Save
the Children
For
over 90 years, Save the Children has been making a difference in children’s
lives in more than 120 countries.
We
are the world’s largest independent child rights organization. From emergency
relief to long-term development, Save the Children secures a child’s right to
health, education and protection.
Save
the Children is an equal opportunity organization dedicated to our core values
of Accountability, Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity and Integrity.
Role
Profile
Job
Title:
Regional Human Resources Coordinator
Team/Programme: Regional Human
Resources Team
Location: East Africa
Regional Office - Nairobi
Grade:
2
Post
Type:
National
Child
Safeguarding:
Level
3 - the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have
regular contact with or access to children or young people
Role
Purpose:
As
a key member of the Regional Human Resources team and in close collaboration
with the Regional HR Director, you will be responsible for supporting and
advising the country programmes on the various HR processes and systems.
This
includes support and advice in setting up or enhancing Recruitment and
Selection, staff development and HR support for humanitarian responses.
Scope
of Role:
Reports
to:
Regional HR Director
Regional
Dimensions:
Save the Children works in 8 countries in East Africa (Kenya, Somalia, Uganda,
Rwanda, Sudan, South Sudan, Tanzania and Ethiopia) with a current staff
complement of approximately 3500 staff and current expenditure of approximately
$200 million each year
Staff
directly reporting to this post: none
Key
Areas of Accountability:
Providing
advice, support and capacity building on Recruitment and Selection process for
country offices:
- Supporting
countries especially where capability is low, in the end to end
recruitment process for national and international positions.
- Providing
advice on resourcing strategy, reviewing JDs to ensure compliance with SCI
format, supporting the preparation adverts and liaising with SCI centre
for posting in internal and external jobsites
- Providing
support to shortlisting and interviews and ensuring child safeguarding
standards are met during the process
- With
inputs from HR Director, advising on salary offer, liaising with SCI
centre for preparation of international contracts
- Supporting
reference checks
- Managing
recruitment and deployment of personnel during emergency response
- Development
and maintenance of the Regional Emergency Roster for external resource and
facilitating release/hiring of these
- Providing
training on Recruitment, Interviewing skills and others to relevant
country program staff
- Develop
expedite HR processes for Humanitarian responses:
- In
collaboration with the Humanitarian Response Team, Regional HR Director,
HR counterparts in country offices throughout the region and the Country
Directors, plan, coordinate and implement HR policies and procedures for
emergency programs
- Work
with country office HR managers to keep the Country Office prepared for
emergency such as defining organizational structure, job profiles, pay and
salary scale and recruitment procedures relevant to emergencies.
- Coordinating
potential areas for job swapping, temporary assignments and other recruitment
opportunities to enhance Country Offices capacity in both development and
emergency programs.
- Providing
advice and building country capacity on Performance Management System:
- Support
the roll-out of the annual performance management system in the countries
- Support
capacity building of the country HR Managers/counterparts in managing the
Performance Management system.
- Acting
as back-up for Country Office HR Directors:
- In
collaboration with the Regional HR Director, providing back-up as required
for HR managers in low complexity country offices. This may require
occasional on-site support, but will primarily be provided virtually. This
may be shared with other members of the HR team within the Region
Role
Profile
Coordinate
Regional and Country Office HR policies, procedures and reporting:
- Support
the Country HR Directors to ensure standardised HR processes are
implemented throughout the region, assist in the development of localised
procedures as required
Skills
And Behaviours
(our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
- Holds
self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently,
achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
- Holds
the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities -
giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing
the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate
consequences when results are not achieved
Ambition:
- Sets
ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes
responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their
team to do the same
- Widely
shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates
others
- Future
orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale
Collaboration:
- Builds
and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues,
Members and external partners and supporters
- Values
diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
- Approachable,
good listener, easy to talk to
Creativity:
- Develops
and encourages new and innovative solutions
- Willing
to take disciplined risks
Integrity:
- Honest,
encourages openness and transparency
Qualifications
and Experience
- Minimum
of 5 years in a generalist HR management role; minimum of 2 years
experience in emergency setting.
- Bachelor’s
degree in Human resources, general management or business administration.
- Technical
skills in most if not all aspects of human resource management with a
focus on Recruitment and Selection, Learning and Development, Performance
Management, Compensation and Benefits and HR Policies
- Demonstrated
ability to work in multi-cultural situations and/or multi-locational
settings using a collaborative approach
- Demonstrated
ability in designing, implementing and evaluating emergency HR management
system
- Proven
ability to handle challenging work load
- Excellent
written and verbal communication skills
- Conversant
in practical Human Resource Information System and other relevant
soft-wares
- Fluency
in English
- Commitment
to Save the Children values
Please
send a copy of your CV with a cover letter to
Hard
copy applications should be addressed to Senait Zenebe, EA Regional Office, Box
19423, 202 KNH, Nairobi, Kenya, and may be handed into the Save the Children
International Regional Office.
The
Position Description for these roles are attached for your reference.
Application
closes December 4th 2012 at 5:00pm.
8:19 PM
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