HR Manager performs the following duties:
1) Maintains personnel records, processes employment, and social leave for academic, administrative, and administrative-academic staff of the School;
2) Prepares and submits expense reports to the Department of Accounting and Financial Reporting for faculty in accordance with the social policy, including reports on trips to visit relatives and others;
3) In case of unusual cases in trips to visit relatives, brings such issues to the consideration of the working committee on trips;
4) Prepares necessary documentation, organizes and conducts informative presentations on business, conference expenses, and membership fees for School staff;
5) Provides advisory and methodological assistance to School staff on issues related to business trips, leave, conferences, and membership fees within the scope of their competence;
6) Processes applications for business trips, conferences, and membership fees submitted by School staff, provides consultations on the possibility of filling out necessary documentation for the relevant expenses;
7) Creates requests for daily expenses and submits reports on staff trips to the Department of Finance and Accounting;
8) Enters data on the crossing of the RK border by foreign citizens into the Internationalization Department table after their leave and business trips;
9) Provides advisory and methodological assistance to School staff on medical insurance issues, namely: collects insurance claims and sends them to the Health and Well-being Department, refers newly arrived foreign staff for a medical examination, assists the Health and Well-being Department in organizing the annual mandatory medical examination, sends insurance claims to administrative staff who have passed the probationary period to the Health and Well-being Department;
10) Prepares and maintains necessary documentation for service contracts of the School's faculty (budget formation, preparation of contract drafts, timely signing of acts of completed work, reporting, submission of documents to the Department of Accounting and Financial Reporting, payment of service services);
11) Ensures timely familiarization of staff with employer acts in accordance with the Labor Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
12) Assists in the adaptation issues of the accepted administrative-academic and administrative staff of the School, including issues related to the University's Social Policy;
13) Participates in the preparation of personnel documents for School staff for submission to the University's archive;
14) If necessary, carries out the entry of temporary disability sheets into the accounting system for the correct calculation of salaries;
15) If necessary, issues certificates from the workplace;
16) Takes responsibility for the safety of documents within the scope of the managed direction;
17) Conducts correspondence within the scope of its functional responsibilities;
18) Participates in the processes of identification, assessment, management, and monitoring of risks within the scope of the managed direction;
19) Performs (replaces) HR specialist duties during his temporary absence (for up to one month);
20) Timely and properly performs tasks of the immediate supervisor and the University management;
21) Observes the requirements of the legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan and the internal documents of the University;
22) Responsible for compliance with labor and service discipline;
23) Responsible for ensuring the integrity of official documents, as well as preventing the disclosure or leakage of confidential and business information, as well as information of restricted access in accordance with the legislation, Charter and internal documents of the Employer;
24) In case of dismissal, is responsible for the timely transfer of all paper documentation, digital information, and inventory to another employee as directed by the immediate supervisor (according to the acceptance-transfer act).
Education:
Higher professional, preferably in higher education institutions with teaching in English.
Priority areas of specialization are:
- Management;
- Psychology;
- Human Resource Management;
- Business Administration;
- International Relations/Law;
- Jurisprudence
Work Experience:
Minimum three years. Minimum one year with a master's degree in a relevant field
Knowledge:
- Knowledge of the labor legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
- Knowledge of processes and tools in the field of personnel management;
- Knowledge of MS Office, Excel, PowerPoint programs;
- Fluency in English, Kazakh, and Russian languages
Skills:
- Ability to work with a large amount of information;
- Analytical abilities;
- Skills in developing rules, policies, contracts, and other documents;
- Skills in writing analytical and informational notes
Other Requirements:
- Commitment to the goals and values of the University;
- Ability to work independently and in a team;
- Communicability;
- Responsibility;
- Stress resistance;
- Initiative;
- Interpersonal skills;
- Ability to work in a multicultural environment.
Recruitment and selection process: Recruitment and selection at Nazarbayev University include the following process: preliminary selection based on experience and qualifications, assessments (e.g. technical skills/capabilities, aptitude, personality, work samples, in-basket exercises, and informal interviews), and motivation. Formal interviews form the final stage of the selection process. They are typically based on organizational values and behaviors and conducted in English. You are encouraged to share your views and values to identify how they fit into Nazarbayev University core values.