The Role
Partners with business leaders across Ethiopia to align HR initiatives with business priorities. Advises on employee relations, policies, performance, recruitment, learning and development, employee engagement, records management, and employment-law compliance. Manages the full performance cycle, including improvement plans, disciplinary processes, and annual reviews, while strengthening people processes and workforce effectiveness.
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Job Location: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
About The Role:
The HR Business Partner will report to the HR Head, ESA and work closely with business managers and teams across Ethiopia. The role will provide practical HR expertise across the employee lifecycle, help translate business priorities into effective people initiatives, and promote consistent application of HR policies and employment practices.
About The Role:
The HR Business Partner will report to the HR Head, ESA and work closely with business managers and teams across Ethiopia. The role will provide practical HR expertise across the employee lifecycle, help translate business priorities into effective people initiatives, and promote consistent application of HR policies and employment practices.
What you will be expected to do:
- Partner with business functions to ensure HR initiatives are integrated with business priorities and operational plans.
- Provide HR guidance to managers and employees on employee relations, policy interpretation, performance matters, and other complex people-related situations.
- Manage the end-to-end recruitment process, helping the organization attract and select high-quality talent in the market.
- Manage employee relations cases, promoting fair and consistent outcomes in line with company policies and employment laws.
- Maintain accurate and secure employee records, ensuring HR information is current, properly managed, and accessible only to authorised users.
- Coordinate learning and development initiatives that create opportunities for employees to build relevant skills and capabilities.
- Promote an employee experience where feedback is encouraged, concerns are addressed promptly, and workplace matters are handled fairly.
- Manage the end-to-end performance management cycle, including performance improvement plans, disciplinary meetings, annual reviews, and related processes.
- Monitor compliance with applicable employment laws and regulations and identify actions to reduce employment-related legal risks.
- Work with managers to identify workforce priorities, improve people processes, and strengthen employee engagement and performance.
You might be a strong candidate if you have:
- 4+ years of experience in Human Resources management.
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Knowledge and hands-on experience in warehousing management and distribution.
- Proven experience in a strategic HR role, preferably as an HR Business Partner or in a similar capacity.
- Strong judgement when handling employee information and workplace matters.
- High integrity and strong ethical standards when managing HR processes and employee information.
- Strong communication and Stakeholder engagement skills, with clear thinking, problem-solving, and issue-resolution capabilities.
- Strong knowledge of Human Resources practices, labour laws, employee relations, compensation, and benefits.
- Ability to communicate fluently in both written and spoken English.
- Ability to work effectively with managers and cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment.
What Sun King offers:
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
- An open-minded, collaborative culture with enthusiastic colleagues driven by the challenge of innovation and making a 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 King 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
- 4+ years of experience in Human Resources management
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field
- Knowledge and hands-on experience in warehousing management and distribution
- Experience in a strategic HR role, preferably as an HR Business Partner or similar
- Strong judgment when handling employee information and workplace matters
- High integrity and strong ethical standards
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Clear thinking, problem-solving, and issue-resolution capabilities
- Strong knowledge of HR practices, labor laws, employee relations, compensation, and benefits
- Fluent written and spoken English
- Ability to work effectively with managers and cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment
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What We Do
Sun King designs, distributes, installs, and finances solar energy solutions for consumers who lack reliable access to traditional electrical grids.






