Assistant Manager - Organisation Effectiveness

edari; Dubai; On-site; AED 273,000 - 546,000; Part time

Job summary

edari is seeking an experienced Assistant Manager – Organisation Effectiveness to drive HR transformation and standardise job descriptions across multiple entities. You will document end-to-end HR processes and develop SOPs, ensuring alignment with established frameworks within an eight-week engagement.

The role requires 3–6 years in HR consulting or organisation design, strong stakeholder engagement and meticulous documentation skills to deliver high-quality outputs within a fixed timeframe.

Qualifications

• 3–6 years in HR consulting, organisation design or HR operations
• Experience developing, reviewing or aligning job descriptions with templates or grading frameworks
• Experience documenting SOPs and mapping end-to-end processes with workshops or interviews
• Familiarity with job evaluation principles and competency frameworks

Responsibilities

• Review, consolidate and align existing job descriptions across entities.
• Rewrite and standardise job descriptions per templates, grading frameworks and standards.
• Develop new job descriptions where missing or incomplete.
• Ensure roles reflect appropriate responsibilities, accountabilities and competencies.
• Validate descriptions against core, leadership and technical frameworks.
• Document end-to-end HR processes through stakeholder interviews.
• Develop and maintain SOPs and process workflows for HR functions.
• Validate outputs with stakeholders and address gaps/handovers.
• Track progress and deliver outputs within the eight-week window.
• Provide support to Organisation Effectiveness as needed.

Skills

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical skills

Written communication

Attention to detail

Delivery focus

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HR

Tools

Visio

BPMN

Microsoft Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

We are seeking an experienced Assistant Manager – Organisation Effectiveness to support key HR transformation and organisational effectiveness initiatives within a large, complex corporate environment.

This is an exciting, short-term opportunity for an HR professional with strong expertise in job description development, job architecture and process documentation. You will play a key role in standardising job descriptions across multiple business entities and documenting end-to-end HR processes, ensuring consistency, clarity and alignment with established organisational frameworks.

The successful candidate will be highly organised, detail-oriented and comfortable engaging with stakeholders to deliver high-quality outputs within a fixed timeframe.

This is an 8 week initial engagement with possible view to work on other projects.

Responsibilities

• Review, consolidate and align existing job descriptions across multiple business entities, identifying gaps and inconsistencies.
• Rewrite and standardise job descriptions in line with established templates, grading frameworks and organisational standards.
• Develop new job descriptions for roles where documentation is missing or incomplete.
• Ensure role responsibilities, accountabilities and competency requirements are appropriate to the relevant job grade.
• Validate job descriptions against established core, leadership and technical competency frameworks.
• Conduct structured discussions with HR stakeholders to understand and document end-to-end processes.
• Develop and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and process workflows across key HR functions, including Talent Acquisition, Talent Development, Rewards, Organisation Effectiveness and HR Business Partnering.
• Validate documentation with relevant stakeholders, incorporating feedback and identifying process gaps, handover issues and inconsistencies.
• Track progress, manage priorities and deliver all agreed outputs within the eight-week engagement.
• Provide additional support to the Organisation Effectiveness team as required.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organisational Psychology or a related discipline.
• 3–6 years of experience in HR consulting, organisation design, job architecture or HR operations, ideally within a professional services environment.
• Proven experience developing, reviewing or aligning job descriptions against defined templates, grading frameworks or job architecture structures.
• Practical experience documenting SOPs and mapping end-to-end processes through stakeholder interviews or structured workshops.
• Sound understanding of job evaluation principles, grading frameworks, job families and competency frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of HR functions and end-to-end people processes.
• Proficiency in process mapping tools such as Visio, BPMN or equivalent.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• Excellent written communication, stakeholder engagement and analytical skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail, with the ability to manage large volumes of documentation accurately and consistently.
• A proactive, structured and delivery-focused approach, with the ability to meet tight deadlines.

Availability: Preference will be given to candidates available immediately

We are looking for a candidate who will be able to work in United Arab Emirates.