Do you have solid experience of providing administration support across a range of operational activities? Do you have a keen interest in staff health and wellbeing along with have excellent communication and organisation skills? Are you seeking to develop your skills in a friendly, supportive environment focused on creating positive change in the humanitarian sector?
Our Human Resources and Operational Support (HR&OS) team strives to ensure staff and managers receive a high quality and professional service across a wide remit of HR and operational activities. The Officers within the team have an overlapping remit to administer and coordinate HR&OS activities which promote positive staff engagement, productivity, and effectiveness, as well as leading on their own specific remit which in this case involves coordinating and developing our activities to support staff health, safety and security, as well as operational activities including financial processing.
This includes critical responsibilities relating to supporting staff wellbeing, overseas travel, events planning and logistics, and our physical and online workspaces. As such you would need to be confident to work closely with staff and managers to identify and resolve issues, and capable of delivering key operational projects which ensure the achievement of Elrha’s strategic organisational priorities.
Our HR&OS Officers work together to ensure a seamless service to our staff and managers and provide cover for each other in times of peak workloads and team absences. This means also undertaking additional responsibilities for HR duties as required, including coordinating recruitment, onboarding and development activities.
This is a really hands-on role across a broad remit and your application will need to demonstrate that you have:
- Experience as a highly organised administrator with exposure to a range of HR and operational activities
- Experience of developing and delivering initiatives relating to employee health, safety and wellbeing
- Good knowledge of a range of MS applications including SharePoint sites
- Excellent and effective communications skills, with the ability to build relationships with staff and managers at all levels and external stakeholders
- Good numeracy with experience of carrying out basic financial processing
- A flexible approach and can respond positively and proactively to changing demands
- A demonstrable interest in our humanitarian work
In return, we can offer a large degree of autonomy and flexibility for you to shape the role, develop, learn and grow professionally. We are a committed, friendly and collaborative team, and the role is a great opportunity to develop your skills across a wide HR and operational remit.
If you are seeking a new challenge and want to be part of a growing charity then join us and we’ll give you every opportunity to succeed.
Please review the full job description for further details. When applying you will be taken through the Save the Children recruitment system. Please ensure you complete the personal statement as part of the application process to explain how you feel you meet the requirements of the role and why you feel this is next career move for you. Please note that we will assess your communication skills on the quality of your personal statement and CV as well as any presented achievements.