Are you aiming to work for an organization where it is worthwhile investing your personality, your skills and your time? Are you looking for a job that is exciting and has clear goals? Welcome to Welthungerhilfe!

We are one of the largest and most respected private organizations for development cooperation and humanitarian aid in Germany. As a politically and confessionally independent organization, our value-oriented actions are always based on ethical principles. Our vision is clear: “Zero Hunger by 2030” – If you want to become part of our global mission to end hunger around the world, we look forward to receiving your application as:

Human Resources Manager* 

in Erbil 

The position is to be filled as soon as possible, with an initial contract duration until 31.12.2025. . Employment location will be Erbil,in KRI. The position is paid according to SG7 ( 3,575,000 IQD) as Gross Salary .

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The aims of the position are to manage Welthungerhilfe’s personnel administration and to provide respective services to internal customers.

Your responsibilities

2. Duties and area of responsibility

2.1.    Duties with own area of responsibility

• Support employment planning and recruitment for new positions
  • Assist the management in defining future personnel needs (employment planning)
  • Continuously review and adapt existing standard job descriptions
  • Update existing standard requirement profiles for each open position
  • Ensure vacancy announcements correspond to the requirement profile and Welthungerhilfe standard, publish them
  • Keep the candidates informed about the selection process (acknowledgement of receipt, results)
  • Pre-select candidates based on requirements and terms of reference and propose suitable candidates to the management
  • Organize and participate in the selection interview
  • Manage and regularly update the personnel files for Welthungerhilfe national personnel

• Manage compensation and benefits issues
  • Assess the competitiveness of Welthungerhilfe salaries through benchmarking with other agencies
  • Document conditions for benefits to be paid and report the need for adjustments
  • Keep track of host country legislation concerning compensation and benefit issues and identify need for adjustments
  • Prepare Welthungerhilfe standard employment contracts (national personnel, consultants) according to specifications in the service request
  • Advise the management on the proper classification of positions and/or suitable remuneration according to Welthungerhilfe’s remuneration system for national personnel and consultants
  • Check contracts (legal aspects, classification, remuneration) and whether they correspond to Welthungerhilfe rules and agreements
  • Submit proper contracts to the management for signature and send one copy and one original version of the contract back to the project/programme
  • Monitor the contract implementation and process requests for subsequent payment

• Maintain good employee relations
  • Organize the election of an employee representation and inform elected representatives about important issues (upon request of the management team)
  • Plan and organize the annual Welthungerhilfe get-together

1. 1. Duties without own area of responsibility

• Fulfillment of any other tasks which are assigned by the management and correspond in general with the character of this position

2.3     Specific Activities and duties of the position

To be filled in or described individually by the Country Director or immediate superior

– Coordinate and propose capacity development initiatives to staff

– Follow up on Staff Appraisal timeframes and capacity building opportunities

– Ensure compliance with existing labor law and WHH Staff policy

– Ensure the staff database is fully up to date

-Ensure staff files are complete and up to date

– Ensure full compliance in recruitment procedures and proper documentation and filing of these.

– Provide technical support in HR processes, compliance and documentation to National Partner organizations, investing at least 30% of the total work time in analizing, assesing and providing recommendations to national organizations

Professional/ formal qualification

• University degree 
• 2 to 5 years’ professional experience working in similar position with relevant tasks and responsibilities

Foreign language skills

• Fluency in English ,Kurdish and Arabic (written and spoken),

Please CLICK HERE to send your application via our online recruiting system by March  4th, 2025

Please note , Only Shortlisted applicants will be contacted.