Role: Consultancy – Senior Talent & Capability Manager.

Duration – 6 months.

Reporting to: Director – Talent & Capability.

Location: Nairobi – Kenya.

About Us

Our Strategy for delivering high-quality, cost-effective community health through and with digitally empowered, equipped, supplied, supervised, and compensated CHWs requires that we continuously re-invent the way we work. Innovating incessantly and with swift responsiveness to global trends is a critical success factor for building a thriving and sustainable LG of today and tomorrow.

Over the last four years, Living Goods has become a more complex organization with multiple implementation modes, exciting opportunities in new countries, and new partnerships in existing countries. Furthermore, while we have delivered some strong work in technology over the last couple of years, we now need to go the extra mile beyond technology and ensure a much greater emphasis on government partnerships in the broader digital health space. We can only do this by building a great place to work where our teams thrive, grow, and deliver extraordinary results.

Purpose of role:

The role is highly visible to a large cross-section of key and senior stakeholders, which will typically involve many critical leadership roles that significantly impact the organization’s ability to achieve key strategic outcomes/BIG wins. The TCM will be an expert in the resourcing, hiring, and talent planning process and will be a coach and mentor to their client group and will model our values enabling a high standard of best practice and facilitating brilliant talent moves and hires – while providing advice and guidance to functional units and HR stakeholders on their input to a robust multi-year talent plan and the on-going monitoring of that plan

Key Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates a deep understanding of the organizational strategic objectives and priorities to ensure the execution of LG’s talent agenda; Supports the definition and delivery of the talent and capability development framework required to support the execution of Living Good’s strategy.
• Work collaboratively to shape and define the approach and key milestones to implement these strategies, including shaping key talent and performance processes across LG; accountable for strengthening the succession pools through talent internal career pathways and external acquisition; develops plans and interventions to ensure a high quality of delivery; utilizes tools that enable the resourcing process and search for ways to innovate and drive improvements.
• Contribute to the positioning of LG’s Global Employer Brand to ensure top-of-mind awareness as a preferred employer in all the countries where we have teams.
• Deploy creative sourcing strategies to attract best-in-class talent for todays and tomorrow’s LG business needs while developing robust succession pipelines for key positions.
• Be a true business partner and coach for hiring managers and HR Managers in all talent discussions to ensure the right balance of talent buying, borrowing, and building decisions.
• Provide oversight and technical expertise in the design, delivery, and evaluation of technical as well as Leadership learning interventions.
• Lead the annual talent management process while linking outcomes from the annual performance management cycle, Talent Reviews, and annual learning needs for teams and individuals.

Qualifications & Experience Required

• First degree in Industrial psychology, Social Sciences and any other related field.
• Membership with an accredited HR professional body.
• A relevant master’s degree will be an added advantage.
• A Chartered Human resource professional will be an added advantage.
• At least 6 years’ experience of engaging with multi senior stakeholders/clients in a fast-paced matrixed business environment.
• Specialist experience in Talent Acquisition as well as in a large or fast-growing organization, preferably a multinational organization.
• Proven track record of managing senior to mid-career level recruitment with a strong appreciation of global trends and best practices in Talent management.
• Have a pragmatic approach to problem-solving with the ability to generate insight from data and derive action plans for continuous improvement.
• Possess exceptional internal consulting skills and be able to influence action and change with stakeholders.
• A good listener who persuasively conveys opinions and recommendations
• Bilingual in French is a plus.

Living Goods is an equal-opportunity employer and will consider every qualified applicant for employment. Living Goods does not discriminate based on race, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.

Our current job openings are displayed on our website, where you can search for open positions and apply directly. Living Goods does not offer any positions without an interview and never asks candidates for money. If you are asked for money, we strongly recommend that you do not respond and do not send money or personal information.