Save the Children Regional HRIS Intern Vacancy in Nairobi, Kenya June 2017
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Recent Job position for Regional HRIS Intern in Kenya July 2017
Save the Children Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office is looking to recruit for the following position:
Job Title: Human Resources Information Systems Intern (HRIS) Intern
Team / Programme: Regional HR Team
Location: Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office – Nairobi
Grade: Intern
Length of Contract: 3 Months
Child Safeguarding: Level 3 – the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have regular contact with or access to children or young people
About us: For over 90 years, Save the Children has been making a difference in children’s lives in more than 120 countries.
We are the world’s largest independent child rights organization, underpinned by a vision in a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation.
Our mission to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children, and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
Save the Children is an organization for talented people with different backgrounds and perspectives. We are proud that our people are representative of the children we work with and we thrive on our diversity.
We are an equal opportunity organization dedicated to our core values of Accountability, Ambition, Collaboration, Creativity and Integrity.
Our culture is embedded in these values, along with a strong commitment to our Child Safeguarding Protocol, ensuring that all representatives of Save the Children demonstrate the highest standards of behaviour towards children both in their private and professional lives.
Role Purpose: The Regional HR team is a part of Save the Children’s Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Office. The HRIS Intern will provide administrative support to the to the Regional HR team across the full range of HR processes and systems
Scope of Role:
Reports to: HRIS Officer
Staff directly reporting to this post: None
Key Areas of Accountability:
- Responsible for maintenance and usage of the HRIS system in the region. Specifically: supporting users; driving data quality; liaising with the IT department on technical issues; and identifying practical solutions and workarounds to keep the system running efficiently and meeting SCI core needs.
- Run reports and provide data to enable informed HR and business decision-making.
- Work with the Regional Office HR Coordinator to update all employee data on HRIS.
- Ensure data confidentiality at all times and escalate any concerns to the HRIS Officer immediately. Since data, concerning children and young people may be maintained on parts of the system, exercise special care in relation to this data including who has access to the data and any requests for reports from the system regarding children and young people (this includes dependents of international staff).
- Assist in HR administration as needed
Skills and Behaviours (our Values in Practice)
Accountability:
- Holds self accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
- Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved
- Creates a managerial environment to lead, enable and maintain our culture of child safeguarding
Ambition:
- Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
- Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale
Collaboration:
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to; builds and maintains effective relationships with colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
- Values diversity and different people’s perspectives, able to work cross-culturally.
Creativity:
- Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
- Cuts away bureaucracy and encourages an entrepreneurial approach
Integrity:
- Honest, encourages openness and transparency, builds trust and confidence
- Displays consistent excellent judgement
Qualifications and Experience
- Educated to degree level in Information Technology or equivalent.
- Solid skills in Microsoft applications especially Microsoft SharePoint 2010 or 2013
- Good understanding and at least 1-year experience working with HR processes and practices including the administration of recruitment and on boarding processes is an added advantage.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills; ability to explain complex issues to colleagues at all levels
- Demonstrable ability to influence others, to liaise with a wide range of people at all levels and across different cultures; and to act with credibility, tact and diplomacy
- Commitment to upholding Save the Children values, Code of Conduct and Child Safeguarding Policy and Practice.
How to Apply
CLICK HERE to apply online
Application closes on 11th July 2017 at 5:00pm.
Applications will also be reviewed on a rolling basis
We work with children, communities and governments all over the world and we believe in the right person for the job regardless of where you come from and how you identify yourself.
We need to keep children safe so our selection process reflects our commitment to ensuring that only those who are suitable to work with children are considered for these posts.
All successful applicants will therefore be required to complete a Police Check and must sign onto our Child Safeguarding Policy and organizational Code of Conduct.
Disclaimer: Save the Children International does not charge any kind of fee at whichever stage of the recruitment process and does not act through recruitment agents