Elba Edleen

JobSearch

Trainer

Edleen Elba, a human resources practitioner with over a decade of senior management experience within the private and public sectors, is the managing director of JobSearch (SL) Ltd, a human resources firm. She is also a Chartered Global Management Accountant, trained in strategic business management, risk management and financial management.

Her professional career started at KPMG in 2003, working in the advisory departments in Sierra Leone and Ghana. During this period, she implemented financial management software for clients, which helped her to learn business processes and organizational structures. She also trained users on the software. In 2005, she created the human resources and risk management departments at KPMG and managed both for 3 years.

She worked at Guaranty Trust Bank (SL) Ltd for a little more than a year as a group head, human resources and corporate affairs.

She worked at National Power Authority, a public sector utility company for over three (3) years, as a part of the executive management, and for a year and a half as a training advisor on an DFID-funded project with Adam Smith International for National Revenue Authority.

Over the years, she has acquired skills in strategic human resource management, strategic risk management, presentation, software applications, team leadership, effective communication, assertiveness, negotiation and analytics.

Edleen is an IFC-LPI certified trainer. She is the founding director of the Institute of Human Resources Sierra Leone, chair of MEPS Trust Well Woman Clinic fundraising committee and represents the Sierra Leone Chamber of Commerce Industry and Agriculture on the Board of Sierra Leone Local Content Agency. She is passionate about investing in health and education, and supporting female entrepreneurs to help develop Sierra Leone’s private sector.