Join as a Director in Save the Children Organisation

Save the Children is a leading humanitarian organization for children.

Vacancy: Not specified

Vacancy Type: Full-time

Role: Director

Job Responsibilities:

AS A MEMBER OF THE SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM:

• Demonstrate behaviors that are consistent with Save the Children's Mission, Vision, and Values and ensure their broader application by staff across the program.
• Contribute and share leadership in the development and implementation of Country Strategic plans as building blocks to achieve Save the Children's 2030 breakthroughs.
• Contribute to a conducive and productive work environment in a way that promotes accountability and high performance, encourages an open, respectful, and inclusive team culture of learning, creativity, and innovation, and frees up our teams to deliver impact for children.
• Help to attract and retain diversified talents and design and implement a coherent organizational structure to deliver and save the children's ambition for children.
• Help establish, maintain, and improve active and regular working relationships with humanitarian and development donors, host government authorities, partner agencies, and other NGO actors.
• Ensure the Bangladesh Country Office complies with relevant Save the Children policies and standards, to conduct effective risk management and provide high-standard assurance for country office operations.

STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCES PLANNING:

• Responsible for conceptualization, design, and management of staffing strategies to ensure that the organization acquires and retains a qualified workforce capable of meeting current organizational challenges in both development and emergency contexts.
• Work closely with the program departments to ensure that adequate HR inputs are provided and incorporated during the development and implementation of all projects/programs.
• Ensure appropriate job descriptions for critical and senior positions are developed and reflect Save the Children's dual mandate.
• Ensure hiring practices are fair, equitable, and consistent and comply with local regulations. Conduct ongoing analysis to determine organizational staffing profile.
• Prepare/participate in long-range people forecasting and HR planning for the organization.
• With inputs from senior managers, assess competencies and skills in light of changing context and content of jobholders, and advise the Country Director.
• Prepare terms and conditions of employment and issue all employment and consultancy contracts for Country Directors approval in compliance with Bangladesh Labour Laws (when required) and any other relevant Member guidelines.
• Ensure appropriate and adequate emergency HR procedures are detailed in the Country Office Emergency Preparedness Plan to enable rapid scale up, and that all HR staff members understand and can perform their roles in an emergency.

HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT:

• Overall management and design of competitive and appropriate compensation and benefits policies for all employees, including short-term and/or contract employees, in emergencies.
• Conduct compensation reviews, compute Cost of Living Allowance, formulate and implement employee benefit schemes and insurance packages, and review periodically to bring in best practices.
• Ensure that the compensation and benefits policies are cost-effective, competitive, and equitable and are implemented effectively.
• Ensure maintenance of updated information on staff salaries, allowances, and income-tax calculations and ensure compliance with current laws and regulations in close collaboration with the Director of Finance and other SMT members.
• Ensure the required level of HR support to all field offices.
• Institute and manage an appropriate Performance Management and Succession Planning system to ensure that the organization has a ready supply of staff with the requisite skills and competencies.
• Take the lead in implementing the performance management system in alignment with the organizational goals.
• Design development tools for improving employees' efficiency and skills based on individual development action plans.
• Facilitate the HR aspects (such as deployment mechanisms) of the Country Office's Emergency Response Team.
• Provide necessary HR support for incoming surge capacity during emergencies, working closely with Regional and Head Office HR.

HUMAN RESOURCE POLICY:

• Responsible for the development, management, and effective communication of Save the Children's human resources employee policies and procedures.
• Planned, developed, and implemented personnel policies and procedures according to the organization's goals and statutory requirements.
• Ensure that HR policies reflect a workplace free of discrimination and incorporate gender and diversity values of Save the Children.
• Resolve all issues that arise about personnel administration.
• Prepare medical contingency plans and policies for staff and supervise the HR administrator in maintaining personnel files for staff and all HR-related documents.

HR DEVELOPMENT and EMPLOYEE RELATIONS:

• Manage the overall Employee Relations and Staff Retention for the organization.
• Set the tone in terms of positive management culture and ethics, facilitate their institutionalization at all levels, and ensure good teamwork within all field offices and the country office, as well as with other Member staff visiting or being deployed to the Country Office, including within emergency responses.
• Provide assistance and guidance to senior management staff to identify trends in employee relations issues and work with them to rectify issues.
• Work closely with SMT and other management staff to manage and coordinate grievance management and disciplinary proceedings involving any staff member and recommend appropriate action to resolve disputes.
• Advise Country Director on appropriate actions for prevention and response to any legal issue arising out of Save the Children's work or employment, coordinate actions with legal counsel
• Guide in formulating organization-level staff development initiatives so that Save the Children Bangladesh has staff with the necessary skills and competencies
• Guide Programme functions in finalizing plans for capacity building of staff and formulating the annual training calendar.
• Work with other Save the Children partners to explore opportunities for cross-visits, temporary duty assignments, and learning opportunities.
• Provide support to Programme plans and assessments for capacity building of partners, including partners' HR planning, skills assessments, and HR policies.
• Ensure induction for all new Save the Children staff and support line managers to carry out induction sessions.
• Ensures outgoing staff go through a proper exit interview to gain feedback and insights.
• Save the Children's program, organizational processes, and system.

SAFEGUARDING:

• Supervise the Head of Safeguarding to provide overall leadership and oversight to the implementation of the Safeguarding plan, and policies and allocate appropriate resources for Safeguarding.
• Ensures that all of Save the Children's work in Bangladesh is up to expected safeguarding standards and ensures strong support to partners in implementing the safeguarding standard and relevant laws.
• Oversees Safeguarding cases and ensures that Safeguarding focal points are appropriately skilled.
• Leads on investigations of alleged safeguarding and/or provides technical support as appropriate.
• Ensures strict confidentiality in all such dealings, and compiles and shares lessons learned.
• Ensures the Safeguarding function performs efficiency, responsiveness, accountability, familiarity, and compliance with SCI Policies and Procedures.
• Ensures a suite of tailored mandatory core training workshops is delivered to enable country office staff to undertake their roles and mainstream safeguarding functions.

Requirements:

• A minimum of 10 years' experience, out of which 5 years' management experience at senior management level in a corporate or an NGO environment.
• Experience in the development of strategic and operational HR plans and their implementation in a professional work environment for a sustained period ie. of at least three years.
• Ability to plan and organize a substantial workload that includes complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities in both development and emergency contexts.
• Demonstrated credibility with colleagues and stakeholders at all levels of an organization.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills in English.
• Ability to express oneself succinctly, creatively, and independently.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to demonstrate skills in leading a multi-disciplined team through a period of change.
• Leadership skills, including the ability to supervise and motivate qualified professional staff with strong personal value systems.
• Analytical, decision making and strategic planning skills and the ability to handle multiple priorities.
• Ability to coach, mentor, delegate appropriately, and provide developmental guidance to supervised staff.
• Team building skills.
• Willingness and ability to dramatically change work practices and hours, and work with incoming surge teams, in the event of emergencies.
• Competent-level skills in core IT applications, particularly MS Office.
• A commitment to the values and principles of Save the Children.
• High level of commitment to the principles of development and to the organizational and programmatic goals of Save the Children.
• Post-graduate qualifications in Personnel Management or Business Administration (MBA) with a specialization in Human Resources.

Job Location: Dhaka.

Salary: Not specified.

Benefits: As per the Company policy.

Application Deadline: 12 September, 2023

Application link: https://tinyurl.com/27kbywd9