Esther Wamoto

• The Director of People & Culture will spearhead the transformation of the People & Culture function in head office and country offices in Sub-Saharan Africa, guiding towards a future where vibrant culture attracts and retains top talent, personalized development unlocks their potential, and seamless employee experiences drive individual and organizational growth
• As a strategic partner to leadership, you'll be a champion for a champion for a positive and inclusive environment, ensuring every voice is heard and every contribution valued
• Provide HR leadership to TaRL Africa offices and drive overall talent management
• Implements best-practice policies for talent acquisition and retention, compensation and benefits, staff development, performance management and leadership development position works closely with Country Managers, monitors HR standards in each office and ensures continuous flow of management data and information between country offices and TaRL Central.

Achievements

• Job Evaluation Exercise
• Salary scales reviewed to ensure equity and fairness

• Led formulation and implementation of HR strategy
• Build high-quality workforce by designing strategies to attract, retain and develop highly qualified employees
• Developed HR policies and procedures and ensures implementation and adherence in all offices
• Developed training and development strategies and actions to address identified needs and improve skills and career development potentials of staff
• Participated in and makes recommendations on annual remuneration reviews; responsible for development and maintenance of C&B approach to compensation and benefits; Responds to queries and requests for information on HR policies, working conditions, performance management systems and crisis management issues; Maintains P&C data and statistics and provide regular reports and analysis to the Representative to facilitate continuous improvement; Develops and implements the Occupational Health & Safety Management System including; risk management, incident management, injury management, first aid program and workers compensation and rehabilitation; Plays an advisory role in the formulation of the HR Strategy, OD plans and the development of their HR functions; Responsible for monitoring and evaluating HR services and recommending improvements; Responsible for identifying talents in partnership with line manager, ensuring the creation and implementation of development plans that facilitate career development; Builds HR capacity in all country offices, and networks with all HR professionals and forum in and beyond to share learning; Ensures that key HR processes like Performance management, job evaluations, compensation and benefits are well embedded, understood and practiced by each country office and the central teams
• Provided expert advice and support Managing Director and Operations Director on organizational change issues and change management; In collaboration with country teams prepared reports using key HR indicators with recommendations on how to enhance organisational performance; Implemented learning and development, talent management, succession planning, and performance management in line with the HR policies, with aim of building high-performance culture
• Performs other duties as assigned by line manager

• Provides specialist People & Culture Management support to the Directors, Programme and Project Leaders and provides leadership, support, and coordination to the Field-based People & Culture team across a range of locations (Kenya, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zambia); Ensures P&C/People Development staff the eastern and southern countries have the capacity, knowledge and performance to deliver on the relevant objectives of the Strategic Plan
• Toward this aim, provides guidance, support and backstopping to P&C/People teams in sub-region; Support Director, P&C in the implementation of WWF Network standards related to HR policies and practices and ensuring compliance with local labour laws and other statutory requirements in all WWF countries' presence; Implements leadership development, talent management, succession planning and performance management in line with that of WWF International policies, with the aim of building performance culture and also a strong team of local senior managers; Leads in implementing the P&C Information System (P&CIS) – an initiative by WWF International which needs to be rolled down to country offices; Functionally coaches People & Culture employees in eastern and southern countries ensuring that are properly equipped with the appropriate WWF International approved systems and processes, in relation to recruitment, compensation and benefits, training and development, performance appraisal, security, staff records and leave administration; Ensures hosting agreements or appropriate documentation between hosting and recipient office for staff secondments, exchange programmes within WWF or external partner organisations, to and from Africa offices; As part of the Africa Strategic Planning process, and working in close collaboration and coordination with senior management in the countries; develop and ensure implementation of People & Culture and People Development plans for eastern and southern countries and for the Africa office
• As such ensures implementation with regular monitoring and updates of the Human Resources Strategy to reflect global HR Strategy and Operation of the WWF Network and alignment with the rest of the Africa Business Plan; Develops learning and development strategies and actions to address identified needs and improve the skills and career development potentials of staff; Participates in and make recommendations on annual remuneration reviews; responsible for development and maintenance of region-wide approach to compensation and benefits; Responds to queries and requests for information on HR policies, working conditions, performance management systems and crisis management issue

Achievements

• Revamped Performance Management System
• Carried out training for teams spread over 100 countries across the world.
• Led review and implementation of compensation and benefits for the African region
• Led the transition of Africa region to Leaders of Practice, regional to international including supporting relocation and placement of teams in African countries.

• Formulate plans to meet the organization's human resource requirements and ensure proper utilization of existing human resources
• Coordinate and support all aspects of the recruitment and selection process
• This includes job description development, recruitment planning, advertising & shortlisting, selection interviews & tests, job offers, salary calculations and issuing contracts
• Develop and monitor Human Resources Strategies into the organization's overall mission and operational strategy
• Develop and manage the communication, implementation, monitoring and review of all Human Resource policies and procedures
• Develop and implement performance evaluation and reward systems
• Ensure that the pay scale complies with changing laws and regulations and meets organizational objectives
• Provide advice on management of all staff ensuring a clear understanding of organizational policies, procedures and the Employment laws of the country
• Develop a Learning & Development policy and work with line managers to develop an annual Learning & Development Plan based on identified learning needs
• Lead on specific HR projects e.g
• Salary reviews ensuring that these are fair, reasonable and competitive, policy and procedures reviews, staff surveys and training & development needs analysis
• Develop, implement, and maintain an effective HR database and reporting system
• Oversee the maintenance of an effective HR filing system, with proper files maintained for each staff member, both manually and electronically
• Ensure the smooth and timely dissemination of information and advice on queries related to human resource and administration (internally and externally)