HR Officer

JOB ADVERTISEMENT – HR Officer

SCI 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 workplace where ambition, creativity, and integrity are highly valued.

CHILD SAFEGUARDING:

Level 2 – the responsibilities of the post may require the post holder to have some contact with or access to children or young people.

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.

SCOPE OF ROLE:

Reports to: HR and Admin Director

Staff directly reporting to this post: HR Intern

KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:

Recruitment and Selection

• Prepare and post internal and external vacancy announcements using Save the Children International formats for all approved recruitments.
• Manage national recruitment processes in collaboration with hiring managers, providing HR guidance to ensure transparency and compliance with SCI’s recruitment policies and procedures.
• Ensure complete and up-to-date documentation of all recruitment files in alignment with SCI standards.
• Source qualified candidates using diverse methods, including job platforms, internal databases, employee referrals, career fairs, social media, and cold outreach.
• Serve as the focal point for SCI’s Human Resources Information Systems, including Oracle and Employee Relations platforms.
• Provide timely and accurate data inputs for regional HR reports, including recruitment updates and staff list revisions.
• Support onboarding by coordinating orientation processes for new hires, ensuring timely integration into the organization.

Personnel Management and File Administration

• Ensures that all staff have a complete personnel file created within one week of joining.Maintains up-to-date and compliant personnel files, ensuring confidentiality and access only by authorized HR team members.
• Administers contract management processes including the preparation and tracking of contracts, amendments, and extensions.
• Supports annual holiday and leave planning in coordination with the HR Administration Coordinator to ensure adequate operational coverage.

Onboarding and Offboarding

• Supports the development and execution of induction plans using SCI Turkey Country Office (TCO) tools.
• Maintains and updates onboarding and offboarding trackers.
• Facilitates and monitors the staff exit process, including coordination with Supply Chain for asset return and documentation finalization.
• Conducts or organizes exit interviews with national staff and documents insights for organizational learning.
• Presents and explains contract terms and internal regulations to new hires, ensuring understanding of rights and obligations in compliance with local labor laws.

Learning & Development and Staff Wellbeing

• Assists the HR and Administration Director in promoting a learning culture and supporting capacity-building across teams, individuals, and partners.
• Supports the HR Administration Coordinator in preparing learning and development plans based on assessed individual and organizational needs.
• Delivers HR-related trainings, particularly on HR systems and procedures.
• Implements components of the staff wellbeing plan and supports related initiatives.
• Contributes to the design and administration of staff wellbeing surveys, and ensures analysis and reporting to the Senior Management Team.

Payroll and Benefits Administration

• Collects and verifies all necessary data for monthly payroll processing in line with SCI procedures and national labor law.
• Coordinates payroll approvals and final submissions with the Finance Department and relevant stakeholders.
• Maintains accurate payroll records and ensures confidentiality.
• Follows up on legal obligations related to employee benefits, including the Individual Pension System (Bireysel Emeklilik Sistemi – BES), ensuring timely contribution submissions.
• Acts as the primary contact for staff queries related to payroll and benefits, providing accurate and confidential support.

Other

• Any other duties as assigned by line manager or the designate
• Act as a natural safeguarding focal point and carry over safeguarding related responsibilities as requested
• Position holder may be required to outside of normal duties and working hours during emergency responses.
• Being back up of Admin Officer in Istanbul where s/he is absent.

BEHAVIOURS (Values in Practice)

Accountability:

• Holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
• Holds the team and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities - giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.

Ambition:

• Sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
• Widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
• Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.

Collaboration:

• Builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, Members and external partners and supporters
• Values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength

• Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.

Creativity:

• Develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
• Willing to take disciplined risks.

Integrity:

• Honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity.

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

Essential

• 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 Istanbul, therefore legal right to work in Türkiye is necessary at the time of application.

Additional job responsibilities

The duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the role holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience.

Equal Opportunities

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.

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.

Child Safeguarding:

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.

Safeguarding our Staff:

The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI anti-harassment policy

Health and Safety

The role holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.

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. 

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.

Save the Children does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process.