Senior HR Officer

Key responsibilities include

Key responsibility 1: Talent Acquisition and On-boarding

Lead the recruitment process from identifying vacancies, reviewing staffing structure, placing job ads, ensuring budgets are available, creating job descriptions, scheduling interviews, screening candidates, creating job offers and contracts.

Ensuring a full on boarding process has been followed, including uploading documents to the HR system.

Work in partnership with key stakeholders within the ISP-ME team and school leadership teams, including other school HR managers, to implement a combination of core learning and development activities targeted at various levels of the organisation and aligned to business and individual needs.

Key responsibility 2 - HR Operations

Implement a consistent human resources strategy with direction from ISP regional office across the school with accountability for talent acquisition, staffing, employment processing, compensation, health and welfare benefits, training and development, records management, safeguarding, succession planning, employee relations and retention, regional regulations, ISP compliance and local labour relations.

Manage human resources operations in school by supporting the recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, coaching, counselling, and disciplining of staff and planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing staff performance.

Provide information and reports on data such as staff turnover, references, cost per hire, training hours per person, etc.

Comply with regional federal and local legal requirements by enforcing adherence to requirements and advising on required actions including areas such as teacher licensing.

Manage systems for staff attendance recording and work alongside the finance manager to produce the monthly payroll

Key responsibility 3 - Organisational Development

Improve organisational effectiveness through the development and deployment of solutions to improve productivity, and drive a performance cultureConsult with ISP-ME team and school leadership teams on change management opportunities provide guidance on resources, processes and toolsServe as partner to provide advice on organisational design issuesLine managing school reception staff

Key Responsibility 4 - Talent Management

Implement succession planning and key talent review / performance management meetings and processes across the school with guidance from the ISP Middle East office.

Coordinate succession planning with ISP-ME team key stakeholders and the school leadership team.

Implementtools and processes for assessing and developing talent.

Remain aware of best practices and trends within the training and development field and adopt new approaches as appropriate.

Key responsibility 5 - Talent Development/Education

Ensure performance management opportunities are in place for all staff to enhance their ability to achieve goals and capability to assume increased levels of responsibility.

Manage employee training programmes, particularly for non-class based staff and budgets including identification of internal/external training opportunities, coaching and mentoring program development.

In addition, all staff are required to carry out any tasks required by the school or the regional office to facilitate the smooth day to day running of the school

To be line managed by the School Principal the local ISP Head of HR.