The Opportunity
ROLE PURPOSE:
The Human Resources (HR) Officer is responsible for providing comprehensive support and coordination across the full range of HR processes within the Save the Children Türkiye Country Office. Working closely with the HR and Administration (HRAD) team, line managers, and relevant stakeholders, the HR Officer plays a key role in ensuring the effective delivery of HR services, including recruitment, onboarding, personnel administration, learning and development, and staff wellbeing.
This position contributes to the implementation of HR and administrative initiatives that are aligned with the organization’s strategic priorities and values. The HR Officer will ensure compliance with internal policies, local labor laws, and global standards, while supporting the development of a positive, inclusive, and high-performing workplace culture.
In order to be successful, you will bring/have:
• A bachelor’s degree in human resource management and/or Business Administration or any other relevant discipline
• Fluent in both written and spoken English and Turkish.
• Ability to build relationships quickly with a wide variety of people, both internally and externally
• Demonstrated excellent skills in planning, coordination, and reporting skills, with the ability to organise a substantial workload comprised of complex, diverse tasks and responsibilities.
• Proven operational HR or Admin experience of providing a generalist HR and Admin service to staff and colleagues across a full range of HR and Admin issues
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy.
• Cultural sensitive, with proven interpersonal and communication skills and ability to communicate across diverse cultures and geographical distances
• Ability to collaborate and work effectively in partnership with others
• Good Computer skills working with MS Office Packages especially Word, Excel and Powerpoint
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to work with limited supervision and strong ability to take initiative.
• Good facilitation skills and ability to deliver induction briefing/training
• Able to work to tight deadlines and under pressure.
• Excellent team player.
• Experience in working with INGOs will be an asset
Position holder will be based in İstanbul, therefore legal right to work in Türkiye is necessary at the time of application. Applications will be evaluated in a rolling basis.
The Organisation
We employ approximately 25,000 people across the globe and work on the ground in over 100 countries to help children affected by crises, or those that need better healthcare, education and child protection. We also campaign and advocate at the highest levels to realise the right of children and to ensure their voices are heard.
We are working towards three breakthroughs in how the world treats children by 2030:
- No child dies from preventable causes before their 5th birthday
- All children learn from a quality basic education and that,
- Violence against children is no longer tolerated
We know that great people make a great organization, and that our employees play a crucial role in helping us achieve our ambitions for children. We value our people and offer a meaningful and rewarding career, along with a collaborative and inclusive environment where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.
Save the Children is committed to create a truly inclusive, effective and representative organisational culture, encouraging equity and diversity among its employees and eliminating discrimination. Having a diverse profile of employees, different age groups, backgrounds, cultures, gender identities and expressions, sexual orientation etc., including a range of different experiences and capabilities helps us understand, represent and serve children better. Therefore all qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, disability, or age.
Application Information:
Please attach a copy of your CV and cover letter with your application and include details of your current remuneration and salary expectations. A copy of the full role profile can be found at www.savethechildren.net/careers
We need to keep children safe so our selection process, which includes rigorous background checks, reflects our commitment to the protection of children from abuse.
All employees are expected to carry out their duties in accordance with our global anti-harassment policy.