Key Responsibilities: 

Recruitment, development, and people planning

• Drive and support recruitment and selection activities, ensuring compliance with the recruitment process.
• Conduct recruitment training for the HR team in area offices.
• Work with the senior management team and senior staff on new staff retention strategies and initiatives
• Ensure proper onboarding and induction process.
• Ensure oversight and consistency in position titles and grades, across all field locations
• Support staff development activities, including promoting the DRC Learning Catalogue.

Performance, well-being, and compensation & benefits

• Proactively respond to and manage performance counselling, employee grievances and disciplinary issues as required, with a focus on building manager competency and ensuring that documentation is kept
• Lead the performance management process and ensure all staff have goals recorded in HRIS.
• Act as an impartial mediator in disciplinary procedures and ensure it is administered in an equitable and fair manner and meets all legal and labor regulations and requirements
• Lead people well-being initiatives.
• Define and review salary structure in partnership with the Senior Management team and coordinate the annual compensation review process and compensation adjustments.
• Lead the payroll process and ensure the correct calculation of the statutory benefits, taxes, and zakat. 

 Human Resources Policies and Support, HRIS 

• Maintain and update Staff Human Resources Handbooks as necessary in compliance with local laws and regulations
• Proactively pursue continuous process improvement in Human Resources-related practices to enhance the quality and efficiency of output/delivery.
• Work closely with the Area Office to share information and provide support as required.
• Lead the HRIS system (Microsoft Dynamics) and update with proper information of staff. 
• Handle daily queries and update HRIS with correct data.

As Specialist, the post-holder is responsible for the following:

• Responsible for providing specialized knowledge and operational know-how within a specific discipline
• May also have technical line responsibilities, but generally on technical or operational matters