Global Antibiotic R&D Partnership (GARDP)

Human Resources

• Talent Acquisition: Managing the full recruitment cycle, from job analysis and advertising to interviewing and selection of employees and independent consultants.
• Onboarding & Offboarding: Implementing GARDP Africa induction programs for new hires and managing exit interviews and termination procedures.
• Employee Relations: Acting as a liaison between management and staff to resolve grievances, disputes, and conflict and disciplinary procedures.
• Performance Management: Ensuring performance appraisal and objectives setting are done and filed annually providing guidance to drive a high-performance culture.
• Compliance & Legal: Ensuring all HR practices and policies adhere to all applicable South African laws. Establish new and update existing HR policies and procedures.
• Compensation & Benefits: Responsible for the administration of payroll and managing employee benefit programs.
• Training & Development: Identifying skill gaps and facilitating learning programs to enhance employee competencies. Develop and keep track of the skills development plan of the company.
• Other: Update Remchannel annual data as per requirement. Support Management with general HR related matters when required.

Human Resource Generalist – Independent Consultant

Manager

• We are seeking to hire two Project Management professionals to support our SBI and STI projects.
• Overall Purpose:
• The R&D Partnership and Project Manager (PM) will be responsible for ensuring the project management excellence and end-to-end execution of one of GARDP’s strategic development project. Working closely with the Project/Programme Leader (PL), R&D team members, external partners, and senior management, s/he will drive the proper implementation and delivery of the comprehensive cross-functional drug/treatment development plan across its full life cycle, including manufacturing and regulatory components.
• The PM provides cross‑functional coordination and operational leadership, ensuring that development plans are coherent, resourced, risk‑managed, and executed in line with GARDP governance, donor requirements, and portfolio priorities. The responsibilities will encompass to proactively monitor and manage the assigned project, ensuring the project goals and timelines are achieved within quality requirements and target budgets, and to maintain an efficient information and communication flow between internal and external stakeholders. By maintaining a clear visibility between project‑level execution and portfolio‑level objectives, the PM plays a key role in enabling consolidated reporting and informed decision‑making.
• In addition to project management, the role includes active partnership management and leadership of selected technical workstreams, as delegated by the Project Leader and aligned with the PM’s expertise.
• As a team-player and effective communicator, the R&D Project Manager must be able to drive momentum and build consensus, at the interface of multi-disciplinary and cross-functional teams. Strong organizational skills and ability to develop and manage successful collaborations with external and internal stakeholders is a key driver of success.

Human Resource Generalist – Independent Consultant

R&D Project and Partnership, Manager / Senior Manager