HR Partner to Civil Rights Defenders in Stockholm

We continue to expand, which has opened up many new interesting job opportunities. Are you an Human Resources professional with general HR working experience? Do you want to use your analytical and interpersonal skills to contribute to the human rights work of Civil Rights Defenders? Then you might be the one we are looking for.

About the role
At Civil Rights Defenders we are proud of our HR work and we are aiming to be a market leader in HR within our field of business. As Human Resources Partner your mission is to enable the organisation's managers to make the right decisions in HR related issues and to help make them successful in their leadership.

You will act as an operational and strategic partner to the managers with qualified support from the Head of HR as well as managing Civil Rights Defenders recruitment processes for our headquaters in Stockholm as well as globally. Another part of your over all responsibilities will be to develop, maintain, and implement HR policies and HR processes.

As HR Partner you report to the Head of Human Resources.

The role offers great variety, including work tasks such as:

- Supporting the Head of HR in both operational and strategic matters

- Managing recruitment processes together with mangers.
- Develop and implement CRDs job architecture on existing and new positions.
- Participate in trade union collaboration and act as a negotiation support to the Head of HR
- Working independently with work environment issues
- Manage rehabilitation matters together with mangers and occupational health services
- Manage HR related administration and reporting
- Contribute to the strategic development of CRDs broader HR agenda.




About you
As a person you are accommodating and flexible and have a positive attitude towards tasks, colleagues, and partners. You apply expertise and knowledge to achieve the best possible results as well as prioritising effectively and work in a systematic and methodical way to reach them.

Furthermore, you have well-founded and clear values that you are guided by in crucial situations at work and you make sure to comply with legal obligations and safety requirements for your role as HR Partner as well as for the organisation.

To learn from sucesses and failures comes naturally for you and you promote organisational learning. You communicate well, for example by expressing opinions, information and key points of an argument in a structured and logical way and you demonstrate an interest in and understanding of others by attentive listening and by providing feedback.

If you also have the courage to challenge prejudice, bias, and intolerance and see diversity as an asset that makes groups and organisations stronger, we definitely believe that you will be successful in this position.

We assume that you share our values.

To be suitable for this position you have:

- A Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Management or other education that the employer considers equivalent
- At least 3 years of relevant working experience within human resources, for example from an HR generalist role
- Documented experience from working with labor law issues
- Documented experience from working with competency based recruitment
- Good knowledge of coaching/consultative approach and practicies
- Ability to use the Swedish and English languages flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes and to produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects
- Strong IT skills, including good knowledge of Microsoft 365 (Teams, Outlook, Excel, PPT, Word)


Proficiency in Russian and/or Spanish is a merit. Other merits for the position are:

- Experience from working in Teamtalior or other recruitment systems
- Experience from working with assessment tools such as Aon
- Experience from working with salary mapping
- Experience from the NGO sector
- Experience working with HR in an international context


About the employment
This is a full-time permanent employment with 6 months probationary employment, starting in Febraury 2022 or as soon as possible. As an organisation, we strive for diversity, and we see your background, experience and personality as a contribution to the organisation. You will be based in our headquarters in Stockholm.

Please apply as soon as possible, as we recruit on an ongoing basis, but no later than 31 December.

Mikael Wu Björk, Head of HR: mikael.wu.bjork@civilrightsdefenders.org

Lokal union representative: lia.hen@crd.org (Unionen).

About us
Civil Rights Defenders is a politically and religiously independent international human rights organisation. We defend people’s civil and political rights in some of the world’s most repressive regions. We partner with and support human rights defenders in more than 300 organisations in 50 countries on four continents. Together with our partners, we hold those in power accountable when people’s civil or political rights are violated. We also act as Sweden’s civil rights watchdog.

Civil Rights Defenders has around 100 staff members working in various functions towards our vision - a world of democratic societies in which we all enjoy our civil and political rights. Our headquarter is located in Stockholm, and we have eight branch-offices around the world. Learn more about our work at crd.org (https://app.teamtailor.com/companies/quKUlp2-vJo/jobs/1031785/edit/www.crd.org).