Head of Human Resources

Pharo Foundation (the Foundation) is a mission-driven, non-profit organization that designs, funds, and operates economic development programmes to achieve its vision of a vibrant, productive, and self-reliant Africa. Over the next decade, our goal is to create maximum impact towards three critical missions:

Empowering the next generation: Our education mission is to ensure that all students have an opportunity to access a high-quality, affordable education, and become productive citizens of a rapidly-changing world.

Eliminating barriers to employment and productivity: Our productivity mission is to identify and eliminate health, financial, and structural barriers to employment and productivity for working people.

Solving water scarcity: Our water mission is to ensure that people and communities across Africa have access to a safe and affordable source of water.

We are a diverse, multicultural, and passionate organization, with over 500 employees in Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, and Somaliland. Our headquarters are in Nairobi, Kenya, and we have a liaison office in London, UK, which is home to our parent organization, Pharo Management.

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Head of Human Resources to join Pharo Foundation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. You will be motivated by the opportunity to play a key role in the success of multiple programmes in the country.

Collaborating with the senior teams in Addis Ababa and Nairobi, you will be at the forefront of defining and implementing human resources management strategy across a diverse portfolio of programmes in Ethiopia. Critical to success in this role will be your ability to help infuse the vision, mission and values of the Foundation and create the culture that derives from these principles. With our growing staff population in Ethiopia, your role in ensuring a positive employee experience is key to the overall success of the Foundation. You will therefore define and lead the organisations approach to employee engagement in country.

This strategic HR position requires you to understand the objectives and goals of the Foundation and to work with the teams to create human resources management strategy that align with these objectives in Ethiopia. Capable of being a mentor and guide to your HR reports, and beyond to the rest of the organisation in Ethiopia (teams are in Addis and Assosa) you will help them to implement best practice HR policies and procedures. The challenge will be to ensure excellence in the HR function whilst accounting for diverse operating environments.

Sharing the Foundations passion for talent development, you will create a comprehensive talent management programme in Ethiopia. This will be a wide-ranging scheme, which includes talent management, succession planning, building talent pipelines, creating career progression learning and development programmes, retention strategies and all the other aspects required to promote individual job satisfaction, team harmony and ensure exceptional overall organisational performance.

Role:Head of Human Resources

Reporting to:Country Director, Ethiopia

Direct Reports: Senior HR Office

HR Office

Human Capital Development and Management