Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 6 years of HR Business Partner or HR Generalist experience.
• Experience with HR practices within Sub-Saharan Africa.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience implementing large-scale HR projects, risk management/mitigation and supporting change management, business readiness, communications, and training activities.
• Experience with cross-functional collaboration and driving decisions with multiple stakeholder groups.
• Knowledge of Human Resources (HR), Center of Excellence (CoE) disciplines, and local Employment law.
• Excellent critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills.

About the job

People Operations strives to revolutionize human resources the same way that Google has revolutionized search. We are helping to find, grow and keep the remarkable assemblage of talent who are our Googlers. You’ll be an advocate of Google’s culture and values, partnering with our business leaders to help them build their organizations and make sure all people decisions are based on data. Whether coaching our clients on how to lead their teams, navigating and resolving employee relations issues or managing programs that help develop our Googlers, you are exceptionally focused on putting them first, and being as clear and transparent as possible to help Googlers understand how people decisions get made.

As a Human Resources Consultant, you will lead change in a number of areas, including Labour relations, strategic capability, manager effectiveness, policy and process, culture and engagement and incident response, etc. You will offer a trusted and knowledgeable voice around HR matters as it relates to the market, internally and externally. You will work seamlessly across multiple People Operations (POps) partners and business stakeholders to collaborate effectively and use your influencing skills as needed to represent the needs of Google.

In this role, you will manage multiple projects and country-specific initiatives and understand when and how to appropriately escalate decisions or urgent matters. You will facilitate partner discussions and drive decisions that are good for Google and bring partners/stakeholders along with their change management skills. You will balance the need to analyse/research thoughtfully and move quickly to action/incident response.

Great just isn’t good enough for our People Operations team (known elsewhere as “Human Resources”). We bring the world’s most innovative people to Google and provide the programs that help them thrive. Whether recruiting the next Googler, refining our core programs, developing talent, or simply looking for ways to inject some more fun into the lives of our Googlers, we bring a data-driven approach that is reinventing the human resources field. You’ll play an essential role advancing a more accessible Google through our hiring, promotion, and practices.

Responsibilities

• Deliver dynamic consultations around a variety of Human Resources (HR) topics aligned to the POps Menu of Services such as performance enablement, team/manager/leader effectiveness, career development, and navigating transitions.
• Contribute to the deployment of high priority country focused HR programmes and initiatives, aligned to the country people plan.
• Identify and drive recommendations and prioritization to ensure work is in service of improving the Googler Experience in the country.
• Work with partner teams to ensure end-to-end delivery of HR processes in the country.
• Manage employment policy and practices to ensure legal and regulatory compliance.