General Position Summary 

Under the supervision of the HR Coordinator, HR is directly responsible for the high and qualitative processes of the full cycle of the selection process to the hiring of new Mercy Corps Team members. The success of the Mercy Corps recruitment process depends on the HR Department’s ability to source highly experienced and right people for the right job in an effective, fair, transparent, and diverse approach. Talent Acquisition is the strategy and ongoing process of attracting quality talent to Mercy Corps, by identifying, acquiring, assessing, and sourcing the right candidate. Recruitment is the continued process for the final selection where the responsibility of the HR Officer is to ensure that all processes and procedures are in compliance with all Mercy Corps policies, rules, and regulations. The HR Officer will work for preparing the process with hiring managers from all departments in the recruitment process to understand steps.

Essential Job Responsibilities

General

• Ensure qualitative completeness of all processes against set delivery standards
• Identify and resolve qualitative issues across the Talent Recruitment processes
• Arrange and facilitate the Hiring Manager training
• Execute full lifecycle talent acquisition activities for multiple disciplines and levels of positions activities in line with the set recruitment process and applicable staffing plans for Mercy Corps Afghanistan
• Ensure the right person is recruited for the right job and work closely with hiring managers to identify personnel needs, job specifications, duties, qualifications, and skills for office positions
• Support in finalizing negotiations, and references and prepare documentation for all offers for new hires in accordance with MCA guidelines
• Screen, refer, and maintain a talent pool of external and internal candidates for additional interviews
• Be overall responsible for the upcoming recruitment system
• Provide backup/interim support to the HR department in the office as necessary
• Adhere to all MC policies and procedures as outlined
• Conduct themselves both professionally and personally in such a manner as to bring credit to MC and to not jeopardize its humanitarian mission
• Close cooperation with HR assistant for Data settlement Personal file, Timesheet etc.
• Other tasks giving by HR Coordinator, HR related.

Strategy and Planning

• Support the HR coordinator in successful implementation, adherence, and common understanding of the National Staff Handbook and other HR policies.
• Support the HR Coordinator to ensure that controls are put in place to allow for transparent and unbiased HR processes and systems.
• Develop strategic relationships with strategic hiring sources (e.g. colleges, universities, networks, associations working for women and minorities) ensuring awareness of MCA as a destination employer in assigned MC offices.
• Ensure a proactive and sustainable recruitment planning system is in place

Department Management

• Work closely and collaborate with other Mercy Corps departments: MEL, Finance, Programs, Operations, Procurement, and Security to ensure proper HR is functioning according to internal and the donor’s policies and procedures.

Leadership and Team Management

• Managing the staff of the All programs by exemplifying a collaborative and professional team culture.
• As an integral member of the senior leadership team, participate in the development and implementation of organization-wide goals and decisions.
• Coach and develop the capacity of the team, deepen understanding of their roles and assist with career development.
• Assist team members with information, tools and resources to improve performance & reach objectives.
• Promote accountability, communicate expectations and provide constructive feedback informally and formally via regular one on ones and performance reviews.
• Create and sustain a work environment of mutual respect where team members strive to achieve excellence.
• Hire, orient and work with team members as necessary.
• Motivate, influence and engage staff in the investment of MC’s culture, mission and vision.

Organizational Learning

As part of our commitment to organizational learning and in support of our understanding that learning organizations are more effective, efficient and relevant to the communities they serve - we expect all team members to commit 5% of their time to learning activities that benefit Mercy Corps as well as themselves.

Accountability to Program Participants

Mercy Corps team members are expected to support all efforts towards accountability, specifically to our program participants and to international standards guiding international relief and development work, while actively engaging program participant communities as equal partners in the design, monitoring and evaluation of our field projects.

• Reports directly to: HR Coordinator
• Works directly with: HR Lead, Senior Program Managers, Operations, PQL Manager, Finance, Procurement team, and Security.