Vacancy at Purnaa Enterprises

Job Description for:

Based at: Purnaa Enterprises

Title:  HR Associate

Reports to: HR Manager

Job purpose: Ensure Purnaa maintains a positive and supportive work environment for all employees. Develops and trains Purnaa staff to the best of their abilities. As a social enterprise, Purnaa encourages growth in the personal live’s of its staff, which is fostered by the HR team.

Key responsibilities and accountabilities:

1. Help ensure positive work environment
   1. Listen to employee needs, suggestions, and grievances and help to resolve issues in accordance with Purnaa values, serving as conflict resolution mediator as necessary.
   2. Oversee employee welfare and work with other members of the welfare team to resolve issues.
   3. Monitor that Purnaa follows labor laws and does not allow discrimination, harassment, or abuse.
   4. Help organize company celebrations of birthdays, employee of the month, saying farewell to departing staff, and other special occasions.
   5. Help oversee employee welfare and recreational activities such as extra-curricular training and social events.
2. Interacts with staff to provide encouragement or assistant to grow in their personal lives and become independent – When necessary, visit and help Purnaa employees in times of need, for example hospital visits, home visits, assist in moving, etc.
3. Help conduct orientation program for new employees to include initial training on all subjects of the Purnaa Handbook: leave and salary policies, code of conduct, basic safety, etc.
4. Help maintain professional management of employee information, contracts and compensation
   1. Ensure employee files are maintained in an organized manner.
   2. Manage employee benefits tracking for school allowance, salary advances, health allowance, leave, social security, etc.
   3. Manage employee health insurance claims
   4. Manage process for maintaining current employee contracts and other job related documents such as job descriptions, employee badges, etc.
5. Help with training Purnaa’s employees.
   1. Assist in the trainings are offered such as values, skills training, safety training, leadership training, etc.
6. Foster company culture of continuous improvement – every team member is empowered to make suggestions to improve overall performance and maintains a list of improvement projects.
7. Serve as Nepali to English translator with foreign staff and help translate English documents into Nepali.

Working Hrs: Monday-Friday 8:30am – 5: 30pm. Overtime may be required. Occasionally work on Sundays will be required and traded with another day during the week as a holiday.

Salary: Rs 30,000 – Rs 40,000, negotiable based on experience.

• Skills & Qualities Needed:

• Excellent spoken and written English and Nepali and able to translate for foreigner staff
• Good computer skills in Microsoft Office, e-mail, and other office applications like : Nepali typing
• Good counselling skills
• Minimum Bachelor Degree and 3+ year’s experience in a related field
• Proactive and energetic
• Relates to and cares about Purnaa’s mission
• Searching for female candidates only due to 80% of Purnaa’s workers being female

If interested, please email your CV to jobs@purnaa.com  along with the application attached below.