Tech Stack
HR
Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
Job Title: Human Resources Manager
Location: Freetown, Sierra Leone
Date Posted: July 9, 2026
Application Deadline: July 17, 2026
Employment Type: Full Time
Responsibilities
-
HR Strategy, Planning and Systems
- Lead the day-to-day implementation of LWL’s human resources function.
- Support the Executive Director and senior management in planning staffing needs.
- Maintain accurate HR files, staff databases, leave records, contract trackers, onboarding records, performance timelines, training records, and other HR documentation.
-
Recruitment, Selection and Onboarding
- Lead fair, transparent, timely, and inclusive recruitment processes.
- Ensure recruitment processes promote equal opportunity, gender equality, disability inclusion, and safe recruitment.
- Coordinate onboarding and induction for new staff.
-
Contracts, Payroll Support and HR Compliance
- Prepare and maintain staff contracts, amendments, consultant HR documentation, probation records, employment letters, and related personnel documentation.
- Support payroll preparation by maintaining accurate staff records, timesheets, leave information, benefits records, and approved HR changes for finance processing.
- Ensure HR processes comply with applicable Sierra Leone labor requirements, organizational policies, donor requirements, safeguarding standards, confidentiality requirements, and data protection principles.
-
Performance Management, Staff Development and Wellbeing
- Coordinate performance management processes, including probation reviews, objective setting, mid-year reviews, annual appraisals, performance improvement plans, and follow-up actions.
- Support managers to identify staff development needs, maintain training plans, and coordinate learning opportunities.
- Promote staff wellbeing, respectful workplace practices, clear communication, duty of care, and timely escalation of concerns affecting staff safety, performance, or morale.
-
Safeguarding, Gender Equality, Disability Inclusion and School Safety
- Ensure HR systems actively support LWL’s safeguarding commitments, mandatory code of conduct, vetting procedures, safe recruitment, confidentiality, and incident-reporting processes.
- Mainstream gender equality and disability inclusion into recruitment, onboarding, performance management, staff development, workplace policies, reasonable accommodation, and employee relations processes.
- Work with safeguarding, programme, and operations colleagues to strengthen school safety systems.
-
Employee Relations, Confidentiality and Case Management
- Provide confidential HR advice and support to managers and staff.
- Support fair and timely handling of grievances, disciplinary matters, workplace concerns, absence issues, conflict resolution, and exit processes.
- Promote respectful workplace behavior, integrity, accountability, non-discrimination, anti-harassment standards, and confidential handling of staff information.
-
Reporting, Coordination and Other Duties
- Prepare concise HR updates, recruitment trackers, contract trackers, leave reports, performance management updates, training records, and HR risk summaries for management review.
- Coordinate closely with operations, finance, procurement, MERL, programme teams, district teams, and implementing partners to ensure HR support is aligned with delivery timelines and compliance requirements.
- Support internal and external audits by providing complete, accurate, and well-organized HR documentation and responding promptly to HR-related information requests.
Requirements
- A degree in human resources management, business administration, organizational development, public administration, management, or a related field.
- At least 10 years’ progressively senior experience in human resources management for organizations managing large-scale grants, contracts, or development programmes.
- Strong experience managing recruitment, onboarding, contracts, staff records, payroll inputs, performance management, staff development, employee relations, and exit processes.
- Good understanding of Sierra Leone labor requirements, HR compliance, confidentiality, documentation standards, donor-funded programme requirements, and auditable HR systems.
- Practical understanding of safeguarding, safe recruitment, vetting, code of conduct compliance, duty of care, incident reporting, and confidential case-handling processes.
- Strong knowledge and proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, and confidence using SharePoint, digital collaboration tools, trackers, and HR information systems.
- Excellent organizational, planning, problem-solving, stakeholder management, and communication skills, including clear written and oral English.
- Strong understanding of gender equality, disability inclusion, and school safety, with the ability to apply these principles to recruitment, onboarding, workplace policies, staff development, reasonable accommodation, and staff-support processes.
- Excellent attention to detail; reliable, discreet, proactive, and able to handle sensitive information with integrity and confidentiality.
- Ability to work calmly under pressure, manage competing priorities, and maintain strong service standards while enforcing compliance requirements.
- Commitment to Lɛ Wi Lan’s safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults, including its mandatory code of conduct, vetting and background checks, survivor-centred response approach, and values of gender equity, disability inclusion, integrity, and accountability.
- Willingness to be based in Freetown and to undertake regular travel to districts, schools, partner offices, and government institutions as required by the role.
We Offer
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity to work with a leading organization committed to education transformation in Sierra Leone
- Professional development opportunities
- Supportive and inclusive work environment
About the Company
Lɛ Wi Lan (LWL) is a Sierra Leonean-led organization committed to advancing education transformation nationally through technical assistance in close partnership with the government. LWL works in partnership with Transforming Teaching, Education and Learning (T-TEL) and other partners, with funding support from the Mastercard Foundation. The organization is dedicated to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and is an equal opportunities employer.
How to Apply
Applicants should submit a copy of their CV and a cover letter explaining why they are suitable for the role to [email protected] stating the job role applied for in the subject line of the email. The deadline for all applications is 5pm on Friday 17th July 2026. All appointments are subject to satisfactory background checks.