Junior HR Generalist

Zohorecruit; Tacloban; On-site; PHP 360,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

Zohorecruit in Tacloban, Philippines invites an HR Generalist to support recruitment, onboarding, employee relations, performance management, and HR administration across the employee lifecycle.

You will manage job descriptions, screening, documentation, HRIS data, attendance, and onboarding while partnering with managers on HR initiatives in a dynamic work environment. The role requires a proactive, detail-oriented professional with 2–3 years of HR experience and strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Psychology, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 2–3 years progressive experience as HR Specialist or HR Generalist.
• Strong understanding of local labor laws with experience handling disciplinary processes (including Notices to Explain).
• Familiarity with tracking performance metrics, attendance data, and HR analytics.

Responsibilities

• Support recruitment and onboarding processes for staff.
• Maintain HRIS records and employee documentation, ensuring accuracy and compliance.
• Coordinate training and development initiatives and performance review processes.
• Assist with compensation, benefits administration, and timesheet preparation for payroll.
• Lead employee engagement activities and support onboarding/offboarding processes.

Skills

Recruitment

Onboarding

Employee Relations

HRIS

Data Analytics

Education

Bachelor’s degree in HR/Business/Related

Tools

HRIS software

Job description

Passionate about people, building positive workplace experiences, and driving HR initiatives? Join our team as an HR Generalist and play a key role in supporting our employees throughout their journey from recruitment and onboarding to employee relations, performance management, and HR administration.

If you're proactive, detail-oriented, and ready to make an impact in a dynamic work environment, we'd love to hear from you!

Job Description

Talent Acquisition

• Sources and recruit’s candidates by placing job advertisements in appropriate recruitment platforms and social media
• Oversee recruitment process, screening, interviewing and recommending external and/or internal candidates for technical positions
• Prepares, distributes for approval and issues employment contracts and related documents for onboarding
• Coordinates the preparation, revision and maintenance of job descriptions with managers
• Conducts pre-employment documentation and orientation for new hires to ensure statutory compliance and excellent onboarding experience
• Creating a recruitment plan and calendar according to operation and sales projection

HRIS and Employee Records

• Ensures the efficient use of management information systems in recording and storing employee and employment data
• Maintaining physical and digital files for employees and their documents, benefits, and attendance records as well as their 201 Files
• Provides HR analytics for informed, data-driven HR decisions
• Generate official internal documents such as offer letters, appointment letters, and warning letters.

Training and Development

• Evaluates the need for employee training and development and makes recommendations
• Oversees the coordination and implementation of annual performance reviews
• Track performance reviews, support manages with feedback cycle, and organize training initiatives

Compensation and Benefits

• Provides salary recommendations of newly hired employees for management approval
• Implements and administers cost-effective benefit programs and policies
• Doing the timesheet extraction in preparation for payroll
• Support Finance with payroll and benefits administration

Employee Engagement

• Creating employee engagement plans, getting necessary budget approval and initiating activities
• Facilitate engagement activities and team building
• Lead onboarding and offboarding process to ensure smooth employee experiences
• Promote HR programs to create an efficient and conflict free workplace

Requirements

Key Responsibilities

Policy Administration: Support the administration and implementation of HR processes and procedures to ensure total adherence to workplace policies.

Guideline Development: Participate actively in developing organizational guidelines and procedures.

Incident Investigations: Conduct thorough pre-investigations to uncover the root causes of workplace incidents and grievances, recommending appropriate resolutions.

Disciplinary Action: Prepare Notices to Explain (NTE) and related documentation, endorsing them to the HR Manager during the initial phase of the disciplinary process.

Issue Resolution: Assist in the timely resolution of employee relations challenges and departmental initiatives.

Employee Lifecycle: Responsible for the onboarding process of both new hires and newly regularized employees across all company resources.

Database Maintenance: Manage and maintain accurate, secure, and up-to-date employee records and HR databases.

Verification & Queries: Assist with internal and external HR-related inquiries, including pre- and post-employment verifications, Certificates of Employment (COEs), and general questions.

Performance Support: Support and assist the HR Manager in executing and administering the performance management process.

Metric Tracking: Assist in monitoring employee performance metrics, scorecard compliance, attendance-related concerns, and other relevant HR indicators.

Documentation & Reporting: Prepare HR-related reports, documentation, and departmental metrics as deemed necessary.

General Support: Perform other HR projects and duties as assigned to support organizational goals.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management, Psychology, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum of 2–3 years of progressive experience as an HR Specialist or HR Generalist.
• Strong understanding of local labor laws and employment standards, with direct experience handling disciplinary processes (including draftingNotices to Explain (NTE)and conducting incident pre-investigations).
• Familiarity with tracking performance metrics, monitoring employee scorecards, and managing attendance data.
• Proficiency in managing Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS), data entry, and maintaining meticulous employee records.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills for drafting formal HR documentation, reports, and addressing employee queries.
• High level of integrity and the ability to handle sensitive and confidential employee information with discretion.
• Strong analytical skills to conduct root-cause analysis on workplace grievances and recommend fair resolutions.
• Approachable demeanor with the ability to support employees at all levels and navigate complex employee relations issues smoothly.