Title: Consultants Administrators
Length of Assignment: Long Term
Reports to: Operations & Finance Team Leader
BACKGROUND
The purpose of the USAID-funded Jobs, Opportunities & Business Success project (JOBS) is to create jobs in Tunisia on a sustainable basis by (1) providing targeted assistance to Tunisian businesses, especially SMEs, to expand their sales and/or exports enabling them to expand and hire additional workers; (2) enhance work force development by reducing the education/training gap between what the university and vocational training systems provide and the actual needs of Tunisian businesses; (3) promote a more effective business enabling environment by working with the public and private sectors to promote policy and regulatory reforms; and, (4) communicate to Tunisians, especially youth, a sense of the importance of market-led economic growth and entrepreneurship, as well as vocational education as an apt career choice.
POSITION DESCRIPTION:
The Consultant Onboarding Specialist is responsible for managing the onboarding of consultants in response to providing technical assistance to JOBS client firms. This includes the entire lifecycle of salary verification and rate negotiation, reference checks, obtaining USAID approval, signing a consultant agreement, and managing timesheets.
DETAILED RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Coordinating closely with JOBS’ technical team staff in the selection and onboarding of technical consultants
- Develop an understanding of Tunisia market rates for technical consultants in numerous sectors and professional categories
- Understand technical requirements of consultant requests to align proposed salaries with technical responsibilities
- Review and verify salary history and degree information and other appropriate biodata information for accuracy prior to making an offer
- Review and ensure biodata information is filled out correctly and ready for approval and signature
- Assess English language skills in an interview, ask for writing samples as needed
- Conduct reference checks
- Collect, review for accuracy, and revise resumes based on JOBS resume format
- Manage all onboarding processes including employment agreement and personnel and ethical acknowledgement forms that discusses ethical expectations.
- Confirm all recruitment documentation is submitted and personnel files are complete and compliant with Chemonics policy, local labor laws, and USAID regulations
- Draft any necessary approval letters
- Confirm scopes of work are detailed and in accordance with Chemonics practices
- Coordinate with technical components and confirm consultant agreement start date
- Maintain accurate timesheet records and ensure all timesheets are submitted on time with the correct approval
- Maintain a detailed tracker of onboarding requirements with all consultants
- Confirm deliverables were submitted
- Ensure consultants are paid within the terms of their employment agreement
- Develop tracker of hired consultants to include start and end date, deliverables submitted, LOE, and performance evaluations of their assignment
- Update and create new templates and processes as they relate to the onboarding function,
- Ensure consultant files are maintained according to the requirement, ensure confidentiality and safety of the data.
- Administer salary scale once this is approved and in place
- Communicate changes on new initiatives or processes to staff
- Other duties as assigned by Senior Management
LEVEL OF EFFORT AND PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE
This position is long-term, on a full-time basis.