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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:

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