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| Company: |
FoodWaterShelter |
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| Job Title: |
HR Manager |
| Job category: |
Volunteer |
| Job Location: |
Australia |
| Job Description: |
foodwatershelter inc is a young, dynamic NFP making a spectacular difference to the lives of vulnerable women and children in Tanzania, East Africa. We are currently seeking a HR Manager to lead our HR and Volunteering Team.
Position purpose
The HR Manager has responsibility for the administration of the human resources policies, procedures and programs within fws. The role will cover and impact a number of areas, including volunteer relations, training and development, organisational development, and recruitment, retention and performance management. The role deals exclusively with volunteers – the entire fws team – and will focus on both OS-based and Australian-based volunteers.
Responsibilities
• Overseeing the Australian-based Volunteer Manager and OS-based Volunteer Manager to ensure fws’s basic procedures around recruiting, supporting and where required, facilitating happy departures, are fulfilled
• Creating and refining fws HR policies around recruitment, retention and performance management, and then ensuring implementation
• Ensuring that all fws volunteers (OS-based and Australian-based) have Position Descriptions for their roles
• Ensuring that all Australian-based volunteers are aware of fws’s three-month trial period, monthly phone contact, and yearly review system, and that these systems are being implemented appropriately
• Ensuring that all fws volunteers receive a thank you, signed digitally by fws president on the first day of National Volunteers Week each year
• Ensuring that all Australian-based volunteers are contacted by phone for a monthly check-in/trouble shoot by the Australian-based Volunteer Team
• Occasionally, the HR Manager will need to facilitate happy farewells for fws volunteers, when it is agreed that it is no longer mutually beneficial for a volunteer to work with fws
• Ensure that all fws documentation regarding volunteers (website, volunteer handbooks, volunteer application forms etc) are kept up-to-date by OS-based Volunteer Team and Australian-based Volunteer Team
• Be aware of local, state and federal employment guidelines and their application to fws
• Work with other key fws staff to ensure the health and safety of all volunteers, by developing and implementing relevant policies
Time: 5 hours per week.
Term: 12 months minimum – lots more months hopefully.
Location: From home. (Online/Remote, Australia Wide)
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Skills Required:: |
• Experience in recruiting, retention and exiting staff
• Excellent communication skills to confidently work with fws volunteers
• Problem-solve any issues affecting volunteer enjoyment or efficiency
• Warm, understanding, nurturing personality
• Strong organisational skills
• Innovative, creative approach to problem-solving
• Ability to set own goals and meet them
• Desire to make a difference whilst contributing to a fun but dedicated group of volunteers
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Language Requirements: |
English-Very Good |
| Employment Type: |
Volunteer |
| Yearly Salary: |
Unspecified |
| Posting Date: |
2009-08-17 |
| Level of Education: |
Unspecified |
| Years of Work Experience: |
7 to 10 Years |
| Job also available in: |
Online/Remore, Australia Wide |
| Company: |
FoodWaterShelter |
| Contact Name: |
FoodWaterShelter |
| Preferred Method of Contact: |
No Preference |
| Preferred Language of Resume/Application: |
English |
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