HR Officer – Staff development and Staff Care NGO Jobs – Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Job Title: HR Officer – Staff development and Staff Care
Organization: Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)
Duty Station: Bugolobi, Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: HR /Admin Manager
About NRC:
The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is an independent humanitarian organisation helping people forced to flee. We work in crises across more than 30 countries, providing emergencies and long-term assistance to millions of people every year. We stand up for people forced to flee, advocating their rights. NORCAP is a global provider of expertise that contributes to solving challenges in the humanitarian, development and peacebuilding sectors. Our ultimate goal is to strengthen the resilience, and protect the lives, rights and livelihoods of vulnerable people and communities. NRC also runs the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre in Geneva, a global leader in reporting on and advocating for people displaced within their own country.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
Generic responsibilities (max 10)
These responsibilities shall be the same for all positions with the same title. The responsibilities shall be short and essential. Details belong in the Work and Development plan.
- Ensure adherence with NRC policies, tools, handbooks and guidelines
- Implement delegated support function portfolio according to plan of action
- Prepare and develop status reports as required by management
- Ensure proper filing of documents
- Promote and share ideas for improvement of the support function
Specific Responsibilities: These responsibilities shall be adapted to the particularities of the job location and context, phase of operation, strategic focus and type of programme intervention. This section shall be revised whenever a new employee is hired or the context changes significantly.
Duty of Care:
- Conduct periodic staff and duty of care training and sensitisation sessions for all staff
- Participate in Health Safety and security assessments.
- Focal point person for Staff psychosocial support initiatives
- Continuously asses and report compliance on Minimum staff care Duty of Care Standard
- Propose and organize in conjunction with staff welfare committees staff well-being initiatives.
- Focal point person for people well-being initiatives.
Recruitment, on boarding, development and people planning:
- Facilitate planning and implementation of staff performance management in close collaboration with departmental heads. Will follow up on work and development plans as per NRC performance management cycle ensuring performance objectives meet required standards and required mechanisms are in place to facilitate good performance and feedback.
- Through the performance management Cycle, ensure training needs are properly clustered and respective trainings timely planned and executed as per the annual capacity-building plan.
- Participate in the collection of feedback on learning events and presentation of results for review purposes.
- Support, the administration of effective and timely recruitment processes, promoting equity, transparency, and consistency at every step of the process (i.e. review job descriptions, posting ads and managing the hiring process)
- Provide expertise to all people involved in the recruitment process on how to lead it properly with the aim of recruiting professionals and people with potentials to be developed.
- Liaise with Area Offices to Implement NRC’s Induction (NRC plus & NRC lite ) within the prescribed time.
- Participate in workforce planning.
Human Resources Policies and reporting.
- Support in the Implementation of the rollout of the NRC People.
- Maintain a catalogue of policy changes and continuously arrange for the sensitization and role out in all locations.
- Monitor potential staff relations or personnel problem areas and keeps HR Manager and Country Director informed of situations.
- Support in disciplinary procedures and ensure it is administered in an equitable and fair manner and meets all legal and labor regulations and requirements
- Follow up on staff changes and assist the HR Manager to compile HR reports on a monthly basis.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant for the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) HR Officer – Staff development and Staff Care job must hold a University degree in Human Resources Management/Management or related field from a reputable university
- Masters is in HR or related field is an added advantage.
- At least three years’ experience from working as HR officer with INGOs in a humanitarian/recovery context.
- Understanding of the relevant laws and statutory requirements.
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Documented results related to the position’s responsibilities
- Basic employee counseling skills
- Service orientation, Strong organizational and team working skills
- Good cultural awareness and sensitivity
- Highly degree of confidentiality
Behavioral competencies (max 6): These are personal qualities that influence how successful people are in their job. NRC’s Competency Framework states 12 behavioural competencies, and the following are essential for this position:
- Handling insecure environment
- Planning and delivering results
- Empowering and building trust
- Communicating with impact and respect
How to Apply:
All suitably qualified candidates who wish to join NRC in the aforementioned capacity should apply online at the link below.
Deadline: 17th December 2020