Concern Worldwide

Job Purpose:
The Human Resources Assistant is responsible for supporting the HR team to ensure highly competent, enthusiastic and diverse human resources are recruited and provided with professional Human Resources support, promoting the princsiples and practices of equality across the organisation. The HR Assistant will also assist and support the HR Team to ensure proper filing, documentation and recruitment process.

Main duties & responsibilities:

To assist in the recruitment of highly competent and diverse human resources who will make a positive contribution to the organisation, using professional and transparent recruitment procedures, competency framework and incorporating positive actions to promote diversity. Including, but not limited to:

Working with HR team to prepare and implement a comprehensive Human Resources recruitment plan to support delivery of organization’s strategic plan.
Ensuring an effective and innovative communication strategy to attract high quality candidates from diverse group, who have the competencies and experience required to meet the organization’s needs.
Providing support in ensuring consistent and transparent recruitment procedures, incorporating positive actions to promote diversity, ensuring full participation from line managers.
Ensure systematic, professional and complete documentation process is maintained for each recruitment to clearly demonstrate basis for all decisions made.
Ensuring all successful and unsuccessful candidates are communicated in a professional and timely manner.
Ensuring personal file is opened for new employee and volunteer, updated regularly using a checklist and organized in a systematic manner.
Ensuring the contract is made in line with the Concern’s financial policy and Bangladesh tax and other laws, consulting with Administration and Finance colleagues where required and incorporating programme participants protection policy.

To ensure working together with the rest of the Organisational Learning & Development team to proactively provide support in achieving high quality and effective training and development services to staff of the organisation. Including, but not limited to:

Participating actively in team planning and other meetings, working to set common objectives and goals and striving to ensure these are successfully achieved.
Supporting colleagues to ensure proactive and timely support is provided to the whole organisation.
Enabling a friendly collaborative working culture within the team, actively sharing information and knowledge to enable the team to ensure effective support to the rest of the organisation.
Working with other members of the team to ensure effective organisational learning and development.

To ensure professional and proactive HR support is provided, enabling an employee-oriented culture, demonstrating equality, caring attitudes, professionalism and integrity towards all staff, creating an open environment where staff feel safe, valued, respected and empowered. Including, but not limited to:

Taking the initiative to provide proactive support, ensuring transparency and consistency, speaking to and listening to all staff in a positive and in formal way, answering queries and offering guidance on best practice in HR and ensuring clear understanding of relevant policies and procedures.
Ensuring equality of opportunity and absence of discrimination through the promotion of diversity and equality in all HR activities, systems and procedures.
Working with staff to promote an empowering management culture, to enable effective team working, staff are able to fulfil their potential and achieve maximum job satisfaction.
Creating an environment where managers understand and are empowered to adopt best practices, quality standards and progressive strategies in people management.
Ensuring induction programmes are organized in a professional and timely manner, enabling new employees to understand the organization and its mission and vision and values.

As a member of the HR team to proactively provide high quality and effective HR support services to all staff and consultants of the organization. Including, but not limited to:

Participating actively in team planning and other meetings, working to set common objectives and goals and striving to ensure these are successfully achieved.
Supporting colleagues to ensure proactive and timely support is provided to the whole organisation.
Enabling a friendly collaborative working culture within the team, actively sharing information and knowledge to enable the team to ensure effective support to the rest of the organisation.
As a member of the HR team ensure proper documentation.

In line with Concern’s commitments under the Core Humanitarian Standard (CHS):

Actively promote meaningful community participation and consultation at all stages of the project cycle (planning, implementation, M&E);
Work with relevant colleagues to ensure that the Complaints and Response Mechanism (CRM) is functional and accessible, that feedback and complaints are welcomed and addressed;
Work with relevant colleagues to ensure that information about CRM, safeguarding and expected staff behaviour is disseminated among programme participants and communities.

If you feel that your qualification and experience match our requirements, and you have a shared commitment to Concern’s values, please email the completed Job Application Form with photograph, National ID, TIN and all Educational Certificates to recruitment.bgd@concern.net.

Please mark the position applied in the email subject line.

Closing Date of Application: 23 May 2024

Concern Worldwide encourages all qualified candidates, irrespective of gender, ethnicity and origin, disability, political beliefs, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or socio-economic status to apply to become a part of the organisation. Concern is against all forms of discrimination and unequal power relations, and is committed to promoting equality. Concern follows an equal opportunity policy and actively encourages diversity welcoming applications from all especially women and people living with disability and other diverse group. Concern promotes gender friendly work environment placing staff welfare and wellbeing at the core.

Concern has an organisational Code of Conduct (CCoC) with three Associated Policies; the Programme Participant Protection Policy (P4), the Child Safeguarding Policy and the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Policy. These have been developed to ensure the maximum protection of programme participants from exploitation, and to clarify the responsibilities of Concern staff, consultants, visitors to the programme and partner organisation, and the standards of behaviour expected of them. In this context, staff have a responsibility to the organisation to strive for, and maintain, the highest standards in the day-to-day conduct in their workplace in accordance with Concern’s core values and mission. Any candidate offered a job with Concern Worldwide will be expected to sign the Concern Staff Code of Conduct and Associated Policies as an appendix to their contract of employment. By signing the Concern Code of Conduct, candidates acknowledge that they have understood the content of both the Concern Code of Conduct and the Associated Policies and agree to conduct themselves in accordance with the provisions of these policies. Additionally, Concern is committed to the safeguarding and protection of vulnerable adults and children in our work. We will do everything possible to ensure that only those who are suitable to work or volunteer with vulnerable adults and children are recruited by us for such roles. Subsequently, working or volunteering with Concern is subject to a range of vetting checks, including criminal background checking.