Travel Service Company HR Officer Job in Kenya

Company Profile: Our client is a travel service company set up to deliver quality transportation solutions for organizations and individuals through its highly professional and well-trained team.

The client is seeking to recruit the following position:

HR Officer
      

Position Summary: Performs HR related duties at the professional level and may carry out responsibilities in some or all of the following functional areas: employee relations, training, employment and employment equity programs.

Essential Functions:

• Partner with employees and management to communicate various HR policies, procedures, laws, standards and government regulations.
• Provide day to day performance management guidance to line management (coaching, counseling, career development, disciplinary actions).
• Work closely with management and employees to improve work relationships, build morale, increase productivity and retention.
• Provide HR Policy guidance and interpretation.
• Develop contract terms for new hires, promotions, transfers.
• Provide guidance and input on business unit restructures, workforce planning, succession planning.
• Identify training needs for business units and individual executive coaching needs.
• Participate in evaluation and monitoring of success of training programs. Follow-up to ensure training objectives are met.
• Conduct exit interviews and analyzes data and makes recommendations to the management team for corrective action and continuous improvement.
• Respond to employee relation issues such as employee complaints, harassment allegations, and complaints.
• Facilitate and/or provide training (including orientation) to the workforce.
• Maintain and co-ordinate employee recognition programs.
• Interview, screen and recruit job applicants to fill entry level, professional and technical job openings. Review applications and interview applicants to match experience with specific job related requirements.
• Represent management in investigating, answering, and settling grievances, by arranging and scheduling grievance hearings between supervisor and the Management team.
• Responds to all labour law claims
• Performs other work-related duties as assigned.

The Successful Candidate MUST meet the following Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree Human Resources Management or Higher Diploma in the same.
• Four to six years’ experience in HR Management.
• Member of IHRM (K)
• Experience working in fleet management, transportation or relevant industry a plus
• Ability to objectively coach employees and management through complex, difficult, and emotional issues.
• The ability to research and analyze various different type of data information.
• Excellent verbal and communication skills
• Must have the ability to make recommendation to effective resolve problems or issues, by using judgment that is in consistent with standards, practices, policies, procedures, regulation or government law.
• Ability to organize and prioritize work.
• Be self-directed and motivated

Interested candidates who meet the above criteria should submit their online application on or before 17th January 2014 athttp://goo.gl/T8sryH 

CVs WITHOUT salary requirements will NOT be considered