Department: Human Resources

Responsible to: Country Director

Location: Tubmanburg, Bomi County

Contract length: Open-ended

We are recruiting an inspirational leader to join Mary’s Meals Liberia, as our new Head of HR & People Development.

As Head of HR & People Development, you will play a key role in our Liberia Senior Leadership Team and drive HR excellence across Mary’s Meals Liberia. Based in Tubmanburg, Bomi County, and reporting to the Country Director, you will build and deliver a future focussed HR strategy aligned with our global People Strategy and our dearly held values. The Head of HR & People Development will lead the Liberia People team, supporting the continuous development of robust people policy frameworks to strengthen our programme and people, as we strive to reach the next child waiting for Mary’s Meals.

You will partner with the organization to provide expert advice and guidance to managers on all HR matters, including, performance management, recruitment, employee development, complex employee relations issues, organizational design, workforce planning, and complex change programmes. You will lead the ongoing implementation of our values and leadership behaviors into all aspects of programme operations and will role model our values of simplicity, stewardship, and service in every aspect of your role.

Key responsibilities:

• Take a proactive approach to HR compliance, legislation, and risk management, ensuring risks and issues are identified, addressed, and reported.
• Ensure that our Safeguarding framework is fully implemented and integrated.
• Work with our Senior Leadership Team on the development and implementation of pay, reward, and benefits policies and packages to support attraction and retention.

• Lead the management of organizational development and change processes including restructures, expansions, and contractions.
• Drive innovation in our HR practices and policies.

• Lead the Liberia People team, ensuring the team has the necessary skills, competencies, objectives, and development plans in place to provide excellent service.
• Manage delegated resources (e.g. budgets, equipment, and contracts) as appropriate, to ensure good stewardship of resources and value for money.

• Work in partnership with the Mary’s Meals International People Team to ensure global projects are delivered, in support of the global people strategy.
• Review, analyze and implement findings from culture and engagement surveys, ensuring our values remain at the core.
• Oversee the development and implementation of an L&D plan including key learning interventions to support people development and capacity building.

• Oversee the collation, analysis, and reporting of meaningful HR data and management information. Use this data to make recommendations and develop HR initiatives.

As Head of HR & People Development, you will bring significant experience in shaping, designing, and driving the delivery of innovative HR and L&D practices. Strong people leadership experience is essential, and you will thrive in a varied, dynamic role where you will have the opportunity to coach and support your leaders, inspire your team, and collaborate across all levels and cultures. You will have extensive experience working across all HR workstreams and will demonstrate absolute commitment to our dearly held values and leadership behaviours. An exceptional communicator, you will bring robust experience in managing complex programmes of work and will excel in developing strong working relationships across a global organization.

Mary’s Meals is a global movement supported by people from all walks of life and we are focused on one goal – that every child receives a nutritious daily meal in a place of education. We continue to change the lives of over 2.2 million children who today will receive Mary’s Meals. We have been working in Liberia since 2006 and implementing a school feeding programme in 671 schools in 5 counties reaching out to some 155,000 children with a daily nutritious meal. Also, MML is running ORS, a boarding school for the deaf with 111 students and apprentices.

If you are inspired to join our movement and our vision, mission, and values resonate with you, we would love to hear from you.

How to apply

To apply please submit the following to Jobs.Liberia@marysmeals.org CV, salary expectations, and a succinct cover letter, no more than 1 page, telling us why you would be a fantastic Head of HR & People Development for Mary’s Meals Liberia. A valid up-to-date Police Clearance of good conduct (Liberian nationals)

Applications will be reviewed on an ongoing basis therefore; we encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible.

The deadline for application is February 14, 2023.