Overview
Specialist Employee Relations
Location : Head Office, Hq
Purpose of the Job:
To establish and support behaviours that help the company and its employees to grow and preserve good working relations.
Primary duties:
- Support the Head HR; Employee Relations to either directly or by advise to Line Management investigate and address daily employee relations issues, either directly or through preparation of briefing papers.Employment Ranges
- Counsel staff members, line managers, and the human resources team on handling employee relations problems and preserving positive relationships.
- Promote and preserve a positive working relationship with trade unions and staff representatives.
- Lead meetings with employee representatives and follow up on activities resulting from such interactions for closure.
- Help HR Policies, employee relations initiatives, and/or interventions to grow and flourish.
- To provide fairness to the bank and staff, guarantee appropriate interpretation, implementation, and consistent application of HR Policies and labour laws to all employees.
- Investigate people-related issues and offer leaders suggestions.
- Manage conflicts, grievances and disciplinary matters in conformity with Labour Legislations and bank policies.
- Monthly, quarterly, and/or as needed produce reports on employee relations trends or actions.
- When it is necessary, represent the bank in CMA situations.
- Guarantee adherence to labour laws.
Knowledge and Competency:
- Recognises and shows understanding of employment laws, rules, guidelines, policies, and good practices connected to employee behaviour, performance, and conflict resolution.
- Capacity to create good working connections and trust.
- Policy interpretation; dispute resolution; complaint investigation; problem solutions.
- Experience with sensitive material; capacity to uphold confidentiality and high degree of honesty;
- Capacity to keep polite, sympathetic, and diplomatic in the midst of challenging and awkward events and dialogues.
- Excellent English and Swahili verbal, written, and interpersonal communications.
- Capacity to foresee and recognise legal questions and long-term consequences of associated decisions.
- Good discretion and judgement
- Organisational abilities with minute detail.
- Analytical capacities
- Skills in Negotiation
- Simple computer literacy
Education and Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in either law, industrial relations, human resources management, organisational psychology, or allied subjects.
- One further advantage will be postgraduate degrees in law, mediation, and arbitration.
- minimum three years of experience in medium size to large company employee relations.
- Equable Opportunity Employer is NMB Bank Plc. Our commitment is in building a varied atmosphere and a workforce with a gender balance.
- Applying for this post is highly encouraged of female candidates and those living with impairments.
NMB Bank Plc charges no fees related to the application or hiring process. Please throw away any solicitors you get asking for a charge.
Only those on short lists will be contacted.
Date of job opening: February 14, 2025
Job closing date: February 28, 2025
