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Mercy Corps is powered by the belief that a better world is possible. To do this, we know our teams do their best work when they are diverse, and every team member feels that they belong. We welcome diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be stronger and have long term impact.
Our One People Team ensures that Mercy Corps has the people, HR systems, and culture to support our managers and allow our team members to thrive. We comprise of teams of HR professionals at country, regional and global level who work together to foster engaged, equitable, inclusive, diverse, and high performing global teams. We do this through building systems and supporting managers to recruit and retain the diverse and high-performing talent we need to meet our goals, shaping this talent into our future leaders through equitable development opportunities, and by driving strategic partnerships at all levels within and outside of our organization. We work with others to steward our organizational culture through our systems, structure, and processes, to create safe, diverse and inclusive teams, and to ensure a positive employee experience for all our people.
Our presence in Europe represents approximately 180 team members based primarily in the UK, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Ireland and Switzerland. Europe provides Head Office support to programming and development teams across our global locations. Our strategic priorities focus on enabling innovation and new ideas to be implemented using unrestricted revenue streams, becoming the go-to partner for European stakeholders delivering climate resilience programmes around the world in fragile locations, creating a healthy and happy workplace full of creativity, experience and positive energy for all those who work at Mercy Corps and delivering thriving country and regional programmes aligned to our global and country strategies, with efficient and clear support structures in place. Europe serves as a hub of global talent to support delivery of our strategic priorities.
This position is responsible for executing strategic senior HR business partnering support to teams working across Europe, overseeing people operations tasks and leading the resolution of escalated issues within the employee life-cycle process, ensuring a positive, equitable and consistent employment experience for team members. This position serves as a deputy to the Regional HR Director, and a partner to people managers, and team members ensuring the people need of Mercy Corps team members align and are accounted for within the organisations strategic initiatives.
The Senior Regional HRBP collaborates with other One People team members as an ambassador of our priorities and culture, focus on well-being and duty of care, problem solver and proactive in finding collaborative, cross-functional ways to maximise the impact of Mercy Corps People Team.
PEOPLE OPERATIONS (40%)
TEAM DEVELOPMENT (10%)
Supervisory Responsibility: None
Minimum of 5 years of experience working in Human Resources, including Talent Acquisition. Experience in consulting of management practices (i.e., HR Business Partner) highly preferred.
BA/BS in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field, preferred.
CIPD membership desirable.
Fluent English language proficiency required, other languages desirable but not essential (Dutch, French, German).
A demonstrated top performer with energy, intelligence, strong analytical skills and highly evolved interpersonal skills.
Experience working in an international or insecure environment desirable.
Demonstrated history of providing excellent customer service and a high level of attention to detail.
Demonstrated knowledge of human resource management techniques that meet the needs of a globally dispersed workforce.
Demonstrated experience working to solve emergency and crisis situations, as they relate to Human Resource best practices and People related coordination.
A historically demonstrated ability to maintain confidential information.
Must have strong analytical, mathematical, and problem-solving skills, effective organizational and interpersonal skills, strong written and verbal communication.
Demonstrated ability to manage workload in a remote work arrangement. Able to maintain operational consistency with other team members and actively keep management informed.
Proven experience and intermediate skills in Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook, and the ability to navigate the Internet/intranet.
The successful team member will be an avid learner, self-directed, innovative and action orientated. Furthermore, they must have the ability to work independently, employ effective time management skills, handle frequent interruptions, and shift priorities, exhibit effective customer service skills and work effectively with a wide variety of individuals including team members based overseas. Additionally, the individual will thrive in a fast-paced environment prone to rapid change and be willing to increase his/her responsibility level in the assigned areas. The most successful Mercy Corps team members have a positive approach, a strong commitment to teamwork and personal accountability and the ability to be flexible and ensure that effective communication is a priority in all situations.
This role is based in UK with regular travel to office locations in London and Edinburgh, UK, and The Hague, Netherlands.
Fostering a diverse and open workplace is an important part of Mercy Corps vision. Mercy Corps is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of background. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment.
Ongoing Learning
In support of our belief that learning organizations are more effective, efficient, and relevant to the communities we serve, we empower all team members to dedicate 5% of their time to learning activities that further their personal and/or professional growth and development
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Achieving our mission begins with how we build our team and work together. Through our commitment to enriching our organization with people of different origins, beliefs, backgrounds, and ways of thinking, we are better able to leverage the collective power of our teams and solve the worlds most complex challenges. We strive for a culture of trust and respect, where everyone contributes their perspectives and authentic selves, reaches their potential as individuals and teams, and collaborates to do the best work of their lives.
We recognize that diversity and inclusion is a journey, and we are committed to learning, listening, and evolving to become more diverse, equitable and inclusive than we are today.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Mercy Corps is an equal opportunity employer that does not tolerate discrimination on any basis. We actively seek out diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills so that we can be collectively stronger and have sustained global impact.
We are committed to providing an environment of respect and psychological safety where equal employment opportunities are available to all. We do not engage in or tolerate discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender identity, gender expression, religion, age, sexual orientation, national or ethnic origin, disability (including HIV/AIDS status), marital status, military veteran status or any other protected group in the locations where we work.
Safeguarding & Ethics
Mercy Corps is committed to ensuring that all individuals we come into contact with through our work, whether team members, community members, program participants or others, are treated with respect and dignity. We are committed to the core principles regarding prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse laid out by the UN Secretary General and IASC. We will not tolerate child abuse, sexual exploitation, abuse, or harassment by or of our team members. As part of our commitment to a safe and inclusive work environment, team members are expected to conduct themselves in a professional manner, respect local laws and customs, and to adhere toMercy Corps Code of Conduct Policies and values at all times. Team members are required to complete mandatory Code of Conduct e-learning courses upon hire and on an annual basis.
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