Overview
Provides oversight over the People and Culture team supporting the Darfur region of the Sudan West team, ensuring effective delivery across recruitment, contract management, staff development, performance management, and employee engagement.
Tasks Summary
- Proactively meet with leaders to clarify changing talent needs, identify gaps, and devise workforce plans.
- Advise on organizational structure, position scoping, and demographic/staffing analysis during proposal design and grant meetings.
- Set recruitment strategy, develop candidate rosters, and employ innovative recruiting methods.
- Review job position requests and job descriptions, making recommendations.
- Provide guidance on organizational culture/values.
- Advocate for Gender Equality Diversity and Inclusion, support Duty of Care, and Safeguarding priorities.
- Promote initiatives that enhance employee experience, team engagement, inclusion, and cohesion.
- Ensure implementation of high-quality, context-specific strategies in recruitment, compensation, employee relations, onboarding, and offboarding.
- Oversee payroll process.
- Escalate code of conduct issues and lead or co-lead investigations.
- Manage and oversee accurate people information for staff based in Darfur.
- Produce P&C database reports and ensure data confidentiality and accuracy.
- Analyze people data to develop key statistics and metrics with a GEDI lens.
- Recommend solutions for improving people data capture and management.
- Develop action plans aimed at enhancing morale and supporting staff well-being.
- Maintain a healthy and empowering office environment.
- Organize and facilitate regular check-ins, team-building activities, and open communication channels.
- Foster a healthy organizational culture free of unequal power dynamics, discrimination, harassment, bullying, and abuse of power.
- Ensure all employees receive orientation to IRC's Safeguarding Policy and behavioral expectations.
- Ensure the IRC Way and information on reporting channels are sign-posted in all IRC office locations.
- Supervise and mentor direct-report staff.
- Improve staff coaching and mentorships for national colleagues.
- Promote and monitor staff care and well-being.
- Model healthy work-life balance practices.
- Deliver an employee engagement and communication strategy.
- Build and maintain strong working relationships with IRC Global P&C Department and regional colleagues.
- Cultivate and maintain a positive, collaborative, safe and protective work environment.
- Initiate team activities that motivate staff and create team morale.
- Lead and oversee visa and immigration matters of expatriates.
- Ensure expatriates hold valid visas, entry permits, travel authorizations, and border-crossing permissions.
- Provide and arrange pre-arrival briefings to all incoming expats.
- Track the validity of International Long-Term Assignments and Temporary Transfer Assignments, and initiate timely renewal/extension.
- Work closely with teams to ensure smooth cross border movement of staff.
- Collaborate with Field Managers to oversee facilities management.
Experience Requirements
- A minimum of 6 years of progressive professional experience in Human Resource Management (People and Culture).
- Demonstrated success as in emergency response, conflict zones and/or humanitarian aid sector required.
- Proven ability to operate effectively in high-pressure emergency settings.
- Demonstrated success to support over 100+ employees at multiple organizational levels, cultures, and location.
- Demonstrated success in supporting key senior management and building strong, trusted relationships.
- Proven track-record of excellent management and leadership skills including capacity-building, coaching, mentoring, performance management and delivering individual and group training.
- Strong collaborator with effective interpersonal and analytical skills who can work seamlessly across cultures, and organizational units required.
- Demonstrated ability to work, manage, and meet competing deadlines in a fast-paced, high-volume environment and on deadlines; aptitude for problem solving and decision making needed.
- Excellent inter-personal, written, and verbal communication skills required.
- Must possess a highly collaborative, inclusive, consultative, and resourceful workstyle.
- Excellent organizational skills including detailed work planning and superior time management skills.
- Proficient in people analytics and data management and interpretation.
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