HR Officer - Syria Aleppo

Established in 1977, GOAL is an international humanitarian and development agency, committed to working with communities to achieve sustainable and innovative early response in crises, and lasting solutions to poverty and vulnerability. GOAL has worked in over 60 countries and has responded to almost every major humanitarian disaster. We are currently operational in 18 countries.

GOAL began operations in Syria in 2013 responding to the acute needs of conflict-affected communities. GOAL's areas of operations include but not limited to Aleppo, Idleb and Lattakia Governorates, and is expanding to new governorates in Syria. Programmes focus on Food and Nutrition Security, WASH, Shelter, Livelihoods/ERMS and Emergency Response with an emphasis on cash and voucher modalities. GOAL Syria implements its programmes directly, with over 500 staff based in Syria, and through Syrian NGO partners. GOAL's programme works at the household and community levels to improve community resilience and household coping strategies.

To accurately and responsibly manage end-to-end payroll, contracts, and administrative HR operations, while actively supporting recruitment and training efforts to ensure a smooth, compliant, and people-focused work environment.

• → Payroll Preparation and Administration

You will take full ownership of preparing the monthly payroll for all national staff accurately and on time, which means collecting, verifying, and consolidating data on attendance, overtime, leave balances, and other payroll inputs from field offices, while updating and maintaining employee records including salary adjustments, promotions, and changes in employment status, following up on social security relationships and the department of labour (registration, payments, resignations, etc.), and preparing income taxation periodical reports.

• → Contracts Management

You will be responsible for preparing service and employment contracts, renewals, amendments, and termination documents, storing them in an agreed-upon secure location, and supporting human resources audits by providing necessary documentation.

• → Recruitment and Training Support

You will play a key role in supporting the recruitment process at different stages (communication, testing, interviewing, offering, reference checking, onboarding) as needed and requested, as well as supporting trainings as needed and requested.

• Bachelor’s degree in business administration or any other relevant field.
• 2 years of professional experience in administration in Syria.
• 1 year of experience in social security administration and income tax calculations in Syria.
• Excellent command of English language
• Excellent communication skills
• Very good excel and word skills

Children and vulnerable adults a must be safeguarded to the maximum possible extent from deliberate or inadvertent actions and failings that place them at risk of abuse, sexual exploitation, injury and any other harm. One of the ways that GOAL shows this on-going commitment to safeguarding is to include rigorous background and reference checks in the selection process for all candidates.

Alongside our safeguarding policy, GOAL is an equal opportunities employer and has a set of integrity policies. Any candidate offered a job with GOAL will be expected to adhere to the following key areas of accountability:

• Comply with GOAL’s policies and procedures with respect to safeguarding, Code of Conduct, health and safety, data protection and confidentiality, do no harm principles and unacceptable behaviour protocols.
• Report any concerns about the welfare of a child or vulnerable adult or any wrongdoings within our programming area.
• Report any concerns about inappropriate behaviour of a GOAL staff or partner.

This Job Description only serves as a guide for the position available. GOAL reserves the right to change this document. Any published closing dates are estimated.  Due to the nature of GOAL’s work we aim to fill vacancies as quickly as possible.  This means that we will close adverts as soon as we have found the right candidate and this may be before the published closing date.  We would therefore advise interested applicants to submit an application as early as possible.