Turkey: Human Resources Assistant x 2

General Description of the Programme:

GOAL an International Humanitarian Organisation has had a presence in Turkey since 2013 and has been contributing to the migrant response since 2016 with a focus on responding to needs in health service delivery, social safety nets and the protection of vulnerable and marginalised migrants in southern Turkey.

GOAL has been working in Syria since 2013, responding to the acute needs of conflict-affected communities. GOAL is working in Idleb Governate, both through direct implementation and through partners, delivering food, non-food programming to highly vulnerable populations, and provision of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) through support to Water units, as well as emergency support to recently displaced households.

Job purpose:

Reporting to the HR Manager, the HR Assistant will be responsible for providing support to the HR Manager and to other managerial staff in GOAL offices. This position demands excellent HR knowledge and strong organisational skills and ability to report accurately. The HR Assistant performs a wide range of duties including some of the following:

Key Duties

• Supporting the HR Manager for the day to day running of the base HR
• Maintain the HR Department’s filing system and ensure that all personnel files are up to date and complete
• Provide reports to the HR Manager on a regular basis to agreed format.

Contracts

• Ensure all staff have up to date contracts.
• Ensure all staff whose contracts are not going to be renewed are informed at least according to contract notice period prior to the end of their current contract.
• Ensure staff whose contracts are to be renewed are informed in writing prior to the end of their current contract.
• Ensure all contract terminations are appropriately documented and all owed monies are paid to the departing staff member.

Leave

• Maintain leave plan for all local staff and update monthly
• In consultation with line managers, ensure that there is cover for staff going on leave
• Keep paper and soft copies of all approved leave requests.

Other Duties

• Keep track of issues relevant to HR such as the introduction of new policies
• Ensure HR Manager is informed about any HR issues
• Ensure all staff have a valid ID card

Requirements (essential)

• Turkish citizenship.
• A Bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management and/or Business Administration or any other relevant major.
• At least 1 year of experience in Human resources, administration, or a similar role. Experience in working with INGO is asset.
• Fluent Turkish and English Language skills both written and spoken, knowledge of Arabic an advantage.
• Excellent analytical/problem-solving skills and detail orientation
• Staff management experience and good inter-personnel skills
• Excellent IT Skills
• Enthusiastic and keen to work hard to achieve the objectives of the organization.
• Diplomatic with a strong communication skills

Requirements (desired)

• Experience in working with INGO an advantage.

• Demonstrated understanding of and experience with policies, protocols, and procedures of international NGO’s and donor agencies

• Arabic speaking and writing skills are highly desirable.

• Proven reporting skills

• Excellent analytical/problem-solving skills and detail orientation

• Advanced skills on Microsoft productivity programmes (i.e. Excel) is desirable.

• Creative and open to learning.

Interested? Then apply for this position via clicking on the "apply now" button and fill out the application form. All applicants must send a cover letter and an updated CV (no longer than four pages). Both must be in English. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Application deadline is 8 December 2019.

Generalterms and conditions

Safeguarding

Children and vulnerable adults a 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 GOAL shows this on-going commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.

Accountability within GOAL

Alongside our safeguarding policy, GOAL is an equal opportunities employer and has a set of integrity policies. Any candidate offered a job with GOAL will be expected to adhere to the following key areas of accountability:

• Comply with GOAL’s policies and procedures with respect to safeguarding, Code of Conduct, health and safety, data protection and 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 GOAL staff or partner.

This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. GOAL reserves the right to change this document. Any published closing dates are estimated. Due to the nature of GOAL’s work we aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible. This means that we will close adverts as soon as we have found the right candidate and this may be before the published closing date. We would therefore advise interested applicants to submit an application as early as possible.

Thank you.

Interested? Then apply for this position via clicking on the "apply now" button and fill out the application form. All applicants must send a cover letter and an updated CV (no longer than four pages). Both must be in English. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.