Major Responsibilities

• Remain alert and responsive to any child safeguarding risks, acquire relevant knowledge and skills which will enable you to promote strong safeguarding practices, understand the child safeguarding policy and procedures, and conduct yourself in a manner consistent with the Child Safeguarding Policy.
• Responsible for country office administration and implementation of global HR practices that support the global strategy.
• In coordination with global office, responsible for the administration of local adaptation of organizational HR policies, information dissemination and compliance.
• Ensures that all contractual services (staffing, consultancies and other services) are in compliance with local labor laws and organizational HR policy; responsible for regulatory compliance (i.e., work permits, visas) and administration.
• Responsible for coordination of recruitment program to include workforce planning vacancy management, application and selection process, staff on boarding and personnel records management.
• Provides consultation in staff disciplinary process in order to ensure compliance with organizational standards, primary advisor to management on appropriate actions for prevention and response to employment related legal concerns.
• Provides consultation for employee grievance program, ensuring issues is managed within organizational policy and local labor regulations.
• Responsible for building staff capacities through administration and management of training and development programs.
• Responsible for planning, coordinating and administering organization’s remuneration policy, assist in the administration of local competitive market information and implementation of rewards programs.
• Administers the organization initiated and government mandated benefit programs and plan administration; monitors utilization, provides staff communications/counsel, serves as liaison with vendors and provides analysis and consultation on plan design.
• Responsible for implementation and coordination for organizational performance management process; ensure annual goal setting, routine performance feedback for staff, year end appraisals completion and global office reporting.
• Provide support in preparation of monthly payroll, ensuring maintenance of updated information on staff salaries, allowances and income-tax calculations and ensuring compliance with organizational policy, local laws and regulations.
• Renders support to line departments, local partners in various HR activities.
• Maintain leave databank by keeping track of staff’s leave days, records and makes updates regularly.
• Administer and oversee, in collaboration with the local Senior Human Resources Manager, staff benefits including Medical, Group Personal Accident, Group Life ensuring all relevant information is updated on a regular basis.

Job Requirement

Required Education and Experience:

• 4 years’ experience.
• Outstanding written and oral communication skills in English; fluency in a local language required.
• Good understanding of local employment laws and other government statutory requirements.
• Prior experience with Human Resource Information Management systems (data management and reporting).
• Computer proficiency in general office software applications (i.e. Word, Excel, Outlook).
• Demonstrated high-level interpersonal and cross-cultural skills including the ability to build collaborative relationships internally and externally with sensitivity to cultural, ethnic, social and political issues.
  
• Education: Bachelors or higher-level degree preferred and/or equivalent relevant experience in lieu of degree. Local HR certification is a plus.

Place of work: Addis Ababa, with frequent field travel to ChildFund’s operational areas