BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania is seeking a Senior Human Resources Officer to decentralize HR operations, improve service delivery, and support recruitment, staff development, employee relations, payroll coordination, and regional workforce administration in Mwanza.
Responsibilities
- Receive approved manpower requisitions from hiring managers and initiate recruitment processes
- Arrange interviews for successfully shortlisted candidates
- Collect required documents from new staff and issue employment contracts
- Conduct probation reviews and ensure completion within agreed timescales
- Maintain staff files
- Organize policy-sharing events for regional staff
- Communicate policy and process gaps and propose solutions to HR strategy
- Assist with the performance management system, including objective setting, midterm reviews, and year-end reviews
- Support staff development activities and promote the BRAC Learning Catalogue
- Assist the training team with preparation, organization, and evaluation of field training
- Conduct appropriate employment background checks for newly recruited staff
- Ensure new staff complete social security and medical registration
- Work closely with Accounts on payroll preparation
- Manage leave and attendance for regional staff
- Ensure staff contracts are renewed
- Assist the Senior Manager, Human Resources with transfer proposals, transfer orders, and resignation letters
- Handle employee relations issues, including disciplinary hearings, show-cause letters, and documentation of disciplinary actions
- Preserve and update staff personal files
- Assist the Senior Manager, Human Resources in managing the HRIS
- Ensure all staff are issued name tags and identity cards
- Ensure the safety of team members from harm, abuse, neglect, harassment, and exploitation
- Promote safeguarding policies and standards among team members
- Follow safeguarding reporting procedures for reportable incidents
Requirements
- Human Resource Management, Administration, Industrial Relations, Law, or a relevant academic background
- Knowledge of recruitment, compensation and benefits, training and development, labor laws, and disciplinary procedures
- Microsoft Office proficiency
- HRMS knowledge
- Planning and workload prioritization
- Verbal and written communication
- Organization and time management
- Interpersonal communication
- Problem-solving and decision-making
- Strong ethics and reliability
- Safeguarding awareness
Document Requirements
Application Instructions
- Email your CV and a letter of interest stating your educational grades, years of experience, current salary and expected salary.
- Internal candidates must send their latest CV with all BRAC job assignments and their BRAC PIN, copying their supervisor.
