Policies Officer (HR) at International Alert

This is an exciting opportunity for an HR professional to support an international charity to refresh its organisational policies. Reporting to the Head of People, you will work closely with colleagues across the organisation, including our senior management staff and staff in all our offices. You’ll review and re-draft our HR policies, ensuring they reflect best practice in people management. You’ll establish and coordinate working groups of staff drafting and inputting into policy change.

We are seeking a candidate with Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) or equivalent Level 3 qualified or relevant experience, bringing a good knowledge HR principles, policies, and procedures. Your experience developing people policies and procedures which reflect and comply with legislation and business needs will be essential for this role. Fluent in English, your excellent interpersonal skills will help you relate to people at all levels and from diverse backgrounds, as will your experience of stakeholder relationship management. We will benefit from your attention to detail and ability to plan and prioritise.

Experience working for a charity or in an international context is desirable but not essential. Fluency in French, or experience undertaking trade union consultation on people policy development are similarly beneficial but not essential.

Role duties and responsibilities:

• Review Alert’s organisational policies and make factual and formatting edits to ensure they are up to date and accessible to all staff.
• Review HR policies and draft revised HR policies in close collaboration with the Head of People, to ensure they remain fit for purpose and reflect the latest developments in effective people management.
• Ensure that people policies and procedures are clear, well researched and comprehensive from the perspective of managers and staff.
• Working with the Head of People, support consultation with members of the Community Forum on people policies and procedures.
• In consultation with the Head of People and Gender, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Steering Committee, establish a People Policies Working Group to support the review of policies affecting people.
• Coordinate the People Policies Working Group: organise monthly meetings, circulate papers and minute meetings.
• Coordinate small groups of Finance and Operations staff to support drafting of key sections of finance, security, compliance, IT and environmental policies.
• Working with the Partnerships Process Working Group, support the update of our partnership procedures, through drafting procedure documents and coordinating staff contributions.
• Prepare revised policies for presentation to the Executive Team (XT) by the Director of Global Delivery or Head of People, Finance or IT and attend Executive Team (XT) discussions of policy revisions.
• Establish sustainable processes for finalisation of Alert’s organisational policy review once the role closes.
• Undertake other tasks requested by the Director of Global Delivery or Head of People.

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

• A relevant degree or Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD) or equivalent Level 3 qualified or relevant experience.
• Good knowledge of HR principles, policies, and procedures 
• Experience developing people policies and procedures which reflect and comply with legislation and case law and meet business need.
• Experience of stakeholder relationship management
• Proficient in HR software systems and MS Office applications
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, able to relate to people at all levels and from diverse backgrounds
• Fluency in English (written and oral skills), including policy and procedure drafting.
• Attention to detail and accuracy and an ability to plan and prioritise 
• Existing right to work in the requested country in which Alert has a registered office.