Talent & Culture Specialist – Accommodation & Government Relations (Arabic)
Do you have a heart to serve and love being part of a team? As a Talent Culture Specialist, you will be responsible for procurement of visas, renewals, medicals, and other governmental permits and licenses. Also, you will be facilitating the administrative & to ensure high standards of cleanliness, maintenance and comfort in team member’s accommodation.
What is in it for you:
- Employee benefit card offering discounted rates in Accor worldwide for you and your family
- Learning programs through our Academies designed to sharpen your skills
- Ability to make a difference through our Corporate Social Responsibility activities, like Planet 21
- Career development opportunities with national and international promotion opportunities.
What you will be doing:
ACCOMMODATION:
- Maintain the cleanliness of the public areas, hallways, corridors and other areas of team’s accommodation at all times.
- Check daily maintenance logbook and follow up with the Building Maintenance Team and make sure the Heartists are satisfied with it.
- Make sure all the facilities are operational and contact the suppliers for any repairing or replacement needed.
- Ensure that all aspects of the accommodation meet hygiene and health and safety regulations.
- Coordinate with the contracting company concerning all maintenance issues. Ensure that accommodation is clean, well maintained and attractively presented.
- Coordinate with outsourced cleaning company/housekeeping team to maintain the hygiene standards to provide our Heartists a healthy environment.
- Report incidents in the accommodation and inform the Talent & Culture Manager.
- Arrangement of the accommodation for new Heartist’s arrivals room cleanliness, all items in place … etc. with welcome pack items, welcome letter and check in formalities.
- Ensures all comments related to Heartist’s accommodation are responded to/acted on within established time frames.
- Liaise with Hotel departments and external vendors to arrange laundry and linen supplies; repairs and maintenance; pest control; waste management; supervise the work of cleaning staff and ensure that standards are maintained at a superior level on a daily basis.
- Maintain a safe environment, keep the peace, and act on any actual or potential violations of policies or law. Provide feedback to Talent & Culture Manager on all accommodation incidents.
- Airport Pick up and drop off for the new arrivals and leavers.
- Handle and control the Heartist’s movements and shifting inside the accommodation.
- Handle the Heartist’s transportation with the suppliers according to the daily schedule
- Follow up with the purchasing on pending items related to the Heartist’s accommodation.
- Initiate all the purchasing request for all shortage of the consumable items / maintenance items or any items need replacement.
- Update all stores in the accommodation and ensure no shortage of needed items.
- Prepare and maintain up to date inventory lists for all the store items in the accommodation.
- Control the Security Guards and make sure that they are following the rules and regulations and make sure that the safety of the Heartist’s member is ensured.
- Accommodation Inspection / Spot Checks as per the decided schedule for all the Heartists rooms to ensure the safety and hygienic and all the rules and regulations in the rooms are followed.
- Organize & coordinate Heartist’s engagement activities in the accommodation.
- Initiate efficient roster for the Accommodation attendants and contract workers and review it as per the Heartist’s Accommodation needs.
- Perform all the jobs are assigned by the Talent & Culture Manager regarding the Heartists Accommodation.
- Perform all duties and responsibilities in allotted period of time.
GOVERNMENT RELATIONS:
- Responsible for all applications of visas and cancellations and deal directly with immigration department for visa matters for Heartists, management and their families.
- Maintain good relations and visits to the owning company, immigration, health department, ministry of information, traffic police as well as all government departments and ministries
- Provides assistance on police and court cases, immigration and labour issues and other related matters
- Keep records of passports and visa expiry dates, inform Heartists in advance of passport expiry dates and extend/renew visas prior to expiry dates
- Provides assistance on police and court cases, immigration and labour issues and other related matters.
- Provides assistance in obtaining visas for travelling key personnel.
SUPPORTIVE FUNCTIONS In addition to performance of the essential functions, this position may be required to perform a combination of the following supportive functions, with the percentage of time performing each function to be solely determined by the supervisor based upon the requirements of the company.
- Ensure the safekeeping of all Heartists passports
- Ensures that all food handlers are having occupational health cards and ensures that expiring cards are renewed on time
- Maintain and update the police report in the system
- Carry out the fire, safety and evacuation procedures as required by the hotel fire policy
- Comply with hotel standards in relation to hygiene and personal presentation
- Any other tasks assigned by General Manager or Talent & Culture Manager
Your experience and skills include:
- Previous experience in a similar function from a luxury hotel or resort.
- Able to speak, read & write (Arabic) - required
- Fluent in English, local or other major foreign
- Excellent interpersonal skill
- Has a sense initiative and open-mindedness
Our commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:
We are an inclusive company and our ambition is to attract, recruit and promote diverse talent.
Why work for Accor?
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