Education People Specialist
Contract type: Fixed Term (12 months)
Application closing date: 7th March 2021
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Introduction to VSO
VSO is the world’s leading international development organisation that works through volunteers to fight poverty. Our unique role in international development is to place committed volunteers with carefully selected organisations where their skills can have the greatest impact. Our extraordinary volunteers live and work in some of the world’s poorest communities. Sharing their unique skills and experience to generate new ideas and new ways of doing things, helping the communities they work in lift themselves out of poverty. We’re not about delivering quick fixes, but instead we focus on long-lasting, sustainable change, that will impact generations to come. Join us and help us work towards our vision of a world without poverty.
What We Offer:
- Competitive salary • 13th month salary • Pension benefit • Severance pay • Medical insurance • NSSF • 37 days leave including public holidays • Working with international colleagues and diverse volunteers
Your next position will:
Provide business partnering and high-quality people support services to Education projects for VSO in Cambodia throughout the programme cycle to enable VSO people (employee and volunteers) to deliver the project successfully strengthening project delivery through VSO volunteering for development unique approach contributing to a fair world for everyone.
What it takes to be Education People Specialist with VSO:
- Good people management, people development and people engagement skills - Ability to lead, engage and develop others with skills in coaching, mentoring, facilitation, training, and accompaniment.
- Provide guidance and support for a project set-up on risk assessment, partner assessment, recruitment planning ensuring a safe, timely and quality recruitment and selection process and talent acquisition for the project team.
- Experience of resourcing and HRM/ HR business in a multi-cultural project team environment in a global organisation setting.
- Experience in organisation development, promoting organisation culture, induction management, learning and development, leadership development and people capacity building.
- Experience in managing complaints, duty of care, safeguarding incidents a to the highest international standards including conducting investigation and disciplinary management.
- Remote working experience and ability to support a diverse remote working team.
- Able to travel including work away from the home base both within the country and occasionally internationally in a remote area.
Remark:
- This is a national hire post under national terms and conditions.
- RIGHT TO WORK IN CAMBODIA IS REQUIRED.
- We will not be able to obtain visa and work permit to non-Cambodian nationals.
- ONLY SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES WILL BE NOTIFIED.
- VSO reserves the right to close this job early if we receive a sufficient number of applications.