People & Culture Business Partner

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:

• Five to eight years’ experience in HR Business Partnering or related high-level specialist role.
  
• Strong consultation skills and experience influencing and interacting with senior leaders.
  
• Outstanding people and client relationship skills. Proficient in coaching, mediating, influencing, facilitation, presentation, communication, analysis, and problem solving.
  
• Bachelor degree from a college or university and four or more years of related human resources experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  
• Strong business acumen in multi-national environment.
  
• Ability and willingness to travel up to 10% of the time.
  
• Fluency in English (speaking, reading, and writing)
  

Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Experience:

• Professional certificate in HR/OD/ Management.
  
• Experience working in Human Resource/People& Culture with an INGO.
  

Strategic Partner for leaders and client group senior leadership teams:

• Work as first level consultant with leaders and managers to identify strategic people needs.
  
• Acts as a thought partner with leaders and managers to improve people-related priorities in the business unit.
  
• Assist leaders and managers with strategic planning and forecasting needs regarding people.
  
• Provides assistance and guidance to leaders and managers on the full range of P&C activities associated with the rhythm of P&C business.
  
• Act as an initial point of contact and intermediary for leaders and managers in assigned business units.
  
• Coach leaders and managers on HR and people management practice.
  
• Maintain current understanding of the client’s department, strategy, people-related issues by becoming valuable member of client's leadership team.
  

Change Agent for client groups, advising leaders on all aspects of organisational development involving:

• Collaborate with leaders and managers to design organizational structures, job roles.
  
• Function as HR lead for leaders and managers going through organizational restructures.
  
• Evaluate the impact of proposed changes on employees, and manage change to minimize disruption to the business.
  
• Advise leaders and managers on the need for, development and ongoing changes of the department's people plan.
  
• Actively partner with leaders and managers and work with them to collaboratively identify practice improvement.
  

Employee Champion acting as a single point of contact and intermediary for employees, leaders and managers in assigned business units:

• Directing employees to P&C Helpdesk and P&C Generalist Services in Effectiveness Unit as appropriate. Handling employee issues that are escalated from the P&C Help Desk.
  
• Provides guidance, counselling, and training to executives on employee relations issues.
  
• Assist leaders and managers with issues related in interviewing, hiring, terminations, promotions, performance review, and other HR topics.
  
• Occasionally investigates and recommends solutions to employee relations issues in a quick and efficient manner.
  

Functional Expert who works to:

• Maintain current understanding of the client’s department, strategy, people related issues by becoming valuable member of client's leadership team.
  
• Maintain a current knowledge of legislation and regulation that relate to HR issues, and collaborate with office of CPO in developing appropriate policies and procedures.
  
• Collaborate with other P&C teams on cross-functional HR initiatives that support current and future business strategies.
  
• Coordinate with Operational Effectiveness unit to discuss/collaborate on operational P&C issues that have arisen in client groups.
  
• Communicates regularly with the Centres of Expertise to collaborate on issues related to client groups and give feedback on rhythm of business and P&C priority issues.