Graduate Development Specialist I alfanar Industrial City

Job Purpose

To expertly manage the onboarding, training, and development of new hires through a structured and comprehensive approach. Coordinate pre-joining arrangements, facilitate seamless onboarding and orientation sessions, and manage rotation schedules for practical, department-spanning experiences. Oversee cooperative education programs, ensuring readiness and smooth transitions for participants.

Key Accountability Areas

Pre-Joining Arrangements:

• Coordinate all logistical and administrative tasks required before new hires join, ensuring a seamless onboarding experience.

Onboarding and Orientation:

• Facilitate joining activities and orientation sessions to integrate new graduates effectively into the organization.

Rotation and Training Coordination:

• Manage rotation schedules and support on-the-job training initiatives to provide practical experience across various departments.

Cooperative Program Management:

• Oversee internal activities related to cooperative education programs, managing both pre-joining and joining processes to ensure readiness.

Training Conclusion:

• Organize end-of-training activities that capture participant feedback and facilitate proper transitions for program completers.

University Visit Coordination:

• Plan and execute pre-visit arrangements for university engagements to ensure efficient and productive events.

Employee Engagement Initiatives:

• Organize events, such as celebrating birthdays and anniversaries, to foster a positive and inclusive workplace culture.

Continuous Improvement:

• Collect and analyze feedback from training participants to identify opportunities for operational enhancements and increased training effectiveness.

Documentation and Compliance:

• Maintain thorough documentation of training processes and ensure compliance with internal standards and regulatory requirements.

Role Accountability

HR Proficiency:

• Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
• Ability to recognize low performance and help or release them. 
• Ability to treat people equally without any discrimination. 
• The manager’s only assessment criteria being performance leading to delivery of required results. 
• Ensure availability of delegation of authorities matrix to order to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.
• Responsibility, Delivery and Tangible     

Responsibility:

• Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines. 
• Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them.
• Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Delivery:

• Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.  

Making a Tangible Difference:

• Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.  
• Business Planning & Performance    
• Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
• Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
• Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly. 
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and control budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.  

Organizational Development:  

• Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans. 
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deploy them.
• Business Process Improvements (Effectiveness)    
• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seeking automations opportunities as much as possible.  
• Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
• Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.

Quality:  

• Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.

Adaptation:

• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

HSE:

• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.

Academic Qualification

Work Experience

Technical / Functional Competencies