Human Resources Manager – Humanitarian Surge Team

HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER – HUMANITARIAN SURGE TEAM

About the role

We are currently looking for a Human Resources Manager – Humanitarian Surge Team to join our team. As a HR Manager you will be responsible for establishing and strengthening robust systems, policies and practice on people management in a humanitarian response; and ensuring rapid scale up of human resources and compliance to safe recruitment and working environment

You will bring to the role experience of providing a senior generalist HR service to managers across a full range of HR issues in humanitarian context.

To be successful in the role you will be proficient in at least one of the following languages in addition to English: French, Spanish, or Arabic.

About us 

The Global Expertise and Humanitarian Surge Platform (GEHSP) is Save the Children's global humanitarian surge, technical expertise and new business development deployment management function, operating on behalf of both members and SCI. It is dedicated to identifying, developing and deploying skilled and experienced talent from across the movement to meet the needs of our domestic and international programmes and humanitarian responses. Our vision is to help to improve the quality, timeliness, and effectiveness of our humanitarian responses and programmes; directly contributing to Save the Children's capability to deliver the best outcomes for children and their families.

Humanitarian Surge Team (HSTs) work alongside country, regional and member teams to support the scale up and management of international and domestic emergency responses, enabling positive change for children. The role of the surge staff varies depending on the needs of the response and could include:

• deploying in the first days or hours following a natural disaster or crisis to lead the first phase of a response to sudden onset emergency;
• supporting ongoing emergency response and recovery work through providing advice, guidance and expertise in a specific skill area;
• providing short term interim cover for country office staff;
• supporting delivery of capacity building initiatives.

For more information about the requirements and role’s scope and purpose, please check the attached Job Description.

We offer a competitive package in the context of the sector. This role can be based anywhere and is offered on the basis of compliance hiring.