Senior Human Resources Officer

About Benjamin William Mkapa Foundation (BMF)

Benjamin William Mkapa Foundation (BMF) is a non-profit Trust, established in 2006 with the vision of healthy lives and well-being for all, in Tanzania and the rest of Africa. Its strategic mission is to contribute towards better health outcomes through innovative health and related system solutions.

BMF’s Vision and Mission can be achieved through an empowered workforce, which is self-motivated, committed to growth and integrity, and the one who seeks excellence in execution. BMF seeks innovative, self-driven, dynamic, and competent qualified candidates to fill the below three (3) vacancies.

Job Overview

Position Title: Senior Human Resources Officer

Department: Corporate Support Services

Duty Station: BMF Headquarters – Dar es Salaam

Contract type: Full time

Overall Purpose of the Job:

The Senior Human Resource Officer is responsible for providing support to the Management team on various human resource functions, which include recruitment, staffing, personnel policies of the Foundation, training and development, performance monitoring and employee counselling.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Manage recruitment process by preparing advertisements for vacant positions, short listing candidates as per the required qualifications, call candidates for interviews, notifying successful candidates, performing background checks / pre-employment screening of all successful candidates.
• Coordinate new staff orientation by preparing a New Hire Check List of topics and areas to be covered during orientation.
• Make a follow up on performance management by ensuring all employees’ performance appraisal forms are filed in the employee’s personal files.
• Analyze and summarize the performance appraisal of all BMF staff as carried by the respective staff and supervisors.
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• Manage staff training and development including identifying skills gaps and developing training plan to compliment both the needs of BMF and the needs of the employees
• Reviews and makes recommendations for improvement of organizational policies, procedures, and practices on HR matters
• Develops and maintains a human resources system that meets organizational personnel information needs
• Advise staff on their leaves which are entitled to them according to the BMF HR policy and procedures and ensure that they are properly planned without disrupting BMF’s operations.
• Coordinates and conducts exit interviews to determine reasons behind separation.
• Update personnel files including employee details, maintaining leave records, registration of employees in social security, statutory schemes, and other benefits.
• Ensure Monthly Approval of timesheets.
• Any other duties as may be assigned by the supervisor

Qualifications and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in human resources or public administration, Masters will be an added advantage
• At least 5 years’ working experience in Human Resources Management
• Effective communication and negotiation skills.
• Strong critical thinking and analytical skills.
• Experienced in working with a Non- Government, Government or Private sector entity with multiple financiers will be an added advantage.

Mode of Application

For all interested candidates, kindly fill the application form via the following links:

Application Form – Senior HR Officer

Kindly attach the required documents as stated in the application form. The deadline for application is on Thursday 20th November 2024