World Vision Career Jobs – People & Culture Specialist (Recruitment & International Staffing)

Organisation: World Vision Uganda
Reports to:              People & Culture Director
Duty Station:          Kampala,
Uganda
About WVU:
World
Vision Uganda is a Christian Relief, Development and Advocacy Non-Government
Organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to
overcome poverty and injustice. We currently work in over 40 districts in
Uganda. World Vision is committed to the protection of children and we will not
employ people whose background is not suitable for working with children. All
employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of all applicable
background checks, including criminal record checks where possible. “Our Vision
for every child, Life in all its fullness. Our prayer for every Heart, the will
to make it so.”
Job Summary: The People & Culture
Specialist (Recruitment & International Staffing) will manage overall staff
acquisition by providing end-to-end process support to hiring managers and
P&C staff, to fill vacancies/ strategically support organizational
recruitments and selection processes in a timely manner.
Key Duties and
Responsibilities:
1. Workforce
Planning & Needs Assessment:
  • Develop, build and maintain relationships with managers and People
    & Culture (P&C) officers in the respective hiring Regional
    offices/ National Office in order to fill vacancies in a timely manner.
  • Support hiring managers in assessing internal vacancy
    requirements/recruiting needs and developing recruitment strategies and
    plans.
  • Work with hiring managers to develop job descriptions and
    announcements, post advertisements in a variety of newspapers, HR
    networks, etc. including internationally focused sources
  •  Review and up-date the
    recruitment policy
  • Workforce planning and development
  • Maintain up-dated information knowledge of constantly changing
    environment in the Uganda marketplace relative to the sourcing and
    recruitment of qualified professionals.
2. Candidate
Sourcing & Screening:
  • Proactively identify and develop effective sourcing strategies (e.g.
    networking contacts, system queries/searches, religious institutions,
    social networking sites, job fairs and any other relevant sourcing
    channels).Maintain multiple channels and networks to build a deep,
    diverse, and reliable sourcing pool for World Vision Uganda national hired
    staffing needs.
  • Carry out research and database mining to identify possible sources
    of candidates, (e.g. Recruitment websites)
  • Develop and maintain active relationships with pipelines of talent
    for current and future employment opportunities in World Vision Uganda.
  • Maintain updated information knowledge of the constantly changing
    environment in the Uganda labor marketplace relative to the sourcing and recruitment
    of qualified professionals.
  • Conduct effective screening, interviewing, and assessments for the
    best candidates for a position match. 
    (develop tools for competence assessments)
  • Develop, build and maintain candidate relationships through ongoing communications
    regarding questions, updates and status during the interview process.
  • Position and Organization fit (Christian commitment) – branding and
    messaging adverts
3.
Interviewing & Selection:
  • Provide regular updates to hiring managers on search progress.
  • Shortlist candidates for assigned positions from own and other  sourcing pools and present candidate
    short-list to hiring managers
  • Coordinate background screening (e.g. police, child protection,
    reference checks, etc.) for own short-listed candidates.
  • Manage interviews for short-listed candidates with appropriate
    hiring managers
  • Capture and manage candidate interview results and selection
    decisions
  • Provide feedback to candidates on interview results and selection
    decisions.
  • Building the capacities of the interview panel
4. Offer,
Feedback, Closing & Selling:
  • Negotiate offer with selected candidate within limits specified by
    hiring manager and WVU policies.
  • In collaboration the with the P&C Manager draw up and issue
    offer letter for selected candidate and ensure employment contracts to be
    issued upon offer acceptance adhere to World Vision Uganda standards (e.g.
    templates, compliance with relevant labor laws).
  • Ensure appropriate orientation/on-boarding support is provided to
    new hires in collaboration with the P&C Manager.
  • Ensure new hire paperwork is complete and forwarded to the
    appropriate office or place according to policy.
  • Provide up-dates to the payroll office in regard to newly hired
    staff
5. Coordinate
staff in Grants in Non WVU Programming Areas:
  • Business partnering with Grants line
    managers in the respective regions
  • Facilitation of the performance
    management processes
  • Coordination with OD of Staff Training
    and Development for un planned trainings
  • Management of HR information system for
    the Grants staff
  • Coordinates with the benefits office on
    staff benefits and welfare for region
  • Management of staff relations for Grants
  • Monthly reporting for the Grants
  • Managing employee relations and
    contracts
  • Managing staff exits and phase out
6. International
staffing issues:
  • Coordination and management of the
    international staff recruitment under the guidance of the P&C
    Director.
  • In consultation with the P&C Director initiate Personnel Action
    Form (PAF) paperwork for international staff acceptance.
  • Coordinate international payroll administration with appropriate
    Support offices
  • Manage/coordinate international staff relocation for International
    staff 
  • Provide support to International HR for managing employee data in
    personnel files/HR data systems
  • Conduct/coordinate exit debrief sessions
  • Support staff and P&C in process of relocating to new assignment
    (salary & benefits administration changes, logistics, Visa/travel
    arrangements)
7. Job
grading in line with Hay job grading methodology:
  • Updating the current grading structure
  • Leading the process of evaluating new
    jobs
  • Preparing job evaluation reports.
8.
Communication and reporting:
  • Produce and submit periodic up-dates to
    inform management about HR plans, achievements, challenges and the way
    forward;
  • Analyzes the recruitment process
    performance, prepares the recruitment dashboards, presents dashboards,
    recommends changes to the recruitment process and implements changes.
  • Produce and submit status recruitment
    up-dates for stakeholders
  • Submit monthly
    report to the P&C Director within the set standards and timeline.
  • Updating and
    maintaining the recruiting database;
  • Documenting best
    practices
  • Perform any
    other responsibilities 
 Qualifications,
Skills and Experience:
  • The applicant should possess a
    Bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management or equivalent field of
    study
  • Three to four years on the job
    experience in recruitment and/or Human Resources Management is required.
  • Experience in recruitment especially of
    professional and technical positions (both national and international
    applicants).
  • Proven ability to manage all recruiting
    processes (applicant sourcing, resume screening, applicant assessment,
    interview, negotiating contracts) as well strong sourcing and talent
    management skills.
  • Ability to be a team player,
    collaborator, work independently and able to effectively network (over any
    medium of communication e.g. Internet, phone, face-to-face) across all
    levels of the organization internally and externally.
  • Must have strong critical thinking,
    problem solving, interpersonal and oral/written communication skills with
    great fluency in both English
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced
    environment and timely accomplish multiple tasks simultaneously,
    pro-actively as well as provide a high-level customer service.
  • Possess cross-cultural sensitivity,
    knowledge and ability to work with people of diverse backgrounds.
  • Demonstrated computer literacy (MS
    Office Suite: MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint and databases) with hands
    on experience in tracking recruitment outcomes/metrics.
  • Mature Christian, able to stand above
    denominational diversities
How to Apply: 
All
suitably qualified candidates must send their applications with complete
Curriculum Vitae, via email to: wvujobs@wvi.org.  Please address the
application to the People and Culture Specialist (Recruitment) and do indicate
the post title in the email subject line.
NB: Qualified
female candidates are particularly encouraged to apply.
Deadline: 29th
November, 2013.  

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