HR Transformation (Onboarding & Offboarding) Consultant

We are seeking for an experienced HR Transformation (Onboarding & Offboarding) Consultant to lead the review, standardisation and transformation of Onboarding and Offboarding processes across multiple business verticals for one of the largest semi-government organisations based in Dubai, UAE.

The HR Transformation (Onboarding & Offboarding) Consultant will be responsible for simplifying and harmonising HR journeys, strengthening the use of HR technology, defining platform and integration requirements, improving data and journey tracking, and delivering a consistent, seamless experience for employees and stakeholders.

This is on a 3 month contract basis.

Key responsibilites:

• Lead the HR Onboarding & Offboarding Transformation Programme from assessment through implementation and transition.
• Conduct a comprehensive current-state assessment of onboarding and offboarding processes and employee journeys across business verticals.
• Identify process duplication, manual hand-offs, approval bottlenecks, data issues, control gaps and opportunities to improve the employee and stakeholder experience.
• Drive process harmonisation, simplification and standardisation, establishing consistent target-state journeys and operating processes.
• Develop target-state process and workflow designs, including business rules, functional requirements, approvals and stakeholder touchpoints.
• Lead the HR technology and platform strategy, including assessment and alignment with Avature and other relevant ATS/CRM or HR technology solutions.
• Define business, functional, integration, data, tracking and reporting requirements to support the future-state solution.
• Work closely with Technology/IT, Human Capital and business stakeholders to ensure alignment between business requirements and technology delivery.
• Lead requirements gathering, solution design, testing, deployment, training, change management and adoption activities.
• Establish an end-to-end journey tracking and reporting model, including employee experience measures and transformation KPIs.
• Develop implementation and deployment roadmaps, business readiness plans and benefits-tracking frameworks.
• Manage key delivery milestones, risks, dependencies and business outcomes throughout the engagement.
• Support vendor and technology partner management where required.
• Ensure comprehensive documentation and knowledge transfer to enable a smooth transition to operational ownership.
• A comprehensive review of onboarding and offboarding journeys across relevant business verticals.
• Identification of process duplication, manual activities, hand-off points, approval bottlenecks, data challenges and employee experience gaps.
• A single, standardised target-state onboarding and offboarding journey.
• Target-state workflow designs, functional requirements, business rules and approval requirements.
• Platform and technology recommendations, including Avature alignment and business requirements.
• Integration, data, tracking and reporting requirements.
• DHIT-ready solution and design documentation.
• An end-to-end onboarding and offboarding tracking model and employee experience measurement framework.
• A deployment roadmap covering testing, training, stakeholder engagement and business readiness.
• Benefits tracking and transformation outcome measures.
• Transition of the transformed processes and associated documentation to operational ownership.

Knowledge Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in HR transformation, HR technology implementation or HR process transformation.
• 5 years of experience in HR technology implementation.
• Strong experience in business process redesign, process simplification and standardisation.
• Demonstrated project or programme management experience within an HR transformation environment.
• Experience with Avature, ATS, CRM or other HR technology platforms.
• Strong capability in requirements gathering, business analysis and solution design.
• Good understanding of systems integration, data flows, data management and reporting.
• Experience defining functional and business requirements for HR technology solutions.
• Strong stakeholder and vendor management capabilities.
• Experience managing testing, deployment, training, change and user adoption.
• Experience working across complex, multi-business or multi-entity organisations is highly desirable.

Immediately Available Candidates will only be considered already based in the UAE.