Manager, Recuitment

Chartered in 1983, Aga Khan University (AKU) is committed to excellence in education, research and service. The University strives for quality, international standards and relevance in all of its programmes and selects its faculty, staff and students on the basis of merit, irrespective of gender, race, religion or domicile. AKU is a major component of Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), which consists of institutions that collaborate for development in response to social, economic and cultural challenges in specific regions of the developing world. 

The University's Faculty of Health Sciences was planned with the support of Harvard University, McGill University and McMaster University. It presently includes a Medical College and a School of Nursing, which are located together with their principal teaching site, Aga Khan University Hospital, in Karachi, Pakistan. In addition, in Karachi, the University has an Institute for Educational Development and a substantial Faculty of Arts and Sciences which is being developed on a new 1,100-acre campus.

As an international institution, the University has established academic programmes beyond Pakistan, through an Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in UK and programmes in Advanced Nursing Studies and Postgraduate Medical Education in countries in East Africa. AKU is currently planning a major expansion of its existing work in East Africa, in the fields of medical, nursing and teacher education.

In July 2005, AKU integrated into its academic and service activities, a teaching hospital in Nairobi, Kenya. Established in 1958 and currently a 254-bed facility, the Aga Khan Hospital, Nairobi had been operating under the aegis of Aga Khan Health Service, Kenya. Renamed Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi (AKUH,N), the new institution is AKU's principal Health Science teaching facility in East Africa. AKUH,N is focusing on high quality of care, research and postgraduate medical education in all major clinical specialties including medicine, surgery, radiology, pathology, anaesthesia, obstetrics-gynaecology and paediatrics.

AKUH,N is also continuing to play a vital role as a major teaching site for the Advanced Nursing Studies programme of AKU, which has provided continuing professional education for practicing nurses in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda since 2001. With this new development, AKU aims to strengthen existing partnerships with the ministries of health and other universities in the region offering health sciences education, with a view to share experiences, strengthen public sector delivery systems and collaborate on teaching and research.

AKUH,N, a premier teaching and tertiary care referral hospital, invites applications from Kenyan nationals for the position of Manager, Recruitment.

Responsibilities
Reporting to the Director, Human Resources, the Manager, Recruitment will deliver specialist advice and proactively facilitate line managers to optimally anticipate, plan and fulfil the staffing needs. The incumbent will be required to contribute input to policies to ensure they remain responsive to the changing environment and global best practice. In return for outstanding performance, the position holder will expect a highly stimulating and learning work environment strongly drawing on technical expertise in HR and client-focused solutions development.

Working hand in hand with the respective line managers, the incumbent will be responsible for a very wide variety of technical disciplines and work programme areas to:

• Ensure the timely identification of staffing gaps or anticipated vacancies, refine position specifications and job holder competence profiles, and ensure staff establishment approvals;
• Prepare job descriptions for various positions, in consultation with the line managers;
• Provide the line managers with the HR technical guidance on how to attract, motivate, deploy, retain, and manage the performance of their staff;
• Ensure the timely filling of vacancies through internal transfers, or externally by designing advertisements in consultation with line managers;
• Facilitate staff selection activities by screening applications, interviewing/testing and reference-checking;
• Assist line managers in structuring pay packages and negotiating employment offers;
• Obtain travel visas and work permits for all expatriate prospective employees;
• Ensure that all recruitment guidelines are followed including budgetary approvals, induction and physical examinations for new employees, and detailed documentation of all staffing processes.

Requirements

• A Master's degree, preferably in Business Administration;
• At least 5 years’ management experience in the relevant human resources area;
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the sensitivity and proactive credibility to win others’ confidence and decisively guide line managers on HR policy and technical best practice;
• Excellent oral and written communication;
• Good working exposure to office computer applications, including databases and HRIS;
• Demonstrable critical thinking and problem solving ability with excellent attention to detail, and particular respect for stated policy and procedure;
• A value system of high professional independence and integrity for the greater social good, in a highly diverse internal and external multi-cultural setting;
• Excellent working knowledge of job design, recruitment process management, interviewing and employment package negotiation and contracting;
• Up to date knowledge of global developments in competence profiling and resourcing.

To Apply
Applications together with detailed CVs, names of two referees with telephone numbers and email addresses, and copies of certificates and testimonials should be sent by September 26, 2008 to:

Manager, Recruitment
Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi
P.O. Box 30270 (00100), Nairobi, Kenya
Email: hr.recruitment@aku.edu

Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.