and employees at all levels.
• Experience of cross-cultural working and an understanding of issues of inclusion and diversity.
• At VSO we believe progress is only possible by working together. Whether you want to join us as an employee, or as a volunteer working in your own country, overseas or online, our selection process includes an assessment based on these core competencies:

  • Ability to be open-minded and respectful
  • Ability to be resilient and adaptive to new situations
  • Ability to facilitate positive change and build sustainable working relationships
  • Ability to seek and share knowledge

Terms and conditions

VSO promotes equal opportunities and values a diverse workforce.

VSO reserves the right to close this job early if we receive a sufficient number of applications.

If you’re interested in applying for this role, please click on the link to submit your application https://bit.ly/peopleleadvso