People & Culture Specialist

Job Title: People & Culture Specialist Location: Dubai Salary: AED 7,000 - 9,000 Job Code: 360/001/534 Industry: Construction Job Brief: Our client is seeking a People & Culture Specialist responsible for building and sustaining an engaged, values-driven workforce. The role owns the employee experience end-to-end, from onboarding and induction through day-to-day engagement and internal communications to leadership development support and succession planning coordination. The People & Culture Specialist will play a central role in supporting the organisation’s transition towards a more open, performance-supportive culture while effectively engaging with a long-tenured, close-knit workforce. The ideal candidate should have 3–5 years of experience in Employee Engagement, People & Culture, Talent Development, or a generalist HR role, with strong interpersonal, communication, employee engagement, and programme coordination capabilities. Job Responsibilities: - Champion the roll-out and continued embedding of the organisation’s Vision, Mission, and Values across the business. - Design and run regular employee engagement activities, including pulse surveys or structured focus groups, and report findings with recommendations to the HR Manager. - Plan and deliver quarterly team-building activities across head office and site teams. - Act as a trusted point of contact for employee relations matters, escalating and documenting issues as per policy. - Own the end-to-end onboarding journey, including pre-joining communication, Day 1 induction, role-specific orientation, and distribution of the welcome kit. - Coordinate with department heads to ensure new joiners receive structured training plans during their probation period. - Gather and act on new-hire feedback to continuously improve the onboarding experience. - Support the identification of high-potential employees and coordinate their participation in leadership development initiatives. - Assist the HR Manager in maintaining succession plans for business-critical roles, tracking readiness and development actions. - Coordinate internal and external training logistics, tracking attendance and effectiveness. - Draft and distribute internal communications relating to HR initiatives, policies, events, and culture updates. - Support enhancement of the organisation’s LinkedIn company page with content relating to projects, milestones, and culture. - Encourage and guide employees on positive and professional representation of the organisation on LinkedIn. - Support the HR Manager in conducting SWOT analyses by department to identify engagement, culture, and capability gaps. - Feed employee engagement and culture insights into workforce planning and training priorities. - Coordinate internally with the HR Manager, HR Operations Specialist, Department Heads, and employees across the head office and sites. - Coordinate externally with training providers, event vendors, and LinkedIn/employer branding partners. Job Requirements: - Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Organizational Psychology, Business Administration, or a related field. - 3–5 years of experience in an Employee Engagement, People & Culture, Talent Development, or generalist HR role. - Experience working with long-tenured or traditional workforces, ideally within construction, contracting, or another operationally intensive sector, is an advantage. - Prior experience designing onboarding programmes, employee engagement surveys, or leadership development initiatives is preferred. - Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills, with the ability to build trust across a resistant-to-change, long-tenured workforce. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills for internal messaging and content creation. - Strong event and programme coordination skills with attention to detail in execution. - Empathy combined with sound judgement when handling sensitive employee relations matters. - Familiarity with social media and LinkedIn content practices for employer branding.

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