Junior Consultant, Human Resource Management (Remote)

Location: Remote
Employment Type: Full-time

Role Overview:

• PIF Africa’s Human Resource Management function supports the design, implementation, and management of people, talent, workforce, performance, incentive, and organizational systems for PIF Africa and its clients.
• You will work closely with senior team members and, where required, with finance, legal, governance, policy, tax, and regulatory compliance teams to ensure HR structures are practical, compliant, well-documented, and properly implemented. The role may also support more advanced HR-related structures such as employee share options, phantom rights, team investment arrangements, pensions, tax-aware compensation, welfare structures, and other incentive models under senior guidance.
• As a Junior Consultant, Human Resource Management, you will support HRM work across the full employee and consultant lifecycle, including recruitment, job description development, organizational structure design, workforce planning, onboarding, learning and development, performance management, KPIs, competency mapping, incentives, welfare, leave management, succession planning, termination, and exit management.
• This role will support both PIF Africa internally and PIF Africa’s clients, including individuals, private enterprises, non-profits, public sector organizations, entrepreneurs, family businesses, and growing teams.
• All roles and responsibilities documented below and supplemented from time to time are delivered both internally (to all departments as internal clients) and externally (to PIF Africa’s clients), depending on the mandate.

What You'll Do
Recruitment, Job Descriptions & Workforce Planning:

• Assist in developing job descriptions, person specifications, competency requirements, interview guides, scoring sheets, and candidate assessment tools.
• Maintain recruitment trackers, candidate records, interview notes, hiring updates, and onboarding documentation.
• Support workforce planning by helping identify required roles, number of people, reporting lines, skills needed, attitude requirements, money skills, experience levels, and timing of hires.
• Support end-to-end recruitment processes, including role clarification, job description drafting, advertising, shortlisting, interview scheduling, candidate communication, testing, reference checks, and onboarding support.

Organizational Design, Competencies & KPIs:

• Support the design of organizational structures, team structures, reporting lines, role maps, job families, and responsibility matrices.
• Support the development of KPIs, OKRs, scorecards, performance expectations, probation targets, and role-based accountability tools.
• Assist in mapping competencies required for different roles, including technical skills, communication skills, commercial awareness, money skills, judgment, attitude, leadership potential, and execution discipline.
• Help ensure HR structures are clear, practical, measurable, and aligned with the organization’s or client’s goals.

Onboarding, Learning, Talent & Succession:

• Maintain onboarding, learning, probation, development, and talent trackers.
• Support talent management work, including skills mapping, promotion readiness, succession planning, leadership pipeline tracking, and staff development documentation.
• Assist in identifying learning and development needs, training priorities, capability gaps, and growth pathways.
• Support employee, consultant, and client-team onboarding processes, including induction materials, checklists, access setup, policy briefings, first-week plans, and probation trackers.

Performance Management, Incentives & Welfare:

• Support performance management processes, including review templates, KPI tracking, performance evidence, feedback documentation, improvement plans, and follow-up actions.
• Assist in designing and administering incentive structures, including bonuses, commissions, performance-linked rewards, retention incentives, non-cash benefits, welfare arrangements, and recognition systems.
• Support HR work relating to pensions, maternity leave, general leave management, welfare, staff wellbeing, tax-aware compensation, and benefit structures.
• Under senior guidance, assist with advanced HR structures such as employee share options, phantom rights, team investment arrangements, and long-term incentive models, working with finance, legal, tax, governance, policy, and compliance teams as needed.

HR Policies, Employee Relations & Exit Management:

• Support the drafting, updating, and implementation of HR policies, procedures, handbooks, templates, and staff communication materials.
• Assist with leave management, including annual leave, sick leave, maternity leave, emergency leave, unpaid leave, and related documentation.
• Support employee relations documentation, including staff concerns, grievances, disciplinary records, performance issues, escalation notes, and follow-up actions under senior guidance.
• Assist with resignations, termination processes, handovers, clearance, exit interviews, final documentation, and lessons learned.
• Maintain HR files, staff records, consultant records, policy acknowledgements, leave trackers, performance records, and exit files with confidentiality and care.

HR Advisory & Client Support:

• Participate in HR-related meetings by preparing materials, taking notes, documenting decisions, tracking actions, and following up on outstanding items.
• Assist in preparing HR diagnostics, structure notes, reports, presentations, policy drafts, implementation plans, trackers, and client-ready materials.
• Support HRM advisory and consulting work for PIF Africa and its clients across recruitment, organizational design, talent management, KPIs, performance management, incentives, welfare, employee structures, and HR process improvement.
• Stay up to date on HRM trends, employment practices, talent management, compensation, incentives, workplace policies, and people-management best practices relevant to PIF Africa and its clients.

Who You Are

• Strong interest in people management, recruitment, organizational design, performance management, incentives, workplace culture, and employee development.
• Willingness to travel out-of-station with minimal prior notice and support occasional evening/weekend engagements where required.
• Comfortable using AI tools (Fireflies/AI note-takers, ChatGPT prompts) to convert meetings into action.
• Strong discretion, integrity, confidentiality, and judgment when handling employee, consultant, client, compensation, and sensitive HR information.
• Highly organized, with strong follow-up, filing, tracker management, version control, and attention to detail. • Proficient in Microsoft Office and Google Workspace (Docs, Sheets, Drive) and comfortable using task boards (Zoho Connect, Bitrix24, etc.).
• Strong research, documentation, coordination, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• A self-starter with a proactive mindset and willingness to learn quickly across different HRM areas and client needs.
• Good understanding of recruitment, interviews, onboarding, KPIs, performance reviews, leave management, employee welfare, and exit processes.
• Relevant degree, course, or diploma in Human Resource Management, Business Administration, Organizational Psychology, Industrial Relations, Law, Finance, Management, or a related field is a plus.
• 0–1-year insight / experience in HR, recruitment, talent management, administration, consulting, organizational development, or structured professional environments is a plus.
• Comfortable supporting the preparation of job descriptions, interview guides, HR trackers, onboarding checklists, KPI sheets, policy drafts, reports, and presentations.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
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Note

• Why Join Us? Kindly see link attached - Here.
• Cross-Cutting Capabilities: All PIF Africa Consultants, regardless of level or role, must demonstrate some core capabilities, kindly see link attached - Here
• Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for the next stages of the recruitment process. PIF Africa is an equal opportunity employer / engagement entity and welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds.