Recruitment and Selection Officer - Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Zayed University

Zayed University

Verified Company

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

6 days ago

Posted by:

Ahmed Al-Mansouri

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Description

The Opportunity

The Human Resources Department seeks an incumbent for the position of Recruitment and Selection Officer to provide highly professional and efficient support and service for effective delivery of recruitment and selection programs and services.

A key deliverable of the position is to actively support recruitment of highly qualified UAE Nationals in the organization.

The incumbent also supports the delivery of effective services in the areas of:
pre-hiring, orientation and on boarding, regular and temporary employee's recruitment, and process improvements.

The Responsibilities
The Recruitment and Selection Officer will work as part of a team of HR professionals.

A large emphasis of the job will be on providing pre-hiring orientation and on boarding support to Faculty and staff recruitment.

The incumbent will also be accountable for creating spreadsheets, databases and reports related to R&S functions, in particular providing administrative support for approvals in ZU.

Under the guidance of the R&S Manager/designate, the Recruitment and Selection Officer:

Recruitment

Provides support to the Recruitment Consultant and Senior Officers with high volume recruitment for Faculty and Staff positions, with special emphasis on Recruitment of UAE Nationals.
Post job adverts for Faculty and Staff positions ensuring a high level of professionalism of marketing materials in print, web and other media; ensures compliance with ZU standards and descriptions. Processes and maintains payments for job advertisements tracking costs to ensure efficiency.
Scheduling and attending interviews for Staff positions
Maintains vendor relationships with ad agencies, newspapers, webbased recruitment marketing sites to ensure cost effective delivery of services; discusses appropriate rates and package arrangements; maintains contracts; tracks costs and financial payments.
Maintains all aspects of recruiting temporary administrative employees working with internal clients (Deans/Directors) to define and meet their requirements within tight timelines advertising, screening, selection, assessment. Tracks and monitors all financial aspects of the temporary workforce.

Pre-Hiring, Orientation and On-boarding

Maintains the relationship with new faculty hires from time of offer to arrival in the UAE and orientation at the University. Ensures governmental/ZU requirements are met, advising HC and stakeholders of changes to requirements; designs and implements processes to ensure all onboarding protocols runs efficiently and smoothly across each functional area; follows up with hiring managers and new hires with changing requirements, information and outcomes. Oversees the logistics of the hiring of international faculty and staff and their families, including visas, flights, hotels, schedules and orientation activities. Uses own discretion to make decisions and manage the process representing the University in a highly professional and efficient manner.
Works with hiring managers (Deans/Directors) and representatives of other departments, colleges and campuses, designs and coordinates the planning and logistics of employee orientation programs for both local and international hires. Organizes all related services and vendors, negotiating cost effective rates; plans for resourcing of Orientation activities.
Writes new material and continually contributes to the design and updating of orientation information and materials
Ensures logistics for the families of ZU faculty and staff who travel to the U.A.E. to take up residence after the employee's arrival.
Ensures ongoing compliance with ZU policy and processes recommending and drafting changes as needed.

New Hires Announcements

Send welcome announcement templates to all new hires (Staff & Faculty), on monthly basis
Collate all the templates received and send to the VP's Office on monthly basis

Other Responsibilities

Builds effective working relationships with the HR teams, ZU community and with representatives from external organizations.
Prepares meaningful and accurate reports or documentation to support the effectiveness of the HR Department, including faculty and staff resource reports.
Communicates with other functional areas to ensure effective delivery of services.

Critical success factors

As part of the HR team, designs, plans, organizes and implements Recruitment and Selection programs in a professional, timely and efficient manner.
Builds effective business relationships to achieve results with key stakeholders within the University as well as with prospective employees and representatives of other organizations.

Degree of independence/ complexity of environment