HR Manager

Handicap International Belgium

YOUR MISSION:

Reporting to: Country Director.

Team managed: HR Department.

Interacts with:

• Country head of department / SMT;
• Emergency division: HR Specialist;
• Regional program: HR Partner;
• Country Director, Area Managers, Operations manager, HR team.

Mission 1: Management

• An exemplary manager: embodies HI's values on a daily basis and is a role model.
• A manager who conveys meaning understands the strategy, clarifies it, translates it into operational objectives for his/her team, drives the changes required.
• Manager/administrator organizes the operational management of his/her team, structures work around the processes identified, oversees performance, and facilitates problem solving.
• No. 1 HR Manager & Coach contributes to the development of his/her team members, creates the conditions for their commitment, professionalism and dedication to HI. Ensures compliance with the code of conduct and institutional policies, morale, and the individual and group behaviour expected.

Mission 2: Strategy and Supervision

• Helps to write the HR part of the regional STRATOP;
• Defines and implements the HR action plan for his/her country;
• Contributes to major Program HR reorganizations: team dimensioning: social plans or plans for strong growth;
• Compiles standard HR indicators for his/her geographical area and helps to map and mitigate HR risks and deal with incidents;
• Participates in representing HI's HR at external bodies at his/her country level.

Mission 3: Rolls out Standards, contributes to HI's Expertise and Accountability in his/her scope of responsibility

• Is responsible for implementing HI s HR policies and frameworks in his/her country;
• Ensures compliance with HI's legal obligations and monitors the renewal of the legal documents ensuring the legal exercising of HI's activities in the country.

Mission 4: Operational implementation of HR

Responsibility 4.1: Contributes to the dimensioning and quality of Program resources:

• Contributes to the Program s budgetary processes. Ensures the balance of the wage bill for his/her geographical area.
• Contributes to project reviews of HR aspects.
• Monitors the HR aspects of local partnerships in his/her country.
• Implements the sourcing process in his/her geographical area, and ensures compliance with and the quality of the recruitment process.
• Participates in the Program's HR reporting schedule and helps to meet HI s global HR deadlines.

Responsibility 4.2: Career Management and Skills Development

• Organizes and monitors the implementation of the Program s HR cycle including the career-management policy.
• Helps to develop the skills of managers in his/her geographical area (Manager 2.0).

Responsibility 4.3: Ensures the quality of the Program's administrative management for HI staff present in his/her country

• Is responsible for the implementation of the payroll process and its compliance with HI s frameworks and policies and the national legal framework;
• Represents HI with local public administrative bodies (employment inspectorate, tax, social security etc.);
• Implements the contractual system for the country s national staff and ensures that contracts are monitored;
• Implements and monitors the local physical and mental health policy in line with HI standards.

Responsibility 4.4: Assists managers on his/her Program with the implementation of HI's HR policies.

Responsibility 4.5: Legal and social aspects: ensures the maintenance of the social environment and compliance with the HR legal framework.

Responsibility 4.6: Assists the Country Manager with the deployment of the HR part of the Code of Conduct and the PSEA.

Mission 5: Emergency preparedness and response

• Oversees emergency preparedness actions in his/her department and, in the event of an emergency, reorganizes the priorities of his/her team in accordance with the humanitarian imperative, to ensure a rapid and effective response by HI.