HR Manager NES- Syria

CARE is working in Syria to support vulnerable women, men, girls and boys affected by the ongoing civil war. We work both through partners and through direct delivery of humanitarian assistance across different parts of Syria. In addition, CARE supports livelihoods recovery and resilience programming across Syria. Most of our work is through cross border, remote-managed assistance modalities from neighboring countries, working closely with Syrian civil society organizations. Currently CARE’s core sectors in Syria are Food Security & Livelihoods (FSL), WASH and Protection, working with over 120 staff in hubs across the region.

CARE operates and manages a program in North East Syria (NES) with a strategic focus on provision of humanitarian assistance (FSL, WASH, NFIs, etc.) and resilience centered programming with a key focus on livelihoods and food security. The NES program provides emergency response with a mixed approach of directly implementation and providing managing food distribution program through a local service provider. On-going monitoring is being done by both by CARE staff and the local service provider contracted in locally in North East Syria. And CARE will continue and strengthen a mixed hybrid implementation modality.

CARE is seeking HR Manager for it's North East Syria Hub to further strengthen the capacity of CARE's HR department in Northeast Syria. The HR Manager will work closely with the existing HR department, mentoring and coaching the HR team and managers to prepare for short and medium term plans for developing and staffing the unit. He/She will play a key role in further updating Hub HR policy, procedures and systems as well as conduct trainings for everyone to comply with the systems.

The HR Manager will also play key role in rolling out the new performance management system in North East Syria Hub and act as a PSHEA Focal point under technical supervision of Protection Adviser. The HR Manager will be based in CARE's hub office in NES. The HR Manager will be directly managing the HR Officers within NES and also technically managing Snr HR Officer (Amman). The HRM position reports to the NES Hub Area Director.

Responsibilities:

Mentoring and Capaacity Building of the NES Hub HR Department

Strengthening the HR policies, procedures and systems

Participate in and contribute to the Hub SMT particularly on HR related issues

Recruitment and Staff Retention

Staff welfare & Safety

Qualifications:

Bachelors degree in Human Resources, Management, Business Administration or equivalent combination of education and work experience

At least 7 years field experience in Human Resources and Administration

Experience in developing or refining HR Policies and Procedures

Experience in protracted conflict environments, in particular Syria Context

Experience in mentoring and coaching national staff