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HROD Advisor Policy Development (f/m)

Vienna | Innsbruck

  • Organization: SOS Children’s Villages International
  • Location: Vienna | Innsbruck
  • Grade: Mid level - Mid level
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Human Resources
    • Children's rights (health and protection)
    • Safeguarding and Accountability
  • Closing Date: Closed

HROD Advisor Policy Development (f/m)

 

 

 

Preferred location:Vienna or Innsbruck/ Austria

 

SOS Children’s Villages International is the umbrella organisation for the global federation of SOS Children’s Villages. As a non-governmental social development organisation we help children without parental care and families in difficult living conditions through services in care, education, health and emergency relief, and we advocate for children’s rights. We work in 136 countries and territories, reaching over one million children, young people, families and caregivers each year.

 

Mission

SOS Children’s Villages is in the process of strengthening the HROD function to support the process of creating an enabling and safe environment for all across the organization, but particularly all staff.  The purpose of this position is to support the development of a safe workplace culture.

The post holder will be required to define and manage HROD initiatives with a focus on federation policy development with the aim to contribute to a safeguarding environment and the strengthening of a “values based conduct” in our organization. Is responsible to identify and ensure that a respective HR related policy landscape is supporting our safeguarding culture. This includes a continuous benchmarking, review and updating of existing policies and regulations (e.g. Code of Conduct, HR Manual etc.), to keep the organization relevant in the sector. Therefore, identifying gaps and developing necessary new policies is key to ensure the required impact on our accountability to anchor safeguarding in our organization.

The position holder will develop necessary tools and guidelines to ensure appropriate implementation, establish KPIs and develop monitoring guidelines, develop a monitoring tool to oversee the implementation and necessary adaptation.

The position holder will also support the implementation of a reporting and responding process as it relates to the HROD environment.

 

Tasks and Responsibilities

·       Review and revise policies and procedures with a view to anchor safeguarding standards, based on external benchmarking and standards and internal organizational learnings in alignment with the regional offices.

·       Based on review, best practice and aligned with our sector, identify gaps, propose and develop a concept for a required HR policy landscape to anchor safeguarding standards  taking into consideration the organisational federation governance

·       Design new and/or revise policies/guidelines regularly to integrate lessons learnt and to ensure policies/guidelines are up to date, fit for purpose and meet our federation context and societal changes

·       Collaborate closely with organisational HR Community (regions and member associations) and respective leadership level to ensure a wide scope of needs are considered and sensitive to our mission and the diversity of our organisation

·       Develop necessary tools and guidelines to ensure appropriate implementation and establish KPIs including monitoring guidelines and tools to oversee together with regional HR partners a quality implementation and necessary adaptations

·       As necessary contribute to the development of HR-related reporting and responding guidelines, incident management and investigation standards

·       Collaborate with respective functions in the development of a guideline for defining disciplinary rules and sanctions in case of misconduct

·       Support HR-related incidences and investigations as necessary at the International Office

·       Provide respective expert advice to foster understanding and application of broad HR principles, policies, procedures

·       Keep abreast of HR developments including Safeguarding Standards within and outside of the organisation as well as evolving best practices by researching relevant practice and developments and networking with other organisation

 

 

 

Requirements

·       Master’s degree in Human Resources, Social Science, MBA with focus on Human Resources, Organisational Development including Policy Development; other relevant Studies combined with sound HR experience

·       A minimum of 10 years of relevant HR experience predominantly gained in an NGO environment

·       Sound experience developing, designing, writing and implementing Human Resources policies ideally as they relate to fostering a safeguarding environment

·       At least 5 years’ experience working in an international context with a multi-cultural and multinational setting

·       Experience and/or sound understanding in setting up safeguarding environments, and fostering values based conduct in a work environment

·       Ideally working experience in a federation-like governance to understand the complexity of a respective policy design

·       Sound knowledge of international, common law or labour law is an added value

·       Some experience in managing misconduct cases and the incident management and disciplinary approach as it relates to HROD

·       Project management certificate or excellent project management skills will be an asset

·       Available network within likeminded development organizations and/or other non-profit, public sector organizations is an asset

·       Experience in building and working in a matrix and network structure

·       Strong interpersonal and stakeholder management skills, ability in communicating with a variety of people with different cultural background

·       Analytical, structured & process-oriented working style

·       Excellent English language skills, further languages (German, French, Spanish) are an asset

·       Willingness to work from Austria as working location would be preferred but could be negotiable for established locations within the General Secretariat:

·       Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Nairobi (Kenya), Dakar (Senegal), Lomé (Togo), Skopje (North Macedonia), Tallinn (Estonia)

·       A valid Austrian working permit or eligibility to work within the EU

 

We offer

·       A diverse range of interesting tasks in a leading INGO multicultural working environment

·       As a responsible employer we provide a range of training schemes and encourage educational enhancement

·       A salary that will be commensurate with experience and qualifications

 

 

If you are interested in this position, please submit your detailed application in English by 6th December 2021 at the latest at www.impactpool.org

Please note that applications will be reviewed and suitable candidates will be contacted for interviews on an ongoing basis. The position will remain open until filled.

SOS-Children’s Villages International, www.sos-childrensvillages.org/

 

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