Based: Ghana, Uganda or working remotely from another country in Africa with regular travel to Ghana and Uganda
About us
Our mission is to get 3-6 year old children in rural Africa to thrive. We have developed an award-winning Early Childhood Development programme, proven its impact through rigorous evaluation and scaled it through governments in both Ghana and Uganda. It is currently reaching over 300,000 children per year, and we aim to reach 1million children per year by 2028.
We’re a lively ambitious organisation, determined to have a major positive impact on the world. As an organisation of approximately 100 staff (across Ghana, Uganda and internationally); we work hard, at a fast pace, in a challenging environment. We expect everyone to give their best to achieve the best possible results. Our work is demanding but provides plenty of opportunity for innovation, responsibility, growth, collaboration, creativity and fun. We want all staff to be happy, fulfilled and to feel appreciated and valued in their work.
As Lively Minds has developed as an international ECD expert, working with governments, major bilateral funders, well renowned research and grant institutions as well as the thousands of teachers, mothers and children we operate with on a daily basis, we have continued to evolve our organisation. Rightly it is our people that are at the heart of our organisation and we need to develop our capacity and capability, across all our people related activities and processes, to ensure we support the organisation in the best way. This will focus on being more strategic in our People initiatives, bringing insight and experience to leading change with a “growth mindset” and creating a dynamic learning and development environment.
Further to this, our strategic aims for the next 3 years include a number of exciting growth projects both within the countries we operate in and expansion to new countries. These projects will require significant strategic HR leadership and support across the full life-cycle of the projects and, as such, we are looking for a seasoned strategic HR Manager to join our high performing Senior Management Team (SMT).
The role
As a member of the SMT you are accountable for all HR, people and organisational requirements to enable the organisation to reach its strategic goals. This will include identifying and driving strategic and tactical HR initiatives, as well as supporting other programmes that will have an impact on the organisation and its people. The Head of HR will manage a team including an L&D Manager, HR Coordinator, Travel Coordinator and HR Officer.
How to apply
To find out more and apply, please download the job description and application from on the website www.livelyminds.org/jobs
Please then send your completed application form together with your CV to jobs@livelyminds.org by the deadline.