Summary
Date Posted: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

JOB DETAILS:
Overview
Essential Job Responsibilities
Supporting active response
• Participate as a core member of the People Teams’ mobilization to support agency emergency response priorities.
• Work with partners from the response team and other departments to coordinate actions to support effective response.
• Advise teams on best practices to support complex recruitment and hiring during emergency response.
• Liaise between teams to ensure processes and procedures are meeting the needs of the response.
• Coordinate with teams responsible for tax, immigration and employment law considerations for areas targeted by emergency response programming and integrate mitigation measures into ongoing response processes.
• Advise on capacity and structure of new programming teams mobilized for emergency response.
• Provide additional capacity to the administrative needs supporting recruitment and hiring during the initial phases of an emergency response, including facilitating approvals, completing paperwork, drafting PDs and other documents and posting roles for recruitment..
• Advise and add capacity to program-based HR teams and facilitate connection to central office support and resources.
• Deploy as needed to provide immediate people-focused support during the initial phases of a response.
• Synthesizing Learning and Promoting Best Practices
• Develop and maintain an operational toolkit to support HR practices and procedures during an emergency response.
• Contribute to agency level after action reviews to help promote organizational learning. Consolidate People-related learnings and lead processes to implement recommended changes to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
• Participate in cross-functional working groups that contribute to increasing organizational capacity during emergency and critical incident response.
• Partner with Global Rewards and Global Security teams to enhance Duty of Care practices, particularly in relation to emergency and critical incident response.
• Partner with Ethics & Compliance to ensure practices and processes enhance Mercy Corps’ culture of integrity and accountability
Support Global People Team Capacity and Priorities
• Engage as an active contributor and collaborator to Global People Team priorities. Able to lead work streams as assigned.
• Provide additional capacity to teams during times of enhanced demand, especially around times of program start-up and close down.
• Ensure Global People Team processes, procedures and policies complement needs during emergency and critical incident response. Proactively partner with relevant teams to address gaps as needed.

Accountability
Reports Directly To: Head of People Operations
Works Directly With: Global People team, Humanitarian Leadership and Response team, Global Security team, Regional Directors and Leadership teams,European and US Program Support teams, International FInance team, General Counsel, Global Procurement and Logistics.

Knowledge and Experience
• 5 or more years experience in international human resources, with at least 3 in business partner/ advisory capacity.
• 3 or more years of experience within the humanitarian and international development sector. Experience at the country/ program level is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with emergency or critical incident response in the humanitarian and international development sector, including familiarity with Sphere and Core Humanitarian standards.
• Comfort and familiarity supporting and advising teams operating in complex and rapidly evolving humanitarian contexts.
• Familiarity with humanitarian program start up activities, particularly related to the range of People-related activities..
• Proven ability to work productively with a wide variety of stakeholders to run both participatory processes and also meet tight deadlines with an emphasis on producing quality products.
• Ability to lead teams, handle negotiations and facilitate planning processes.
• Exceptional written and interpersonal communication skills.
• Availability to work non-standard hours as needed, especially when supporting an active emergency or critical incident response..
• Able to read, write and speak English proficiently is necessary. French, Arabic, Spanish and/or Russian language skills are also preferred.


Education Requirement: No Requirements

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 36

Job application procedure
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