The position
About This Role
The role
You own client engagements end to end: HR audits, operating-model work, restructures, and the follow-through after the deck is delivered. You will sit inside client organizations for weeks at a time, not present to them from the outside.
What you will do
- Lead HR audit and consultancy engagements across Egypt and the Gulf, from diagnostic to implementation.
- Design job architectures, grading structures, and competency frameworks that survive contact with a real payroll.
- Coach client HR teams through the change, rather than handing over documents and leaving.
- Scope new engagements with business development and write the proposals you would have to deliver.
- Feed patterns from the field back into our frameworks and the HR Cafe agenda.
What we are looking for
- 6+ years in HR, with at least three of them running or owning a function inside an organization.
- Track record on at least two of: HR audit, restructuring, job evaluation, performance management rollout.
- Comfort with ambiguity and with telling a CEO something they do not want to hear.
- Fluent written and spoken English and Arabic.
Nice to have
- Consulting experience in a boutique or Big Four people practice.
- CIPD, SHRM-SCP, or an equivalent certification.
- Exposure to family-owned businesses and their governance realities.
Apply with your CV and one paragraph on a people problem you fixed from the inside. No cover letter templates, please.