HR & Talent Acquisition Advisor at Save the Children

ROLE PURPOSE: 

Save the Children is a global organisation currently operating in 116 countries including: 30 Members, 3 advocacy offices, SC Europe, 5 regional offices, 62 Country Programs, 17 partner-led programs, 2 Humanitarian response offices and 2 National Offices. To ensure we are able to achieve our Global Mobility Agenda we need to work closely with the different Save the Children offices to enable us to compliantly hire talent in the different locations we work ensuring adherence to local government legislations. This includes tax and social security compliance as well as ensuring salaries and benefits are aligned to local markets.

Drawing on unique knowledge as a people professional, the post-holder will work closely with the Global People and Organisation teams to provide a full HR and Talent Acquisition advisory service to line managers and candidates. This is a broad generalist role encompassing day-to-day and more ad-hoc project work as required.

The post holder will understand SCI’s People Strategy, direction of travel and employee needs in order to deliver high level people solutions, which help to achieve SCI’s objectives and enable employee happiness and growth.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Good organisational planning skills and a proven ability to work with a large degree of independence, managing own workload and priorities and identifying opportunities to add value to the business.
• Experience in supporting on change management processes or equivalent training Adaptable and flexible and be able to manage changing priorities.
• Proven experience of managing a wide range of employee relation’s casework and operating successfully in an advisory capacity with a generalist approach.
• Demonstrates strong business acumen, ensuring that HR policy or development activity addresses the business needs, providing consistent, business relevant advice to senior line managers and other HR staff.
• Proactive with plenty of initiative.
• Knowledge and good understanding of diversity issues including some understanding of issues around gender, age, cultural sensitivity and a commitment to SCI’s values and principles of equal opportunities.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills and an excellent communicator with a high level of written and verbal English.
• Experience using Excel, HRIS or other
• Enthusiastic individual who has a positive attitude and is comfortable dealing with employee relations issues.
• Previous experience being involved in HR project work
• Experience in a generalist HR role within a large, complex global organisation.
• Experience of reviewing and drafting HR policies, procedures and guidelines
• Experience of working closely with specialist HR staff including Reward, L&D & Recruitment Specialists.
• Awareness of good HR practice in relation to child safeguarding.
• Strong eye for detail, particularly when issuing/drafting legal documents e.g. secondment agreements, employment contracts.

Closing: 13 June 2022