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Country HR Manager Job at Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
Job Description
The Country HR Manager is responsible for aligning people, capabilities, and culture with organizational goals to drive impact within the country’s program. As the most senior HR leads in WCS’s country program, they ensure the delivery of day-to-day people’s processes to ensure effective, efficient, and compliant HR operations that support the workforce and WCS mission delivery.
Duties, Roles and Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary HR business partner to country leadership, aligning the country program’s HR strategy with organizational objectives
- Translate and implement the Global HR strategy locally, reflecting local culture and market realities
- Lead all core HR operations in-country, including employee relations, recruitment, performance management, compensation, and benefits
- Drive workforce planning and talent strategy, advising leadership on organisational structure, position design, and succession planning
- Oversee recruitment and onboarding to ensure timely hiring of high-quality talent aligned with organizational needs
- Partner with leaders on performance management, development, and engagement initiatives
- Manage country-level compensation and benefits programs in alignment with global job architecture, ensuring competitiveness and internal equity
- Use people data and insights to advise leadership and inform decision-making
- Lead, coach, and develop the local HR team, fostering high standards of professionalism and service
- Lead and resolve complex employee relations issues, investigations, and disciplinary actions with sound judgment
- Support leaders in building an inclusive, high-performing culture
- Ensure a positive and consistent employee experience across the full lifecycle
- Implementing and maintaining WCS’s HR technologies in the country program, collaborating closely with the Global HR and Systems and Operations Center of Excellence (CoE)
- Serve as a credible, trusted advisor to leaders and employees
- Maintain an external network of HR professionals in country to share best practices
- Take on special HR projects, as requested
Qualifications, Education and Competencies
See all details of the qualifications, competencies and education for this role under the "How to Apply" section below.
Please send a cover letter, CV and at least three references (with contact information including phone numbers) sent as one PDF document by email, clearly indicating “the job title” in the subject to wcsuganda@wcs.org and copy to snampindo@wcs.org by March 20, 2026. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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