View Vacancy - HR Generalist - Regional HR Hub, Africa (SA03)

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Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (Operations and Corporate Services)
RCSH (Regional Corporate Service Hubs)

Main purpose of job: 

To provide HR generalist support in the areas of recruitment, HR Administrative enquires, HR system changes and other HR activities that promote the effective delivery of HR services by the HR Hub.

Roles and responsibilities 

Recruitment

  • Support the end-to-end recruitment process on recruitment software
  • Collaborate and partner with Hiring Managers to ensure a successful recruitment campaign
  • Provide guidance and support to Hiring Managers and candidates throughout the recruitment process
  • Maintain recruitment records and recruitment tools effectively and efficiently
  • Perform other recruitment-related duties
  • Other ad-hoc recruitment related HR projects and initiatives

HR Administration 

  • Responsible for all HR related administration on HR systems and databases
  • Create, amend, and terminate staff records, process leave requests, capture staff and compile reports for senior management, maintain and track arrivals, departures, contract renewals and probation.
  • Produce regular and ad hoc HR Direct reports for the HR Hub team.
  • Respond to HR enquiries, following appropriate procedures, in line with policy and guidance.
  • Constantly seek to review and improve services by identifying areas for development and reporting feedback from customers to senior managers. 
  • Record relevant data accurately to ensure that accurate MI is captured 
  • Provide general administrative functions and any other reasonably requested ad hoc duties
  • Participate as an active team member and take on other team projects as necessary

Skills

  • Clear and positive communication with a wide range of customers
  • Strong customer focus skills, to build and maintain professional working relationships at all levels
  • Excellent standard of IT skills is required, including Microsoft Office (including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams), SharePoint and the ability to use these systems to communicate and produce reports, charts, graphs etc.

 Experience

  • 2-3 Years working in a customer orientated environment
  • 2 - 3  Years recruitment and general HR Administration experience   
  • 1 - 2 Years’ experience using recruitment software
  • 1 - 2 Years’ experience in general HR administration

Desirable:

  • HR Qualification or equivalent
  • French and/or Portuguese language proficiency (Highly beneficial)
Making Effective Decisions, Managing a Quality Service, Communicating and Influencing, Working Together
28 June 2022
Administrative Officer (AO)
Fixed Term, Full-time
36.5
12 months
Africa
South Africa
Pretoria
British High Commission
1
ZAR
R 20,237.37 per month
1 August 2022
31 July 2023

Learning and development opportunities 

  • External studies
  • On the job training
  • E-learning

Annual leave per year - 25 Days

Working hours per week - 36.5 

Full medical cover on Discovery Medical Aid on the Key Care Plan 

Employer contribution to provident fund after completing a 6 months probation period 



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  • The British High Commission Pretoria will never request any payment or fees to apply for a position.
  • The current legacy DFID Terms and Conditions of Employment will apply to all internal locally employed staff on promotion and new entrants subject to local employment labour law. 
  • All candidates must be legally able to work and reside in the country of the vacancy with the correct visa/work permit status or demonstrate eligibility to obtain the relevant permit.
  • The responsibility lies on the successful candidate to:
  • The British High Commission Pretoria does not sponsor visas/work permits except where it may be local practice to do so.
  • Employees who are not liable to pay local income tax on their Mission salary may have their salaries reduced by the equivalent local income tax amount.
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  • Reference checking and security clearances will be conducted on successful candidates.
  • Current employees (CBS) transferring between departments need to obtain a new police clearance/certificate of good conduct to be successfully appointed to the position.  
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