Human Resources People and Culture Manager

ABOUT US

Oxfam is a global movement of people working together to end the injustice of poverty. This means that we tackle the inequality that keeps people poor. Together we save, protect and rebuild lives. When disaster strikes, we help people build better lives for themselves and for others. We take on issues like land rights, climate change and discrimination against women. And we won’t stop until every person on the planet can enjoy life free from poverty.

We are an international confederation of 21 organisations (affiliates) plus the Oxfam International Secretariat, all working together with partners and local communities in the areas of humanitarian, development and campaigning, in more than 90 countries. All our work is led by our core values: Empowerment, Accountability, Inclusiveness, Courage, Solidarity and Equality.

Oxfam Novib OPT is looking for a Human Resources People and Culture Manager

Duty station: Jerusalem, Ramallah or Gaza

Type of appointment: Fixed-term national Contract

Contract duration: 1 year (with possibility of renewal)

Work schedule: Full-time (40 hours per week)

Reports to: Country Director

Roles reporting to this position: 2 HR Officers and 1 HR Assistant

Salary & Scale: According to the OPT salary scale (C1)

Start date: As soon as possible

Deadline for applications: 15 May 2024

OBJECTIVE OF THE TEAM

The People and Culture team aims to create a culture that puts Oxfam values at the centre of our organisation and that embraces diversity and inclusion at all levels and all relationships. The team will be responsible for supporting leadership and teams to embed integrity, culture of diversity and inclusion, well-being and safeguarding within Oxfam in OPT.

The team will provide a professional, business focused organisational development and human resource management service, delivering a proactive and solution-based approach for resolving issues and ensuring that staff are effectively resourced, managed and developed to deliver on the organisational strategy.

The team will work across three office locations (Ramallah, Gaza, Jerusalem) and with Oxfam International, the Executive Affiliates to build alignment and harmonization across the offices, including consistency in performance management, talent development, and harmonisation of national terms and conditions and processes and procedures as much as possible.

OBJECTIVE OF THE POSITION
 

The People and Culture Manager will be a strategic and experienced hands-on leader that will facilitate and

ensure the development of a highly effective and strategic People function to ensure the organization has the

right structure, culture and talent needed to deliver on its objectives across the three offices.

This person will be the trusted partner of the CMT (Country Management Team) on all people related matters.

They will manage, support, and enable the HR Officers from the different offices to drive consistency in people

process and practices, and create people’s solutions for Oxfam OPT in line with Oxfam’s strategic vision.

This position has three broad goal areas:

1. To proactively provide strategic, analytical inputs and advice to the Country Director and Senior Management Team, as well as to the HR colleagues in the country office to achieve Oxfam’s mission.
2. To promote and develop a joint culture across the offices by encouraging continuous exchange of practices, learnings, and ways of working.
3. To lead the HR team to ensure they have the capacity to guide managers on staffing issues in line with Oxfam policies and procedures and facilitate effective implementation to support delivery.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Provision of Strategic People’s Leadership to the Country Director and Country Management Team

• As a trusted Partner to the CMT, influence senior management thinking and behaviors on the people aspects of the Country strategy, transformation and change processes, and ensure that People and Culture management is central to this.
• Provide support and advice to People and Culture plans defined and implemented within the three offices, to achieve a common People’s framework.
• Ensure consistency with the global People and Culture strategies, adapting for OPT where necessary, and drawing and building on developed best practice where this exists.
• Provide advice on recruitment, onboarding, and capacity building of HR staff across the three offices.
• Analyze trends, identify challenges on People and Culture matters across offices and provide solutions to the leadership team and HR officers.
• Provide guidance in formulating the annual People and Culture plans.

Legal and Risk management

• Ensure effective adaptation at all levels and compliance with the local labor regulations, donor requirements and Oxfam internal rules.
• Inform and guide the Country team on the implications of new and existing procedures, policies and
• legislation.
• Ensures adherence of the operational practices to all relevant national laws and guidelines and provide proactive solutions to changes in the legislative environment.
• Supports the CD to reduce risks associated with the program around legality and compliancy issues.

Employee Relations and Rewards

• Monitor the National Staff Terms & Conditions (NSTC) and local context and labour environment and advising
• CD and management on ways in which Oxfam can remain relevant, compliant and competitive.
• Work with the Reward Shared Service Centre to have an up to date and competitive Reward Package that is
• in line with the Oxfam Reward Principles, and ensure grading and consistency in roles.
• Lead on the application of HR policies for the Country Offices, in line with the Executing Affiliate and Oxfam polices, so that they meet both the needs of the organisation and its legal obligations (e.g. conflict of interest and sideline activities).
• Influence and contribute to the harmonization of the HR policies.
• Provide professional guidance to the Country Director and other managers on HR Policies, procedures, systems and employment law.
• Ensure all the offices have the focal points with proper comprehension of responsibilities on safeguarding as well as needed trainings are organised in this area.
• Promoting and maintaining a GDI (Gender Diverse and Inclusive) and safe work environment with special attention to safeguarding, staff-wellbeing and staff health and safety.
• Provide strategic and practical leadership on translating Oxfam core values and feminist principles into policy and practices concerning employee relations.
• Responsible for handling people-related grievances to their amicable closure and where necessary, closely liaise with the local lawyer in dealing with potential legal issues.

Learning, Culture and Organisational Development

• Ensure that teams are supported in understanding and accessing resources and knowledge to create and implement organizational and professional development plans and goals at country level.
• Ensure People and Culture management contributes to and is aligned to the strategic goals and lead the commitment to learning, development and knowledge management.
• Ensure staff have knowledge of the Code of Conduct and Organizational Core Values to nurture a desired work culture.
• Organize and develop joint initiatives across the offices to promote a common culture of diversity and inclusion that will increase the feeling of belonging.
• Conduct talent mapping by identifying talent in countries, coordinate resources, fill the gaps and develop capacities in line with organizational requirements to optimize talent.
• Embed a culture of performance management across the offices, where staff are held accountable, given feedback, and recognised, using the Let's Talk performance management tool.
• Support managers in the development and coaching of staff to optimise their potential in pursuit of Oxfam’s objectives.
• Stay abreast of changing organizational and external situational circumstances (admin and / or legal changes for instance), which may impact the wider organization and proactively develop suggestions for addressing them and/or incorporating relevant information into Oxfam’s ideas and approaches.

General Awareness and Coordination

• Support the design and implementation of any required People’s new systems, processes, and policies, working in coordination with the affiliate and at global levels (MENA region and TBS).
• Establish connections and networks with peer INGOs to keep abreast of best practices and possible initiatives.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

If you have the following competences and/or skills, which are essential to this position:

• Self-Awareness
• Strategic Thinking and Judgment
• Decisiveness
• Influencing
• Vision Setting
• Mutual accountability

In addition you have:

• Substantial (7 years minimum) of relevant experience as HR professional.
• Non-profit: experience of HR/OD in a (I)NGO.
• Relevant education
• Substantial (3 years minimum) of Management experience with excellent personnel management skills, with the ability to demonstrate skills in leading a multi-disciplined, multi-cultural team and ability to work effectively and sensitively with different value systems and cultures.
• Organization Development experience especially culture, capacity building and skills transfer, development, and knowledge management. Experience in creating a learning and sharing environment.
• Remote management experience.
• Proven experience on monitoring and capacity building.
• Proven experience on investigations and conflict prevention and management
• Substantial knowledge and experience of organizational development
• Excellent interpersonal skills, able to work as part of a multi-disciplined, multi-cultural team.
• Commitment to Oxfam’s overall aims and policies and experience of promoting gender equity and diversity and the interests of marginalized people in all aspects of Oxfam’s work.
• Good command of English and Arabic
• Proved capacity and negotiation skills.
• Working knowledge and experience of labor law and its application.

Desirable you have:

• Cultural knowledge of OPT context.
• Good command of Hebrew language
• Knowledge and experience of in terms of its political, economic, and social trends.
• Experience and background on Safeguarding and case management

WORKING AT OXFAM NOVIB
 

• All our work is guided by our core values: Empowerment, Accountability, Inclusiveness, Courage, Solidarity and Equality.
• At Oxfam Novib, we work according to the Feminist Principles - Oxfam Policy & Practice.
• Oxfam Novib is based on the power of difference. That is why we aim to attract a diverse mix of talented people who share our standards, values and principles, and who are committed to prevent and eliminate any type of misconduct.
• We have an active policy against sexual harassment, exploitation and abuse, any form of abuse of power or lack of integrity and financial misconduct. This subject will be covered in our application and selection process.
• We believe flexible working is key to building the future, so we are open to talking through the type of flexible arrangements which might work for you. We think this role would work particularly well as 3 – 4 days per week office based.

APPLY NOW!
 

Do you believe that this is the job you are looking for? Then we would love to receive your application! Be aware that only applications received before the closing date 15 May 2024 and submitted via our application portal will be taken into consideration.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
 

• If you have questions regarding the position, please contact InternationalHRBusinessSup@oxfamnovib.nl
• Only applicants shortlisted for a post will be contacted.
• This job opening is posted internally and externally, simultaneously. Internal candidates are given preference if they are sufficiently qualified or can be obtained in short term. We believe it’s important in our organization that our employees are offered maximum opportunities for growth in new themes and competencies. Priority for internal candidates supports this.
• At the time of a contract offer, it is necessary for Oxfam Novib to request valid references. Our candidates will be subject to appropriate screening checks, including criminal records and terrorism, financial checks or integrity screenings/references.
• Oxfam Novib reserves the right, to its sole discretion, not to make agreements regarding this job opening, make an agreement in a lower level, or make an agreement with an amended job description.
   

Acquisition on the occasion of this vacancy is not appreciated.