Job Description / Role:

Be part of building a flagship institution from scratch and shape the future of AI-enabled HR.

Our client is a newly established, innovation-led organisation creating a new model for talent development, research and industry collaboration.

This is a significant opportunity to join at the foundation stage of a high-profile organisation with significant visibility and exposure to senior leadership and key stakeholders. This is a chance to contribute to a nationally significant initiative focused on talent development, innovation and future workforce creation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and establish the People & Culture function from inception.
• Develop the people strategy, employee value proposition and talent framework.
• Create workforce planning, organisational design and job architecture frameworks.
• Build scalable onboarding, performance management and employee experience initiatives.
• Lead Emiratisation strategy and create pathways for UAE National talent development.
• Design reward, recognition and career development frameworks.
• Partner with leadership on organisational growth, transformation and culture.
• Develop policies, governance structures and employee relations frameworks.
• Manage external recruitment and HR service providers during the establishment phase.
• Drive the adoption of automation, AI and digital solutions across people processes.
• Build a high-performing culture characterised by collaboration, accountability, innovation and constructive challenge.
• Provide strategic advice to senior leadership on workforce, talent and organisational effectiveness.

Experience Required:

• Proven HR experience across organisational development and core HR disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience building or transforming HR functions, operating models or people practices.
• Experience in a start-up, scale-up, transformation or greenfield environment highly preferred.
• Strong capability in organisational design, workforce planning and employee engagement.
• Experience leveraging technology, analytics, automation or AI within HR.

Skills Required:

• Strong stakeholder management and influencing capability.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building processes from the ground up.
• Commercially minded with strong negotiation and conflict-resolution skills.
• Able to challenge senior stakeholders with confidence and credibility.
• Ambitious, hands-on and motivated by the opportunity to help shape a long-term institutional success story.

Employment / Job Type: Full Time

Salary: up to 45,000 AED

Nationality: UAE National (Emiratisation)

About the Company:

Global professional recruitment consultancy and part of London listed PageGroup. The firm specialises in qualified professional and management hiring across finance, banking, technology, engineering, property and construction, legal, human resources, sales, marketing, and supply chain. Its Middle East business operates from Dubai and publishes widely used regional salary guides.

Company Industry: Not For Profit

Department / Functional Area: Human Resources

Closing Date: Not mentioned (apply as soon as possible)

Job Description / Role:

Be part of building a flagship institution from scratch and shape the future of AI-enabled HR.

Our client is a newly established, innovation-led organisation creating a new model for talent development, research and industry collaboration.

This is a significant opportunity to join at the foundation stage of a high-profile organisation with significant visibility and exposure to senior leadership and key stakeholders. This is a chance to contribute to a nationally significant initiative focused on talent development, innovation and future workforce creation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and establish the People & Culture function from inception.
• Develop the people strategy, employee value proposition and talent framework.
• Create workforce planning, organisational design and job architecture frameworks.
• Build scalable onboarding, performance management and employee experience initiatives.
• Lead Emiratisation strategy and create pathways for UAE National talent development.
• Design reward, recognition and career development frameworks.
• Partner with leadership on organisational growth, transformation and culture.
• Develop policies, governance structures and employee relations frameworks.
• Manage external recruitment and HR service providers during the establishment phase.
• Drive the adoption of automation, AI and digital solutions across people processes.
• Build a high-performing culture characterised by collaboration, accountability, innovation and constructive challenge.
• Provide strategic advice to senior leadership on workforce, talent and organisational effectiveness.

Experience Required:

• Proven HR experience across organisational development and core HR disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience building or transforming HR functions, operating models or people practices.
• Experience in a start-up, scale-up, transformation or greenfield environment highly preferred.
• Strong capability in organisational design, workforce planning and employee engagement.
• Experience leveraging technology, analytics, automation or AI within HR.

Skills Required:

• Strong stakeholder management and influencing capability.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building processes from the ground up.
• Commercially minded with strong negotiation and conflict-resolution skills.
• Able to challenge senior stakeholders with confidence and credibility.
• Ambitious, hands-on and motivated by the opportunity to help shape a long-term institutional success story.

Employment / Job Type: Full Time

Salary: up to 45,000 AED

Nationality: UAE National (Emiratisation)

About the Company:

Global professional recruitment consultancy and part of London listed PageGroup. The firm specialises in qualified professional and management hiring across finance, banking, technology, engineering, property and construction, legal, human resources, sales, marketing, and supply chain. Its Middle East business operates from Dubai and publishes widely used regional salary guides.

Company Industry: Not For Profit

Department / Functional Area: Human Resources

Closing Date: Not mentioned (apply as soon as possible)