Overview
Job Title: Global Labor Risk Manager
ENGIE Energy Access
Department: Legal and Ethics or HR
Reporting line: Head of People and Culture
Job Grade: 17
Matrix Reporting (Sole Contributor Role): Head of People and Culture / Head of Legal and Ethics
Job location: Any EEA Market in Africa
About ENGIE Energy Access
The top supplier of mini-grid and pay-as-you-go (PAYGo) solutions in Africa is ENGIE Energy Access. The business creates cutting-edge off-grid solar solutions for residences, commercial buildings, and public spaces, giving clients and distribution partners access to inexpensive, clean energy. Pay-as-you-go solar household systems can be financed with low daily installments as low as $0.19, and mini-grids encourage economic growth by allowing the productive use of electricity and creating commercial opportunities for rural community entrepreneurs. By 2025, ENGIE Energy Access hopes to have impacted 20 million lives throughout Africa, with over 1,800 employees, operations in nine African countries (Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia), over 1.9 million customers, and over 9 million lives already impacted.
www.engie-energyaccess.com
www.linkedin.com/company/engie-africa
Job Purpose / Mission
To join our vibrant team, we are looking for a certified and experienced Global Labour Law Manager. In both proactive and reactive handling of ethics cases, separations, dismissals, fraud charges, and grievances, the appropriate applicant will be essential. This position will play a crucial part in maintaining the development of an ethical EEA culture. You will serve as our external legal firms’ main point of contact as the Global Labor Law Manager. The job will entail choosing a panel of law firms, for which a request for proposals (RFP) will be needed. Effective and efficient cost management for the external legal panel will be necessary for the function.
Key Responsibilities:
Labor Law Compliance and Employment Relations:
- Manage dismissals and mutually agreed-upon separations.
- Plan and oversee disciplinary actions resulting from incompetence, subpar work, or ethical transgressions in strict adherence to regional laws and, where necessary, in collaboration with outside legal counsel.
- Oversee and guarantee adherence to labor regulations throughout multiple nations in East, West, and South Africa.
settling grievances and disputes at work.
Vendor Management:
- Serve as the primary liaison for external labor law panels.
- Handle all aspects of your connections with outside vendors, such as billing, contract renewals, agreements, and performance standards.
- Define service level agreements, keep an eye on them, and take appropriate action when necessary.
- Handle all invoices in accordance with the professional fees schedule that has been agreed upon.
Policy Alignment and Creation:
- Take part in examinations of local and international policy from the standpoint of labor law.
- Participate in the formulation of new regulations that comply with labor laws.
- Implement and disseminate all policies, including any updated ones.
- Create and carry out a program for employee relations training.
Training and Development:
- Provide labor training to line managers who oversee direct reporting as well as the HR team.
- Make sure that all updates and changes to labor laws in the EEA markets are regularly assessed and that the appropriate actions are taken.
Performance Management:
- Oversee reorganizations, strategies for performance enhancement, and any corresponding modifications to the terms and conditions of contracts.
Reporting and Governance:
- Keep track of and report on crucial concerns related to employment performance.
- To guarantee uniform treatment in compliance with established standards, maintain a record of all precedents and previous cases.
- Report on pertinent key performance indicators once a month.
Make that national and international disciplinary rules and procedures are in line with each other. - Assure complete adherence to the HR Audit checklist and the legal and ethical criteria.
- When necessary, work closely with the Ethics department.
For Manager
We at EEA have very high standards for our managers. Every manager has a crucial part to play in making sure that everyone on our team, including our customers, has an amazing experience. Our managers foster growth for their direct reports and assist EEA achieve its lofty objectives all the while honing their own leadership abilities.
We believe that great Manager:
Achieve ambitious goals: As a highly effective and responsible leader, you foster an atmosphere that encourages decisive action and effective action, both of which are necessary for the achievement of results.
Behaving honorably means being frank, courteous, impartial, and open as a leader. A foundation of transparency and trust is what you establish and grow upon.
Motivate and guide the group: As an exemplary leader, you exemplify your words. With humility and confidence, you guide and empower your group.
Are accessible: By being personable and paying attention, an accessible leader creates and preserves strong bonds with stakeholders.
Promote inclusivity and diversity: As an inclusive leader, you promote inclusivity and a feeling of community.
Required Qualifications and Experience:
- Three to five years’ minimum post-qualification experience as a labor lawyer.
- A minimum of one year’s work experience in a multinational firm including multiple jurisdictions
- A legal bachelor’s degree is necessary.
- A diploma in conflict resolution and/or employee relations would be advantageous.
- Demonstrated skill in negotiations.
- Competent lawyer with a wealth of African labor legal experience.
- Legal Proficiency: strong familiarity with and expertise in labor law, especially in South, West, and East Africa.
- Strong “drafting” experience in law
outstanding proficiency in written and spoken English
Portuguese or French would be very beneficial. - Interpersonal Skills: Capacity to establish and maintain connections with outside partners and suppliers.
- Strong training and communication abilities.
High desired Skills:
- Strong interpersonal abilities.
- The capacity to prioritize, multitask, and arrange work.
- Critical thinking abilities.
- Good ability to solve problems.
- Strong multitasking skills and attention to detail.
- Capacity to sway, convince, uplift, and encourage those who do not directly report to you.
- Strong moral principles.
- Tenacious and robust
ENGIE is an equal opportunity company that is dedicated to fostering diversity and a welcoming atmosphere for all. Without regard to origin, age, name, sexual identity, orientation or preference, religion, marital status, health, disability, political opinions, union involvement, or citizenship, all applications are assessed based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications. Our uniqueness is what makes us powerful!
Flexible Gen & Retail Business Unit: GBU Energy Access Division:
Legal Entity: FENIX International Uganda Limited Company
Type of Contract: Permanent Position
Job Type: Full-Time
Professional (Skilled) Experience: (>3 experience <15 years)
Level of Education: Bachelor’s
