Human Resource Officer (Local position)

Duty Station: Libya

Starting Date: As soon as possible

Duration of Contract: 1 year extendable

Reporting Lines/Line Management: Finance and HR Manager

Job Summary:

The Human Resources Officer’s primary responsibility is to ensure the effective administration and implementation of CARE’s human resources systems, procedures, and policies. Support the capacity development of CARE staff, ensure timely staff recruitment, adequate on-boarding and orientation and wellbeing of staff. S/he will work in close collaboration with line managers to ensure HR policies and procedures are adequately followed and all staff are held accountable to CARE’s Code of Conduct and disciplines.

Main Duties and Responsibilities:

• Review human resources and administrative policies and procedures (compliant with CARE systems) and ensure they are effective, efficient, fair, and transparent, and promote equal opportunities.
• Appropriately support all emergency personnel as required.
• Working with the line managers, assess staffing needs as required. Identify and recruit new and replacement staff, including scheduling of contract extensions, new contracts, and necessary terminations.
• Help prepare job descriptions, terms of reference and submission of personnel requisitions in coordination with the Humanitarian Team Leader and Line Managers/Supervisors.
• Ensure reference checks are properly conducted prior to hiring new staff.
• Provide appropriate induction and orientation, training, supervision, and support to Line Managers/supervisors as required.
• Ensure that exit interviews/ debriefs are prepared at the end of service.
• Liaise with lead members to ensure services in support of well-being such as counseling are made available.
• Together with Line Managers / Supervisors, responsible for creating a culture of reporting any suspicions of sexual exploitation and abuse.
• Establish and maintain proper personnel files and ensure all emergency data forms are filled and safely filled.
• Tracking International Emergency staff salary and related costs and ensuring all duly charged /captured.
• Ensure complete and timely payroll capture of all emergency staff.
• Work closely with and support the Safety and Security Manager to ensure all personnel has received a briefing on country or regional security threats and medical and emergency evacuation procedures.
• Ensure staff know how to identify health risks in the region, how to protect against illness, injury, and stress, and how to obtain support or medical treatment.
• Follow up with health insurance for the staff and sick leave and other types of leave.
• Ensure that all staff contracts comply with the local labor law in Libya.
• Do the close of contract for staff who resign and terminated.
• Carry out any other duties as assigned by the HR manager.

Key Interactions:

Internal: Finance and HR Manager, other CARE staff members.

External: Relevant host government departments/ministries: visa, immigration and those administrating national legislation and local labor laws; and lawyers, International Embassies.

Qualifications:

Required:

• College degree in human resource management, training & development, psychology, industrial or organizational psychology, or related social science and/or business administration field.
• 2- 4 years’ experience in human resources management at an officer level at a local NGO/INGO.
• Demonstrated skills in human resources management.
• A sound knowledge of employment laws and human resources best practices.
• A good knowledge of contract employment.
• Experience and skills in recruitment processes.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Excellent skills in MS Office.
• Fluency in written and spoken English.

Desired:

• Knowledge of CARE policies and procedures, Good Enough, Sphere and the Red Cross/ NGO Code of Conduct.
• Knowledge of local laws.
• Fluency in Arabic.

Key Competencies:

• Interpersonal Skills.
• Communication Skills.
• Integrity.
• Resilience/Adaptability and flexibility.
• Awareness and sensitivity of self and others.
• Planning and organization skills.
• Proactive.
• Analytical and problem-solving skills.

About CARE:

CARE International (CARE) is a non-religious, non-political international development and humanitarian organization, dedicated to fighting global poverty. CARE works in around 100 countries globally, engaging diverse partnerships to support communities to overcome poverty through development projects and delivers humanitarian assistance. CARE programmes address social injustice whilst placing women and girls at the core of programming in order to create sustainable positive change in poor communities. CARE is an equal opportunity employer irrespective of nationality, religion, ethnicity, caste, or gender.

Accountability within CARE:

A commitment to CARE’s values and integrity framework is critical to working with CARE. Any candidate offered a job with CARE will be expected to adhere to the following key areas of accountability:

• Comply with CARE’s policies and procedures with respect to safeguarding, code of conduct, health and safety, confidentiality, do no harm principles and unacceptable behaviour protocols.
• Report any concerns about the welfare of a child or vulnerable adult or any wrongdoings within our programming area.
• Report any concerns about inappropriate behaviour of a CARE staff or partner.

Safeguarding:

Children and vulnerable adults who come into contact with CARE as a result of our activities must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury, and any other harm. One of the ways that CARE shows this on-going commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.

Gender equality:

CARE is committed to meeting the standards of theCARE International Gender Policy(2019). Through this policy, CARE seeks to promote the equal realization of dignity and human rights for girls, women, boys and men in all diversities, and the elimination of poverty and injustice. Specifically, this policy seeks to improve the explicit incorporation of gender in programmatic and organizational practices.