About the role

We are looking for a visionary Talent Director of Fresh Life, our sanitation innovation company, who will lead an exceptional, mission-driven team, provide leadership to our Talent team and guide our Talent strategy across Kenya.

Duties and Responsibilities

Talent Strategy & Planning

• Craft a clear and inspiring Talent strategy to support a team that will grow from 300 to 1,000, as our impact grows to serve 1M people across Kenya with inclusive and high-quality non-sewered sanitation services by 2026


• Drive planning and implementation across Kenya, helping business leaders achieve strategic priorities and ensure our teams remain engaged and motivated to achieve results


• Lead annual strategic planning for the Talent function and set impactful Talent goals and measures of success that support business objectives and propose action plans to execute against them


• Track progress towards overall Talent goals, provide updates to the Managing Director to ensure that Talent plays a leading role in driving overall business objectives

Execution

• Collaborate with the Managing Director to communicate annual objectives throughout the organization and to support execution by building a culture and processes for recognition and accountability


• Spearhead the delivery of impactful Talent initiatives, implementing continuous improvements for service enhancement at both national and county office levels


• Inspire the team to keep work moving forward by balancing competing priorities, making effective decisions, and generating innovative ideas in support of our teams and business objectives

Leadership, People & Culture

• Model leadership behaviors and our values to build a positive, thriving team culture that enables a rapidly growing, high-performing team to succeed


• Guide business leaders in building an effective organizational structure that both empowers and nurtures a culture of accountability so that we are executing towards our goals


• Develop and coach a team of leaders empowered to lead strategy, people, and implementation in each of their domains towards shared goals


• Provide leadership and support to the Talent team to own and execute on their domains across Recruitment, Learning & Performance, Culture & Engagement, Talent Management and Talent Operations


• Support your team to problem solve and course correct as circumstances change, balance competing priorities, and make effective decisions to keep work moving forward towards outcomes


• Motivate and coach your team to position themselves as strategic partners to the business, keeping them accountable for work quality, timeliness, and impact


• Represent Talent priorities at the leadership table, proactively raising issues and making clear and persuasive cases to support your recommendations for action

Systems and Processes Design & Improvement

• Design, Build and continuously improve any necessary systems and processes to ensure that the Talent team provides an exceptional customer experience to its internal customers

Qualifications

• 10+ years’ experience as a HR Generalist or in other relevant operational senior leadership roles


• 3+ years’ experience as a Senior Talent Manager leading designing and implementation of talent strategy and HR operations


• Critical and analytical thinking skills; ability to work with both large and limited amounts of data to develop strategy and make rigorous decisions


• Demonstrated experience in managing country-wide teams with diverse professional development needs


• Commercial acumen with proven ability to grasp how Talent impacts business objectives


• Strong negotiator, with a proven ability to lobby for Talent agenda


• Highly organized with a high capacity to problem solve and establish priorities for self and team


• Ability to inspire confidence and instill trust both internally and externally


• Proven success in building strong and effective people centric teams


• Demonstrated passion for the organization’s mission, values and customers


• Impeccable integrity and ethics