Senior HR Adviser - Compliance (NGO Volunteer)

As a Senior HR Adviser - Compliance (NGO Volunteer), your mission is to voluntarily represent, positively promote, and uphold the mission of "Empowering youth for a better world" in various programs and opportunities throughout the IYF interventions across member countries.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Team Structure & Compliance: Review the overall teams’ structures to ensure compliance with standard practices guidelines and IYF requirements and determine concrete measures for adherence.
• Staff Selection & Placement: Manage timely and appropriate selection or placement of staff, taking into account all organizational priorities (e.g., gender balance, age limit, geographical distribution, competencies, etc.).
• Recruitment Coordination: Coordinate with CHRD central recruitment team to ensure implementation of appropriate recruitment, selection, placement, reappointment, and separation decisions.
• Contract Management: Lead contract management, including implementing processes and providing oversight to contract implementation, ensuring that best practices are continuously identified.
• Performance Management: Develop and review staff results matrix for HQ central and regional business units, and ensure it’s correctly planned, prepared and executed, as well as effective and efficient management of staff performance.
• Change Management & Policy: Lead and formulate HR component of change management policy development and initiatives, including policies and procedures.
• Tools & Standards Development: Lead special projects on the design of new tools and standards, such as expanding generic job descriptions in reference to various emerging office typologies. Assess the need for and develop other job evaluation instruments and materials.
• Advisory Services: Provide regular advice and expert analysis to Regional Administrations and Country Teams on restructuring/realignment and HR-related change management elements, including the importance of adequate planning and clear change plans; lead reviews on organization design component.
• Delegated Authority: Exercise delegated authority to approve exceptions and report to senior management on a periodic basis on decisions taken. Recommends to BOM for approval those exceptions of a precedent-setting nature.
• Job Classification: Approves classification of posts within the established delegated authority.
• Reporting: Be responsible for all required and regular and ad-hoc reporting requirements.

Requirements and Experience

• Education: BA/BSc/HND degree.
• Language: Advanced English skills are required. Please apply in English.
• HR Governance Experience: Strong HR governance experience in:
  • Policy development
  • Compliance audits
  • HR structure reviews
  • Organizational design
  • Job classification systems
  • Contract lifecycle management
• Sector Experience: Experience within an NGO, intergovernmental organisation (INGO or IGO), charity or international development, government (civil service) non-profit organisation, or the United Nations is required.