JOB DETAILS:

Description

Kinjani Forestry is hiring a Human Resource Manager to drive high-performance, structure, and clarity across Kijani’s team. This role blends hands-on execution with strategic leadership—owning everything from next-level recruitment to airtight compliance, decentralised work readiness, and building systems that make it crystal clear who does what, when, and how.

Key Outcomes

Rockstar hires: world-class talent recruited fast and right the first time.

Retention goes down: staff turnover is tracked, understood, and improved.

Clarity is everywhere: policies, workflows, org charts, onboarding, and performance systems are clear and followed.

Operations run smooth: HR data is clean, up to date, and feeds decision-making.

Responsibilities

1. Strategic HR Leadership

• • Own and drive the HR vision: structure, performance, compliance, clarity.
  • Advise senior leadership on org design, change management, and workforce planning.
  • Lead employee engagement, talent development, and succession planning initiatives.
  • Develop and evolve performance-based work culture.

2. Recruitment Excellence

• Design and run a world-class recruitment engine to attract, assess, and hire top talent.
• Build systems for hiring across departments that are fast, fair, and data-driven.
• Maintain a strong employer brand and candidate experience.

3. Compliance & Risk

• Ensure 100% compliance with Ugandan labor law, including contracts, NSSF, disciplinary actions, and exits.
• Oversee HR governance: audit-proof records, contracts, and systems.
• Manage whistleblowing process and maintain a culture of integrity and accountability.

4. Process & System Ownership

• • Lead the evolution of our HR systems. While current tools have supported early growth, they now need to scale — you’ll assess gaps, recommend improvements, and drive implementation of systems that enable clear, reliable, and efficient people operations.
  • Maintain up-to-date employee records in HR systems.
  • Design and continuously improve onboarding, offboarding, and internal mobility processes.
  • Lead payroll review and ensure compensation, bonus, and benefits systems are fair, timely, and documented.
  • Build and own SOPs for HR operations, with clear accountability.

5. People Performance & Communication

• Lead performance management cycles, coaching managers to give clear, timely feedback.
• Run internal communication of HR policies, ensuring all staff understand what is expected of them and when.
• Plan and manage the HR budget and track all people-related costs for savings and sustainability.

You’ll Thrive in This Role If You…

• Build order out of chaos and love systems that scale.
• Think globally but act locally, understanding people, compliance, and culture.
• Are fearless about accountability, fairness, and transparency.
• Are obsessed with clarity: of roles, expectations, timelines, and feedback loops.