About the Programme

The MasterCard Foundation in partnership with BRAC International (BI) is implementing an initiative that will create a positive and measurable impact for 1.2 million adolescent girls and young women in 9.5 million People across seven countries in East and West Africa, including Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Uganda.

There is mounting urgency to support adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) living in poverty, which has been further amplified by the global pandemic. Through this partnership, scalable economic development approaches will be delivered in communities to foster the agency and voice of AGYW. They will have the opportunity to fulfill their aspirations, achieve sustainable livelihoods, and engage in advocacy issues.

BRAC Maendeleo Tanzania is seeking applications from competent, dynamic and self-motivated individual to fill up the following position.

Senior Officer, Human Resources

The purpose of this position is to decentralize Human Resource Operations so as to increase efficiency and effectiveness in service delivery which will increase organization productivity. The role contributes to the development of base strategies, which are translated into action plans and day-to-day tasks.

Key Responsibilities:

• Receiving approved manpower requisition from hiring manager to initiate recruitment process.
• Arranging interview for successfully shortlisted candidates.
• To collect all necessary documents from the new staffs and contract issuing
• Probation Reviews and to ensure that all probation reviews are completed within agreed timescales.
• Maintenance of staff files
• Periodically organize policy-sharing events to the concerned regional staffs.
• To communicate the gaps of various policies and process and the possible solutions to HR strategy.
• Assist in Performance management system in terms of staffs objective setting in January, Midterm review and year-end review.
• Support staff development activities including promoting the BRAC Learning Catalogue
• Assisting Training team in preparations organization and evaluation of various training in the field
• Appropriate employment background check of the newly recruited staffs.
• Ensure all new staff have the social security& medical registration and supervise the process by making sure that necessary application forms are completed/ filled.
• To work closely with Accounts in the matter of payroll preparation.
• Managing leave and attendance of regional staffs
• Ensuring all staffs have renewed contracts
• Assisting Senior Manager, Human Resources in issuing and processing transfer proposal, transfer orders and resignation letters.
• Handling employee’s relations issues by the consultation with Senior Manager, Human Resources i.e helping line managers in attending formal disciplinary hearing, helping line managers in issuing show cause as well as documenting all disciplinary operations took place.
• To preserve staff personal files and update whenever necessary.
• Assist Senior Manager, Human Resources in Managing staff information system software (HRIS)
• Ensure all staff are issued with name tags and identity cards

Safeguarding Responsibilities:

• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

Educational & Experience Requirements:

• Holder of a bachelor’s degree in the field of Human Resource management/Administration, Industrial relation, Laws or relevant field from a recognized University/Institution.
• Proven two years’ experience as HR officer, administrator or other HR position
• Knowledge of HR functions (pay & benefits, recruitment, training & development etc.)
• Understanding of labor laws and disciplinary procedures
• Proficient in MS Office; knowledge of HRMS is required

Required Competencies:

• Computer literate
• Able to plan and priorities workload
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Outstanding organizational and time-management abilities
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Problem-solving and decision-making aptitude
• Strong ethics and reliability

• Receiving approved manpower requisition from hiring manager to initiate recruitment process.
• Arranging interview for successfully shortlisted candidates.
• To collect all necessary documents from the new staffs and contract issuing
• Probation Reviews and to ensure that all probation reviews are completed within agreed timescales.
• Maintenance of staff files
• Periodically organize policy-sharing events to the concerned regional staffs.
• To communicate the gaps of various policies and process and the possible solutions to HR strategy.
• Assist in Performance management system in terms of staffs objective setting in January, Midterm review and year-end review.
• Support staff development activities including promoting the BRAC Learning Catalogue
• Assisting Training team in preparations organization and evaluation of various training in the field
• Appropriate employment background check of the newly recruited staffs.
• Ensure all new staff have the social security& medical registration and supervise the process by making sure that necessary application forms are completed/ filled.
• To work closely with Accounts in the matter of payroll preparation.
• Managing leave and attendance of regional staffs
• Ensuring all staffs have renewed contracts
• Assisting Senior Manager, Human Resources in issuing and processing transfer proposal, transfer orders and resignation letters.
• Handling employee’s relations issues by the consultation with Senior Manager, Human Resources i.e helping line managers in attending formal disciplinary hearing, helping line managers in issuing show cause as well as documenting all disciplinary operations took place.
• To preserve staff personal files and update whenever necessary.
• Assist Senior Manager, Human Resources in Managing staff information system software (HRIS)
• Ensure all staff are issued with name tags and identity cards
• Ensure the safety of team members from any harm, abuse, neglect, harassment and exploitation to achieve the programme’s goals on safeguarding implementation. Act as a key source of support, guidance and expertise on safeguarding for establishing a safe working environment.
• Practice, promote and endorse the issues of safeguarding policy among team members and ensure the implementation of safeguarding standards in every course of action.
• Follow the safeguarding reporting procedure in case any reportable incident takes place, encourage others to do so.

• Computer literate
• Able to plan and priorities workload
• Excellent verbal and written communication
• Outstanding organizational and time-management abilities
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Problem-solving and decision-making aptitude
• Strong ethics and reliability
• Proficient in MS Office; knowledge of HRMS is required

• Holder of a bachelor’s degree in the field of Human Resource management/Administration, Industrial relation, Laws or relevant field from a recognized University/Institution.
• Proven two years’ experience as HR officer, administrator or other HR position
• Knowledge of HR functions (pay & benefits, recruitment, training & development etc.)
• Understanding of labor laws and disciplinary procedures