Role Overview
Our client, a fast-growing agribusiness company specializing in commercial beekeeping, honey production and processing, herbs production, value addition, and distribution, is seeking to recruit a competent Human Resource Officer. The successful candidate will be responsible for establishing and managing the organization's human resource function, supporting recruitment, employee relations, policy implementation, performance management, staff welfare, statutory compliance, and fostering a fair, inclusive, and productive work environment across its operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Recruitment & Deployment: Coordinate recruitment, selection, onboarding, induction, and deployment of employees.
- Record Management: Maintain accurate and confidential employee records, contracts, and personnel files.
- Policy Implementation: Implement HR policies, procedures, and employment practices.
- Employee Relations: Manage employee relations, grievances, workplace concerns, and disciplinary processes fairly and professionally. Promote equality, teamwork, diversity, and inclusion across all operational locations.
- Risk Management: Monitor workplace relationships and advise management on emerging employee-relations risks.
- Performance Management: Coordinate probation reviews, performance planning, and employee appraisals.
- Payroll Support: Support payroll preparation by verifying attendance, leave, overtime, allowances, and employee changes.
- Leave Administration: Administer annual leave, sick leave, compassionate leave, and other authorized absences.
- Compliance: Ensure compliance with Kenyan employment laws, occupational safety requirements, and internal policies.
- Workforce Planning: Support workforce planning and the development of job descriptions and staffing structures.
- Training & Development: Identify employee training and development needs and coordinate relevant programmes.
- Management Support: Assist supervisors in applying company policies and managing employees consistently.
- Reporting: Prepare regular HR reports covering staffing, attendance, turnover, grievances, recruitment, and performance.
- Employee Welfare: Support employee welfare, engagement, and workplace communication initiatives.
- Administrative Duties: Perform any other HR and administrative duties assigned by management.
Qualifications and Requirements
- A bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management, Business Administration, or a related field.
- At least three years’ relevant experience in a generalist human resource role.
- Knowledge of the Employment Act, 2007 and other applicable Kenyan labour laws.
- Membership in the Institute of Human Resource Management (IHRM).
- Professional HR certification such as CHRP-K will be an added advantage.
- Experience supporting field-based, Agricultural, Manufacturing, or Geographically dispersed employees will be an added advantage.
- Working knowledge of payroll administration, performance management, and employee record management.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and HR information systems.
Skills & Competencies
- High integrity, confidentiality and professional judgement.
- Strong employee-relations and conflict-resolution skills.
- Demonstrated impartiality and ability to handle sensitive workplace concerns.
- Good interpersonal, communication and report-writing skills.
- Ability to work effectively with employees from diverse communities and backgrounds.
- Strong organisational and administrative skills.
- Ability to work independently and establish HR systems in a growing organisation.
- Willingness to travel and work within remote operational locations.
- Practical, approachable and solutions-oriented working style.
