HR Lead

About the role

Welcome2Africa International is looking for an HR Lead based in Abuja, Nigeria. The role leads recruitment end to end, sets up HR governance and compliance across the group's entities, and builds the performance and compensation frameworks that support a growing organisation.

Key responsibilities

• Lead recruitment end to end: workforce planning with entity heads, role design, sourcing, assessment, offers and onboarding.
• Run one induction and employment standard across every entity so new colleagues understand both the group and their own role.
• Establish HR governance and ensure compliance with employment law in each jurisdiction, including contracts for consultants and international representatives.
• Develop a compensation and benefits framework with clear grades and pay principles, in partnership with Finance.
• Design and run the performance management cycle, linking individual objectives to entity and group priorities.
• Write, update and communicate HR policies, the employee handbook, and a current set of job descriptions and organisation charts.
• Build structured handover and exit processes that keep institutional knowledge inside the organisation.
• Implement people systems: an HR information system, accurate employee records, and leave and payroll inputs.
• Embed recruitment triggers in entity workplans so hiring follows the growth of the business.

Required profile

• Substantial HR generalist experience with real depth in recruitment, compliance and reward.
• A professional qualification (CIPD, CIPM, SHRM or equivalent) is preferred.
• Experience of building HR practices in a growing organisation, ideally across more than one entity or country.
• Sound knowledge of employment law and good instincts for when to seek specialist advice.
• Fairness, discretion and the confidence to hold managers to agreed standards.
• A talent for spotting people who will thrive in a business that is still being built.