People Operations Associate at Taeillo

Taeillo is a Nigerian Furniture and Lifestyle Brand that designs and manufactures Furniture by harnessing traditional forms, Materials, Local resources in Africa with both local and modern Technology to create premium Urban Furniture pieces.

We believe our little drops of effort will make a mighty Africa by telling our African story with one piece of Furniture at a time. Our Formula is Culture + Design + Technology = Premium African Urban Furniture.

We are recruiting to fill the position of below:

Job Title: People Operations Associate

Location: Lagos (on-site)
Job Type: Full-time
Reports to: Chief of People and Culture

Job Summary

• You will work with the People team to build our organizational capacity by helping to source, identify, screen, and hire individuals for various roles within Taeillo and ensure we are creating an environment in which our employees can realize their full potential.
• The overall objective of this role is to create and implement end-to-end candidate hiring processes to ensure a positive experience and ensure the staffing needs of the company are being met, with a long-term talent strategy in mind.

Job Responsibilities
Recruitment:

• Recruits, interviews, and facilitates the hiring of qualified job applicants for open positions; collaborates with departmental managers to understand skills and competencies required for openings.
• Conducts or acquires background checks and employee eligibility verifications.
• Handles employment-related inquiries from applicants, employees, and line managers, referring complex and/or sensitive matters to the appropriate staff
• Maintains compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations, and recommended best practices; reviews policies and practices to maintain compliance.
• Develop a pool of qualified candidates in advance of need and build networks to find qualified passive candidates.
• Research and recommend new sources for active and passive candidate recruiting. 
• Communicate with managers and employees regularly to establish rapport, gauge morale, and source new candidate leads. 

Service Delivery & Information:

• Ensure day-to-day operations of People-related functions are addressed in a timely, efficient, and proactive manner e.g. HMO registration, exit management, wages, salary deduction e.t.c
• Manage the collection of all employee documentation and ensure that they are adequately filed for background checks and audit reviews.
• Ensure that employee folders are up to date with the relevant employee documentations.
• Data Integrity: ensure data integrity of all onboarding documents from new hires.
• Help review our internal processes and suggest improvements to optimize HR efficiencies.
• Drawing up necessary employee letters e.g., Letters of introduction, role change etc.
• Maintain payroll processing system and records by gathering, calculating, and inputting data

Pre-onboarding:

• Coordinate and ensure that all pre-onboarding tasks are effectively executed with little or no blockers to employee induction.
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to ensure that employee welcome packs and documentation are ready before onsite /remote onboarding commences.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Humanities, Social Sciences, or related field.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience as a Talent Acquisition Specialist, or similar role.
• Certification obtained from the HR Certification Institute would be advantageous.
• Personable, able to deal with a variety of people comfortably and pleasantly.
• Strong customer service skills.
• Good understanding of office management procedures.
• Critical thinking, analytical mindset, and problem-solving skills.
• Good knowledge of Google Suite and Microsoft Office.
• Competent with Spreadsheets.
• Good understanding of employment-related tax procedures and payroll management.

Application Closing Date
13th October, 2021.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the email.