Job Description

Job reference: 016218

Location: The British International School of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Closing date: 31/03/2023

Department: Human Resources

HR Manager

About the role

Key Duties:

Recruitment, Onboarding & Offboarding

• Work with the Principal and RHRD to create an annual resourcing plan.
• Develop and deliver appropriate recruitment strategies to meet requirement.
• Oversee all recruitment campaigns.
• Take responsibility for all pre-employment safeguarding checks covering application, selection, recruitment and onboarding processes.
• Ensure the best possible candidate experience throughout the recruitment and onboarding process.
• Where appropriate manage staff relocations to Thailand
• Oversee the planning and delivery of staff induction and orientation programmes.
• Oversee the exit / repatriation process ensuring efficiency and compassion until the end of the employment relationship.

Employee Relations / Employee Engagement

• Manage any disciplinary or grievance issues according to NAE policy and HR best practice.
• Provide sensitive and timely communications regarding all HR issues.
• Manage change smoothly and efficiently.
• Actively seek to understand current employee relations issues by fostering relationships with employees across the school at all levels.
• Develop and drive the staff wellbeing programme alongside the Staff Wellbeing Group.

HR Advice and Reporting

• Counsel and advise school leaders on all HR issues in line with best practice, labour law and NAE policy.
• Advocate for people issues to ensure fairness, consistency and to promote staff wellbeing, retention and engagement.
• Provide regular and appropriate HR metrics to inform decision-making, policy development and planning across the school.
• Support internal school communications especially where there are HR-sensitive issues.

Compensation & Reward

• Monitor, control and track staffing costs in line with budget.
• Review and advise on any changes to benefits.
• Manage the company medical insurance provision to ensure optimum efficiency and high levels of customer service.
• Ensure that monthly payroll is delivered on time, accurately and in line with budget and contractual entitlements.
• Ensure that all starting salaries, salary increases and other salary adjustments are in line with budget, market rate, fair and consistent.
• Take responsibility for exiting employee\'s final settlement payments in line with contractual entitlement and local employment law.

Talent and Performance Management

• Ensure that the probation review process is completed for all new staff and any issues resolved appropriately.
• Manage the annual performance management cycle and work to obtain maximum buy in from staff to ensure that the process is meaningful and promotes high performance, engagement and retention.
• Work with Line Managers to address performance issues by developing and implementing performance improvement plans with meaningful conclusions.

Training & Development

• Ensure that all Line Managers have a solid understanding of their role as LMs and the HR processes that they are involved in.
• Provide meaningful training and development opportunities for school support staff.
• Oversee new staff Induction, orientation and training.
• Ensure that all recurrent safeguarding training is fully up to date across the school (child protection and safer recruitment).

Compliance

• Take responsibility for ensuring that all NAE HR safeguarding imperatives are met.
• Ensure that the school is compliant with all Immigration and other licencing requirements.
• Monitor and develop policy and decision-making to ensure compliance with Thai labour law.
• Keep abreast of any regulatory or legal developments to ensure full compliance.

Regional HR

• Support the Regional HR Director and Regional HR Manager with any tasks or requests for information to ensure a coordinated approach across the SEAME region.
• Share school best practice and contribute to project work across the region.

About your school

is a premier international school in Kuala Lumpur serving students from pre-nursery through sixth form. Our warm and friendly school community values developing the whole child - academically, pastorally and socially with the principles of Positive Education and our school values as our foundation. We believe student happiness leads to student success and by placing the child at the centre of all we do we\'re able to offer an outstanding education.

Naturally, at BSKL, you\'ll find students who are happy, motivated, committed, and love learning. Our community invests in staff with ongoing CPD opportunities and community-building opportunities to help you get the most out of your time at BSKL and in Malaysia. Our state of the art facilities provide engaging learning environments for student and staff alike and our location provides easy access to the KL metropolitan area.

BSKL is a member of Nord Anglia Education and our evidence-based Professional Learning Pathways keep us at the forefront of new thinking in the classroom, ensuring that our teachers have all the tools to provide for outstanding teaching and learning.

About you

You will possess a diploma or university degree and at least three years of working experience in audit or finance handling closing of accounts/reporting. All successful candidates will undergo a criminal background check and must meet all applicable safeguarding requirements.

Benefits

When you join a Nord Anglia Education school, you join a global community of 14,000 people working together to support our students\' success. We offer you unsurpassed opportunities to innovate and develop best practice across our family, to access extensive professional development, and to gain exceptional experience and career development in our schools. At Nord Anglia, you will have opportunities to progress more, learn more, and collaborate more.

We offer unparalleled career and development opportunities that come with being part of our global organisation. Our online Nord Anglia University unites our team by harnessing the collective expertise of peers in an exchange of knowledge, ideas and best practice. We also provide extensive professional development through Nord Anglia University to ensure that our staff don\'t just maintain their skills, they develop at the cutting edge of educational thinking.

Selection Process

The closing date for application is 3:00pm on the 3rd March, 2023. Selected Candidates will be chosen for interviews. The school reserves the right to appoint a candidate before the closing date.

Start Date: On or before 1st April, 2023

Nord Anglia Education schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children. Applicants must be prepared to undergo stringent child protection screening, including references and checks with past employers, and an enhanced DBS.

At Nord Anglia Education, we work every day to inspire our students, schools and employees to be the best they can be and we are ambitious for them all to achieve more than they thought possible in their personal, social and academic endeavours. Within our family of schools, this aspiration is underpinned by a commitment to always act with respect, integrity, openness and courage. These qualities are the foundation of how we approach our work and roles within Nord Anglia Education and are shared by everyone in our global family.

About Nord Anglia Education

Nord Anglia Education (NAE) is the world\'s leading premium schools organisation, with 77 schools located across dozens of countries in the Americas, Europe, China, Southeast Asia, India and the Middle East. Together, our schools educate over 70,000 students from kindergarten through to the end of secondary school.

Our philosophy for education rests on the 4 pillars of creativity, wellbeing, excellent academic outcomes and global connectedness. These are delivered through innovative use of educational technology to create a 21st Century, personalised, learning experience for all students.

Every parent wants the best for their child - so do we. NAE schools deliver high quality, transformational education and ensure excellent academic outcomes by going beyond traditional learning. Our global scale enables us to recruit and retain world-leading teachers and to offer unforgettable experiences through global and regional events, while our engaging learning environments ensure all of our students love coming to school.

Our Schools

Each Nord Anglia Education school is unique in character and designed to meet the needs of its community. We are united by our philosophy, to be ambitious for our students, our people and our family of schools. We believe that being part of our family of 77 schools gives them a special advantage. Working together, we can achieve more than we can individually. Our schools have access to a wide range of resources and support to enhance their success. We also create unique opportunities to benefit our students and people, such as the Global Campus, Nord Anglia University, and our collaborations with The Juilliard School, MIT, UNICEF and King\'s College London.

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