Return-to work opportunity - Part-time Recruitment & HR Coordinator (1 year contract)

CorporateGeneva, Geneva, Switzerland

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Description

About us

Symbiotics is the leading market access platform for impact investing in emerging and frontier markets, offering market research, investment advisory and asset management services. We are regulated by FINMA, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority and our daughter company Symbiotics (UK) Ltd has an investment firm license from the FCA in the UK. Symbiotics currently employs 160 people and is headquartered in Geneva, with further offices in Zurich, London, Amsterdam, Paris, Mexico City, Singapore and Cape Town. Since 2004, we have invested over USD 5bn in more than 400 microfinance institutions across around 80 emerging and frontier markets, working with more than 30 investment funds and many institutional investors.

We are a fast-growing, market-leading company, offering a dynamic work environment in the growing impact investment space. Our people are Symbiotics’ biggest competitive advantage.

We believe that in order to recruit the best professionals all applications must be reviewed equally. For this reason, we will not require personal data such as photos, date of birth or gender to be included on CV applications.

We would like to encourage candidates who have been on a career break due to personal or professional reasons (travel break, volunteering, family reasons, expat family member, etc.) to apply to this role.

We are looking for

You are an experienced HR professional who will provide an efficient all-round HR service to all our global locations, including recruitment, on-boarding and HR administrative support.

This is a one year contract opportunity, with an 80% activity rate. The selected candidate will join a friendly and growing team of experienced recruiters and HR specialists and a fast-paced work environment.

You will report to the Chief Financial Officer based in Geneva, and collaborate with colleagues around the world.

Please note: Due to the current sanitary environment, most of the staff works from home. Should the situation persist during this temporary assignment, the IT tools required to work will be provided if necessary.

Job Description

• Responsible for recruitment of assigned positions, ensuring a professional, high-quality, timely and cost-effective recruitment process. This includes discussing role requirements with the line manager, conducting recruitment campaigns via appropriate channels, screening CVs, organizing and conducting interviews, taking references, providing detailed feedback and HR advice to hiring managers.


• Ensuring a smooth onboarding process of new hires: liaising with the IT and administration departments to prepare IT access and desk for the new hires, welcoming employees on their first day, following up during their probation period.


• Providing HR administrative support covering the full employee life cycle such as employment contracts, work permit request, attestations, work certificates, training agreements, other.


• Making sure HR data, soft and paper files are up to date.


• Participating in HR strategic projects such as Diversity & Inclusion implementation, digital HR projects, etc.


• Assisting the Payroll and Compensation specialist on payroll, social security and time management tasks.


• Preparing and reviewing ad-hoc reports.

Requirements

Skills/qualifications/experience

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification and/or experience


• Solid experience of managing a large number of recruitment processes during your career, ideally in the finance industry. You will have:
  
  
  
  • experience of working with recruitment management systems or tool
  
  
  • experience of designing and managing recruitment campaigns including the use of different social media platforms and channels to attract quality applications
  
  
  • experience of organizing, designing and running interviews
  
  


• Applied knowledge of reducing potential bias in the recruitment process, especially when it comes to job advert language, screening CV’s, shortlisting and interview processes


• HR administration and/or payroll experience would be a plus


• Good working knowledge of Swiss employment law


• You enjoy collaborating with others to reach common goals


• You are comfortable to work in an international and multi-cultural workplace


• You pride yourself in providing a great candidate and (internal) client experience


• You easily build trust with others by being down to earth, realistic and being open to other perspectives and ideas


• You are adept and agile to perform in a fast-paced environment, and managing competing demands and priorities


• You have a high level of integrity and confidentiality


• You have an interest in impact finance and/or sustainable development


• You are able to work comfortably in both English and French. Other languages such as Spanish would be a plus


• Swiss/EU National or valid Swiss Work Permit is required

Benefits

What makes us different?

• A flexible work environment that supports employees in their personal projects


• A friendly and supportive team and colleagues from 34 countries


• The ability to express your ideas, share your opinion and collaborate in a dynamic environment


• The chance to contribute to improving the lives of people in emerging and frontier countries, to work towards supporting the UN Sustainable Development Goals.


• The opportunity to become part of a growing business that pushes you to be your best every day while having a positive impact on others

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