People & Organization Development Specialist

People & Organization Development Specialist

Kathmandu, Nepal

Fixed Term,

Role overview

Provide high quality People & Organisation Development support services to enable VSO people employees and volunteers to deliver their best, contributing to quality programming and the achievement of VSO’s mission to bring people together to end poverty.

Skills, qualifications and experience required

Essential:

Qualification

• Qualification in Human Resources Management/ Human Resource Development / Organisation Development.
• Knowledge of country labour market, employment and immigration laws and regulations with atleat 3 years of experience on people function and resourcing.

Experience

Human Resource Management

• Demonstrable skills and experience of HR business partnering in a global organisation setting with a multi-cultural environment.
• Experience in HR administration and providing policy guidance in the areas of Resourcing, Induction, Employee Relations, Performance Management, Compensation & Benefits, Contract Management and HR information systems (HRIS).
• Skills and experience in providing HRM administration support with understanding the needs of diverse workforce and young people developmental stages to flexibly apply people policies as appropriate within the context.
• Understanding and commitment to data protection, confidentiality, equal opportunity, social inclusion, gender equity and diversity.
• Experience of HR in Humanitarian context is an advantage.

Recruitment

• Strong recruitment experience, including an understanding of global mobility and talent management in an international context.
• Excellent understanding of multi-channel attraction methods.
• Experience in producing high quality and engaging recruitment materials and campaigns
• Ability to analyses and quickly grasp the fundamentals of a need or issue. Able to find innovative ways of solving or pre-empting problems.

Organization Development

• Skills and experience in organisation development, promote organisation culture, induction management, learning and development, leadership development, people engagement, people capacity and capability support and transfer knowledge to partner organisation.
• Ability to lead, engage and develop others with skills in coaching, mentoring, facilitation, training, and accompaniment.
• Volunteering for Development and Youth Engagement
• Understanding and valuing the role of volunteering for development.
• Valuing the role of young people in development.
• Experience of working with international and national professional volunteers and youth plus personal experience of volunteering for development is a significant advantage.

Communication Skills

• Good verbal and oral communication skills in English and local languages.

Competencies and Behaviour

• Ability to be open minded and respectful
• Ability to be resilient and adaptive to

new situations

• Ability to facilitate positive change and build sustainable working relationships
• Ability to seek and share knowledge

Financial and Risk Management – Sound knowledge of financial and risk management skills

Information Technology - Good level of computer skills (Windows, Excel, Power Point, Word, Outlook, Internet).

Travel requirement: Able to travel in country and internationally occasionally and spend time away from work- base location and home.

Commitment to VSO’s mission, values, People First principles and core approaches (Social Inclusion and Gender, Social Accountability, and Resilience).

VSO has zero tolerance of abuse and exploitation of vulnerable people. We expect all our employees/volunteers to ensure we protecting children, young people and vulnerable adults from harm and abide by our safeguarding policy.

Desirable:

Project management experience.

Equal Opportunities

VSO promotes equal opportunities and values a diverse workforce.

Eligibility: Nepalese

Contract: National

VSO reserves the right to close this job early if we receive a sufficient number of applications.

VSO promotes equal opportunities and values a diverse workforce.

Application closing date: 13 May 2022

Interview/Assessment date(s): soon as possible

Start date: soon as possible

How to apply:

Please click the link below to apply for the vacancy:

https://www.vsointernational.org/about/careers/people-organization-development-specialist-a0m3z00000fnltfaav

VSO has zero tolerance of abuse and exploitation of vulnerable people. We expect all our employees/volunteers to ensure we are protecting children, young people and vulnerable adults from harm and abide by our safeguarding policy.