Summary
Date Posted: Wednesday, December 20 2023, Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Nation Media Group is Uganda's most influential media house. operating the Daily Monitor, Saturday Monitor, Sunday Monitor and The East African Newspapers, 93.3 KFM and Nation Courier Service. It also operates NTV, the biggest and most popular English-language television station and Spark TV, the first female-focused, and fastest growing television station in Uganda.

We are looking for a qualified, experienced and result oriented professional to fill the following vacancy.

Job Title: Retained HR Assistant
Reports to: HR Business Partner-NMGU
Department: Human Resource

Job Purpose:
• To provide proactive assistance on various HR projects and initiatives that provide an employee value proposition that drives a high performance culture at NMGU.

Main Responsibilities:
• Provide proactive support in recruitment, onboarding and performance management.
• Ensure efficiency of the transactional human resources responsibilities (payroll administration, candidate background checks, drafting various HR correspondences. handling onboarding and exit procedures etc.).
• Administer MPL welfare schemes and processing required documentation for enrollments and terminations
• Provide administrative and logistical support to staff training and development programs.
• Coordinate the logistical requirements for various staff engagements, events and projects.
• As a safety representative; coordinate safety trainings. assist with safety audits and facilitate compliance with standards while maintaining records
• Maintaining and updating staff records by ensuring comprehensive information storage, retrieval through scanning and uploading of all hard copy correspondences to the MR system folder. staff
• Conduct new employee orientation to ensure new hires gain insights and are easily assimilated into the Nation Media Group culture.
• Manage the company's e-leave system to ensure compliance with the annual leave Rota, ensuring new staff addition and deactivation of exited staff as well as generating manthly leave reports that shail be required from time to time.
• Manage the company's e-PMS system and extend support to all staff, adding new staff and deactivating exited staff.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:
• Academic: University Degree in Human Resource Management, Social Sciences, Organizational Psychology or any other related field from an accredited institution
• Professional: Professional Qualification and/or Postgraduate Diploma in relevant field e.g. Human Resource, Organizational Development or Organizational Psychology
• Experience: 1-2 years working experience in an HR environment of an FMCG company

CORE COMPETENCIES
• Excellent Communication skills-oral and written
• High standards of Integrity
• Very strong interpersonal skills
Computer literacy in PowerPoint, Word and Spreadsheets
• Ability to work in multi-cultural and with varied teams
• A demonstrated ability to take responsibility and use initiative especially when working on tight deadlines
• Meticulous, detail-oriented and ability to multitask (is a must)
• Ability to work without direct day-to-day supervision, assertive and energetic
• Ability to remain calm and in control even under pressure


Education Requirement: No Requirements

Job Experience: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months:

Level of Education:

Job application procedure
If you believe that you are our ideal candidate, please submit your application, detailed CV and academic documents with a daytime telephone number as one PDF document, quoting the position you have applied for in the subject line by 29* December, 2023 to the HR Lead-NMGU. Monitor Publications Limited at resourcing@ug.nationmedia.com  

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.


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