**Requisition ID**: req37398
**Job Title**:Regional Human Resources Business Partner - Asia
**Sector**:Human Resources
**Employment Category**: Regular
**Employment Type**: Full-Time
**Open to Expatriates**: No
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is among the world’s leading nonprofit humanitarian relief and development organizations. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC’s mission is to assist those whose lives and livelihoods have been shattered by conflict and disaster to survive, recover, and gain control over their lives. The organization has been at the forefront of virtually every major humanitarian initiative for more than 85 years. At work today in over 40 countries and 29 U.S. cities, we restore safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.
**Position Overview**
The Regional HR Coordinator, Asia will play a key role in facilitating a highly effective, strategic HR function in the Asia region (currently Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, and Thailand) that ensures the organization has the structure, inclusive culture and diverse talent needed to deliver on program goals and effectively serve our clients.
**Key Responsibilities**
**Asia HR Coordination**
- Provide project management, HR analysis and HR Partner support for a diverse region including organizational design input, policy design and team integration activities
- Devise HR interventions with a gender equality, diversity, and inclusion lens to address critical HR issues in areas including orientation and on-boarding, learning and development, employee relations, recruitment, and staff care
- Coordinate regional or HQ-led HR activities across the multiple operational hubs
- Consolidate and provide analysis and recommendations on monthly and quarterly Strategic HR Metrics
- Collaboratively design learning and development strategies, programs, and tactical projects to address specific needs derived from evidence-based assessments
- Foster remote management excellence through modeling of and training on best and innovative practices
**Regional/International HR Partner Support**
- Serve as the “front-line” HR partner in response to regional staff policy inquiries, requests, basic employee relations issues and exit management
- Provide HR orientation for new regional employees and support supervisors in creation of robust on-boarding plans
- Support the in-country HR teams in the design and delivery of effective orientation plans to all new incoming International Staff
- Design quarterly regional learning and development plans
- Create and manage regional team organization charts, reports, and files
**HR Project and Program Management**
- In partnership with Regional HR Director, collaborate with global focal points in Talent Management, Talent Acquisition, GEDI, etc. to devise and deliver initiatives in line with IRC’s Global HR Strategy and country program Strategic Action Plan (SAP) work plans
- Support the planning, delivery, and implementation of global HR initiatives across the region
- Provide day to day support to HR Leads and practitioners with tools, templates, resources, and information
- Co-coordinate annual and mid-year performance management process
- Coordinate IRC’s Talent Management initiatives and programs, using metrics for continuous improvement
- Participate in employee engagement action planning and interventions with the aim of improving morale, team cohesion, learning and development and other prioritized areas
- Review, analyze and approve country program international job position requests including compensation and organizational review; Provide recommendations, ensuring accuracy and consistency.
- Provide ad-hoc surge HR support during emergency and new grant implementation phases
- Serve as Acting HR Lead for country programs on occasion
- Review and co-design regional and national HR policies
- Contribute to design and facilitation of regional HR Conferences and capacity-building workshops
- Attend to other requests and projects as specified by the Regional HR Director
Key Working Relationships:
Position Reports directly to: Regional Human Resources Director, Asia
Key Internal Relationships:
- Country program Team: Country HR Leads, Country Directors. Senior Management Teams, Deputy Directors, etc.
- All Regional staff especially Regional Vice President, Regional GEDI Director, and other Functional Regional Directors and Technical Advisors
- HQ HR Team
- Other Regional HR teams on various areas such as General Recruitment, Employee Relations, Talent Management, Staff Care, etc.
Key External Relationships: INGO counterparts; IRC legal counsel; HR associations and networks
**Job Requirements**:
- Successful track record as an HR Partner including 6 - 8 years of experience in the areas of training and development, compensation, policies and procedures, employee relations,