Human Resource Business Partner- ECO Bank Uganda

Human Resource Business Partner- ECO Bank Uganda

  1. BUSINESS AND FINANANCIAL OUTCOMES

Purpose: Ensure people strategy directly drives business performance, productivity, and strategic execution.

Responsibilities

  • Partner with business leaders to translate business strategy into people, workforce, and capability plans
  • Lead strategic workforce planning (right size, skills, structure, cost) aligned to business priorities.
  • Enable delivery of performance management frameworks that drive accountability and results.
  • Advise leaders on organization design, role clarity, and productivity improvement initiatives.
  •  Use people analytics and evidence to inform leadership decisions and improve performance outcomes

Outcome focus

  • Business plans supported by fit-for-purpose workforce capability
  • Improved productivity, execution discipline, and leadership effectiveness
  1. PEOPLE OUTCOMES

Purpose: Build an engaged, capable, high-performing workforce and strong leadership bench.

Responsibilities.

  • Drive talent management outcomes (succession planning, leadership pipelines, critical roles).
  • Coach and enable leaders to manage performance, capability, and employee development effectively.
  • Champion employee engagement, wellbeing, inclusion, and fair treatment.
  • Act as employee mediator in complex or sensitive people matters, ensuring balanced outcomes.
  • Support learning, reskilling, and capability-building initiatives in partnership with HR Centers of Expertise.

Outcome

  • Strong employee experience and engagement.
  • Sustainable leadership and talent pipeline.
  • Reduced regretted attrition and people risk.
  1. RISK, CONTROLS & GOVERNANCE

Purpose: Protect the organization by ensuring compliant, consistent, and well-governed people practices.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure consistent application and interpretation of HR policies, frameworks, and procedures
  • Advise leaders on employment law, disciplinary, grievance, and employee relations matters
  • Monitor people-related risk (talent risk, conduct risk, succession gaps, ER exposure)
  • Partner with Shared Services and Group HR Centres of Excellence to ensure controlled and auditable HR process delivery.
  • Support audits, regulatory reviews, and internal governance requirements related to people management.

Outcome focus

  • Reduced legal, regulatory, and conduct risk
  • Strong internal controls and audit outcomes
  • High confidence in HR governance

4) CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE (Internal & External)

Purpose: Improve business results by enhancing employee, manager, and internal customer experience.

Responsibilities

  • Act as a trusted advisor and single point of HR interface for business leaders .
  • Enable leaders to deliver positive employee experiences that translate into better customer service.
  • Improve manager capability to handle people matters effectively and consistently.
  • Simplify and improve people processes in collaboration with Group HR Operations and CoEs.
  • Strengthen HR’s credibility, responsiveness, and value perception within the business.

Outcome focus

  • Improved employee and manager satisfaction with HR.
  • Better frontline capability and service delivery.
  • Strong internal HR brand and trust.

Experience & Qualifications

  • Bachelor’s degree in HR, Economics, Law, Finance related fields of study.
  • At least 4-5 years’ experience, ideally in HR function
  • Sound understanding of labour laws.
  • Experience working with senior management team with the bank.
  • Exposure handling change management projects.
  • Experience in a Business Partnering role.
  • Profiency in HR Analytics, data and AI.

Skills, Capabilities & Personal attributes

High levels of initiative, energy & drive, strong planning & organizing skills, attention to detail, ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines, excellent communication & interpersonal skills, ability to maintain confidentiality, interact with and present ideas to Executive staff, Senior Management or other levels in a confident manner and capability of working in a diverse & dynamic environment.

Apply Before: 02/12/2026, 09:00 PM

 

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