Reports To: Vice Chancellor
 

• Recruitment, Staffing and Retention Planning
• Performance management and improvement systems
• Responsive to compliance and regulatory concerns
• Employee orientation, development, and training
• Policy development and documentation
• Employee relations
• Compensation and benefits administration
• Employee safety, welfare, wellness and health
• Employee services and counseling.
• Human Resources Information Systems HRIS
• Organizational Development
• Manage department through responsive human resources processes and service

• Engagement and retention of high caliber staff and faculty
• A workforce well versed with the strategic plan and trained to achieve it
• A responsive HR department with staff grounded in HR principles and procedures
• Continuous adoption of HR best practice
• Establishment of a learning organization, with clear career paths and succession planning.
• A highly motivated workforce.
• Implementation of cost effective programmes to motivate and retain staff.
• Minimized work related conflicts among faculty and staff.
• Effective and high performance culture.

• Communication, Human Resource Development Management and Planning skills
• Supervisory, problem solving, negotiations, team building and basic counseling skills, effective verbal and listening communications skills
• Demonstrated success working and building effective internal relationships that move the business forward.
• Strong focus on customer service delivery.
• Effective people management and staff development experience. The ability to effectively manage others through influence, as well as with direct authority
• A strategic thinker who is capable of developing and articulating clear and compelling HR strategies.
• Ability to partner effectively to implement and execute programs through the organization.
• A self-starter, confident in his/her abilities, self-motivated and able to work effectively with little supervision.
• Creative and flexible in attitude and style to adapt to new situations in a rapidly changing, dynamic environment
• Computer skills including the ability to operate spreadsheets and word-processing programs at a highly proficient level
• Effective written and oral communications skills including the ability to prepare reports, proposals, policies and procedures, strong and dynamic presentation skills plus the ability to communicate with a wide range of constituents.
• Possess the highest level of integrity and a strong sense of personal accountability for business performance and for accomplishing the goals of the business.
• Demonstrated success working and building effective internal relationships that move the business forward
• Stress managements, time management and interviewing skills
• Qualitative and quantitative analytical skills.
• Proactive and innovative thinker, with proven ability to execute new initiatives
• Proactive, results & achievement oriented. Passion & commitment to excellence
• Honest, fair, just and firm. Ability to make prompt decisions

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in providing HR generalist support, demonstrating a record of progressively increasing responsibility.
• Masters degree from an accredited college or university in related discipline
• Postgraduate Diploma in HR and related areas.
• Must be a member of the Institute of Human Resources Management
• Not more than 50 years of age