Head, Human Resources

• The Head, Human Resources is directly responsible for the overall administration, coordination and strategic evaluation of the human resources department for the entire group.
• He/she will be responsible for all Human Resources related solutions that influence business decisions.
• The Head, HR will also improve HR initiatives, enhancing staff morale and relations between staff and management, contribute to attaining business goals, promote good HR practices and attract talented recruits to meet the organization’s needs.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Develops organization strategies by identifying and researching human resources issues; contributing information, analysis, and recommendations to organization strategic thinking and direction; establishing human resources objectives in line with organizational objectives.
• Implements human resources strategies by establishing department accountabilities, including talent acquisition, staffing, employment processing, compensation, health and welfare benefits, training and development, records management, safety and health, succession planning, employee relations and retention,and labor relations.
• Manages human resources operations by overseeing recruitment, selection, orientation, training, coaching,counseling, and disciplining of staff; planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing staff job contributions, maintaining compensation, determining production, productivity, quality, and customer-service strategies, designing systems; accumulating resources; resolving problems; implementing change.
• Develops human resources operations budgets and financial strategies by estimating, forecasting, and anticipating requirements, trends, and variances; aligning monetary resources; developing action plans,measuring and analyzing results; initiating corrective actions; minimizing the impact of variances.
• Accomplishes special project results by identifying and clarifying issues and priorities; communicating and coordinating requirements; expediting fulfillment; evaluating milestone accomplishments; evaluating optional courses of action; changing assumptions and direction.
• Supports management by providing human resources advice, counsel, and decisions; analyzing information and applications.
• Guides management and employee actions by researching, developing, writing, and updating policies, procedures, methods, and guidelines; communicating and enforcing organization values.
• Complies with federal, state, and local legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation; anticipating legislation; enforcing adherence to requirements; advising management on needed actions.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in conferences and educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Enhances department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
• Works directly with department managers to assist them in carrying out their responsibilities on personnel matters.
• Participates on committees and special projects and seeks additional responsibilities.
• Maintain effective employee relations including participation, consultation and negotiation with representative bodies and ensure maintenance of productive working relationships with all colleagues.
• Lead and support the development and implementation of HR policy across all units of the department, and areas of the organization including improving performance, maximizing attendance and providing effective management of change and development.
• Direct and work with the HR team to develop, co-ordinate, implement and audit all HR activity within the department and across the organization.
• Assists executive management in the annual review, preparation and administration of group’s salary productivity target.
• Ensure effective implementation of the disciplinary and grievance procedures for all employee groups.
• Effectively oversee all human resources activities, authorizations and approvals.
• Ensure smooth, seamless operations and coherence both intra and inter-departmentally
• Periodically receives and collates reports from all unit heads, and sends to management accordingly.
• Any other tasks as may be deemed necessary by management.
• Measuring and analyzing results; initiating corrective actions; minimizing the impact of variances.
• Accomplishes special project results by identifying and clarifying issues and priorities; communicating and coordinating requirements; expediting fulfillment; evaluating milestone accomplishments; evaluating optional courses of action; changing assumptions and direction.
• Supports management by providing human resources advice, counsel, and decisions; analyzing information and applications.
• Guides management and employee actions by researching, developing, writing, and updating policies, procedures, methods, and guidelines; communicating and enforcing organization values.
• Complies with federal, state, and local legal requirements by studying existing and new legislation; anticipating legislation; enforcing adherence to requirements; advising management on needed actions.
• Updates job knowledge by participating in conferences and educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Enhances department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
• Lead and support the development and implementation of HR policy across all units of the department, and areas of the organization including improving performance, maximizing attendance and providing effective management of change and development.
• Direct and work with the HR team to develop, co-ordinate, implement and audit all HR activity within the department and across the organization.
• Assists executive management in the annual review, preparation and administration of group’s salary productivity target.
• Works directly with department managers to assist them in carrying out their responsibilities on personnel matters.
• Participates on committees and special projects and seeks additional responsibilities.
• Maintain effective employee relations including participation, consultation and negotiation with representative bodies and ensure maintenance of productive working relationships with all colleagues.
• Ensure effective implementation of the disciplinary and grievance procedures for all employee groups.
• Effectively oversee all human resources activities, authorizations and approvals.
• Ensure smooth, seamless operations and coherence both intra and inter-departmentally
• Periodically receives and collates reports from all unit heads, and sends to management accordingly.
• Any other tasks as may be deemed necessary by management.
• Processes planned and streamlined.
• Significant input and participation in the deployment of new policies.
• Turnover rate of high performers.
• Average time to achieve set goals.

Qualifications / Requirements

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources Management or any other related field.
• At least 7 years of post-graduation experience, with cognitive experience in full-cycle HR experience
• 4 additional years of relevant experience may be substituted in lieu of degree.
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office, more importantly, Excel with an ability to analyze data.
• Recognized professional qualification (e.g. CIPD, CIPM, PHRi, SPHRi).

Salary
N700,000 monthly (Gross).

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Position as the subject of the email.