HR Coordinator Non-profit Careers – Action Against Hunger (ACF)

Job Title:   HR Coordinator
Organisation: Action Against Hunger (ACF)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
Action
Against Hunger (ACF) is an International Humanitarian NGO which has been in
existence for over thirty years. ACF has been implementing Food Security and
Livelihoods, Nutrition, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene programs in the Lango,
Acholi, West Nile and Karamoja regions of Northern Uganda.
Job Summary: The HR Coordinator will be responsible for the
design and follow up of the HR Country Strategy and overall mission strategy.
The HR Coordinator will provide overall leadership in the mission for all
matters related to Human Resources. The incumbent works under direct
supervision of the Country Director (CD).
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
1. Ensure the mission
implement comprehensive HR policies and procedures and remains compliant with
local labour laws:
  • Work in close collaboration with the Mission
    Coordination Team, creates an annual HR strategy for the mission.
  • Keenly reviews the mission Internal
    Regulations, ensuring that it is compliant with the ACF policy, local
    labor and tax laws.
  • Regularly monitors mission activity to ensure
    teams remain compliant with HR policies and procedures.
  • Offer support to the Country Director and
    other supervisors whenever staff management issues require informal or
    formal disciplinary action, ensuring each incident is appropriately
    documented.
2. Ensure HR
Administration is accurately maintained as per ACF and local government
regulations: Personnel files, employment contracts and organograms
  • Ensure complete and up-to-date personnel
    files are maintained for all locally and hired staff as well as for
    international staff
  • Prepare and monitor the details of all local
    labour contracts. Ensure all staff have valid employment contracts and
    follows up closely with HQ the international staff documents.
  • Works closely with the local authorities on
    all HR matters concerning local and international staff.
3. Oversees the Payroll
and Benefits Administration for the mission:
  • Ensure that the following core ACF HR tools
    are applied to the mission salary structure: ACF Function Scale, ACF
    Seniority rules, and ACF benchmarking reviews
  • Works with the Senior HRO and Finance Co to
    periodically review the salary scale to ensure it remains competitive with
    other local organizations and responds to increases/decreases in the local
    cost of living
  • Works in liaison with the Finance Coordinator
    in the preparation and payment of the national staff payroll including
    salaries, special allowances, and social security contributions.
  • Collaborates with Finance Coordinator for
    follow up of expatriate costs at mission level
4. Supports the mission’s
recruitment of national and international staff
  • Regularly reviews all job descriptions at the
    start of the recruitment process to ensure that they are standardized
    across the mission. Suggests changes to the supervising manager so that
    they reflect the current and upcoming program needs and activities,
    identifying required qualifications as well as both essential and
    preferred selection criteria
  • Implements standard and best practice
    recruitment procedures for all locally hired staff.
  • Wherever possible, assists all program
    managers and coordinators with interviewing and selecting new staff
    (especially for new positions and key line management positions).
  • Ensures updated job descriptions for all
    international staff positions are sent to the Head of Programs, Country
    Director & Sr. HR Officer at least 2 months before each end of
    contract date, or as soon as possible after international staff’s
    departure is known.
5. Identifies and
monitors staff training, development and learning needs
  • Oversees the staff review process using performance
    appraisals and regular meetings with line managers.
  • Trains and assists line managers to prepare
    and deliver Performance Appraisals on time
  • Works with individual line managers to ensure
    that the training and development needs of all national staff are clearly
    identified and possible options discussed and implemented.
6. Communicates HR
matters both internally (within the mission) and externally (to New York HQ and
local authorities) and others
  • Ensures regular meetings are held with the
    staff representatives.
  • Prepares and submits a monthly HR report to
    the CD & Senior HRO.
  • Meets at least twice a month (either by Skype
    or phone) with the Senior HRO.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
  • The ideal candidate for the Action Against
    Hunger (ACF) HR Coordinator job placement should hold a Master’s degree in
    Human Resources or in Social Sciences, International Relations, Psychology
    or any related field.
  • At least three to five years’ experience as
    an HR professional, with a sound knowledge of recruitment, payroll &
    benefits management, training & development, and team management.
  • Humanitarian field experience, preferably as a member of a country management team
  • Previous exposure and experience
    communicating in different cultural work environments & with a wide
    diversity of cultures
  • Diplomatic, able to mediate conflict in
    stressful conditions
  • Computer literacy i.e. working knowledge of
    MS Office (high proficiency in Excel); comfortable working with computers
    with minimal IT support.
  • Ability to cooperate with subordinates,
    colleagues and supervisory staff at all levels
  • Ability to work in a stressful environment,
    taking initiative & prioritizing multiple tasks with minimal
    supervision.
  • Comfortable applying HR policies consistently
    & tactfully
  • Excellent organizational skills,
    detail-oriented.
  • Excellent written & verbal communication
    skills are a must. Ability to explain complex concepts in straight-forward
    language
  • Ability to maintain confidentiality while
    managing difficult HR cases
  • Genuine interest in & commitment to the
    humanitarian principles of Action Against Hunger.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, ability to
    work both independently & as a member of a team.
  • Fluent written & spoken English.
How to Apply: 
All
suitably qualified and interested candidates should send their applications
which should include ONLY a cover letter, CV (not more than 4 pages) with at
least three referees and a daytime telephone contract. For email applications
please note that attached documents should not be larger than 2MBs. All documents
should be zipped in one folder. Any email larger than 2MBS will not be
considered. Please send your email application to:
recruitment.ug@acf-international.org mentioning HR Coordinator in the subject
line.
Deadline: 22nd June 2016 by 5:00 pm
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