Job Title: Human Resource Business Partner
Organisation: M-KOPA
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
The scale and impact of our work is massive. M-KOPA is a fast-growing Fin Tech company offering millions of underbanked customers across Africa access to life-enhancing products and services. From our roots as the pioneer in pay-as-you-go “PayGo’” solar energy for off grid homes, we have grown into one of the most advanced connected asset financing platforms in the world, empowering a broad range of customers to achieve progress in their lives.
Job Summary: The Human Resource Business Partner will support the business function(s) by being a trusted business partner to the stakeholders and staff in these functions. The aim over time is to grow and enable the role holder to play a critical role in the design and implementation of strategic initiatives to retain and grow our staff. The role holder will act as a primary point of contact for the functions, serving as a connector to internal HR functions, an advisor on all people processes, procedures, and initiatives
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Support your managers in cultivating a high-performance, innovation-driven culture, and ensure that performance management experiences are effective and empowering, prioritizing fairness and objectivity
- Work proactively to identify underperformance and thoughtfully address it professionally and swiftly
- Connect your managers and staff through the Learning and Development function to compelling learning opportunities to address mentorship, coaching for performance and growth, advising on career opportunities
- Develop and implement, in close conjunction with your managers – staff retention, career, and succession strategies.
- Participate in Employee Engagement measurement programs, action planning, and champion the cause of employee engagement as a measure of leadership.
- Work closely with your managers to understand organizational challenges and design/implement creative solutions
- Coordinate and support the implementation of strategic initiatives within your function and more broadly
- Works in partnership with managers to provide guidance and advice in dealing with difficult people issues in a fair, straightforward manner and without delay.
- Build and maintain healthy relationships with key stakeholders within your group and the larger organization
- Coach and develop leaders/managers on how to inspire and influence their teams as well as improve their communication practices.
- Work closely and effectively with other HRBP’s, HR Shared Services, and Centres of excellence teams to identify best practice and use it to define effective business interventions.
- Share knowledge and insights with the wider People team to help shape best practices from a people perspective
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold a Degree in Human resources or similar relevant field
- Previous working experience preferably as an HR Generalist for five years
- Excellent IT skills including the use of Microsoft Suite of Applications,
- Ability to interact and use online assessment and feedback platforms
- Comfortable with data analytics and has good experience with data manipulation using Excel for reporting
- Impactful presentation style
- Excellent organizational and time management skills
- Ability to multitask and prioritize daily workload
- Creative thinker and proactive problem solver
- Excellent writing, proofing, and editing skills.
- Able to work effectively and productively with internal and external stakeholders at all levels.
- Excellent attention to detail and well organized
- Ability to work in a fast-moving environment.
- Good team player
- Self-motivated, creative, self-starter
How to Apply:
All candidates should apply online at the link below.
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