Education|Kenya

Our client is a startup revolutionizing education across Africa with a truly unique business model.  The company has launched a large-scale franchise-like network of ultra low-cost for-profit private primary schools across Africa. Their schools profitably deliver high-quality education for less than $4 per child per month, enabling local school managers to operate their school businesses profitably, while creating a highly successful business at the central level.  They  have launched our first seven schools in Kenya, have five more opening in May and plan to rapidly scale the company to serve more than 1 million students.

About this position

We are looking for a Head of Recruiting and Human Resources.  Because of the scale of their operations, the company will eventually need to hire thousands of new teachers each year, hundreds of new school managers, and dozens of headquarters support personnel to manage this scale.  It is critical to their success to be able to design and manage streamlined recruiting, vetting and hiring processes to find the right people and to do so in a cost-effective manner.   It is the role of the Head of Recruiting and Human Resources to accomplish this.  While the Senior Recruiter and Human Resources Manager will manage a small team, we are looking for someone who is good with the details, and ready to get their hands dirty.

Hiring responsibilities will include:
- Teachers & School Managers from the slum communities where their schools are launched
- HQ school support personnel (School Operations Officers and Professional Development coaches)
- Other HQ hires

More specifically:
 Setup and manage large-scale streamlined hiring processes for teachers and school managers
 Recruit and source candidates from the slums
 Recruit and managing contractors from the local communities to regularly hang up posters about openings, as well as a postering supervisor to ensure that posters are hung
 Schedule mass interview and screening days (interviewing between 30-100 people in one day)
 Refine and continue to develop streamlined process of screening many candidates in a single day
 Find space/rooms to do mass interviews
 Use existing and develop new screening assessments (for example, math and english tests, systems and accounting exams, written applications, public speaking exercises, mock sales pitches, personality tests)
 Streamline the process of administering, scoring, advancing candidates to next round
 Tracking, Recording results and inviting back finalist candidates
 Scheduling final round interviews with relevant department members
 Reference checking
 Making offers
 Implementation of HR software solution to manage database, and hiring process and tracking.
 Including database of CVs and contact info, results of interviews, etc
 Manage the process of hiring personnel for headquarters
 Work with department heads to define new hire requirements, job     description, define screening exercises, and process.
 Lead candidate sourcing (headhunting, advertising online, newspaper, and postering)
 Manage CV screening based on pre-defined criteria
 Manage and conduct initial interviews and screening exercise processes
 Track candidates through the hiring process
 Schedule interviews, follow-ups, reference checks, etc
 Managing onboarding process
 Contract signing, sign up and explanation of medical insurance, NHIF, NSSF, etc
 Manage ongoing Human Resources issues
 Policies, guidelines, salary reviews

About You
- You have minimum of 5 years experience with recruiting and managing hiring processes for a company with high volumes of new hires
- You have experience in managing human resource issues for a company with complex human resource needs
- You are very systems-oriented, and have experience in developing systems and processes to manage a complex hiring process for many positions simultaneously
- You have experience headhunting for key positions
- ”Love to get my hands dirty” is your middle name.  While you will have a small team to help you, you have also demonstrated your willingness to jump into the very nitty-gritty details and get done what is needed to get done.
- You have a strong ability to quickly understand what is required of a position, define the detailed requirements, and know how to source, screen and interview people who will fit that role.
- You function well in a fast-paced, informal environment where constant change is the norm and the bar for quality is set high

 TO APPLY:

To apply for this position, please e mail your CV, (in Word format only)  detailed application letter and recent photograph of yourself, ensuring you quote the JOB REFERENCE  to edujobs@tackafrica.com    Please do not send through scanned documents.    Please note that only shortlisted applicants will be contacted. 

 

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