Director of Talent & HR Job Opportunity – Educate!

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Job Title:     Director of Talent & HR
Organisation: Educate!
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
About US:
Educate!
is a fast growing international non-profit social enterprise that seeks to
transform education in Africa through teaching youth the skills to solve
poverty.  Educate! is backed by top
funders such as The MasterCard Foundation, Echidna Giving, Segal, Vitol, Planet
Wheeler, and Halloran Philanthropies, is a winner of the 2015 WISE Awards for
education, and featured by Brookings Institution and the Clinton Global
Initiative .
Job Summary: The Director of Talent & HR will steer the growth
and development of our top tier team as we move towards our Vision for 2024 of
reaching one million youth annually across ten countries in Sub-Saharan Africa.
As the Director of Talent & HR, the jobholder will be a strategic partner
to our leadership team, creating and implementing best in class recruitment, retention,
professional development and employee engagement /culture building strategies
that will enable Educate! to meet and exceed our ambitious growth plans.
Key Duties and Responsibilities: 
Lead a best in class
recruiting operation to build a team of top talent:
  • The incumbent will strengthen our recruitment
    systems and support recruitment efforts across the organization
  • Lead key recruiting processes for high level global
    and new country hires
  • The jobholder will build networks for best in
    class talent sourcing and internal pipelines for critical functions
  • Develop Educate!’s brand in the talent market
Lead strategic planning
for the people side of Educate!’s expansion:
  • Plan for workforce growth and development,
    including pipeline/succession planning and organizational design
  • Keep Educate!’s culture strong and our team
    engaged as we grow
  • Ensure that Educate!’s mission, values,
    culture, success, and growth potential are broadly communicated and
    internalized across the organization
  • Build onboarding and acculturation process
    globally to ensure new hire success
  • Develop programs and metrics to drive and
    track employee engagement
Build our capacity to
manage performance and develop talent across the organization:
  • Build upon and manage organization-wide performance
    metrics and performance review processes, and lead review process for the
    Executive Director
  • Lead organization-wide talent reviews and
    succession planning
  • Manage organization-wide identification of
    professional development needs and ensure that those needs are met
  • Develop career pathway process
Lead compensation
strategy:
  • Lead contract negotiation and renewal
    processes across the organization
  • Plan for, benchmark, and communicate
    compensation and benefits
Qualifications, Skills and Experience: 
  • The applicant should be an ambitious,
    passionate strategic thinker with at least 6-8 years of diverse work
    experience (more is welcome) and several years of experience in recruiting,
    training, organizational development, or something immediately relevant
  • Strategic thinking and problem solving skills
  • Ability to think creatively about recruiting and
    capacity building
  • An adept communicator, collaborator, and
    relationship builder
  • Tenacious and committed to doing what it
    takes to get the job done
  • Ability to work across multiple cultures to
    engage talent from Africa, Europe, and the US –you’ll have worked in the
    Global South, preferably in East Africa
Educate Cultural Values:
1. We Put Youth First: The youth
we serve come first. Always. In everything. That means we wake up thinking of
ways we can serve youth even better and get the highest impact out of every
dollar that we spend. It means Educate! doesn’t own a single vehicle, because
we’d rather take the bus if it means one more student can participate. It means
making every decision like the future depends on it — because if we get our
way, it does!
2. We Are Always Learning: When you
work at Educate!, educating yourself is part of your job too. We encourage
every employee to find the best book on management; share the latest article on
graphic design; bring in your favorite college mentor; or meet the researcher
pushing the edge of the field. We are always thirsty for knowledge and love to
share.
3. We Only Solve a
Problem Once: We are allergic to band-aids so we love the person
who brings the new system to solve the problem for good, even problems we haven’t
recognized yet.
4. We Are Flexible: We thrive
on change — we’re driving it. We are growing every day, so we have to adapt
quickly to meet new challenges, and our team keeps up.
5. We Exceed Expectations: We assume
we can achieve the impossible because we already have, year after year. We want
our staff to create your own challenges, ask the toughest questions, and dream
scary big!
How to Apply: 
All
suitably qualified and interested candidates should apply by visiting the
online link below where you will be asked to upload your resume and answer
these questions:
  • Put yourself in our shoes: if you were hiring
    a Director of Talent & HR for Educate!, what are the tactics you’d use
    to source the best candidates?
  • What company or NGO do you admire for their
    forward thinking views on people and talent, and why? Which of their
    people or talent initiatives would you consider bringing to Educate! and
    which do you think would best help us build our culture?
  • How did you hear about this position? Please
    specify theugandanjobline.com website
Deadline: 30th March, 2016
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