HR Manager at Souk Farms

Job Title: HR Manager

Line Manager: CEO

This role includes various senior responsibilities towards coaching, mentoring and supporting staff members. You will be responsible for implementing HR processes with efficiency, while ensuring employment regulations, professional standards, policies and procedures and legislations are all in place. Your open approach will be an active representation of the company values, setting and reinforcing the standard for positive behaviours at all levels.

INTRODUCTION TO SOUK FARMS 

SOUK is an Agri-business investment company dedicated to the application of cutting-edge solutions in farming, trading, processing, and logistics. SOUK specializes in export of fresh horticulture produce from the beautiful and picturesque country of Rwanda.  

SOUK is driven by an overarching mission to become a sustainable agricultural food products provider and partner. We aim to be at the forefront of pioneering innovation to improve the sustainability of agriculture in Africa. 

Your day-to-day duties as an HR Manager will include

• Manage all core HR departmental areas, including payroll, employee relations, HR admin, learning and development, internal recruitment, employee engagement, and maintaining and improving HR systems. 
• Provide advice and direction where needed to the HR team on work priorities, budget and staff resources, strategic, policy, organisation and staff management issues.
• Current regulation compliance, including accepted professional standards, policies and procedures and legislation (including legislation on data protection, the Equality Act and health and safety).  
• Manage the implementation of employment policies. 
• Ensure employment law, HR policy, best practice and workforce development are applied.
• Ensure the onboarding process is handled in a professional manner to expedite the settling in period.
• Manage the execution of the HR Strategy to ensure achievement of the objectives.
• Support HR staff to ensure that all relevant professional standards are met. 
• Continuously improve engagement and welfare activities, maximising productivity, devolving HR responsibilities to line managers and building leadership capability.  Identify HR trends so that attention can be directed to key issues and resources.
• Identify staffing needs and manage the creation of job descriptions and handbooks.
• Develop and implement management talent planning.
• Develop the organisational structure to support future growth, using best practice principles. 
• Manage the company’s employee programmes, staff benefits and packages. 
• Control the performance review programme to deliver continuous employee development. 
• Regularly coach, mentor, and support colleagues to identify individual strengths and development needs
• Ensure employee training requirements are well managed and monitored. 

• Manage the training and development plans and ensure they are of a high standard. 
• Conduct annual remuneration and benefit surveys and reviews. 
• Determine relevant Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for incentive schemes.
• Manage the diversity, equality, and inclusion values and practices within the company.
• Enabled all team members to access appropriate guidance and information to manage their workload.
• Ensure the offboarding process is handled in a professional manner to ensure everyone is consistently treated fairly.
• Manage the allocation of HR budgets.
• Ensure internal HR communications, including any issues, initiatives and programmes are well planned, coordinated, relevant, timely and adhere to the company’s values. 
• Make sure that company values and approach are utilised to strengthen the organisational culture.
• Demonstrate the company values, championing the leadership behaviour framework. 
• Demonstrate a high-performance ethic with a focus on successful outcomes. 
• Develop and maintain effective relationships to encourage retention and ensure the team perspective is fully represented in decision making

The essential qualifications,skills  and competency required to become HR Manager include: 

• A bachelor's degree in Human Resources Management, Psychology, Public Administration or a business-related subject. MBA degree with specification in HR and or HR Professional Certificate an added advantage
• Minimum 7 years’ experience as HR Manager/HR Coordinator in a reputable business company preferable.
• Experience working in startups companies. 
• Fluent level of English, and Kinyarwanda both spoken and written. 
• Excellent report writing  skills ( Experience doing reports for  senior management team : The Board of Directors, CEO etc)

Application Link: Click here

Deadline: September 6th, 2024