Medair is an international humanitarian organization established in 1988. Medair has been operating in Afghanistan since 1996 with programs mainly in the Health, Water & Sanitation, and Livelihoods sectors with significant reconstruction activities in remote areas. Current projects are Water & Sanitation, Food Security, & Disaster Risk Reduction.

An Integrated Emergency Response: Medair aims to respond to high levels of food insecurity, malnutrition, and morbidity in Tirinkot district.  The project intends to improve and extend WASH services including water supply infrastructure and hygiene practices to improve outcomes for vulnerable families.

An Integrated Emergency Response: Medair aims to respond to high levels of food insecurity, malnutrition, and morbidity in Uruzgan, which has been significantly affected by drought and conflict conditions. Building upon Medair’s decades of experience in the Central Highlands and Kandahar, the project intends to improve and extend the utilization of lifesaving preventive and curative nutrition and health services by mothers, PLWs, and children U5; to increase access to clean water, to reduce vulnerability to water-related and other preventable diseases, and to improve and increase food security for the most vulnerable families through food voucher distributions.

• Conduct day-to-day HR functions/operation as they relate to national staff at the (Urozgan/Kandahar) office.
• Handle and process all recruitment steps as per the organization policy for staff hirings in Urozgan/Kandahar and do follow up on recruitment of all positions with HR Assistant regularly.
• Set up written tests and/or interviews in coordination with department heads when incumbent is requested. 
• Ensure all the nationally recruited staff have a current employment contract.
• Updating of staff personnel file in SharePoint regularly.
• Assist line managers and staff with performance review. 
• Support to assess staff performance challenges and plan/oversee capability reviews with the support of HR Manager and Project Support Manager.
• Working on staff timesheets and any necessary information required for Kabul HR team for making payroll.
• Ensure all timesheets collected and uploaded in relevant folder in SharePoint each month.
• Payslips cross check after salaries payment and report any changes on staff grading, steps, allowances and extra/less payment within next payroll data to country office.
• Coordinate with Finance team and Bank for account opening of new joiners.
• Maintain open and frequent communication within Kabul HR Office related to all HR issues and if any update on policies.
• Ensure colleagues are informed of the required HR procedures and be available to answer HR related questions in the absence of the line manager. Provide coaching and guidance as necessary when job challenges arise in leu absence of the line-manager.
• Coordination with Medair other departments ( Logs, Fin, WASH, FS, H&N) to ensure have a good plan for the HR recruitment, staff amendments, capability review, probations, and any new project HR planning.
• Represent Medair in PDC meetings in absence of Project Support Manager and regularly coordinate with DoEc and Mostofiat for any HR/Administrative related issues.
• Provide 6 months report regularly to the DoEc while prepared and completed by Kabul.
• Ensure all staff has personnel files, contain all relevant documentation and information, uploaded on Share Point and Mediar People (MP) according to Medair policy, Afghan Labour Law, and any donor requirements.
• Creating Labour report card for new joiners in Portfolio and follow with team to submit their LR as per finance deadline.
• Liaise on providing access to Portfolio, Medair Intranet, Share Point relevant folders, and official email address.
• Provide access to Medair People-MP for the new joiners.
• Assist in conducting Medair monthly ethical training if need with the coordination of the line-managers and Project Coordinator.
• updating the annual/monthly calendar of training and making sure employees training records/certificates are updated in HR system and shared with Kabul if needed.
• Training of staff on Medair HR system – MP, Portfolio and using Medair intranet.
• Liaise on staff induction between new joiner and department heads, scheduling and ensuring the new joiners have a good impression from Medair on his/her new joining days.
• To ensure all new joiners have read the Medair HR policies and sign them.
• Follow-up with line managers on the timely planning of staff leave and holidays, as well on the properly registering the leave in MP before the leave.
• With the support of the line manager assist all staff with Medair People system.
• Assist in ensuring HR policy is followed in HR activities and implemented well wider across the organization.
• Translate English documents into the local languages on the need’s bases.

Education 

• University graduate (Bachelor) in management, social science or Human Resources, business administration, or other relevant fields.

Relevant Work Experiences

• 3-5 Years of experience in human resource work relevant. 
• 2 or 3 Years of work experience with INGOs in similar roles.

Other Skills 

• Excellent English, Dari & Pashto
• Language skills (written and oral) will be tested in the interview.
• Good working skills with MS Office packages, especially Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Experience using scanners, copiers, and file naming systems.
• Excellent MS Office skills

Interested applicants should apply and forward their applications through the online JOB APPLICATION FORM which can be found under the submission email. The link should be copied, pasted, and opened on a new page.

Note: Please indicate the position title and vacancy number in your application letter. Applications received after the closing date or without the exact position title and vacancy number will not be given consideration. After submitting the online application, if some applicants do not immediately receive an automatic email from Medair, they shouldn't worry about their submission. When you open the link. please use the dropdown menu and choose the title of the position.

Note: 

Medair will provide the following benefits for the selected candidate:

• Competitive salary 
• Employment benefits such as (medical, transportation, economic hardship, food, Mahram, and accommodation for non-residents)
• Annual leave, sick leave, maternity leave, and other types of leave as per Medair policy