Has been assigned tasks as Senior HR Officer.

Has been selected in the same organisation as Senior HR Officer.

Outline
As a Human Resource Manager, directly responsible for the overall administration, coordination and evaluation of the human resource function of the organisation.

Key Responsibilities
• Serve as a link between management and employees by handling questions, interpreting and administering contracts and helping resolve work-related problems.
• Analyse and modify compensation and benefits policies to establish competitive programmes and ensure compliance with legal requirements.
• Advise management on organisational policy matters such as equal employment opportunity and sexual harassment, and recommend needed changes.
• Perform difficult staffing duties, including dealing with understaffing, mediating disputes, firing employees, and managing disciplinary procedures.
• Plan and conduct new employee orientation to foster positive attitude toward organisational objectives.
• Identify staff vacancies and recruit, interview and select applicants.
• Plan, direct, supervise, and coordinate work activities of subordinates and staff relating to employment, compensation, labour relations, and employee relations.
• Administer compensation, benefits and performance management systems.
• Provide current and prospective employees with information about policies, job duties, working conditions, wages, opportunities for promotion and employee benefits.
• Prepare and follow budgets for personnel operations.
• Maintain records and compile statistical reports concerning personnel-related data such as hires, transfers, performance appraisals, and absenteeism rates.
• Conduct exit interviews to identify reasons for employee termination.
• Prepare personnel forecast to project employment needs.
• Manage end to end processing of organisation’s payroll. While doing so also prepare payroll related reports. Administer all payroll and employee welfare related tasks including but not limited to annual/monthly tax preparations, EOBI and health insurance payments etc.

Outline
As an HR officer mainly played a role of HR generalist and performed a broad range of duties. The key duties are as follows.

Key Responsibilities
• Process, verify, and maintain personnel related documentation, including staffing, recruitment, training, grievances, performance evaluations, classifications, and employee leaves of absence.
• Explain company personnel policies, benefits, and procedures to employees or job applicants.
• Record data for each employee, including such information as addresses, weekly earnings, absences, amount of sales or production, supervisory reports on performance, and dates of and reasons for terminations.
• Gather personnel records from other departments or employees.
• Examine employee files to answer inquiries and provide information for personnel actions.
• Request information from concerned, previous employers, and other references to determine applicants' employment acceptability.
• Process and review employment applications to evaluate qualifications or eligibility of applicants.
• Arrange for advertising or posting of job vacancies and notify eligible workers of position availability.
• Provide assistance in administering employee benefit programmes and worker's compensation plans.
• Inform job applicants of their acceptance or rejection of employment.
• Search employee files to obtain information for authorised persons and organisations.
• Arrange for in-house and external training activities.

Key Achievements/Projects
• For a newly established organisation, MERF, completed all HR tasks especially the recruitment and section process in very short time on emergency basis.

As a Senior HR Officer stationed in provincial Office of Merlin, my responsibility along with the routine HR functions is to provide guidance and support to regional offices such as Buner, Dir Lower, Bannu and Quetta Office on recruitment, interviews, conducting training sessions to the newly hired staff on organisation’s policies and procedures, giving advice on grievance procedures etc. (The HR team in Bannu, Dir Lower, Buner and Quetta includes 2 HR Officers and 3 HR Assistants.)

• Strategy, Planning, Change Management & Risk Management: To support HR Manager on development of agreed HR strategies & plans. To ensure that the HR policies and practices support the organization needs. The issues in HR, HR Plans and risks are actively managed by regular coordination meetings and reported in CMT and the final outcomes are included in continuity plan (e.g.; recruitment, payroll, performance, staff turnover).
• Recruitment: The main responsibilities are to support HR Manager in all aspects of recruitment and selection process while ensuring good HR practice and transparency are adhered to. This includes placing advertisements for vacancies in the local media when requested by the Managers after getting VAF approval. Other responsibilities include providing support in JD preparation, shortlisting for interviews and tests, selection, job offers plus it is also ensured, references are sought for all members of staff at time of acceptance of position.
• Employee Information: Regarding employee information the main duties include to oversee all of the national staff employment files within the Merlin Program. In coordination with the HR Manager, field sites and offices, it is ensured that each file has all of the appropriate documentation as per Merlin standard. By maintaining an up-to-date staff records, confidentiality is guaranteed. Other staff record apart from personnel files includes leave management database, EOBI and health insurance database.
• Contracts of Employment: All the in-coming national staff is briefed and issued with any kit needed for their job and also support HR Manager in briefing staff on HR issues and ensure that all relevant documents are obtained on arrival. It is also ensured that each national member of staff within the Merlin Pakistan program has a valid signed contract of employment plus signed code of conduct form and monitor contract start and end dates of all national staff of Merlin Pakistan. By supporting HR Man

While working for Coopervision, I fulfilled a broad range of HR functions, including recruiting and training employees, administering benefits, overseeing disciplinary action and managing HR records.