The Skills Outside School Foundation is the leading African entrepreneurship (social and business), education and employability organization. Our vision is a productive human capital driving transformational socio-economic development globally, through our core pillars – data, interventions and advocacy over the last 8 years.
Working with 1,200+ volunteers (including business mentors, career mentors and trainers), 150+ international and local partners including UNICEF, International Institute for Tropical Agriculture, Access Bank, ACT Foundation, Bank of Agriculture, Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory Secondary Education Board, Smyle Africa Trust. Other partners include Opportunity Desk, Root2Fruit Foundation, Volunteer in Nigeria and the Nigerian National Youth Service, impacting over 50+ million people in 7 countries including Nigeria, Ghana, South Africa, India, Kenya, Macedonia, and Brazil the last 8 years.
We are recruiting to fill the position below:
Job Title: Administrative / Human Resource Officer
Location: Abuja (FCT)
Employment Type: Full-time
Primary Function
We are seeking an Admin / human resources officer whose primary functions include:
- Recruitment
- Completion of biannual promotions and performance appraisals.
- Update of job competency profiles and assessement.
- Regular update of organisational-wide policies and procedures.
- Drafting, implementation and completion of annual staff development plans.
- Administer employment contractual agreements, non-disclosure forms etc.
- Conduct exit interviews and complete exit process.
- Monitor and record employee leave requests
- Set up of liason offices in partner states
- Onboarding and new hire orientation.
- Regular update of administrative registers.
- Manage procurement and inventory
- Maintain asset register
- Ensuring all office materials are available e.g. Envelopes, letterhead etc.
- Managing logistics including travel arrangements, hotel and vehicle arrangements etc. for staff, guests, volunteers, consultants etc. as may be required
- In charge of ensuring the organization has adequate communication systems e.g. Voice and video conferencing facilities.
- Negotiate reasonable agreements for meeting space and other SOSFrequirements.
- Review and answer correspondence as required and calls/text messages to the Foundation.
- Making phone calls and/or responding to all callers in a friendly, professional andCourteous mannerwhilst responding toqueries from the general public includingStakeholdersand informing affected staff accordingly.
- Drafting andproofreading documents and letters to be sent by staff.
- Consolidate information from the team – the board and all staffat all times and trackAction items and outcomes.
- Maintain manual and electronic information databaseor bank including documenting and reviewing applications for various roles,responding appropriately and relaying the information to the relevant stakeholders.
- Update the filling system and manage official documents for both hard andElectronic copies.
- minutes taking at regular management meetings,scheduling meetings, maintainingthe staff meeting calendar,circulatingmeeting agenda etc.
- Populating the employee competence catalogue.
- Updating policies and procedures.
- Ensuring facilities and office equipment are kept in optimal conditions.
- administering goal-setting documents to staff and following up on the submissions.
- Reviewing, and documenting staff, volunteers, consultants, and trainers’ reports when submitted.
- Handling administrative and secretarial matters.
- updating of vendors register annually.
- Ensuring staff welfare is properly attended to.
- Preparing memos.
Qualifications
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s Degree in any discipline, preferably in the Social Sciences with at least 2 years of work experience (essential).
- A professional certification is desirable (PHRI, CIPM).
Skills and experience:
- Very excellent written and verbal communication.
- Ability to handle confidential information
- Excellent analytical and critical thinking skills.
- Knowledge of microsoft word, powerpoint and excel.
- Ability to use dropbox, google drive, and hris systems.
- General understanding of documentation.
- Creative self-starter who can work independently or on a team.
- Thorough knowledge of labor laws
- Excellent organizational skills, with an ability to prioritize important projects
- Strong phone, email and in-person communication skills.
Job Benefits
At SOSF, we value diversity and inclusion – in backgrounds, and experiences and also encourage a gender Friendly work Environment. We offer:
- Paid Time off (PTO) which includes:
- Sick (sick leave based on the duration of sickness after a verified Doctor’s report)
- Exam (A Maximum of 1-week paid examination leave annually)
- Annual (25 days for full-time staff and 20 days for contract staff)
- Maternity (3 months for confirmed female staff)
- Paternity leave (5 working days for male employees)
- Group continuous Learning and Development: As part of our commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations are more effective, efficient, and relevant to the communities they serve, we expect all team members to commit 5% of their time to learning activities that benefit Skills outside foundation as well as themselves. The team has a learning and development WhatsApp group where all posts are shared.
- External Engagement policy: SOSF Encourages people to have other external engagements outside SOSF which support the vision and mission of the organization as well as their interests.
- A flexible working structure that entails a 90% Remote and 10% Physical work structure.
- SOSF has an excellent career growth pathway for its staff through its 2-promotion cycle in a year.
Application Closing Date
12th April, 2023.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Motivation letter to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.
