Position:	Manager-Human Resources	Department:	Human Resources
Location:	Delhi	Reporting to:	Country Director
Nature of Employment:	Staff (Open ended)	Number of Positions:	One

ABOUT AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION TRUST

The American India Foundation Trust (AIFT) is committed to improving the lives of India’s underprivileged, with a special focus on women, children, and youth. The Foundation does this through high-impact interventions in education, health, and livelihoods because poverty is multidimensional. Founded over two decades ago, in the aftermath of the devastating Gujarat earthquake, as a humanitarian initiative by the then Prime Minister of India, Atal Bihari Vajpayee Ji, and the U.S. President, Mr. Bill Clinton, AIFT has impacted the lives of 21.01 million of India’s poor across 35 States and Union Territories of India. Registered as a Trust in India, with an independent Board of Trustees, AIFT adheres to strict financial and governance standards, ensuring transparency, accountability, and responsible management of resources. As per statutory mandates, AIFT is registered under 80G, and 12A. These registrations and certifications are tangible evidence of the organization's existence, credibility, and compliance with the applicable legal and regulatory frameworks while demonstrating a firm commitment to its vision and mission. Learn more at www.aif-india.org

KEY ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Overview: The Manager - Human Resources is an important role in the Human Resources Department at AIFT. This role is critical to the foundation & growth of the strategic people initiatives at AIFT. The incumbent will work closely with the Country Director to deliver organization-wide strategic HR solutions across the HR portfolio including but not limited to Recruitment, Compensation, HR operations, ERP, Grievances, statutory compliances and more. The role will involve collaborating with a diverse group of individuals and personalities across AIFT (office & field) to ensure the achievement of individual, functional and organizational goals. The Manager - Human Resources will collaborate with all AIFT Team members in office and in the field and the incumbent will require to occasionally travel to AIFT’s program locations.

A.   The responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

The Manger - Human Resources will primarily be responsible for 2 key HR functions, namely Talent Acquisition and Talent management, for AIFT by working closely with Country Director. Details of the key responsibilities within each of these are below:

Talent Acquisition: Manage all recruitment related activities and goals for AIFT such as:

• Closure of open vacancies as per agreed timelines with respective hiring managers across programs & functions.
• Manage high quality recruitment activities, including but not limited to, attractive Job description, effective job promotion, applicant sourcing, candidate evaluation & selection, offers & onboarding.

1. Candidature Sourcing – identify new, creative sources and leveraging existing sources for higher & better applications.
2. Selection process – manage successful selection of the right hires for organizational growth, enhance & standardize selection processes for hiring effectiveness. Support and advise hiring managers for impactful talent acquisition.
3. Candidate pool – design & build a competitive talent pool of prospective recruits.
4. Manage Offers and negotiations for quick closures and high offer acceptance rates.

• Communication – timely, clear and high-quality communication with all internal & external stakeholders.
• Design & manage Internship program & campus drives as per the organizational needs.
• Manage LinkedIn for effective sourcing and branding.

Talent Management: Manage all people operations across the employee life cycle from pre joining to post-separation.

• Manage & support compensation initiatives & payroll activities.
• Design & execute retention strategy for key team members, including internal placements.
• Design, organize and anchor the New Hire Orientation program to enable easy settling-in and acculturalization of new joinees. Collaborate with Program HRs to build a holistic and excellent onboarding experience.
• Support in design & lead the compliance of all HR policies. Conduct policy orientations.
• Manage communication & compliance towards POSH, Child Protection and similar.
• Manage execution of all contracts, offers, letters, certifications for all team members, HR service providers/vendors / partners, as per organizational SOPs & budgets.
• Custodian of staff grievances policy compliance – identify and address staff grievances.
• Work with cross-functional teams to identify HR needs in projects/programs while balancing the overall purpose and requirements of the talent strategy.
• Develop and execute various surveys and metrics to track talent engagement both organization wide and at program / function level. Manage effective analysis, reporting & action as per the results.
• Support in creating a stimulating work environment through robust engagement activities.
• Create and execute robust and effective communication relating to talent management and talent acquisition.

HR process excellence: Custodian of internal process compliance & excellence across Talent acquisition & Talent management.

• Proactively ensure the execution internal HR SOPs and Process TATs.
• Promote HRMS’ adoption across functions & programs for effective HR service delivery. Design & execute trainings as well as troubleshoot for seamless and 100% utilization of HRIS across all HR services.
• Enhance & support data -driven HR management & reporting. Maintain & share easy, comprehensive and updated reports towards all stages of all vacancies and applications.

Other HR Support:

• Assist HR Head in creating & executing a competitive and sustainable Talent strategy.
• Support in HR’s financial planning & management.
• Partner in HR goal setting, achievements & reporting.
• Design, deploy, and evaluate effective and efficient talent solutions towards Talent Acquisition (Recruitment) and Talent management (HR operations & beyond) based on programmatic needs and constraints.
• Collaborate across geographies to introduce consistency in HR practices and culture.
• Extend any other HR support as per organizational needs.

Education:

Master’s degree in Human Resource Management, Organizational Design, Educational or Organizational Psychology Business Administration (MBA) with a specialization in HR, or similar relevant degree.

Professional experience

• Must have minimum 5-8 years of relevant HR experience.
• Demonstrable experience of minimum 5 years of handling all facets of the Employee Life Cycle.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience of managing teams in medium or large-scale organizations.
• Strong experience of collaborating with leaders and colleagues to drive results.
• Experience implementing diverse and high impact HR initiatives to support organizational objectives.
• Demonstrated successful experience working with detailed information and numerical data and presenting it in a way that is easily understood by people at different levels in the organization.
• Experience with event management.

Other competencies:

• Excellent influencing skills.
• Excellent written and spoken English communication skills with proven ability to present to large audiences.
• Strong listening skills.
• Attention to details.
• Creative thinking.

Person Specifications:

• Must have a good understanding and working knowledge of Total Reward systems, Statutory requirements, Compensation best practices, Market benchmarking, Recognition frameworks, Employee Engagement systems, Survey tools and methodologies, Engagement best practices, problem solving techniques, team building techniques, HR Management, HR Audit mechanisms, Dashboards and Statutory Frameworks.
• Demonstrated success in designing and executing customized, effective & sustainable HR programs in the development sector, especially in fast growing, geographically distributed and small organizations.
• Demonstrated success in Recruitments for niche roles, preference for experience of recruitments in the development sector.
• Demonstrated success in implementing innovative engagement and training techniques, in multiple areas including managerial and leadership development areas.
• Experience in conducting organizational, program level, and individual needs analysis to identify learning and development needs; experience in running targeted development programs.
• Good knowledge of the training/learning related offerings available in the market, including relevant training organizations and service providers;
• Experience in Change management to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
• Exposure to working in a social sector organization involved in fundraising, field work, education, public health, social startups, field-based NGOs, would be an added advantage.

Travel Requirement 30-40 % of the overall time.

OTHERS:

Salary shall be commensurate with experience.

POSITION AVAILABILITY:

Immediate

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