Scope: The Human Resource Officer provides advice and assistance to supervisors and staff. This may include information on training needs and opportunities, job descriptions, performance reviews and personnel policies of Company.
The Human Resource Officer provides advice and support to supervisors and staff selection committees and ensures that they have accurate and timely information in order to make effective decisions.
Main Activities:
- Ensure that accurate job descriptions are in place
- Maintaining staff in terms of leave application and contracts.
- Provide advice and assistance with writing job descriptions
- Provide advice and assistance when conducting staff performance evaluations
- Identify training and development opportunities
- Organize staff training sessions, workshops and activities
- Process employee requests for training while complying with policies and procedures
- Provide basic counseling to staff who have performance related obstacles
- Provide advice and assistance in developing human resource plans
- Provide staff orientations and inductions
- Conduct staff exit interviews
- Provide advice and assistance to supervisors on staff recruitment
- Prepare notices and advertisements for vacant staff positions.
- Schedule and organize interviews
- Participate in applicant interviews
- Conduct reference checks on possible candidates
- Prepare, develop and implement procedures and policies on staff recruitment
- Inform unsuccessful applicants
- Conduct exit interviews
The incumbent must demonstrate the following skills: supervisory skills, team building skills, problem solving skills, basic counseling skills, negotiations skills, effective verbal and listening, communications skills, computer skills including the ability to operate spreadsheets, and word-processing programs at a highly proficient level, effective written communications, skills, including the ability to prepare reports, proposals ,policies and procedures, effective public relations and public speaking skills, research and program, development skills, stress management skills, interviewing skills , time management skills, Empathy, resilience and good business communication skills
Qualification:
- Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Human Resource Management from a recognized University/Institution
- Sound Knowledge of HR in Kenya
- Possess a high level of maturity
- Attention to details
- Work experience of 2 years of handling Human Resource functions