Human Resources Manager Job Vacancy at ChildFund Zambia

ChildFund Zambia is an International, Child Protection and Development Agency working for the well being of children; supporting locally led initiatives that strengthen families and communities in overcoming root causes of child poverty and ensuring the protection of Children’s rights. ChildFund assists about 15.2 million children and family members in 32 countries regardless of race, creed or gender. It is the World’s oldest child sponsorship organization.

ChildFund Zambia wishes to recruit for various positions to work on a 5 year, USAID-funded Reading Project in Zambia. “Let’s Read Zambia” will target approximately 1.4 million students in 4,000 public and community primary schools, including Early Childhood Centers that are clustered in an estimated 400 zones in 48 districts in the provinces of Lusaka, Southern, Muchinga, Eastern, and Northwestern. The project will ensure that students attending Grades 1, 2, and 3 in Zambian public and community schools in five targeted provinces will have an opportunity to learn to read grade-level text with comprehension and to write at grade level in one of the seven local official languages of instruction: Cinyanja, Chitonga, Icibemba, Kikaonde, Lunda, Luvale and Silozi after three years of primary schooling in Grades 1-3.

Human Resources Manager ( 1): Responsible for providing strategic direction and leadership to the human resources, information technology, and administrative functions of the project throughout its life. The position will be taking care of all HR related matters to ChildFund hired staff working from ChildFund office in Lusaka. The position will work 75% year 1: 17% in years 2 to 4 and 40% in year 5.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• University Degree in Social Sciences and a postgraduate qualification in Human Resource Management.
• 8 – 10 years experience in an office administration and or/ human resources capacity, preferably in a multi-cultural environment.

Note:

Kindly note that these job offers are contingent on winning the award from the USAID by the Prime Organization.

Interested applicants are advised to email their application letters clearly stating the position being applied for as the subject to the following address; [email protected] not later than 5:00 pm June, 27, 2018.

Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

ChildFund Zambia is an equal opportunity employer.