Our client, a fast growing professional cleaning company based in Kampala with outlets in different parts of Uganda is seeking to hire a Human Resource Officer.  Reporting to the Managing Director, the holder of the position shall provide administrative, practical and strategic solutions as well as serve as an internal employee relations/performance consultant to drive the company’s people strategy.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Analyze the skills and qualities required for each particular job and develop job descriptions and performance targets.
• Advertise for staff vacancies, assess applications, interview applicants, administer selection tests, prepare reports and make recommendations to management about staff appointments.
• Maintain personal records of employees on matters such as wages, superannuation, leave and training, and prepare associated management reports
• Arrange and conduct staff training
• Use a number of management information systems to record, maintain, plan and manage the organization’s human resources.
• Provide advice and information to management and employees on human resource policies and procedures, including equal opportunity, anti-discrimination and occupational health and safety programs.
• Assist employees on work matters, career development, personal problems and industrial matters.
• Create and distribute guidelines and documents about company policies.
• Organize employee welfare services such as health and wellbeing programs, first aid and fire warden training, superannuation and social activities
• Take part in enterprise bargaining talks where employees, management and unions discuss the development of specific work arrangements and conditions (pay and hours of work, for example)
• Help put in place organizational changes (such as those to ensure planning, monitoring, and appraisal of employee work results by training managers to coach and discipline employees; scheduling management conferences with employees; hearing and resolving employee grievances; counseling employees and supervisors
• Maintains employee benefits programs and informs employees of benefits by studying and assessing benefit needs and trends; recommending benefit programs to management; directing the processing of benefit claims; obtaining and evaluating benefit contract bids; awarding benefit contracts; designing and conducting educational programs on benefit programs
• Ensures legal compliance by monitoring and implementing applicable human resource federal and state requirements; conducting investigations; maintaining records; representing the organization at hearings.
• Maintains management guidelines by preparing, updating, and recommending human resource policies and procedures flowing from industrial relations legislation, revised job classification structures or technological changes

Qualifications and skills:

• Undergraduate degree in Human Resource Management
• Previous experience as a Human Resource and Administration Officer or similar role.
• Familiarity with human resources information systems
• Basic knowledge of Uganda labor legislations
• Experience using spreadsheets
• Good planning and organizational skills
• Excellent communication skills.  

Qualified candidates are invited to send their applications and curriculum vitae to cv@tideventures.org on or before the close of business on Friday 21st May 2021.