HR & Administration Manager

What we're looking for

• Are you an experienced HR professional ready to strengthen people management, build organisational capacity, and drive operational excellence in a humanitarian setting?
• NRC Nigeria is looking for a results-driven HR & Administration Manager to lead and strengthen HR and administrative functions across its country programme.
• In this role, you will help shape and implement the HR strategy, strengthen recruitment processes, promote staff development, and drive training and capacity-building initiatives.
• You will ensure that HR and administration systems remain efficient, effective, and aligned with NRC standards, enabling teams to deliver on their humanitarian mandate.
• This opportunity is open to Nigerian nationals only.

What you will do

Human Resources

• Provide leadership in the implementation of the Global Standards and initiatives at Country and Area Office level (NRC People Management Systems, Talent Management, L&D initiative, Duty of care, PSEA…)
• Plan and feed into country wide strategies and plans, working closely with senior
• Pro-actively work to support the Area Manager, Area Support Manager, HR Team Leads & HR Officers in running an effective HR function in the Area Offices
• Lead efforts in facilitating staff consultations, town halls, and feedback sessions in efforts to build and sustain employee-engagement.
• Lead efforts in monitoring employee wellbeing and champion initiatives to improve employee wellness, ensuring a best-practice staff care programme for all staff is regularly reviewed and that adequate staff care systems are in place and implemented across the country.
• Work with the CMG to facilitate role mapping, position rationalisation and support leadership in communicating organizational changes
• Ensure robust onboarding plans that enable organisational-wide understanding of organizational priorities are in place and implemented across the country offices.
• Strengthen the recruitment processes, ensuring adherence to the minimum standards management and programmes to ensure HR proactively meets the needs of the programme
• Payroll: Ensures accuracy of payroll before transmission to the Finance team/Manager.
• Handling personnel cases according to guidelines and policies
• Focal point for working with the Nigeria staff representatives

Administration

• Focal point for coordinating all office and accommodation management requirements in the country office.
• Support the Administration team to ensure that operational needs (office stationery, utilities, etc..) are routinely identified, planned for and available in close cooperation with the logistics team.
• Provide leadership in ensuring impeccable documentation processes of the Country Office and have an up to-date filing tree of all HR and Administration files.
• Oversee the travel arrangements of staff and visitors, ensuring that work permits, immigration and visa (for staff, guest and consultancies) are duly processed.
• Liaise with the logistics team to ensure that service contractors and framework agreements for: cleaners, receptionist, maintenance, local travel agency, hotels, telecom services are processed according to organisational procedures.

What you will bring

• Postgraduate qualification in any of these fields: Human resource management, business administration, public administration, organisational development, management studies.
• Minimum 5 years' experience working as a senior HR Manager in a humanitarian/recovery context.
• Experience from working in the complex and volatile contexts
• Documented results related to the position's responsibilities
• Fluency in English, both written and verbal, (Fluency in Local Language is an added advantage)
• Experience in a large and dynamic country programme
• Strong interpersonal skills, a team player coupled with capacity building skills and experience
• Strong sense of initiative.
• Experience with building an HR structure
• Experience on Learning and staff development.
• Experience in staff recruitment
• Knowledge of the Central and West Africa region in general and Nigeria context.

What we offer

• Duty station: Abuja, Nigeria.
• Contract: 12 Months - Fixed Term contract (with possibility of extension)
• Travel: Up to 40%.
• Salary/benefits: grade 9 on NRC's Resident/National salary scale, with accompanying terms and conditions.
• NRC is an equal opportunities employer. We are committed to diversity without distinction to age, gender, religion, ethnicity, nationality, and physical ability.
• We think outside the box, encourage ideas, and give responsibility to all employees at all levels. You will have many opportunities to be heard and take the initiative.