HR manager Syria - JORDAN

Education and experience: 

- HR management - minimum 3 years work experience

- Experience in tools development and HR policies design

- Experience with NGO is a strong asset

- Proven experience in coordination;

- Proven training and local capacity building experience;

- Previous experience with Handicap International would be an asset;

 

Professional & Personal skills:

- Strong organizational skills

- Excellent writing and communication skills

- Facility to resume, share, analyse and consolidate information 

- Strong interpersonal, intercultural and human skills

- Autonomous, reactive and able to deal with priorities

- Diplomat, able to work collaboratively in a team

- Ready and able to travel in the Middle East

 

Languages:

- English mandatory (oral and written) 

- Arabic and French are a strong asset

Outraged by the injustice faced by people with disabilities and vulnerable populations, we aspire to a world of solidarity and inclusion, enriched by our differences, where everyone can live in dignity.

Handicap International is an independent and impartial aid and development organisation working in situations of poverty and exclusion, conflict and disaster. We work alongside disabled and vulnerable people to help meet their essential needs, improve their living conditions and promote respect for their dignity and fundamental rights.

For further information about the association: http://www.handicap-international.us

 

Present in more than 55 countries, Handicap International is composed of 2 operational directions:

 

-  The Direction of Humanitarian Action

-  The Direction of Development Action

 

 

MISSION CONTEXT 

 

The Syrian crisis is the greatest humanitarian crisis of the last 20 years. According to the latest UN figures, about 13.5 million people are currently affected by the crisis in Syria, including about 6.5 million IDPs, while over 4 million Syrians have sought refuge in neighbouring countries or in Europe. The current humanitarian response only provides a patchy and partial coverage of the growing humanitarian needs. Five years after the beginning of the crisis, the number of injured persons in Syria keeps rising, with a severe lack of rehabilitative care and psychosocial support. In hard-to-reach areas and/or areas of new displacement, local populations and IDPs are in need of emergency assistance in terms of food, household essential items, and other basic needs. The inclusion of the most vulnerable, including persons with disabilities, in the humanitarian response remains a major concern. 

 

HI is managing a remote humanitarian program from three hubs in Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, along four main pillars:

1. Support to health partners 

2. Provision of basic needs kits 

3. Education to the risks and effects caused by conventional weapons 

4. Training and technical support to other humanitarian actors on the inclusion of persons with disabilities and other vulnerable persons in the humanitarian response.

 

The current intervention is based on a mix of remote management of national teams and remote partnerships with local structures and organisations. HI has implemented some direct management programs in the past and is looking for ways to launch more in the coming months.

 

OBJECTIVE OF THE POSITION

 

 Under the line management of the Support Services Coordinator (SSC), the HR Manager will be part of the coordination team based in Amman, and will have to support the 3 hubs (Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey). This position is new for the mission (creation), as such the HR Manager will have to be extremely proactive and flexible, to set-up efficient relationships with each hub, ensure good coordination and develop adequate frameworks.

 

Due to the set-up of the mission spread on 3 countries, the legal framework for national HRs will be handled at country level by HI’s hosting missions (including salary policy, design of work contract, internal rules & regulations..). However, the HR Manager should develop good knowledge of labor law, issues and challenges faced by each hub, in order to ensure good representation of HR stakes at coordination level.

 

The HR Manager will be responsible for the design of HR policies at mission level (training plan, mobility policy, appraisal process…) and will ensure proper implementation & monitoring on the 3 hubs.  As such he/she will work in close coordination with each hub  through HR focal points based in Beirut, Amman and Antakya, and will have to travel on the field to provide support and ensure an adequate implementation of HR Policies.

 

The HR Manager will also be the main interlocutor for Headquarters (HQ based in Lyon - France) for administrative follow-up. 

According to the position, the HR Manager must keep all the data confidential, and share it only with the relevant persons.

 

 

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

 

Under the management of the Support Services Coordinator based in Amman, you will be responsible for:

 

1. HR Policy at mission level 

2. HR Management inside Syria

3. Support to hubs

4. Capitalisation

5. Coordination & Reporting 

6. Expatriates administrative management

- Status: salaried or volunteer contract according to experience

Remuneration: According to HI salary scale and experience

 

- Start: 2016, June

- Duration: 6 months (renewable)

 

- Living conditions: guesthouse shared with other expatriates (no charges)

- Security conditions: good

- Social insurance: 100% covered