HR Operational Partner – Europe & Asie

Position Start Date : January 2025

Duration : Open ended contract – under Hungarian labour law

Location : Budapest – Hungary

Deadline for application: 05 December 2024

Tdh :

The Terre des hommes Foundation (Tdh), with headquarters in Lausanne and an office in Zurich, is the leading Swiss child rights organisation with more than 2000 employees worldwide. We stand together with children to uphold their rights, protect their lives and improve their well-being. We achieve this through innovative programmes focused on health, migration and access to justice, specially designed to have a positive and sustainable impact.

Context :

Europe

Terre des hommes is at the forefront of ensuring the rights and well-being of children across the globe through targeted programs and initiatives. Centered on migration and access to justice, our programs in Europe strive to enhance the availability, quality, and accessibility of services for children affected by migration, while advocating for child-friendly justice systems emphasizing non-custodial measures. Additionally, our expertise in child protection and innovation enables us to develop effective solutions to meet the evolving needs of children in Europe. Geographically, our direct presence spans seven countries, including Ukraine, Romania, Moldova, Hungary, Greece, Albania, and Kosovo, with further outreach to 15 additional countries through local partnerships. Through our regional centers and multi-country delegations, we ensure efficient and targeted service delivery, adapting our structures to effectively respond to external dynamics. Our vision for Europe is rooted in our commitment to empowering children, providing innovative solutions, fostering a supportive environment, and making a positive impact on children’s lives.

Responsibilities :

• Under the authority of the Head of Operational Human Resources Sector, the HROP acts as an HR referent for one of the Foundation’s areas of intervention.
• A true conductor, s/he is responsible for providing the necessary guidance and support to his/her group of assigned delegations. To this end, s/he creates, develops, supervises, and shares the HR strategy and advises and supports the managers of his/her area within the Operations team; in particular its Operations Manager, its Adjoints and Heads of delegation.
• Exemplary in his/her behavior, s/he shares and disseminates good HR practices and solutions that contribute to the achievement of the Foundation’s strategic objectives.

Specific Responsibilities :

• Advise and support operational managers in the reflection, analysis and implementation of meaningful, concrete, and measurable actions related to the main HR processes.
• Recommend HR strategies adapted to the specific realities of the assigned delegations and countries of intervention. Facilitate the implementation of these solutions by accompanying the organizational changes that may be related to them, as well as their impacts.
• Actively participate and contribute to all initiatives to harmonize HR practices and policies. Create or adapt any HR tool necessary for the proper performance of the HR function whether at regional office or in support of HR managers in the field.
• Ensure the maintenance and monitoring of HR management indicators.
• Is responsible of the administrative and HR management of Tdh regional office. In these respects, s/he is accountable to the foundation’s legal representative in Hungary.
• Provide strong support for setting up the regional office in the context of decentralization (review of roles and responsibilities, adaptation of processes, change management support, etc.).

The full job description will be shared with the candidates selected to start the recruitment process.

Profile :

Education :

Minimum Bachelor degree in HR or relevant field

Experience & Competencies:

• 5+ years Proven experience in mastering the various aspects of HR activities of the employee’s cycle: administrative management, recruitment, legal standards, career management and talent management, evaluations, learning & development, end of collaboration, conflict management, etc.
• Experience acquired in management or expert positions within an NGO in a headquarters and/or in the fields of intervention.

Languages :

• High proficiency in spoken and written English.
• Knowledge of a language of the region and/or French is an asset.

IT :

1. Comfortable using standard office tools.

Knowledge of HOMERE software is a plus.

Tdh Global Code of Conduct and Risk Management Policies :

• Fully complies with Tdh’s Global Code of Conduct and systematically reports any breach to the Code through the whistleblowing procedure: raises awareness within the Foundation on abuse and violence and the rights deriving therefrom, respecting the rights and dignity of children, members of the communities and our own Staff
• Commits to respecting Risk Management Policies including: Safeguarding Policies (Child Safeguarding Policy, Policy on the Protection against Sexual Exploitation and the Directive on Staff Misconduct at the Workplace), Safety and Security Policy and Anti-Fraud/Corruption and Prevention of the Financing of Criminal Activities Policies
• Commits to reducing the risk of abuse and harm by developing a culture of open and informed leadership within the organization and in our work with children and the communities in which we intervene in.

We offer an exciting and varied work, useful and meaningful, in a team that wants to make a difference for vulnerable children.