Human Resource / Recruiting Manager (Arabic Speaker)
Role Overview
Manage the institute’s complete HR function, including HR operations, recruitment, employee relations, payroll coordination, compliance, performance management, documentation, and administration.
Take responsibility for recruitment from manpower planning and candidate sourcing through interviews, selection, onboarding, and integration.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Manage the institute’s complete HR function, including HR operations, recruitment, employee relations, payroll coordination, compliance, performance management, documentation, and administration.
Take responsibility for recruitment from manpower planning and candidate sourcing through interviews, selection, onboarding, and integration.
HR operations and administration
- Manage day-to-day HR operations and maintain employee records, contracts, files, and personnel documentation.
- Coordinate onboarding, transfers, promotions, confirmations, resignations, offboarding, attendance, leave, working hours, and employee schedules.
- Develop and maintain HR policies, procedures, forms, and internal guidelines; prepare regular HR reports.
Recruitment and talent acquisition
- Manage recruitment for teaching, administrative, sales, customer service, and support positions.
- Identify manpower needs, update job descriptions and advertisements, source candidates, screen CVs, and conduct initial HR interviews.
- Coordinate departmental interviews, checks, offers, salary negotiations, joining formalities, and pre-employment documentation.
- Coordinate visa, work permit, medical, Emirates ID, and other employment-related processes with relevant teams.
- Maintain candidate pipelines, monitor recruitment timelines, and develop strategies to attract qualified employees.
Compliance and payroll
- Ensure HR practices comply with UAE employment requirements and monitor contracts, working hours, leave, probation, termination, notice periods, and gratuity.
- Handle employee complaints, disciplinary matters, warnings, investigations, and terminations; coordinate with authorities and HR service providers when needed.
- Coordinate monthly payroll processing and verify attendance, leave, overtime, deductions, allowances, salary changes, and adjustments.
- Support final settlements, gratuity calculations, leave salary, employee benefits, and other employee dues.
Employee relations and performance
- Act as the primary HR contact for employees and management; handle grievances, conflicts, and workplace concerns.
- Promote a professional and respectful workplace and advise managers on employee matters and HR procedures.
- Coordinate probation and confirmation processes, appraisals, KPIs, performance improvement plans, employee development, and succession planning.
Training and development
- Identify employee training and development requirements and coordinate internal and external training programs.
- Maintain employee training records.
Qualifications and language
- Strong knowledge of UAE Labour Law and HR practices.
- Ability to communicate professionally in both Arabic and English.
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