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Overview

Creative Associates seeks a Human Resources (HR) Manager for an upcoming USAID funded program in Colombia. The HR Manager leads HR practices and objectives that will provide a high-performance team culture that emphasizes employee engagement, performance management, and the recruitment and ongoing professional development of project staff. The HR Manager is responsible for the maintenance of processes and metrics that support the achievement of the project's goals which includes ensuring compliance with Creative and donor/client human resources policies, procedures, and regulations.

Project Summary:

USAID/Colombia's Venezuela Response and Integration (VRI) IDIQ will help Colombia respond to the social, political, and economic disruption caused by sustained mass migration from Venezuela. VRI will increase socio-economic integration by strengthening public systems and economic.

The initial $36-$40 million Task Order, Migration Management, will support the national-level policy framework needed to formalize migrants, build local government capacity to meet receptor community needs, and counter xenophobia. Migration Management will help create the legislative and administrative framework and eliminate barriers to carry out subsequent VRI IDIQ TOs that strengthen economic opportunities and health and education services. Task Order will strengthen Colombian Government's migration management capacity to document and track migrants and refer them to municipal level services, and to promote social integration and acceptance of migrants.

Reporting and Supervision:

The Human Resources Manager reports directly to the Operations Manager. The HR Manager will liaise regularly with the Regional HR Operations Manager on related project and corporate HR matters.

Responsibilities

• Manage HR office operations ensuring compliance with Creative and client HR rules and regulations;
• Lead/coordinate the full-cycle recruitment process including finalization of job descriptions, advertisement of vacancies, review of applicants, scheduling and conducting interviews alongside project senior management, checking candidate references, and collecting new hire documents;
• Lead onboarding/orientation of new project hires;
• Manage employee benefits enrollment and ensure all inquiries and challenges faced by employees regarding their insurances are handled;
• Coordinate the performance evaluation process;
• Provide information and advice to project staff regarding HR policies and procedure;
• Responsible for coordinating staff training and establishing staff development plans based on staff appraisals and evaluations;
• Receive and logs various grievances or complaints from employees; consult with Regional HR Operations Manager and legal counsel regarding difficult cases and provide recommended solutions prior to forwarding complaints to management for review;
• Provide oversight related to the updating of personnel files and other related HR documents including employment agreements, amendments, time sheets, calendar holidays and leaves;
• Provide information as required by Compliance Officers/Auditors during audits; and

• Perform other duties as assigned.

  Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in human resources, business administration or a related field;

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• At least five (5) years of progressively responsible HR experience working on USAID-funded projects;

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills;

• Excellent record keeping and documentation skills;

• Familiarity with donor/client rules and regulations;

• Familiarity with employment law in Colombia;

• Proficiency with Microsoft Office; and

• Verbal and written working proficiency in English and fluency in Spanish.

Local candidates strongly encouraged to apply.

Position contingent upon donor funding.

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