Reporting to:
HR &Adminstration Director
No. Subordinates:
Direct Reports:1
Indirect Reports: NA
Sector:
HR &Adminstration Sector
Main Job Purpose:
Lead the consistent and compliant delivery of human resources services across Sawiris Foundation, translating HR & Administration strategy into effective people operations, recruitment, performance management, learning and development, employee services, workforce reporting and continuous improvement.
Overall Accountabilities and Responsibilities:
- Lead HR operational planning and service delivery across the Foundation, setting service standards, priorities, controls, and reporting timelines under the HR & Administration Director.
- Oversee personnel administration, employee files, employment contracts and renewals, attendance, leave records, and HR correspondence, ensuring accuracy, confidentiality, and audit readiness.
- Ensure implementation of approved HR policies and procedures and monitor compliance with applicable Egyptian labor and social insurance requirements; escalate legal interpretations and material exceptions.
- Coordinate end-to-end recruitment, including vacancy requests, screening, interviews, technical assessment logistics, reference checks, offer documentation, and hiring records, within delegated approvals.
- Oversee onboarding and probation follow-up, employee orientation, required documentation, social insurance coordination and HR/IT/Admin handovers.
- Coordinate the Foundation performance management cycle, including objective setting, mid-year and year-end reviews, calibration logistics, 360-degree feedback administration and confidential reporting.
- Consolidate performance results, identify development priorities and provide analytical input to the HR & Administration Director without independently changing calibrated ratings.
- Lead the annual training-needs consolidation process and execute the approved learning and development plan, including providers, training logistics, attendance, evaluation, and budget tracking.
- Coordinate the internship program, employee engagement initiatives, retreats and team-building activities within approved plans and resources.
- Oversee employee services, including medical insurance coordination, benefits administration, and timely resolution or escalation of employee requests.
- Prepare accurate monthly and periodic HR dashboards covering headcount, recruitment, turnover, attendance, leave, performance, learning, and employee services.
- Support the HR & Administration Director in policy review, salary-survey and job-evaluation exercises, HR process digitization and improvements to HR information quality and workflow controls.
- Coordinate disciplinary documentation, employee relations cases, resignations, exit interviews and clearance processes, ensuring confidentiality, due process and appropriate approvals.
- Manage HR staff workload, coach direct reports, monitor quality and timeliness, and conduct performance reviews within delegated authority.
- Maintain professional relationships with external recruiters, training providers, insurers, consultants and government authorities, referring to sensitive commitments and decisions to the Director.
- Coordinate Finance & Operations on payroll inputs and reconciliations, with IT on HR systems and access, and with sector leadership on workforce and people-management processes.
Position Relationship with Other Parties:
- Internal Relationships: All internal sectors
- External Relationships: Consultancy companies, Training agencies, Insurance Companies, labor offices, and social insurance authorities, etc.
Decision Making Authority:
May manage routine HR operational workflows, validate records, and recommend process improvements within approved policies and delegated limits. May review and sign off routine HR documentation expressly delegated by the HR & Administration Director. Recruitment offers, compensation changes, disciplinary sanctions, policy exceptions, contractual commitments, material budget changes and final performance calibration decisions require the relevant authorized approvals. Escalate sensitive employee relations, safeguarding, privacy, labor-law and reputational risks promptly.
Required Education:
Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Management, or a related field; a relevant master’s degree is an advantage.
Required Experience:
At least 10 years of progressive HR experience, including at least 2 years in a managerial or team-lead role; practical experience in Egyptian employment administration and Foundation-wide HR processes.
Good knowledge of:
- Egyptian Labor Law and Social Insurance regulations
- HR operational processes and documentation standards
- Recruitment and selection practices
- Performance management and OKR frameworks
- Learning and Development coordination and training needs analysis
Required Technical Skills:
Strong HRIS, Excel, data analysis, and reporting skills; sound understanding of personnel files, recruitment, performance cycles, training administration, data privacy, labor and social insurance compliance.
Required Languages:
- Arabic and English proficiency.
Core Competencies:
- Strategic planning
- Networking and communication
- Implement Principals and values
- Build Teamwork
- Leadership skills
- Problem solving and Decision-Making
- Negotiation Skills
- Quality Focus
Functional Competencies:
- HR operations and personnel administration
- Egyptian labor and social insurance compliance
- Recruitment and selection operations
- Performance management and 360-degree administration
- Learning and development coordination
- HR reporting, metrics, and data confidentiality
- Employee relations and service delivery
Sawiris Foundation Competency Framework:
- Advanced Planning and Organizing Skills:
Plans complex work and resources, anticipates risks and dependencies, aligns priorities across stakeholders, and guides others to deliver effectively.
- Advanced Communication & Networking Skills:
Communicates effectively in complex or sensitive situations, builds strategic relationships, and influences diverse stakeholders through clear and credible messages.
- Advanced Teamwork Skills:
Promotes cross-functional collaboration, resolves complex team challenges constructively, and strengthens collective ownership and performance.
- Advanced Adherence to Principles and Values Skills:
Models SF principles in complex situations, reinforces ethical and accountable practice, and guides others in resolving difficult values or compliance issues.
- Advanced Influencing Skills:
Influences complex stakeholder decisions, builds alignment across differing interests, and negotiates effectively to advance agreed organizational priorities.
- Advanced Engaged Leadership Skills:
Provides technical or people leadership, creates accountability for high-quality delivery, coaches others, and actively supports team capability and engagement.
- Advanced Visioning and Strategic Thinking Skills:
Translates organizational priorities and external trends into strategic options, anticipates longer-term implications, and helps shape functional or cross-sector direction.
- Advanced Decision-Making Skills:
Makes timely decisions in complex or ambiguous situations, balances evidence, risk, and stakeholder implications, and guides others on appropriate judgment and escalation
