Part Time People and Talent Partner (Remote HR Role)
Job Crystal · South Africa (fully remote) · Remote
Overview
A remote, part time HR role for someone who wants real ownership without managing a team. You will run hiring, development chats and people admin for an international data consultancy, working 20 hours a week from South Africa. Great for an HR generalist with 3 to 6 years experience who likes talking to people, keeping records tidy and using AI tools daily.
About the role
This is a standalone people and talent role at an international business intelligence and analytics consultancy. You will be the entire HR function for a team of around 18 people spread across six countries, reporting directly to management. The scope is deliberately set at 20 hours per week, so you need to be comfortable owning the work rather than supervising others.
What you will focus on:
- Running quarterly development conversations, some on your own and some with a manager
- Making sure every team member has clear, written goals recorded in Sage HR and a current skills profile in MuchSkills
- Owning onboarding as a proper experience, not just a checklist, for remote new joiners across time zones
- Being the person teammates can speak to when they do not want to go straight to management
- Running the full hiring process from advert to signed contract, mostly for South African roles
- Keeping candidates updated within two working days at every stage
- Splitting HR admin like leave, sick notes and personnel files with a colleague in Germany
Important to know: This is not a role for building a new HR strategy from scratch. The systems, hiring funnel and review rhythm already exist. You are there to run them properly, spot what is broken and tell management honestly.
Requirements
- Three to six years of experience in HR or people operations, ideally in a small company, scale up or agency where you did the hands on work yourself
- Proven experience owning hiring processes from screening through to offer stage
- Comfortable holding development conversations with people more senior or more technical than you
- Strong documentation discipline, you understand that if it is not written down in the system it did not happen
- Cross cultural awareness and curiosity about working with colleagues from six countries in the same week
- Daily use of AI tools like ChatGPT or Claude, and the habit of checking their output rather than forwarding it
- Fluent business English, both written and spoken
- German is not required
- A reliable remote setup with stable internet and power
- Regular overlap with Central European working hours, roughly three to four hours on each working day
Responsibilities
- Run quarterly development conversations with team members, either alone or alongside management
- Ensure every person has clear, documented goals kept up to date in Sage HR
- Maintain the company skills map in MuchSkills and identify gaps
- Own the onboarding experience for remote new joiners across different time zones
- Be a trusted point of contact for team members who need to raise something informally
- Spot people issues early, bring a recommendation and involve management when formal action is needed
- Manage each recruitment search end to end, including writing adverts, screening candidates and running first conversations
- Run the existing hiring funnel: application, culture test, case study and management interview
- Coordinate external hiring partners for senior technical searches and keep every open role moving
- Give every candidate a meaningful update within two working days of each stage
- Handle shared HR admin such as personnel files, sick notes, leave requests and onboarding logistics
Benefits
Fully remote work, part time 20 hours per week, full budget for AI tools, direct access to management, front row seat to growing South African presence, competitive compensation discussed individually
Job details
- Organisation
- Job Crystal
- Location
- South Africa (fully remote) (Remote)
- Job type
- Part time
- Work arrangement
- Remote
- Experience level
- Mid (3+ years)
- Category
- Human Resources
- Application Method
- Apply online
Success Guide
This is a genuinely nice fit for an HR generalist who wants real responsibility without managing a team. When you apply, show that you have run hiring processes yourself from start to finish, not just supported someone else who did. In your CV, highlight any experience with small companies or remote teams, and mention specific tools like Sage HR or skills mapping platforms if you have used them. The company clearly values follow through and documentation, so your application should be tidy and well written. Prepare for interview questions about how you keep candidates updated, how you handle a manager who is too busy for development chats and how you use AI tools in your daily work. This role is remote with Central European overlap, so be ready to talk about how you manage your time and stay reliable across time zones.
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