Job Overview:

The Personnel Officer will serve in a critical administrative and people management function providing support to the training and development for employees and the recruiting, screening, and hiring of new staff/workers in accordance with Department policies.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Assist to Manage correspondences  regarding employment inquiries, review applications for employment or promotion, and interview job applicants and employees inquiring about promotion.
• Supervise recruitment exercises and participates in job fairs as needed.
• Attend meetings, seminars, conferences and training programs pertaining to the personnel administration area.
• Organize orientation classes and diversity training sessions for new employees.
• Maintain staff/worker contract procedures 
• Provide and administer staff benefits
• Administer skills profiling and other aptitude tests to employment candidates.
• Assists with the development of performance evaluation criteria, job selection criteria techniques and procedures to enable the Division to effectively meet Co’s  objectives.
• Ensure the company’s policies on absence control and authorised leave are maintained and reviewed from time to time

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Associates Degree in HR management or relevant field
• At least 5 years’ experience in a HR/personnel Department
• Strong experience of operating personnel systems
• Ability to communicate at different levels with employees and senior management leaders
• Ability to work pro-actively and use own initiative
• Ability to supervise staff
• Well organised
• Meeting deadlines