Andela Job for a Director of People and Culture
Andela is a new type of technology staffing partner. Blending the best
of outsourcing and in-house hiring, Andela will change how you think
about sourcing technical talent. The company is backed by investors
including Steve Case, Omidyar Network, Founder Collective, Rothenberg
Ventures, Learn
Capital, Melo7 Tech Partners, and Chris Hughes. Andela
has offices in North America and Africa.
Andela is developing a corps of high-quality technology talent across
the African continent that will drive the current and future phases of
tech-enabled growth around the world. With the fastest growing
population and highest youth population in the world, we believe Africa
is one of the greatest untapped markets for talent development.
At
Andela, we find the brightest young people in Africa, train them to be
world-class developers, and connect them with employers around the world
looking for top technical talent. Passion, excellence, entrepreneurial
spirit, and rejecting the status quo are just a few of the things that
Andela team members have in common.
We have a vision to train 100,000 world-class developers in the next 10 years – and we want you to help make it happen
About the Director of People and Culture - Nigeria:
Andela
is seeking a Director of People and Culture to build our organizational
capacity and ensure we are creating an environment in which our staff
can realize their full potential. To be successful in this role, the
right candidate will bring extensive knowledge and experience in
managing and building people systems for growing organizations. As a
coach to a growing team of managers, a supporter to our staff, and as
the designer of our human systems, you will play an instrumental role in
building a truly world class organization.
In this job you will:
Serve
as the head of all people systems and operations from our Lagos,
Nigeria location. With a growing team of Fellows (software engineers),
instructors, supervisors and support team staff, there is a need for
someone to come in and build the kind of systems we need to ensure
individual and group success.
You will also:
- Serve as a key member of the Andela team in Lagos, Nigeria.
- Develop
systems, procedures and policies to manage the full employee lifecycle,
e.g. staff recruitment (non-Fellows), on-boarding, performance
management, compensation,and exiting.
- Build upon existing
systems to manage employee benefits, healthcare, and other Human
Resources functions. The objective is to maximise value delivered to
fellows and non- fellows whilst maintaining statutory compliance.
- Oversee
Andela non-Fellows recruitment process and work with team members to
ensure a smooth process flow from identification of a vacancy to the
filling of that vacancy.
- Manage on-boarding of new hires to ensure a seamless integration and optimise new hire productivity.
- Ensure
that the day-to-day operations of people-related functions are carried
out in a timely, efficient, and proactive manner. The objective is to
deliver transactions in alignment with agreed HR service standards
specifications.
- Manage the People Team including the People Associate and external suppliers and consultants.
- Work with individual supervisors to coach best practices related to driving individual performance.
- Serve as a thought leader and Andela brand champion across various internal and external channels.
Qualifications & Characteristics
As the ideal candidates for this role you:
- Comprehensive
understanding of core human resources processes and systems
(recruitment, absence management, organisation change, workforce
planning and performance management) and best practice standards for
each.
- Employment law knowledge and practical experience of its application (specific expertise in organisation change)
- Ability
to create effective working partnerships with key stakeholders and to
use these to create and implement people and organisation related
business plans that support the achievement of business goals and
objectives.
- Experience in a challenging, changing,
complex business environments with a special focus on multiculturalism
(and internationalism).
- Implementation of employee
engagement strategies that have successfully delivered improved
individual employee and organisational performance.
- A minimum of 10 years professional experience in a range of sectors.
- BS/BA
degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Social Sciences or
its recognized equivalent +7 years of relevant HR experience or MS/MA
degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Social Sciences or
its recognized equivalent, and 5 years relevant experience.
- Certified member of Chartered Institute of Personnel Management or related body is a bonus.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Skill
to build HR systems: benefits, payroll, accounting (not necessarily
extensive knowledge, more knowing how to build the system)
- Ability to manage a team
- Skill to implement a performance management system for growing organization
- Skill to intervene with dissatisfied staff or mediate disagreements
- Skill (+experience) to build a recruiting program
- Ability to quickly build trust with staff, subcontractors, and recipients of assistance.
- Skill
to interact with diplomacy, tact and follow up on requests in timely
and efficient manner. Must exhibit high levels of professionalism,
integrity and ethical values at all times.
- Ability to maintain confidentiality for sensitive HR issues, projects.
- Skill to build systems to keep records, report preparation, filing methods and records management techniques.
- Computer
literacy at an intermediate level. Including ability to use HR and
other business software. Experience in HRIS implementation is an
advantage. .
- Knowledge of in-country employment regulations,
e.g. Nigerian labor/employee relations statutes and capacity to apply
them to Andela Nigeria. Ability to adapt applicable founding country
labour laws (US) into local practices as required.
- Strong knowledge of
- salary structure
- development
- benefits and compensation
- surveys/benchmarking
- job evaluation systems.
- Ability to plan and prioritize own work under tight deadlines, as well as to work on own initiative and as a member of a team
How to Apply
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