TUME Middle Africa Consulting is a business advisory service offering support to Companies and business professionals who want to build their brands and markets in Africa. TUME works with selected independent professional partners to merge global expertise with local knowledge and deliver outstanding, actionable solutions. Engaging TUME will strengthen your professional capability significantly and help shape your growth.

This positions’ key responsibilities are:

• Develop and implement business-aligned HR strategies to achieve annual objectives and targets.
• Ensure an optimized organizational structure, right people in the right positions, a pipeline of suitable candidates for positions in the expansion plans. Manage headcount costs and turnover targets.
• Ensure seventy-five percent or more of the staff achieve their set targets, remedial or reward actions are completed on time and redundant positions are closed. Each staff attends at least one capability course.
• Promote a forward-looking company culture, ethics and compliance, enforce agreed-on actions against violations at all levels consistently.
• Maintain timeliness, accuracy and adequacy of HR-related reports for board and other stakeholders. Provide recommendations, input into strategic planning.

SPECIFIC JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

The Chief of People & Culture is responsible and accountable for the following core job elements:

• Provide strategic guidance on human capital matters to ensure alignment with company values and business strategy and objectives.
• Partner with leadership to drive organizational development, design, and change initiatives, aiming to enhance effectiveness and ensuring compliance with regulatory training requirements.
• Manage resourcing activities, including attraction, recruitment, and selection processes, to meet business needs competitively. Manage succession and career development plans to support business continuity.
• Oversee the reward cycle by benchmarking compensation, bonuses, and recognition initiatives to reinforce desired behaviors and competitiveness.
• Develop and implement policies, procedures, and initiatives to support organizational objectives.
• Provide coaching and development support to managers on complex HR issues and ensure compliance with the law, policies and regulations. Provide internal consultancy and utilize best practices.
• Oversee the performance management cycle, design effective processes, monitor progress and ensure quality assurance.
• Collaborate with wellness partners to implement programs supporting employee wellness and performance.
• Prepare presentations and reports, including HR board packs for the Board’s HR Remuneration & Recruitment Committee.
• Oversee human resources end to end compliance, policies, codes, processes, documentation and to advise and update the leadership on pertinent issues.

EDUCATIONAL AND COLLATERAL REQUIREMENTS:

• Master’s degree in human resource management or equivalent from a recognized University and a CHRP-K membership certification.
• Ten or more years of progressive HR generalist experience, five of which must be in a similar senior role, with measurable HR results. Financial Services experience preferred.
• Proficient in data-driven decision-making, change management, DEI principles, and leadership development.
• Must be an active member of IHRM with valid HR Practicing Certificate.
• Excellent interpersonal, coaching, negotiation presentation skills. Good Microsoft Windows skills
• Self-starter, team player, mature individual with outstanding strategic, analytical, numerate, creative skills, communication and presentation talents