HR Special Projects Internship at Safaricom Kenya

Department Description
Safaricom pleased to announce the following internship opportunity in HR-Special Projects department within the Resources Division. In keeping with our current business needs, we are looking for a person who meets the criteria indicated below:

Brief Description

• Reporting to the Manager – HR Special Projects, the successful candidate will be responsible for learning how to provide project support for all approved projects within the department.

HR Internship Detailed Description

• Learn how to gather user requirements together with stakeholders and prepare documentation on user and project requirements.
• Learn how to plan all tasks and activities related to each project.
• Learn how to document comprehensive project plans for all projects and circulate to stakeholders for approval.
• Learn how to coordinate and manage project related activities for all approved projects in adherence to basic Project Management principles.
• Learn how to continuously monitor project progress after implementation.
• Learn how to monitor and manage communication throughout project life cycle.
• Learn how to document and circulate all project minutes to keep all parties informed on progress.
• Learn how to provide feedback from stakeholders to project team and vice versa.
• Learn how to communicate project progress to stakeholders on a regular basis by producing project status reports that contain decision support information in a timely and accurate manner.
• Learn how to document all projects being undertaken by the department with an associated priority list.
• Learn how to provide documentation on project life cycles.
• Learn how to maintain all project documentation in an organized manner.
• Learn how to Interact with project teams and stakeholders in a professional and cooperative manner by respecting personal, ethnic, and cultural differences in order to ensure a collaborative project management environment

Requirements for HR Internship 

• An undergraduate student studying project management or a business related undergraduate course with exposure to project management;
• Ability to analyze significant amounts of data and information and distill it to the key points that aid in decision making;
• Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills;
• A highly organized individual with attention to detail;
• Highly developed reporting and presentation skills
• Ability to analyze significant amounts of data and information and be able to monitor and explain trends and variances