The Role:

Oxfam GB is looking for a Country Human Resources Manager in Yemen to provide strategic HR and organizational development support and ensure staff are well-resourced, managed, and developed to meet Oxfam’s mission. The Country HR Manager will lead the HR team in Yemen to promote integrity, diversity, inclusion, well-being, and safeguarding across all operations. She/He will partner with leadership and Oxfam affiliates to implement people strategies and maintain strong HR systems and services across Yemen. 

Key Responsibilities:

Strategic Leadership

• Lead the implementation and periodic review of the Country People Strategy in coordination with the Country Management Team (CMT).
• Anticipate and drive change management initiatives, both operational and strategic.
• Provide strategic HR advice to senior leadership, ensuring alignment with Oxfam’s vision, values, and local legislation.
• Serve as a trusted People & Culture manager within the Senior Management Team (SMT), influencing strategic decisions and organizational change processes.
• Translate Oxfam’s core values and feminist principles into actionable policies and practices, particularly in employee relations and team management.
• Lead the development and implementation of HR policies, including recruitment, remuneration, and staff well-being, ensuring alignment with local laws and Oxfam’s global strategies and promoting equitable opportunities for women and men.
• Actively contribute to the Country Management Team and organizational development initiatives

Talent Management & Development

• Oversee recruitment, onboarding, and capacity building for staff across the sub-region, collaborating closely with relevant team members and stakeholders and promoting diversity and equitable access.
• Foster a values-led, diverse, and inclusive team culture.
• Support performance management, career development, and succession planning.
• Lead the implementation of the Country Learning & Development Strategy and annual L&D plans.
• Ensure effective onboarding, role transitions, and offboarding processes.
• Conduct talent mapping to identify high-potential employees and coordinate resources for capacity development.
• Promote a culture of continuous learning and performance management using Oxfam’s 'Let’s Talk' framework, ensuring staff are held accountable, receive feedback, and are recognized for their contributions.
• Support managers in coaching and developing their teams to optimize potential and meet Oxfam’s objectives.

Organizational Development and Culture

• Foster and promote a healthy, inclusive, and productive work environment by advancing Oxfam’s commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion through recruitment, capacity building and HR practices
• Lead initiatives to enhance organizational culture and strengthen team cohesion and a shared sense of belonging.
• Support change management processes, collaborating with colleagues from the MENA region and global affiliates to ensure effective implementation aligned with Oxfam’s values.

Employee Relations & Engagement

• Provide expert guidance on employee relations, ensuring compliance with policies and local laws.
• Lead employee engagement initiatives and analyze feedback to inform management decisions.
• Ensure consistent application of HR policies and practices across the employee lifecycle.

Operational HR

• Ensure high standards in HR operations such as workforce planning, payroll coordination, recruitment and selection and compliance with employment laws.
• Implement audit recommendations and maintain HR best practices.
• Collaborate with the Reward Shared Service to maintain a competitive, equitable, inclusive and compliant reward package.
• Implement country-specific reward policies, especially during humanitarian responses.

Team & Budget Management

• Manage HR resources, including people, assets, and budgets.
• Coordinate with Finance on payroll, staff cost planning, and support for Country Operational Planning (COP).

Representation and Organizational Participation & Influence

• Represent Yemen country office’s needs and context within the MENA People & Culture team, contributing to regional and global HR discussions.
• Build effective networks and partnerships internally and externally to support HR and organizational goals.
• Coordinate closely with Oxfam International and relevant Executive Affiliates to align on shared HR policies, procedures, and tools.

What we are looking for:

We’re looking for a candidate who cares about Oxfam's mission to end poverty and is personally aligned to our feminist principles and values of empowerment, accountability and inclusion in all you do.  You could be a good fit if you recognize yourself at least in 70% of the below attributes and requirements:

An ideal candidate for the role will also be / have:

• A proactive and decisive leader who values consistency and integrity.
• Self-aware and collaborative, fostering mutual accountability and trust.
• A strategic thinker and influencer, with a solution-oriented mindset.
• Passionate about empowering others, building inclusive cultures, and driving positive change.
• A degree in Human Resources or a related field, with 10+ years of progressive HR experience, including senior-level leadership.
• OR 15+ years of proven HR experience, ideally in the non-profit sector and within MENA (Middle East and North Africa) .
• Demonstrate knowledge and expertise in:
  • Managing performance of others and helping people to develop, grow and achieve  their potential, including increasing diversity and inclusion in teams and / or workplaces.
  • INGO/sector experience preferred.
  • Organizational development and change management
  • HR compliance, systems, and process design
  • Risk management, conflict resolution,
  • Support to safeguarding initiatives
  • Experience providing leadership and direction on all HR issues, at the same time as balancing the
  • Strategic role with the need to deliver effective day-to-day HR services.
  • National labour laws and global HR standards

In addition:

• Ability to demonstrate sensitivity to cultural differences and gender issues, as well as the
• commitment to equal opportunity.
• Ability to demonstrate an openness and willingness to learn about the application of
• gender/gender mainstreaming, women’s rights, and diversity for all aspects of development work.
• Commitment to Oxfam’s safeguarding policies to ensure all people who come into contact with Oxfam are as safe as possible.

What we value:

• Accountability – Our purpose-driven, results-focused approach means we take responsibility for
• our actions and hold ourselves accountable. We believe that others should also be held
• accountable for their actions.
• Empowerment – Our approach means that everyone involved with Oxfam, from our staff and
• supporters to people living in poverty, should feel they can make change happen.
• Inclusiveness – We are open to everyone and embrace diversity. We believe everyone has a
• contribution to make, regardless of visible and invisible differences.
• Equality
• Solidarity
• Courage

Desirable:

• Ability to speak Arabic
• Experience working in difficult humanitarian context with minimum social services and access
• A background in humanitarian or development contexts.
• Experience working in multicultural, multidisciplinary teams.

We offer:

We offer a competitive salary and a range of additional benefits to staff including flexible working options, generous pension scheme, annual leave, additional leave allowances, company sick pay, life assurance and a range of other benefits. 

From the day you join Oxfam we invite you to stretch and learn in your role. Our wide range of Learning & Development opportunities includes in-house courses, e-learning modules, on-the job learning opportunities, coaching and mentoring, and much more. 

You can read more about all Oxfam has to offer here.

Flexfam:

We believe flexible working is key to building the Oxfam of the future,, however this is a programme position that needs full time onsite commitment.