The Role
Support end-to-end employee lifecycle: maintain HR records and systems, coordinate onboarding and hiring logistics, respond to first-line employee queries, assist with employee relations administration, prepare people reports, and support engagement and wellbeing activities for the business unit.
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Job Location: Nairobi, Kenya
About the role
The role covers the employee life cycle from onboarding to exit, keeps employee records and HR systems accurate, and handles first line queries from employees and line managers. It suits someone early in an HR career who wants to learn business partnering by doing the operational work that sits underneath it, with guidance from an experienced HRBP.
About the role
The role covers the employee life cycle from onboarding to exit, keeps employee records and HR systems accurate, and handles first line queries from employees and line managers. It suits someone early in an HR career who wants to learn business partnering by doing the operational work that sits underneath it, with guidance from an experienced HRBP.
What you will be expected to do:
Employee records and systems
Keep employee data accurate and current on the HR information system. Process joiners, movers and leavers, prepare contracts and letters, and keep employee files complete and secure.
Onboarding
Coordinate inductions for new joiners, prepare their paperwork and system access ahead of day one, and check in with them through probation.
First line employee queries
Answer employee questions on policy, leave, medical cover and benefits within set turnaround times. Refer matters that need advisory input to the HR Business Partner.
Hiring assistance
Coordinate interview scheduling, candidate communication, reference and background checks, and offer documentation for roles in your business unit.
Employee relations assistance
Take accurate minutes at disciplinary and grievance meetings, maintain case files, and track review dates for probation and performance improvement plans.
People reporting
Prepare monthly headcount, leave, attrition and probation reports, and flag anything that looks wrong in the data.
Engagement and culture
Assist with engagement activities, wellbeing sessions and policy awareness sessions for your business unit.
Keep employee data accurate and current on the HR information system. Process joiners, movers and leavers, prepare contracts and letters, and keep employee files complete and secure.
Onboarding
Coordinate inductions for new joiners, prepare their paperwork and system access ahead of day one, and check in with them through probation.
First line employee queries
Answer employee questions on policy, leave, medical cover and benefits within set turnaround times. Refer matters that need advisory input to the HR Business Partner.
Hiring assistance
Coordinate interview scheduling, candidate communication, reference and background checks, and offer documentation for roles in your business unit.
Employee relations assistance
Take accurate minutes at disciplinary and grievance meetings, maintain case files, and track review dates for probation and performance improvement plans.
People reporting
Prepare monthly headcount, leave, attrition and probation reports, and flag anything that looks wrong in the data.
Engagement and culture
Assist with engagement activities, wellbeing sessions and policy awareness sessions for your business unit.
You might be a strong candidate if you have:
- A degree in Human Resource Management or a related field.
- 1 to 2 years of HR experience, which can include an internship, attachment or HR assistant role.
- Registration with the Institute of Human Resource Management (an added advantage).
- Strong organizational and attention-to-detail skills, with the ability to manage multiple requests simultaneously without losing track of any.
- Discretion when handling private employee information and maintain appropriate privacy at all times.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to communicate clearly and professionally with employees at all levels.
- Experience interacting with HRIS systems and proficiency in computer applications.
What Sun King offers
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
- An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun Center for Leadership.
We place great importance on sustaining a diverse, inclusive work environment.
We believe that innovation and understanding comes from diversity on every spectrum. We work to make sure every Sun King team member knows that they belong, knowing that sustaining an inclusive workplace requires conscious effort and is a continuous journey, not an end-state.
Sun King recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes people based on their experience, skills, effort, and results. We explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, religion, caste, national origin, color, gender, marital status, family structure, sexual orientation, HIV/AIDS status, or disability.
We believe that innovation and understanding comes from diversity on every spectrum. We work to make sure every Sun King team member knows that they belong, knowing that sustaining an inclusive workplace requires conscious effort and is a continuous journey, not an end-state.
Sun King recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes people based on their experience, skills, effort, and results. We explicitly prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, religion, caste, national origin, color, gender, marital status, family structure, sexual orientation, HIV/AIDS status, or disability.
About
Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection.Sun King has built a new kind of energy utility: distributed, green, customer-centric, and affordable. We bring clean, reliable, decentralized energy directly into people’s lives — from solar kits that provide first-time energy access to multi-kilowatt systems that serve both off-grid users and grid-connected customers powering larger homes, schools, hospitals, farms, offices, and light manufacturing.Already, 25 million homes and businesses rely on Sun King for electricity supply and the appliances and services it enables: lighting, televisions, fans, refrigeration, and smartphones. Sun King combines energy generation, energy-efficient appliances, installation, and financing into one seamless offering. Think of it as a distributed utility, designed for wherever energy is needed and designed to scale with its users as incomes and energy needs grow.Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ (PAYG) purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.14 a day via mobile money or cash.Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright.Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 35,000 field agents — over 1 million payments each day. To date, Sun King has extended more than $1.4 billion in PAYG loans to customers.Sun King began by powering homes and businesses with solar systems delivered through PAYG financing. Now, we’re using the same model to make smartphones and clean cooking equipment affordable: helping households connect to the digital economy and transition from wood-based fuels to modern, sustainable alternatives.Sun King employs 3,500 full-time staff in 14 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families. Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 42% of Sun King’s workforce.
Skills Required
- Degree in Human Resource Management or related field
- 1 to 2 years of HR experience (including internship, attachment, or HR assistant)
- Registration with the Institute of Human Resource Management
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail, ability to manage multiple requests
- Discretion handling private employee information and maintaining privacy
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Experience interacting with HRIS systems and proficiency in computer applications
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The Company
What We Do
Sun King designs, distributes, installs, and finances solar energy solutions for consumers who lack reliable access to traditional electrical grids.
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