1. HR Strategy and Planning:
- Collaborate with School Leaders to develop and implement HR policies, processes and initiatives to support School’s strategic goals and priorities.
- Facilitates workforce planning and succession management initiatives.
2. Talent Acquisition and Management:
- Collaborates with School Leaders to develop and implement strategies to attract, retain, and develop a diverse and high-performing workforce.
- Collaborates with Key Personnels to identify staffing needs and implement effective hiring and talent management processes.
- Owns the full recruitment lifecycle, including screening, interviewing and selection, ensuring a positive experience to upkeep school’s employer branding.
- Manages onboarding and orientation processes for new employees.
3. Employee Relations and Engagement:
- Drives initiatives to enhance employee engagement, satisfaction, and well-being, including staff welfare activities.
- Champions a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion, fostering an environment where all employees feel valued and respected.
- Foster a positive and inclusive work environment by ensuring that employee concerns, conflicts, and grievances are addressed effectively in line with legal obligations and the MOE/School’s policies.
- Support the handling of disciplinary cases.
4. HR Compliance:
- Leads the daily HR operations to ensure compliance with labor laws, regulations, and MOE/school policies.
- Maintains knowledge of market trends, best practices, regulatory changes and new technologies in HR-related matters, to appropriately advise stakeholders.
5. Performance Management:
- Manages and facilitates the performance management process for all staff types.
- Provides guidance to employees on goal setting, performance evaluations, and career development.
6. HR Metrics and Reporting:
- Conducts analysis of organizational trends in support of decision-making in HR-related matters and to evaluate effectiveness of HR initiatives.
- Benchmarking and recommending good HR practices for continual improvement.
7. Compensation and Benefits Administration:
- Manages compensation and benefits programmes to ensure competitiveness and alignment with industry standards as well as school’s objectives.
- Accountable for timely, accurate and efficient payroll activities in accordance with relevant legislation.
8. HR Operations
- Oversees day-to-day HR operations managed by the team.
- Drives and constantly review HR processes to ensure good employee experience from joining to exit.
- Provide secretarial support to School’s HR Committee and Board.
9. Supervisory duties:
- Leads a team of HR personnels, promoting a culture of open communication and teamwork.
- Coaches employee performance, ensuring staff development and empowerment.
Requirements
- Proven experience in HR leadership roles, preferably in a complex organizational setting.
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Strong work ethic and personal integrity.
- Strong knowledge of Singapore employment laws and HR regulations.
- Strategic mindset with the ability to align HR initiatives with School’s objectives
- Excellent communication (spoken and written) and interpersonal skills necessary to build rapport and collaborate effectively with various stakeholders.
- Good knowledge of compensation and benefits strategies
- Tech-savvy, with proficiency in the use of HRIS, MS Office Suite and other office software.
- Ability to handle confidential information with integrity and discretion.
- A creative thinker and problem solver.
- Resilient and able to navigate a complex operating structure.A team player.
