HR Recruitment & Learning Officer

SOS Children’s Villages takes action for children as an independent non-governmental social development organization. We build families for children in need, we help them shape the development of the community, we respect varying religions and cultures, and we work in countries and communities where our mission can contribute to development.

Child Safeguarding Commitment:

SOS Children’s Villages works with children’s and youth. Any applicant he/she should act in a way that safeguards children and youth from all forms of discrimination, abuse, mistreatment and neglect, and will keep data about the children and youth in SOS Children’s Villages programmes confidential. He/she will report all concerns regarding actual or potential child abuse, mistreatment or any other violation of the Child Protection Policy according to our reporting and responding system. For sure, He/she would be protected and supported by the organization.

PSEA Standards:

SOS Children’s Villages has a zero tolerance to Sexual Exploitation and Abuse of beneficiaries.  Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (PSEA) is everyone’s responsibility and all staff are required to adhere to the Code of Conduct, that enshrines principles of PSEA, at all times (both during work hours and outside work hours).  Familiarization with, and adherence to, the Code of Conduct is an essential requirement of all staff, in addition to related mandatory training.  All staff must ensure that they understand and act in accordance with this clause. 

Equal Opportunity Employer:

SOS Children’s Villages is an equal opportunity for employer and values. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

SOS Children’s Villages Palestine is searching for:

Position Title: HR Recruitment & Learning Officer

Line Manager: Human Resources Manager

Status: Full Time

Contract Type: Limited Contract until 31/12/2025

Location: SOS Palestine National Office – Bethlehem

Mission of the Position:

The HR Recruitment & Learning Officer supports the Human Recourses Manager is responsible for the entire recruitment process. He/she supports the Human Recourses Manager to identify recruitment needs, draft and circulate job offers and select candidates, according to the Human Resources Manual and the national legislation, in addition the SOS national recruitment guidelines.

Key performance areas and main responsibilities:

• Develop and update job descriptions and job profile.
• Develop a recruitment strategy in collaboration with the Human Resources Manager and other management staff. Define the company's needs, identify the profiles required and plan the actions to be taken to fill vacant positions.
• The Recruitment Officer is responsible for drafting and publishing job vacancies, sourcing candidates, shortlisting and conducting recruitment interviews and ensure that processes are optimized to attract the best profiles.
• Prepares interview schedules, conduct interviews using various reliable recruiting and selection tools/methods refer to National Recruitment Guidelines to filter candidates within schedule.
• The Recruitment and Learning Officer analyses the performance of recruitment process making sure using the evaluation matrix templates of SOS, generate detailed reports and make recommendations to improve recruitment strategies.
• Collaborate with department managers on a regular basis and proactively identify future hiring needs.
• Provide analytical and well documented recruiting reports to the rest of the team.
• Prepare the advertisement of any vacant position in the organization with coordination of HR Manager.
• Communicating with recruiters and other external parties.
• Manage the onboarding process for new employees and make sure that proper induction program been applied.
• Assist in writing reports of HR department.
• Follow up and update the training and development master sheet for all staff refer to employees Performance appraisals and Individual Work Development plans.

Child Safeguarding (CS)

• Responsible within own area of work to raise awareness of the SOS Child Protection Policy principles and to prevent and protect children from all forms of abuse, abandonment, exploitation, violence and discrimination
• Responsible for reporting any CS suspicion, concern, allegation or incident immediately, following Child Safeguarding reporting procedures. CS reports should be made to the IOR CS focal person and/or to the respective line manager.

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Qualifications and Competencies for the position:

Must Criteria

• University degree in Human Resources or Business Administration or a similar field related to Human Resources
• Minimum 3 years working experience in the field of HR Recruitment.
• Good command of English, written and spoken
• Excellent communication skills

Competencies – knowledge, skills, abilities

• Social skills and the ability to get along with various types of people
• Excellent interpersonal skills, tact and high degree of discretion and confidentiality
• Collaborative way of work fostering integration and teamwork
• Organisational skills
• Coaching and mentoring skills
• Efficient in time and resource management, ability to work under high pressure
• Excellent MS Office skills

Interested candidates must send their Cover Letter including related job achievements, CV, and three traceable references to:

[email protected] by Tuesday 11/02/2025

Indicating in the subject line:    HR Recruitment & Learning Officer- “Name of the applicant”,

Otherwise, it will not be considered. This post is open for internal and external candidates. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. Applications after the deadline will be excluded. Applications not conforming to the conditions will not be consider