HR Policy Specialist
Role Overview
Designs, governs, and maintains HR policy across Etihad Airways’ global operations.
The employer is open to candidates from either junior employment law or HR policy backgrounds.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Designs, governs, and maintains HR policy across Etihad Airways’ global operations.
The employer is open to candidates from either junior employment law or HR policy backgrounds.
Accountabilities
- Draft and maintain policies, contract templates, and employee handbook content across countries; partner with Legal on amendments.
- Monitor employment law requirements by market and keep policies compliant as regulations change.
- Manage policy and template library version control, consistency, and rollout.
- Partner with Payroll, HR Business Partners, Legal, and the business on change management and HR briefings.
- Evaluate policy effectiveness, analyze HR data, gather feedback, and report findings.
- Recommend improvements to engagement and operational efficiency using data, workplace trends, and market practice.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in law, Human Resources, or a related discipline.
- 5–8 years’ experience in employment law, HR policy, or benefits and working conditions, from a legal or senior HR background.
- At least three years’ experience in a large multinational organization with complex matrix reporting.
- Strong drafting and writing skills for policies, contracts, and employee-facing documentation.
- Analytical ability to quantify the cost and business impact of policy or process changes.
- Proactive and self-directed, with the ability to identify problems and drive solutions.
- Comfort using AI tools to support drafting while retaining independent critical judgment.
- HRIS experience, including SAP SuccessFactors or similar, is a plus; aviation experience is advantageous.
Recruitment process
- Shortlisted candidates complete a recorded video interview, followed by a hiring-manager technical interview that may include a business case; finalists may have a further interview.
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