WaterAid Nigeria Job for Human Resources & Organisational Development Officer

WaterAid – We are an international non governmental organisation with a mission to transform lives by improving access to safe water, improved hygiene and sanitation in the world’s poorest communities.

We seek high calibre professionals to play leading roles in our mission to transform lives with safe water sanitation and hygiene in the world’s poorest communities in the capacity:

Job Title: Human Resources & Organisation Development Officer

Location: Abuja, 

Project Summary
Around 45,000 children under the age of five in Nigeria die from diarrhoeal diseases caused by the nation’s poor levels of access to water; sanitation and hygiene. Nearly 60 million people – 31% of the Nigerian population do not have access to safe water; while 71% of the population lacks access to basic sanitation, that’s over 130 million people without a toilet. This is a crisis that needs urgent action to ensure that the story is one of universal access – everyone everywhere in Nigeria having access to high quality water; sanitation and hygiene services by 2030.

WaterAid Nigeria has recently agreed a 5 year strategy and is restructuring for more effectiveness in responding to the needs in the country context. We are expanding the scale and scope of our work over the coming years with a view to supporting and catalysing government efforts to deliver the Sustainable Development.

Requirements

• The ideal candidate would in addition to having a graduate level qualification in the Social or Management Sciences, also be a certified HR practitioner of at least six years standing.
• The ideal candidate would clearly demonstrate strong expertise as a HR generalist and experience gained about best practices in contemporary people management especially in the key areas of responsibility; recruitment, induction, performance management, managing employee engagement processes & activities, administration of staff benefits and manage human resources records/documentation from a well-structured corporate setting.

Key Responsibilities

• Human Resources & Organizational Development Officer will have the space to learm and apply cutting edge people management principles and practices in a highly dynamic global organization.
• This exciting role will he challenged to apply great initiative and innovative thought in managing day to day operational HR activities including recruitment, induction, performance management, managing employee engagement processes & activities, administration of staff benefits and manage human resources records/documentation,

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should submit an expression of interest letter and updated CV to: hrnig@wateraid.org The submission must indicate position title as subject/in the subject line of the email.

Note: To apply for this role, you must be able to demonstrate your eligibility to work in Nigeria


Deadline: Deadline: 23rd February, 2017.