Senior HR Officer

Description Senior HR Officer - Dubai School

We are seeking an experienced and proactive Senior HR Officer to join our team at one of our leading ISP schools in Dubai. This role is central to ensuring a smooth and professional HR function within the school, managing the full employee life cycle from recruitment to exit, and providing consistent support to staff and leadership.

Begin with our children and students. Our children and students are at the heart of what we do. Simply, their success is our success. Wellbeing and safety are both essential for learners and learning. Therefore, we are consistent in identifying potential safeguarding and Health & Safety issues and acting and following up on all concerns appropriately.

Treat everyone with care and respect. We look after one another, embrace similarities and differences and promote the well‑being of self and others.

Operate effectively. We focus relentlessly on the things that are most important and will make the most difference. We apply school policies and procedures and embody the shared ideas of our community.

Are financially responsible. We make financial choices carefully based on the needs of the children, students and our schools.

Learn continuously. Getting better is what drives us. We positively engage with personal and professional development and school improvement.

• To provide a professional organised HR service to all members of staff from recruitment to exit ensuring their needs are met alongside those of the relevant regulatory bodies
• To take an active role in the day to day running of our busy school and support our vision of being the school of choice for the community.
• To take an active role in promoting a positive culture of positive engagement and school connectedness for all employees to support the school aim of being the school and employer of choice.

• Key responsibility 1:
  Talent Acquisition and On‑boarding
• Lead the recruitment process from identifying vacancies, reviewing staffing structure, placing job ads, ensuring budgets are available, creating job descriptions, scheduling interviews, screening candidates, creating job offers and contracts.
• Ensuring a full onboarding process has been followed, including uploading documents to the HR system.
• Work in partnership with key stakeholders within the ISP-ME team and school leadership teams, including other school HR managers, to implement a combination of core learning and development activities targeted at various levels of the organisation and aligned to business and individual needs.

• Key responsibility 2 - HR Operations
• Implement a consistent human resources strategy with direction from ISP regional office across the school with accountability for talent acquisition, staffing, employment processing, compensation, health and welfare benefits, training and development, records management, safeguarding, succession planning, employee relations and retention, regional regulations, ISP compliance and local labour relations.
• Manage human resources operations in school by supporting the recruiting, selecting, orienting, training, coaching, counselling, and disciplining of staff and planning, monitoring, appraising, and reviewing staff performance.
• Provide information and reports on data such as staff turnover, references, cost per hire, training hours per person, etc.
• Comply with regional federal and local legal requirements by enforcing adherence to requirements and advising on required actions including areas such as teacher licensing.
• Manage systems for staff attendance recording and work alongside the finance manager to produce the monthly payroll.

• Key responsibility 3 - Organisational Development
• Improve organisational effectiveness through the development and deployment of solutions to improve productivity, and drive a performance culture.
• Consult with ISP-ME team and school leadership teams on change management opportunities – provide guidance on resources, processes and tools.
• Serve as partner to provide advice on organisational design issues.
• Line manage school reception staff.

• Key Responsibility 4 - Talent Management
• Implement…