Country Head, Human Resources(BRAC International) employment opportunity in Uganda

Job Title: Country Head, Human Resources
Organization: BRAC International
Location:  Uganda
Deadline: 20th September, 2013
About BRAC:
BRAC is a development success story, spreading solutions born in Bangladesh to 10 other countries around the world – a global leader in creating opportunity for the world’s poor. As the largest NGO in the world our work now touches the lives of an estimated 135 million people, with staff and BRAC-trained entrepreneurs numbering more than 100,000.

Job Summary:
The Country Head of Human Resources will lead all aspects of strategic and operational HR efforts to support short-term and long-term goals of BRAC in the country. S/he will play a critical role in partnering with the leadership team and implement structures/strategies to improve individual and organizational performance to build a sustainable HR function that will fully meet the needs of the employees and the organization.

Key Performance Indicators:
    Provide overall HR leadership; collaborate with the management team to design and implement roadmap to support organizational growth and culture
    Collaborate with head office HR in rolling out organizational development initiatives
    Conduct ongoing analysis of the organization, monitoring and interpreting trends and key HR metrics
    Manage full cycle of HR operations

Key Duties and Responsibilities:
    Capability building – the selection and development of people to ensure program success, greater employee engagement, motivation and productivity.
    Organizational change – proposing and delivering new HR initiatives and cascading progressive HR practices, coordinating and communicating with head office and other countries, and seamless HR service delivery.
    HR Policy review and analytics – monitoring all aspects of HR compliance, employment legislation, supporting HRIS and evaluating relevant HR data.
    Relationship Management – managing the above whilst maintaining all relevant internal and external relationships.

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:

•     The candidate should possess at least seven years HR experience in generalist roles
•     The candidate should possess a Bachelors degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Psychology, or related area of focus is required;
•     Demonstrate unquestionable ethics and integrity
•     Must have excellent organizational skills with an emphasis on attention to detail
•     Experience working with a diverse workforce and exposure to the development sector preferred.
•     Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills.
•      Flexible in order to adapt to changes in work environment and undertake field travel
•     Adept at time-management, problem-solving skills
•       Comfortable with IT, data analysis

How to Apply:
If you feel you are the right match for the above mentioned position, please email your CV with a letter of interest mentioning your educational grades, years of experience, current and expected salary at recruitment.bi@brac.net. Please mention the name of the position, country applied for and      AD# 17/13 in the subject bar.

Only complete applications will be accepted and short listed candidates will be contacted.

BRAC is an equal opportunity employer