Job Title: HEAD OF HUMAN RESOURCES
About this Job:
BANK OF AFRICA – UGANDA Ltd. is part of GROUPE BANK OF AFRICA (BOA) comprising fifteen commercial banks, three leasing companies, two life-insurance companies, two investment companies, a stock brokerage company and an ICT subsidiary. It spans 14 African countries namely Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania. Benin. Burkina Faso, Cote D’lvoire, Madagascar, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Burundi, Ghana, Djibouti, DR Congo as well as representative office in France. BOA employs over 4,000 people and believes in transparency, expertise, proximity and responsibility. BOA – UGANDA is seeking applications from suitably qualified persons who are accomplished to take up the following positions.
HEAD OF HUMAN RESOURCES
Location: Head Office
Reporting to: Managing Director
Positions supervised
- Human Resource Manager
- Senior Human Resource Officer
- Human Resource Officer Head of Department Level, BG2
Grade: Head of department level , BG2
Overall role: As a key member of the Executive Management Team, the job holder will be responsible for providing strategic and operational leadership of the Human Resource function through policy and procedure formulation and implementation in areas of human resource planning, training and development, remuneration and ensuring excellent general staff welfare,
Key Responsibilities:
1. Shall be responsible for participation in senior level decision making and strategic direction of the Bank. This will include developing and implementing the Annual Human Resource strategy and workforce planning in alignment with the bank’s overall strategy.
2. Maintain an up to date framework of policies and procedures that enable the business to employ, engage, develop, and manage its people in accordance with the Bank’s values, and within the employment law. Enable all staff to understand and access these policies and procedures as appropriate to their roles and responsibilities.
3. Responsible for Human Resource Management Information System and preparation of HR related reports to management and the board. Streamline and strengthen the HR records, statistics and information system (MIS) for effective planning for administrative control purposes at departmental and ultimately at corporate levels.
4. Develop, oversee implementation and track the annual Human Resource budget while ensuring accountability and efficient cost management.
5. Planning, implementing, -evaluating and monitoring staff training and development activities in line with the bank’s strategic direction, staff up skilling and enhancing staff professional advancement. Conduct annual training needs analysis, prepare and implement the training plan and budget while ensuring identified training needs and competence gaps are covered.
6. Co-ordinate and maintain efficient staffing levels through systematic recruitment, appointments, deployment and transfers of staff as required from time to time. Analyse critically and advise stakeholders on the overall impact of staff recruitments, deployment and transfers and promotion proposals and/or decisions.
7. Maintain oversight over a Performance Management system that supports and promotes a high performance culture within the bank. Implement rigorous work planning, develop and disseminate SMART key performance indicators, ensure regular staff performance appraisals, enforce performance improvement mechanisms, provide feedback and reward mechanisms.
8. Oversight of provision of favourable staff benefits and compensation schemes with a view to ensuring internal equity and external competitiveness.
9 Manage the employee discipline and grievance process through providing support and assistance to management to monitor assess and evaluate the overall level of staff compliance with bank’s HR policy and recommend and/or follow up with remedial action thereof in liaison with stakeholders, as required. Ensure staff grievances are handled expeditiously and solved with finality.
10. Effectively manage staff welfare aspects and develop initiatives that will ensure a conducive environment for staff motivation and high productivity
11. Develop and monitor HR related Service Level Agreements with heads of department to ensure efficiency, value for money and timely delivery against set targets.
12. Manage and supervise the HR Team to ensure effective and timely implementation of HR strategies.
Requirement:
Knowledge, Skills and Experience
• A Bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management or other related field.
• Masters degree in Human Resource Management or a relevant field.
• Post graduate diploma or a professional qualification in Human Resource Management.
• Minimum of seven (7) years work experience with three (3) years of HR experience at senior management level in a relatively large organization.
• Excellent people management skills
• High level of confidentiality and integrity
• Possess strong leadership skills, be able to motivate and influence others positively
• Demonstrable maturity and professionalism
• Work well with others in a collaborative and solution focused manner
• Self-guided, strong analytical, organizational and planning skills
• Competent understanding o( employment legislation
• Ability to think creatively and strategically
• Counseling skills
How to apply:
Applicants should send job applications, up-to dale curriculum vitae and copies of academic certificates through courier or hand delivery to the address below by 18th June 2012. Your application should include three references, none of whom should be your relative and all of whom should have supervised you, taught you or known you through your work. Only short listed applicants will be contacted. If you do not hear from us by 30* June 2012 please consider your application as unsuccessful.
THE MANAGING DIRECTOR BANK OF AFRICA – UGANDA Ltd Plot 45 Jinja Road P.O. Box 2750, Kampala
