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Job Title: People & Culture Manager

Reports to: Principal Strategy Custodian - Growth Location: Either Accra, Ghana, or Nairobi, Kenya Contract Term: One-year contract, with potential to renew

About Amahoro

Established in 2019, Amahoro Coalition is the leading convener of African private sector leaders for social impact. We collaborate with companies and innovators to unlock Africa’s demographic dividend, especially in displacement affected settings, by co-creating meaningful opportunities for youth and enterprises to thrive. Through our Fellowship Program and ecosystem partnerships, we deliver knowledge, curriculum, and tools that help leaders, communities, and enterprises thrive.

About the Position

The P&C Manager at Amahoro Coalition plays a critical role in building a high-performing, values-driven organization with staff and consultants across the Continent.  Based in either our East Africa (Nairobi) or West Africa (Accra) office, this role is responsible for leading core human resources functions, including talent acquisition, performance management, employee engagement, learning and development, and HR operations across the entirety of the organization. With a small team of roughly 40 staff, the P&C Manager is both a strategist and implementer for Amahoro’s people and culture functions. Working closely with leadership, the P&C Manager role requires a proactive and solutions-oriented professional who can balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution, ensuring that HR systems, policies, and approaches are both compliant and people-centered (see our job profile below). The P&C Manager will also serve as a trusted partner to staff, fostering an inclusive, supportive, and accountable workplace culture – one that is inclusive of refugees and displaced persons as a core part of our team.

Key Responsibilities

1. Talent Acquisition and Workforce Planning:

• Business partnering with Heads of Department to craft and elevate strategy for hiring, including org structure and position scope
• Manage job descriptions for positions as the organization grows and responds to new programs.
• Implement effective recruitment strategies to attract diverse talent aligned with Amahoro’s culture, values, and strategies
• Contracting with successful candidates - comp and terms negotiation, reference checks/safeguarding, contracting

2. Onboarding, Performance, and Learning:

• Manage the onboarding process - along with hiring managers - to ensure new employees are prepared for success at Amahoro, overseeing training of new hires, integration into org culture, values, and ways of working
• Leading the performance goal setting process, including working with HODs for departmental and individual performance goal setting, and managing the software systems and applications to track these goals
• Managing the quarterly and annual performance management process across the organization, including performance evaluation tools, business partnering to managers, professional development plans to address employee gaps, 360-degree evaluations as needed for leadership
• Developing learning and development programs for continual improvement of staff to reach Amahoro Coalition goals, including leveraging partnerships for staff development.
• Recommending approaches for career recognition and laddering for top-performing employees, including raises, promotions, and other development opportunities.

3. Employee Relations and Culture:

• Work with Amahoro leadership on culture initiatives, including ensuring organizational values are embedded in ways of working throughout the team.
• Maintain, grow, and ensure the adoption of the Employee policies, handbook, rights and responsibilities, including safeguarding.
• Support the team on day-to-day conflict resolution/grievances to reach amicable solutions, including approaching conflict resolution with compassion, allegiance to Amahoro ways of working/culture, alignment with local labor laws, and dignity and confidentiality.
• Support overall employee wellness, including managing programs related to mental health support, leave, and advancement programs.

4. HR Operations:

• Keeping accurate employee records and forms, including biodata/personal information, employment contracts, performance evaluations, benefits documentation, conflict of interest statements, signed code of conduct, etc.
• Lead organizational contracts for insurance, pension benefits, etc
• Manage all HR technology platforms, including data compliance
• Ensure compliance for payroll processes and taxes, in partnership with the Finance office. Keep updated with changes in the employment laws and proactively propose changes to policy and procedures to remain in compliance.
• Represent or support the organization in any legal matters related to employment.
• Ensure staff and consultants are compliant with safeguarding protections required of all of our program participants and partners.

Who We Are Looking For

This position is a leadership role at Amahoro Coalition, and as such, we are looking for someone who is both strategic and operational.  At the A3 leadership level within Amahoro, we are seeking professionals with both technical and leadership skills as follows: Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in HR Management or any other related field, a Master’s degree will be an added advantage
• 8 years of human resources management - or transferable experience - with preferred experience in business partnering, employee relations, and organizational development.

Core Competencies/Soft Skills: Among other leadership capabilities, this position will join others in the A3 category at Amahoro that demonstrate these competencies in how they show up to do the work.

• Strategic Communication & Storytelling - Must be able to translate strategy into language that teams understand, believe, and act on
• Emotional Intelligence (EQ) - Must be able to read the room, empathize, and lead with composure under ambiguity.
• Systems Thinking - Must be able to see connections between teams, functions, and business outcomes.
• Develop. Grow - Must be able to lead Instead of doing, they grow capability in others.
• Influence & Stakeholder Management - must align and mobilize multiple stakeholders without formal authority.
• Cultural Intelligence - as custodians of organizational culture, must be able to must work across differences across the board
• Decision-Making with Judgement - make resource-sensitive or trade-off decisions that affect execution quality.
• Resilience & Composure - Must be able to stay centered and model calm persistence.
• Change Leadership & Champion - Must be able to be the link between strategy and adoption - change succeeds or fails at this level.
• Financial Acumen & Budget Management - Must be able to make multi-variable trade-off decisions that balance people, process, financial target and profit.

How to Apply

If you believe your experience, soft skills, and values align with Amahoro Coalition and this role, kindly submit your CV and motivation letter to recruitment@thecoalitionafrica.com by 15 April 2026. Amahoro Coalition strongly invites displaced persons, youth, and women to apply.  Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for next steps. Please note, all employment is conditional upon the successful completion of all applicable background checks, including reference checks, safeguarding, and other issues of conduct.  Submitting an application to Amahoro Coalition, indicates consent for these additional checks. We look forward to reviewing your application!