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Country HR Project Manager - Greece
Ekpaideftiria O Platon M.A.E.
United Kingdom
Remote
GBP 52,000 - 70,000
30+ days ago
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Country HR Project Manager - Greece
Ekpaideftiria O Platon M.A.E.
United Kingdom
Remote
GBP 52,000 - 70,000
Full time
30+ days ago
Job summary
A leading educational institution is seeking a Country HR Project Manager to oversee onboarding and compliance across new schools. The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 7 years' HR experience, particularly in educational environments, along with a strong understanding of Greek employment law and GDPR. This role involves extensive travel to various school sites in Greece and a focus on establishing effective HR practices.
Qualifications
- Minimum 7 years of experience in HR, ideally within educational settings.
- Strong knowledge of GDPR and Greek employment law.
- Experience in managing HR operations across multiple sites.
Responsibilities
- Support HR onboarding for new schools, ensuring compliance.
- Adapt and harmonize HR policies in accordance with ISP standards.
- Lead recruitment processes within schools, ensuring alignment with safeguarding principles.
Skills
People management
Stakeholder management
HR Systems experience
Understanding Greek employment law
Fluent English and Greek
Job description
Country HR Project Manager - Greece
Purpose of Role
We are seeking an experienced HR professional with a demonstrable track record in establishing and embedding HR practices, preferably within school environments. The focus of this role is the HR acquisition/onboarding and compliance implementation across new schools joining ISP in Greece, with a strong emphasis on institutional transformation, safeguarding, and standardisation of practice.
The role shall be based in Greece, with extensive travel to each of the school sites as required to support acquisition/onboarding and compliance activities.
Key Responsibilities
Onboarding Coordination
- Support the HR onboarding process for newly acquired schools, ensuring alignment with ISP's standards, policies, and operational frameworks.
- Act as the primary point of contact for HR integration activities, working in close collaboration with Regional HR teams and school leadership.
- Evaluate existing HR structures and lead the establishment, revision, or replacement of policies and procedures to meet group compliance and functional standards.
- Support the definition of comprehensive onboarding timelines for newly acquired schools, collaborating closely with the wider Regional Onboarding team and local Heads of Schools.
- Maintain accurate records of onboarding progress, updating internal management tool with real-time data and status reports, ensuring adherence to defined timelines.
- Identify potential delays and proactively address bottlenecks, coordinating with stakeholders to keep the onboarding process on schedule.
Policy and Compliance Framework
- Adapt and harmonize school-level HR policies with ISP-wide protocols, ensuring a coherent and legally compliant HR environment.
- Oversee the implementation of Safeguarding and Safer Recruitment practices, including audit mechanisms and corrective action management in instances of non-compliance.
Talent Acquisition and Recruitment Compliance
- Drive the deployment of robust, compliant recruitment procedures across the schools, ensuring adherence to safeguarding principles and ISP recruitment protocols.
- Guide schools on role profile development, compensation benchmarking, and contractual integrity.
HR Systems Implementation and Management
- Ensure effective utilization of ISP’s Applicant Tracking System (ATS) and HR Information Systems (HRIS), with accountability for data accuracy, user training, and compliance with process standards.
- Provide oversight of performance management processes for all school roles, supporting a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
Payroll, Compensation, and Data Integrity
- Evaluate existing payroll process and lead the establishment, revision, or replacement current systems, ensuring accuracy, compliance with local regulations, and adherence to ISP frameworks.
Organisational Culture and Employee Experience
- Lead the integration of ISP organizational culture and policies in newly acquired schools, ensuring alignment with the group’s standards.
- Establish a professional, safe, inclusive, and values-aligned environment consistent with ISP culture.
- Coordinate training programs to familiarize staff with ISP policies, values and cultural expectations.
Legal and Labour Relations
- Provide expert-level HR advice on Greek labour law and GDPR compliance.
- Mitigate organisational risk by ensuring HR decisions and processes are legally sound and consistently applied.
Skills, Qualifications and Experience
- Minimum 7 years of progressive HR generalist experience, organizational change management, HR administration and processes and recruitment and selection; experience gained in an educational setting would be an advantage.
- In-depth knowledge and understanding of Greek employment law and data protection legislation (GDPR).
- Good experience of HR systems and previous experience of running payroll.
- Demonstrable experience in managing standardization of HR operations across decentralized institutions.
- A people-person with a collaborative approach who enjoys working as part of HR and adept in stakeholder management across senior leadership and school heads.
- Strong customer service ethos and the ability to deal with difficult situations in a professional and diplomatic manner.
- Comfortable working at all levels of the organization.
- A self-starter, with drive and initiative, who is flexible and adaptable in their approach.
- Fluent English ang Greek required.
ISP Principles
Begin with our children and students. Our children and students are at the heart of what we do. Simply, their success is our success. Wellbeing and safety are both essential for learners and learning. Therefore, we are consistent in identifying potential safeguarding and Health & Safety issues and acting and following up on all concerns appropriately.
Treat everyone with care and respect. We look after one another, embrace similarities and differences and promote the well-being of self and others.
Operate effectively. We focus relentlessly on the things that are most important and will make the most difference. We apply school policies and procedures and embody the shared ideas of our community.
Are financially responsible. We make financial choices carefully based on the needs of the children, students and our schools.
Learn continuously. Getting better is what drives us. We positively engage with personal and professional development and school improvement.
ISP Commitment to Safeguarding Principles
ISP is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
All post holders are subject to appropriate vetting procedures, including an online due diligence search, references and satisfactory Criminal Background Checks or equivalent covering the previous 10 years’ employment history.
ISP Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging
ISP is committed to strengthening our inclusive culture by identifying, hiring, developing, and retaining high-performing teammates regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender expression, age, disability status, neurodivergence, socio-economic background or other demographic characteristics. Candidates who share our vision and principles and are interested in contributing to the success of ISP through this role are strongly encouraged to apply.
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