Candidate Profile

Human Resources

Human Resource Manager  Kampala Member from 3 years

KEVIN ANGWIL ATHIENO
HUMAN RESOURCE & ADMINISTRATION
(READY TO WORK IN ANY PART OF UGANDA)
• WORK EXPERIENCE
Solarnow Services BV LTD (Uganda and Kenya) – HUMAN
RESOURCE MANAGER
Recruitment, Training and Career Development
• Develop and manage job descriptions for all employees.
• Lead recruitment and onboarding of new employees.
• Develop coaching and training programs; Oversee the
Implementation of targeted training and coaching
programs that help employees to grow their knowledge
and skills.
• Establish career paths that set a framework for personal
growth and long-term organizational succession.
• Establish and maintain staff development program through training and coaching.
Operations and compliancy
• Manage day to day company operations and administration
• Manage staff attendance, time management and leave.
• Ensure compliance to all health and safety regulations and implement the ESG module policy
• Ensure total compliance to the Environmental, Social and Governance policies,
Performance and Talent Management
• Develop and coordinate all performance management programs to ensure employees to understand job responsibilities and are assessed on performance on a regular basis.
• Dispense rewards and affirmative penalties for either result of the performance.
• Oversee a performance management process that focuses employee efforts on the achievement of business goals and the attainment of requisite skills/competencies to sustain profitable growth
• Monitor, coordinate and report on the High Performer and High Potential Programs across the organizations and implement modifications to the policies
• Apply continuous improvement to our performance management process and implement strategies that enable both short-term and long-term growth and benefit the people and the organization
Compensation, Benefits and Payroll

Preparation of monthly payroll
• Develop and manage the company salary structure, pay policies, and the variable pay systems within the company including bonuses and raises.
• Lead competitive market research to establish pay practices and pay bands that help to recruit and retain talented people.
People Management Policies and Processes
• Develop and manage all Human Resources policies and objectives for the company on any topic associated with employee relations and ensure compliance with local labor laws.
• Communicate and enforce Human Resources policies, procedures, programs, and laws.
• Determine and recommend employee relations practices necessary to establish a positive employer employee relationship and promote a high level of employee morale and motivation.
• Handle all disciplinary issues, dispense rewards and penalties on disciplinary, give patronage to the
disciplinary committee
HRIS and Documentation
• Manage the HRIS information system, ensure staff are entered in to system with all details.
• Manage staff physical documentation and files.
• Ensure proper, accurate and timely documentation of all new staff, update info for continuing staff.
• Ensure all foreign expatriate staff files are up to date, handle all work permit related activities and ensure total compliance with immigration law.

Employee Engagement
• Partner with the rest of the People Team and external specialists as needed to execute global engagement operational initiatives and priorities within the organization
• Handle and resolve escalations and exceptions by facilitating stakeholder discussions that balance business needs, employee experience, and risk mitigation
• Lead on all critical people related improvements and culture initiatives across the organization
• Monitor and report on the quality of the onboarding process and recommend improvements on the same
• Incorporate a continuous feedback culture into all people-related touchpoints to ensure employees are
growing through actively giving and receiving feedback
• Ensure the full adoption across the business for all
Engagement and people platforms within SolarNow Ltd

AIVEEN GROUP UGANDA LTD (Aiveen (U) Ltd, Aiveen
Rwanda Ltd, Supermedic Ltd and Vitacare Ltd) – Human
Resource Manager.
February 2020 – 2022
• Oversee Human Resource system, operations, staff, remuneration and work environment in the organization. It also included technical support to design and implement HR policies as well us ensuring a conducive work environment, ethics, and culture: Key achievements so far
include:
• Manage the HRIS with accurate and update staff information, proper filing and documentation policies.
• Manage staff payroll, renumerations, salaries, allowance, and other payments to staff.
• Core responsibility of staffing and recruitment processes of an organization with over 300 staff and administration process, that ensure correct workflow of information thorough vetting and screening process and procedure plan induction training for new staff as a way of onboarding and commissioning.
• Manage staff employment contracts and continuity with the company, continuous review and update of the existing contract policies in accordance with the prevailing situations.
• Manage staff attendance, leave, and ensure compliance to the day to staff operational policies
• Giving coaching, culture nurturing and behavior management trainings and ensure counsellor/counselee relationships allocations are well maintain. .
• Manage Behavior, disciplinary and conflicts in the organization, administer disciplinary processes
conducted, ensuring compliance with the Company’s Code of Conduct and procedures.
• Manage staff entries and exit processes and ensure ,ensure proper exits of staff.
• Review and audit HR filing and documentation system, ensuring correct standards are maintained and policy compliance.
• Manage the staff welfare, health and wellness schemes health insurance schemes and general wellbeing of the entire manpower
• Provide progressive and continuous training and development to the existing staff, talent development and capacity building, compile operational training schedules, and managed delivery of training interventions through ongoing capacity building for staff.
• Maintain an update foreign employee records through validating their legal documents like special passes, work permits and passports, coordinate with immigrations office for any matters that may arise.
• Coordinate internal and external activities for the company including attending and company representation in social, legal and business events.
• Manage regular meetings with the management to update HR trends, policies recruitment needs, trends, and service delivery issues.
• Carry out Employee Satisfaction Surveys which identified levels of employee engagement, monitor audit compliance to company policy, procedure and identify areas of concern, deficiency and implement recommendations.
• Ensure line management is informed of changes to the interpretation and application of disciplinary procedures. Also, Establish and run employee communication protocols and feedback mechanisms
• Manage incident reporting and ensured Workmen’s compensation for staff injured at work.
• Promoted Health and Safety awareness with staff team across all the regions, in conjunction with the HSSEC strategy for the country.
Foundation Leads Ltd – Recruitment & HR specialist
February 2021 – date
• Manage recruitment projects as per the client’s preference.
• Interviewing and assessing prospective applicants and matching them with vacancies at client companies.
• Manage the payroll and payment for the outsourced staff./ as agreed with respective client.
• Manage clients’ accounts and staff
• Do HR consultation for clients, like policy formulations, employee contract management, conflict management and disciplinary
• Head hunt for senior and expatriate level staff as per or client’s preference.
M-BAW-O TIMBER WORKS LTD – Human Resource and
Administration Manager
January 2018 –January 2020
• Developed and managed an up-to-date HR information
system (HRIS) including employee personal data,
attendance trends/whereabouts, leave updates, discipline,
etc.) and keep an up-to-date company document.
• Revised and developed standard salaries, particularly developed the company’s salary scale, run, and monitored an up-to-date payroll and any other remuneration & appreciation program through the paymaster system and hardcopy documentation, keep to date with the economic changes and the wages and salaries trends.
• Supported designing of HR policies, procedures, and guidelines for the general operation of the company and the day to day running of the company as well as implement, monitor and ensure compliance to all the undertakings including the external guidelines (law) and the internal systems of the company.
• Managed attendance register, behavior, and related issues (daily attendance, absents, leave, and granted rests) Ensure planning, monitoring, and appraisal of employee work results by training managers to coach and discipline employees; scheduling management conferences with
employees; hearing and resolving employee grievances; counseling employees and supervisors.
• Created and maintained an updated foreign employee records through validating their legal documents like special passes, work permits and passports
• Developed employee contracts and monitor continuity of work in the company as per the company policies, advice on best choice candidates (contracts, terminations, etc.)
• Maintained the work structure by updating job requirements and job descriptions for all positions including contracts, appointments, employee confirmation and all employment related documents that
bind the employee and the employer.
• Established and developed the rightful human resource function of staffing by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees.
• Organized and carry-on employee training capacity development and talent improvement, through continuous identification of capacity gaps, identifying new and young talent that need to be harnessed.
• Developed and maintained consistent accurate, timely and reliable reports in all human resource related fields i.e., attendance, salaries, health and safety status, discipline, etc.), Feed management with up-to-date Human Resource related information with technical analysis and
commendations.
• Ensured legal compliance and provided most professional advice to management, federal and state requirements and prevent any legal consequential costs and Maintain management guidelines by preparing, updating, and recommending human resource policies and procedures.
• Minimize and resolve employee issues & complaints both interpersonal and work-related issue to improve work relationships and cooperation among staff, came up with cancelling and guidance for family &personal issues that affect employee performance, personal financial management, formed a saving scheme for employees.
• Developed workable health& safety policies, procedures
and ensured they observed in the workplace (both legal
and company policies applied with a series of veritable
reports) and employee welfare.
• Developed professional and technical knowledge by
attending educational workshops; reviewing professional
publications; establishing personal networks;
participating in professional societies and associations.
. M-baw-o Timber Works Ltd – Human Resource and
Administration Officer
January 2017 –January 2018
• Handle staff attendance ( from attendance to excel)
• Participate in the Performance review
• Work on staff payroll ,benefits, allowances etc
• Cordinate staff health and safety
• Organise and take minutes in management meetins
• Handle staff issues like leave, welfare,insurance etc
• Handle staff files and all documentation works.
• Update and handle all day to day works in the HRIS
• Ensure day to day compliance and operational progress
of the company
Still and Tubes Industries Ltd Human Resource Trainee
/Clerk
January 2016– January 2017
• Updated daily employee attendance, in excel, do
departmental on spot rollcall,
• Ensured employee welfare is fully met, handle all staff
complaints and file daily report to the HR manager.
• Organized periodic staff meetings and trainings both
within and outside the company.
• Assisted in planning production and assigned orders for
each machine.
• Ensured high quality and timely production.
• Issued and transferred inventory from bond to work in
progress.
• Supporting the development and implementation of HR
initiatives and systems
• Being actively involved in recruitment by preparing job
descriptions, posting adverts, and managing the hiring
process
• Supported the management disciplinary actions and
grievance issues.
• Maintained employee records (attendance, EEO data etc.)
according to policy and legal requirements.
• Reviewed employment and working conditions to ensure
legal compliance.
• SUCCESSFUL PROJECTS
• Restructuring of the company operating system including
job analysis, salary grading and review, standard organogram/ order flow chart.
• Participation and leadership of the SOP development and
implementation.
• ISO certification and legal compliance
• Legally accepted document formulation and
implementation
• Employee personal development through the employee
SACCO
• EDUCATION
Makerere University Business School
2013 – 2017
Business Administration
Iganga Senior Secondary School
2011 – 2012
Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education
Tororo Girls’ School
Uganda Certificate of Education
• OTHER RELEVANT TRAINIGS
Field Institution Award
ICT MTC Certificate
Managing termination,
dismissals and constituting a
disciplinary committee
Federation of
Uganda
Employers
Certificate
Understanding workman’s
compensation and
negotiation
Federation of
Uganda
Employers
Certificate
• Referees
Readily available on request for official use onl

Skills

people management recruitment HRIS payroll management disciplinary and performance management

Education

  • Makerere University Business School
     2013-2017 :  Business Administration
     Grade / GPA : 3.0
     Qualification : Bachelors Degree

Experience

  • SolarNow Services Ltd
     June 2022 to Date :  Human Resource Manager
     Yearly Salary : 42,000,000.Ugx
     Job Duties : 
    1. Recruitment, Training and Career Development • Develop and manage job descriptions for all employees. • Lead recruitment and onboarding of new employees. • Develop coaching and training programs; Oversee the Implementation of targeted training and coaching programs that help employees to grow their knowledge and skills. • Establish career paths that set a framework for personal growth and long-term organizational succession. • Establish and maintain staff development program through training and coaching. 2. Operations and compliancy • Manage day to day company operations and administration • Manage staff attendance, time management and leave. • Ensure compliance to all health and safety regulations and implement the ESG module policy • Ensure total compliance to the Environmental, Social and Governance policies, 3. Performance and Talent Management • Develop and coordinate all performance management programs to ensure employees to understand job responsibilities and are assessed on performance on a regular basis. • Dispense rewards and affirmative penalties for either result of the performance. • Oversee a performance management process that focuses employee efforts on the achievement of business goals and the attainment of requisite skills/competencies to sustain profitable growth • Monitor, coordinate and report on the High Performer and High Potential Programs across the organizations and implement modifications to the policies • Apply continuous improvement to our performance management process and implement strategies that enable both short-term and long-term growth and benefit the people and the organization 4. Compensation, Benefits and Payroll • Preparation of monthly payroll • Develop and manage the company salary structure, pay policies, and the variable pay systems within the company including bonuses and raises. • Lead competitive market research to establish pay practices and pay bands that help to recruit and retain talented people. 5. People Management Policies and Processes • Develop and manage all Human Resources policies and objectives for the company on any topic associated with employee relations and ensure compliance with local labor laws. • Communicate and enforce Human Resources policies, procedures, programs, and laws. • Determine and recommend employee relations practices necessary to establish a positive employer employee relationship and promote a high level of employee morale and motivation. • Handle all disciplinary issues, dispense rewards and penalties on disciplinary, give patronage to the disciplinary committee 6. HRIS and Documentation • Manage the HRIS information system, ensure staff are entered in to system with all details. • Manage staff physical documentation and files. • Ensure proper, accurate and timely documentation of all new staff, update info for continuing staff. • Ensure all foreign expatriate staff files are up to date, handle all work permit related activities and ensure total compliance with immigration law. 7. Employee Engagement • Partner with the rest of the People Team and external specialists as needed to execute global engagement operational initiatives and priorities within the organization • Handle and resolve escalations and exceptions by facilitating stakeholder discussions that balance business needs, employee experience, and risk mitigation • Lead on all critical people related improvements and culture initiatives across the organization • Monitor and report on the quality of the onboarding process and recommend improvements on the same • Incorporate a continuous feedback culture into all people-related touchpoints to ensure employees are growing through actively giving and receiving feedback • Ensure the full adoption across the business for all Engagement and people platforms within SolarNow Ltd
  • Aiveen Group Ltd
     January 2020 to June 2022 :  Human Resource Manager
     Yearly Salary : 24,000,000. Ugx
     Job Duties : 
    Head and oversee all HR and administration of the group of companies Manage the HRIS, staff documentation, file and information management Handle staff employment contracts, ensure proper documentation and administration of employment letters Policy formulation, review and update, implementation and functional assessment Manage the staff Payroll, benefits and compensation In charge of recruitment and general staffing Health and safety, welfare and conducive work environment nurturing Disciplinary and conflict management Manage staff attendance, leave and other day to day operational matters Staff training and development, manage foreign staff files, immigration status and work permits Planning and budgeting for the department Coordinate internal and external activities of the companies, legal, social and regulatory activities Departmental reporting and general advises to management General administration of the company
  • M-bawo Timber Works Ltd
     January 2017 - December 2019 :  Human Resource Manager
     Yearly Salary : 14,400,000. Ugx
     Job Duties : 
    Developed and managed an up-to-date HR information system (HRIS) including employee personal data, attendance trends/whereabouts, leave updates, discipline, etc.) and keep an up-to-date company document. • Revised and developed standard salaries, particularly developed the company's salary scale, run, and monitored an up-to-date payroll and any other remuneration & appreciation program through the paymaster system and hardcopy documentation, keep to date with the economic changes and the wages and salaries trends. • Supported designing of HR policies, procedures, and guidelines for the general operation of the company and the day to day running of the company as well as implement, monitor and ensure compliance to all the undertakings including the external guidelines (law) and the internal systems of the company. • Managed attendance register, behavior, and related issues (daily attendance, absents, leave, and granted rests) Ensure planning, monitoring, and appraisal of employee work results by training managers to coach and discipline employees; scheduling management conferences with employees; hearing and resolving employee grievances; counseling employees and supervisors. • Created and maintained an updated foreign employee records through validating their legal documents like special passes, work permits and passports • Developed employee contracts and monitor continuity of work in the company as per the company policies, advice on best choice candidates (contracts, terminations, etc.) • Maintained the work structure by updating job requirements and job descriptions for all positions including contracts, appointments, employee confirmation and all employment related documents that bind the employee and the employer. • Established and developed the rightful human resource function of staffing by recruiting, selecting, orienting, and training employees. • Organized and carry-on employee training capacity development and talent improvement, through continuous identification of capacity gaps, identifying new and young talent that need to be harnessed. • Developed and maintained consistent accurate, timely and reliable reports in all human resource related fields i.e., attendance, salaries, health and safety status, discipline, etc.), Feed management with up-to-date Human Resource related information with technical analysis and commendations. • Ensured legal compliance and provided most professional advice to management, federal and state requirements and prevent any legal consequential costs and Maintain management guidelines by preparing, updating, and recommending human resource policies and procedures. • Minimize and resolve employee issues & complaints both interpersonal and work-related issue to improve work relationships and cooperation among staff, came up with cancelling and guidance for family &personal issues that affect employee performance, personal financial management, formed a saving scheme for employees. • Developed workable health& safety policies, procedures and ensured they observed in the workplace (both legal and company policies applied with a series of veritable reports) and employee welfare. • Developed professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing professional publications; establishing personal networks; participating in professional societies and associations.
  • STIL & TUBES INDUSTRIES LTD
     January 2016 to December 2016 :  Human Resource Assistant
     Yearly Salary : 3,600,000
     Job Duties : 
    Updated daily employee attendance, in excel, do departmental on spot rollcall, • Ensured employee welfare is fully met, handle all staff complaints and file daily report to the HR manager. • Organized periodic staff meetings and trainings both within and outside the company. • Assisted in planning production and assigned orders for each machine. • Ensured high quality and timely production. • Issued and transferred inventory from bond to work in progress. • Supporting the development and implementation of HR initiatives and systems • Being actively involved in recruitment by preparing job descriptions, posting adverts, and managing the hiring process • Supported the management disciplinary actions and grievance issues. • Maintained employee records (attendance, EEO data etc.) according to policy and legal requirements. • Reviewed employment and working conditions to ensure legal compliance.

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