Head of Human Resources Job in a Law firm

Texem (These Executive Minds) Limited - Our client, a leading insolvency Law firm in West Africa, is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Head of Human Resources
Job Location: Nigeria

Experience

• A minimum of 7-10 years’ experience of consistent achievement in a human resource profession at a senior level, in a small, medium or large, multi-disciplined organisation.
• Evidence of success in promoting equal opportunities and delivering Best Value through innovative, integrated, customer and community focused service provision.
• Successful record of establishing a positive performance culture, effective performance evaluation that involves users and providers in driving up standards and performance.
• Verifiable record of successfully engaging with multiple stakeholders
• Extensive record of success in strategic management and achieving sustainable improvements, sometimes in challenging circumstances, with the ability to translate strategic objectives into operational plans.
• A successful record of working with no supervision, demonstrable identifying and harnessing the benefits of new opportunities and of facilitating change in a medium multi-disciplined organisation to achieve output related improvements, and a customer and community focus.
• A record of working within a complex organisation providing clear, timely and professional advice to senior officers and elected politicians on human resource issues.

Skills & Knowledge:

• Wide-ranging and in-depth knowledge of a law firm strategic human resource service functions.
• An awareness of best practice in learning and organisational development to support service improvement and delivery.
• Ability to provide visible and supportive leadership, empowering, enabling, motivating and developing the workforce, and fostering a positive organisational culture.
• Highly developed oral, written and presentation skills, including the ability to present complex information in an understandable form to a variety of professional and lay audiences.
• Ability to acquire new knowledge and skills.
• High levels of creativity both in problem solving, idea generation and seeking out and disseminating successful practice, in order to effectively deal with diverse, complex and highly sensitive situations.
• The ability to balance planned corporate policies with procedural development and project work.
• Outstanding interpersonal skills and the ability to establish positive relationships with staff, senior managers, and external bodies that generate confidence, respect and trust.

Personal attributes:

• A strong innovative leader with energy and flair, credibility in the field of performance management and a passion and determination for promoting the organisation.
• A personal and professional commitment to equal opportunities and diversity.
• A high degree of personal and professional probity, integrity and credibility that sustains the confidence and trust of Members, senior managers, staff and external partners and stakeholders, that fosters a positive reputation for the organisation.
• An inclusive team worker who can foster partnerships, work collaboratively
• An enthusiastic and effective ambassador for the organisation, with a strong commitment to improving firm's delivery of services to meet the management aspirations.
• A clear, strategic and lateral thinker, able to be a clear and effective decision maker in a complex and challenging environment.

Remuneration
N400,000-N500,000

Method of Application
All qualified candidates should send their CV's and one page article on why you are best suited for this role to: exec@texem.co.uk