Human Resources Assistant - The World Agroforestry Centre

The World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) is supporting the implementation of the Millennium Villages Project (MVP).

The Millennium Villages Project employs a community - based integrated development approach to help lift rural communities out of the poverty trap that afflicts more than a billion people worldwide.

The Millennium Villages Project (MVP) is supported by Millennium Promise and the Earth Institute, non-profit organizations, whose vision is the eradication of extreme global poverty.

Millennium Promise’s mission is to encourage individuals and organizations to join the fight against global poverty, disease, and hunger through an unprecedented campaign that draws on the support of all parts of society – individuals, businesses, charitable organizations, faith-based groups, governments – to ensure the success of the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) by 2015 and the end of extreme poverty by 2025.

The MVP is also supported by The MDG Centre, East and Southern Africa. The Center focuses on policy support at the national level and provides advisory services to the MVP with an intention of scaling up MDG related activities to district and national levels.

The MDG Centre would like to hire a Human Resources Assistant to report to the Finance and Administrative Officer based in Kisumu.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Provide the necessary HR advice to the team.
• Maintain a comprehensive HR filing system
• Maintain confidentiality
• Provide guidance and advise on performance management process
• Organize staff HR sensitization sessions
• Provide staff orientation
• Provide advice and recommendations on disciplinary actions.
• Ensure proper leave management
• Draft vacancy announcements
• Coordinate and facilitate recruitment process
• Conduct exit interviews
• Promote workplace safety.
• Provide guidance and advice on HR policy and Local Labor Laws.

Qualifications and Experience

• Degree in HR Management or equivalent
• 3 years experience in a relevant position in a busy similar organization.
• Must be computer literate
• Fluency in English and Kiswahili are essential.

Terms of offer ICRAF/Millennium Promise/Earth Institute is an equal opportunity employer offering a competitive salary and benefits package, and a collegial working environment.

The contract is for an initial period of one (1) year, renewable subject to three (3) months probation period, assessment of performance, and availability of resources.

Applicants are invited to send a cover letter illustrating their suitability for the above position against the listed qualifications/competencies/skills and a detailed curriculum vitae, with names and addresses of three referees (including telephone and fax numbers and email address).

Applications should indicate “Application for a Human Resources Assistant– MDG” on their application letters OR email submissions.

All correspondence should be addressed to the

Human Resources Unit,
World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF),
P.O. Box 30677, Nairobi, Kenya

OR via email: icrafhru@cgiar.org.

Applications will be considered until 28 September, 2011.

Only short-listed applicants meeting the above requirements will be contacted.

We invite you to learn more about us at:

www.worldagroforestry.org

www.millenniumpromise.org

www.mdgcentre.org