How you'll help us achieve it

We are seeking a Strategic People Partner who combines curiosity, strategic thinking, and hands-on HR delivery. This Partner will help us shape our people's experience, talent initiatives, and ultimately own an org/s as a trusted People Partner.

You’ll partner across teams to strengthen how we grow, support, and develop Wavers. Your work will touch key areas such as: performance coaching, development, talent management, organizational design and employee experience, while also supporting talent programs.

In this role, you'll;

• Support Organizational Design & Effectiveness

  • Partner with business leads to assess and evolve team structures that enable collaboration and effectiveness.
  • Facilitate organization health reviews, using people analytics to identify strengths, gaps, and growth opportunities.
  • Support managers on change management, team design, and culture alignment as their orgs scale.
  • Contribute to cross-functional projects that enhance employee experience, performance, and engagement.

  Learning & Development Collaborations

  • Partner with the L&D team and business leads to identify development needs and learning priorities across functions.
  • Support individual development planning and ensure learning insights are embedded into performance and career frameworks.
  • Track participation, to inform continuous improvement of learning initiatives.

  Talent Management & Growth

  • Partner with leaders to map career paths and growth frameworks across their teams.
  • Support performance review cycles, calibrations, and feedback conversations that drive meaningful development.
  • Build visibility into succession planning, and emerging talent across Wave.
  • Collaborate with the Talent team, to ensure a consistent strong pipeline of talent during hiring processes.

  Grow our Talent & Development Programs

  • Manage Wave’s internship and Support rotation programs: canvassing roles, coordinating interviews, onboarding, and successful integration.
  • Partner with leads to identify high-performing participants for continued development and full-time conversion opportunities.

  Strengthen Employer Branding 

  • Collaborate with Marketing and Comms to capture authentic stories that reflect Wave’s culture and employee experiences.
  • Contribute to content for social channels, events, and recruiting campaigns showcasing Wave as a great place to grow.

Key details

• Location: You'll work from our office in Abidjan and may travel to field locations.
• Work authorization in Côte d'Ivoire. 
• This is a permanent position.
• Our salaries are competitive and calculated using a transparent formula. 
• We offer generous health insurance for yourself and your dependents.
• We support working parents - we offer 26 weeks of parental leave for mothers and 4 weeks for fathers, in addition to subsidized child care when they return to work.
• Airtime reimbursement.
• Free food and a beautiful office space.

Requirements

• 5-8 years of experience in Recruiting, Learning & Development, Talent management, or HRBP in a high-growth environment
• A degree in Business Administration, Human Resources, or equivalent.
• French and English proficiency. 
• Demonstrated background in talent and leadership management, as well as a proven ability to attract and retain outstanding talent and motivate high-performing teams.
• Hands-on operational experience in managing employee relations. 
• Ability to work with a variety of organizational leaders, to build consensus around HR strategy and tactics.
• Excellent negotiation and conflict resolution skills in dealing with sensitive employee issues and managing cultural differences.

You might be a good fit if you

• Are strategically minded but operationally hands-on. You can design frameworks and also execute them.
• Have strong coaching, facilitation, and communication skills, with a passion for helping others grow.
• Are analytical and data-informed, using insights to guide decisions and measure impact.
• Excel at building relationships and trust, partnering across multiple levels and cultures.
• Are curious, proactive, and adaptable; you thrive in a fast-moving, mission-driven environment.

How you'll help us achieve it

At Wave Mobile Money, the Senior HR Lead is a business-critical operator responsible for enabling rapid growth across Kinshasa and regional operations.

This role goes beyond traditional HR: you will operate as a business leader responsible for building and scaling the people engine behind Wave’s growth. You will act as a hands-on partner to leadership, ensuring that teams are structured, supported, and performing at a high level in a fast-scaling environment. 

In this role, you'll be responsible for:

Strategic Business Partnering

• Partner with country leadership and operational teams (distribution, agents, support functions)
• Translate growth targets into practical People strategy 
• Support rapid scaling across Kinshasa and provinces (field teams, agents, support staff)
• Act as a decision enabler by providing recommendations and options to help managers move quickly while managing people risks

Performance & Talent in a High-Growth Environment

• Implement a simple yet effective performance work environment and support the business in promoting talent growth
• Be an HRBP to the leadership and support managers in handling: Underperformance, High attrition roles, Promotions and internal mobility

Be an Ambassador of Wave’s Culture and Wave Ways of Working

• Coach and equip managers to role-model Wave culture in their day-to-day leadership.
• Design and champion initiatives that bring culture to life (e.g., town halls, culture workshops, storytelling etc.)
• Promote a data-driven, fast-paced, and ownership-oriented culture.
• Identify and address behaviors or practices that are misaligned with Wave’s culture.

Office & Employee Experience

• Ensure the Kinshasa office runs smoothly, safely, and efficiently
• Oversee:
• Office administration
• Facilities, security, and logistics
• Staff welfare (canteen, health, working conditions)
• Adapt solutions to local constraints:
• Power reliability
• Transport challenges
• Safety and Security considerations

Budget & Ownership & Cost Discipline

• Own and manage HR and office budgets
• Track headcount costs vs business targets
• Ensure cost-efficient scaling

Employee Relations & Labor Environment

• Manage contracts, payroll coordination, and benefits administration
• Act as the primary point of contact for employee relations issues
• Handle: Conflict resolution, Disciplinary processes and Terminations
• Ensure compliance with DRC labor law, while maintaining operational agility 
• Manage relationships with: Unions, Labor inspections and Local authorities (if needed)

Key details

• Location: You'll work from our office in Kinshasa, with some travel.
• Work authorization in DRC is required. 
• This is a permanent position.
• Our salaries are competitive and calculated using a transparent formula. 
• We offer generous health insurance for yourself and your dependents.
• We support working parents - we offer 26 weeks of parental leave for mothers and 4 weeks for fathers, in addition to subsidized child care when they return to work.
• Airtime reimbursement.
• Free food and a beautiful office space.

Requirements

• 8–10+ years in HR, including strong HR Business Partnering / People Operations experience
• Experience in:
• Fast-growing companies (startup/scale-up)
• Operational or field-heavy environments
• Experience in Africa (DRC strongly preferred)
• Proven ability to support rapid scaling
• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business Administration, or related field
• Fluent in French, English and Lingala (mandatory)

You might be a good fit if you

• Operate with a business-first mindset
• Are a does and builder
• Value speed and pragmatism
• Influence without authority
• Are resilient and adaptable

LEAP Program Description

Global Solutions Ventures (GSV) – a joint-venture partnership between ZemiTek, LLC and Dexis Consulting Group – is implementing the Long-term Exceptional Technical Assistance Project (LEAP Global), a mechanism originally used by USAID to battle against infectious diseases such as malaria, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, neglected tropical diseases, and pandemic influenza. As of July 1, 2025, LEAP Global transitioned to the U.S. Department of State (DOS). This initiative aims to address the complex human resource challenges faced by national infectious disease programs in the USA-supported countries.

The intervention of this project is to hire and embed technical expert advisors and subject matter experts within government entities. By directly embedding the technical expertise within the national programs, LEAP provides long-term, sustainable lifesaving support to empower host governments to lead and manage key aspects of their infectious disease portfolios and improve coordination between the U.S. Government and the host country.

About the Position

The Senior Human Resources for Health Advisor will support the Office of Foreign Assistance of the U.S. Department of State Embassy Kinshasa carrying out the America First Global Health Strategy. The primary focus of the Advisor will be technical support to develop a Political Economic Analysis of  Frontline health workers management and payment transition operational plan in alignment with the U.S,-DRC Health Cooperation Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed on February 26, 2026.

This position specifically supports Section 2.4 of the MOU, with human resources for health responsibilities spanning all health service delivery areas (HIV, TB, malaria, maternal and child health, nutrition, global health security including polio eradication) to strengthen the entire health system rather than individual disease programs.

The Senior Advisor will support the Ministry of Health, Hygiene, and Social Security (MOH) for improving performance and retention of human resources for health of front-line health workers, including community health workers.  The Senior Consultant will identify policy and practice bottlenecks and facilitate solutions through coordinated technical support and facilitation of effort through the Ministry’s programming and administration efforts along with the health donors group members.

The Senior Advisor will identify technical and skills bottleneck and facilitate solutions through close mentorship. S/he will be based at the MOH Human Resources Division Office. The Senior Consultant will receive day to day direction from the Division head. S/he will be reporting to U.S. Embassy Public Health Advisor and Frontline Health Workers workstream Lead bi-weekly. The Advisor will support the MOH in carrying out life-saving humanitarian assistance (LHA) service delivery in full alignment with the new Presidential Executive Order (EO) directives. 

Responsibilities

• Support the MoH General Secretary to manage and coordinate efforts to process with employees hiring plan, set up HR data systems, review and update salaries and allowances payroll as well as retirement plans.
• Provide technical assistance in the compilation of a valid, up to date registry of front-line health workers in collaboration with the MOH and the Ministry of Public Works.
• Advise the MOH General Secretary on health policy and strategy gaps and make recommendations for remedial actions.
• Coordinate with the U.S. Government and the Global Fund to list staff receiving bonuses and ensure that they are `national staff register or private sector entity payroll systems.
• Develop a risk mitigation and communications plan to maintain performance and retention of health workers transitioned off of bonuses by January 2027.
• Support U.S. Government implementing partners to create a plan for transition CHWs to monthly stipends by domestic health resources per the MOU.
• Participate as a resource member to the GIBS Sante Health Workers and Service Delivery Working Group to support implementation of the 2026 priority action plan and improve coherence of related health donor actions to strengthen human resources of health policy and practice.
• Support the MOH to ensure workforce strategies support integrated health service delivery across all MOU Areas of Cooperation rather than vertical program structures.
• Coordinate with the LEAP Health Finance Advisor and Health Governance Advisor to align workforce transitions with co-investment tracking and financial oversight.

Reporting:

The Advisor will submit a monthly report to designated officer at the U.S. Embassy Office of Foreign Assistance by the 5^th day of the following month. Reports should demonstrate how workforce activities support integrated health system strengthening across all MOU Areas of Cooperation. Additionally, the Advisor will submit a weekly progress report to U.S. Embassy/Department of State (and participate in weekly calls) to include a short paragraph about main successes for that week. 

Qualifications

• Advanced Academic Credentials: Master’s degree or higher in Public Health, Health Policy, Health Economics, Public Administration, or related field.
• At least seven (7) years of relevant experience in the following areas:
  • HRH Policy & Regulatory Leadership: Led formulation/revision of national HRH strategies, regulatory frameworks, and workforce policies aligned with UHC and Ministry of Health priorities.
  • Workforce Planning & Operations: Designed staffing norms, deployment strategies, HRIS systems, and performance management frameworks in decentralized health systems.
  • Risk Management in Fragile Settings: Conducted operational risk assessments and developed mitigation plans addressing attrition, payroll integrity, donor dependency, and emergency surge capacity.
  • Donor & Stakeholder Coordination: Aligned HRH investments across government, World Bank, USG, and implementing partners; facilitated multi-partner consensus.
  • Institutional Capacity Strengthening: Led technical assistance, change management, and M&E systems to strengthen sustainable HRH governance.
• Full Professional Fluency: Bilingual English and French (written and oral), with experience leading high-level policy dialogue and technical drafting in both languages.
• Experience with IRIS is desirable.