Overview: Responsibilities:

General HR Responsibilities:

• Analyze the country’s HR needs and establish specific HR objectives for country office to ensure that HR policy/procedures and standards are met
• Attract and retain qualified and diverse talent for the organization.
• Establish and communicate performance standards, goals, and expectations for employees and managers. Coordinate and facilitate performance appraisals, feedback, and coaching sessions.
• Ensure country level management team members are well versed on country-related HR policies and that policies are implemented consistently
• Monitor and update HR policies, procedures, and documents, such as contracts, handbooks, and codes of conduct, working in collaboration with Regional HR Business Partner, Asia
• Advise and educate managers and employees on HR best practices, such as diversity, equity, and inclusion, health and safety, and data protection.
• Handle and resolve any HR complaints, grievances, or disputes.
• Identify and address performance issues, such as underperformance, misconduct, or conflict.
• Advice Country Director/Chief of Party on all HR related issues
• Review salary and benefits policies for local nationals to ensure that organization is able to attract and retain highly skilled staff
• Coordinate annual merit review process
• Review and update local employment policies as per local laws and best practices in the international NGO community
• Liaise, communicate and collaborate regularly with RHRBP/Asia (GHR)
• Lead all HR related Compliances

Compensation and Benefits Responsibilities:

• Provide guidance to Country Director/Chief of Party on all local compensation related issues, in collaboration with Regional HR Business Partner, Asia
• Review salary scales and benchmark to the market on a regular basis.
• Manage the design, implementation and administration of innovative compensation programs and policies
• Conduct job evaluations on new and existing positions, including reviewing job descriptions and recommending appropriate grade assignments
• Support Country Director/Chief of Party by answering compensation related questions
• Evaluate jobs for internal equity and external competitiveness against salary survey data
• Develop detailed knowledge of Jhpiego expatriate comp and benefits policies and practices administered by Baltimore, HQ
• Administer all employee benefits and answer queries from staff regarding benefits
• Review Jhpiego, Pakistan benefits packages from time to time to ensure compliance with local laws and competitiveness with other international NGOs

• Partner with hiring managers and Country Director/Chief of Party to evaluate needs and determine specific position responsibilities and requirements to ensure accurate candidate sourcing
• Draft job descriptions and advertise via appropriate channels in Pakistan
• Evaluate and benchmark new jobs to place them appropriately in the organization’s salary scale
• Prescreen candidates and administer appropriate tests and coordinate next level of interviews
• Counsel hiring managers on staffing and recruitment related matters, including legal considerations and coaching on interview techniques
• Organize, lead and document post-interview debrief/feedback with interview teams and candidates
• Perform detailed reference checking and/or reference analyses on selected candidates and review results with hiring managers
• Ensure recruiting and hiring practices are in compliance with government regulations and organizational policies.
• Regularly evaluate recruitment strategies for individual positions to ensure that appropriate candidates are being

• Coordinate on-boarding with other departments to support the learning process of new employees
• Ensure all new staff are trained on compliance procedures and processes.
• Conduct follow-up with new staff to ensure adaptation and identify problem areas
• Work closely with Supervisors to address issues affecting new staff
• Develop and maintain a healthy employee relations environment providing staff a venue to discuss their work-related problems and concern.
• Advise and assist staff with disciplinary and grievance issues
• Mediate in staff conflict situations

• Ensure that employee files are complete, and all required documentation is maintained in a confidential and secure manner.
• Ensure that HQ receives new employee documentation in a timely fashion.
• Maintain recruitment and attrition statistics for staff
• Ensure that all mandatory checks are completed in a timely fashion.

Required Qualifications:

• This position is open to Pakistani citizens only
• Master’s Degree in Human Resources or related field with 9 years managing human resources functions for mid-sized organization preferably with an international organization. Working with non-profit corporation is an additional desirable requirement
• Experience working with a diverse workforce
• In depth knowledge of Pakistan employment practices
• Highly motivated, energetic, independent self starter with strong service orientation
• Highly organized with keen attention to detail and ability to prioritize multiple responsibilities
• Strong presentation and communications skills, oral and written

Preferred Qualifications:

• Working experience in the development sector
• Knowledge of USAID policies and procedures

• Recruiters will never ask for a fee during any stage of the recruitment process.
• All active jobs are advertised directly on our careers page.
• Official Jhpiego emails will always arrive from a @Jhpiego.org email address.