Job Description
Job Description
- As the Director of People & Culture, your duties is to lead our client’s company in recruiting, developing, and retaining talented people and create a positive and high performing work climate that employees can boast of.
What do you need to be successful?
- Recruit, develop, and retain the right people needed to achieve the company’s objectives
- Set clear direction and manage priorities across the people function.
- Create, communicate and evolve our policies, frameworks, systems and practices, to ensure all people activities are executed smoothly throughout the employee lifecycle.
- Recruit and maintain a pipeline of talent.
- Implement applicant tracking systems and processes.
- Help build and oversee an employer brand that attracts the very best talent.
- Work with management on compensation and benefits packages
Improve and maintain a high level of team member satisfaction and quality of life:
- Promote a positive company culture and open communication.
- Work with management to create a positive work climate, threw employee surveys, temperature checks, and change management.
- Implement and improve processes around contracts, pay slips, authorizations, sick leave, annual leave, absences due to maternity/paternity, etc. (with HRIS if necessary)
- Develop our DEI strategy, to ensure we are an inclusive employer for all
Empower team members to operate at their full potential:
- Partner with managers and team leads, coaching them and enabling them to foster a culture of high performance, including objective setting, appraisals and employee management and development.
- Work with management to set OKRs and evaluate the performance of each team member.
- Work with management to create a comprehensive training and development program for staff.
Ensure compliance with all employment laws and regulations:
- Proactively ensure offer letters, employment contracts, and confidentiality agreements follow laws and regulations.
- Review and maintain the Employee Handbooks
- Ensure new recruiting and hiring strategies follow laws and regulations.
Be a team player:
- Participate in all monthly 360 feedback sessions.
- Continuously learn by participating in 6 relevant webinars or by reading 6 relevant books per year and share what you learned with the team at monthly lunch & learns and/or through a blog post.
How important are you to the bottom line?
- As the Director of People and Culture, you play a pivotal role in shaping our client’s company success by optimizing its human capital, fostering a positive culture, and aligning HR strategies with business goals.
- Their contributions impact talent acquisition, retention, organizational culture, and overall company performance.
What should you have done in your career?
- Experience working in or with tech startups or tech enabled companies.
- A strong background in technology and in a high growth business (eg a scale-up); you thrive in dynamic working environments.
- International experience with multinational teams and office locations.
- Experience recruiting for C-Suite, technical and non-technical roles in African and global markets.
- Proven expertise in all things people operations: talent, performance, compensation and benefits, employee engagement and retention, org design, career development etc
- Must be willing to roll up your sleeves and get things done
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills
- High level of autonomy and accountability
- Comprehensive ability to liaise with Legal team on employment law across several Jurisdictions.