Employment Investigator (EMEA)

Summary:

As Employment Investigator at Meta, you will be responsible for conducting prompt, thorough, and fair investigations comprising background research, investigative interviews, and debrief meetings in partnership with Employment Law, HR and Employee Relations Business Partners, and the business. Although you will primarily conduct investigations in your local region (EMEA), you will be expected to manage some investigations cross-regionally.Success in this role will require working effectively across geographical and cultural boundaries and discerning systemic issues revealed during the investigative process. Our Employment Investigators demonstrate a high degree of empathy balanced against an ability to provide direct feedback and confront witnesses with difficult information. You must be able to articulate findings to the business in the form of oral and/or written summaries and conclusions so that long-term solutions can be developed and applied. As an Employment Investigator, you will also have the opportunity to deliver compliance education programs and training designed proactively to address workplace issues.

Required Skills:

Employment Investigator (EMEA) Responsibilities:

1. Manage complex employment related investigations, end-to-end, including conducting intake meetings, background research, investigative interviews, and debrief meetings, across Meta office locations within Europe, the Americas and Asia-Pacific.

2. Partner closely with global cross-functional partners within Employment Law, Human Resources and Employee Relations, Security, Internal Audit, etc., and business units to conduct prompt, thorough, and fair investigations.

3. Investigate complaints involving violations of law or policy, including allegations of discrimination, harassment, retaliation, bullying, privacy concerns, conflict of interest, integrity, failure to escalate and other inappropriate behaviour.

4. Conduct intake meetings and investigative interviews, background research, analyse and synthesise relevant documents and data to make factual findings that address all relevant policy issues

5. prepares reports, summaries and presents oral and/or written debriefs appropriate stakeholders on investigation findings.

6. Ability to discern systemic issues and utilise data to help develop long-term solutions.

7. Provide timely communication to all relevant parties throughout the investigations process, including responding to case escalations.

8. Remain respectful and empathetic in the face of difficult and uncomfortable situations surrounding an investigation.

Minimum Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

9. Experience conducting investigations that will withstand legal scrutiny in multiple jurisdictions.

10. Experience working independently, acting on priorities and exercising proven judgement.

11. Demonstrate collaborative relationship management skills in a highly cross-functional environment.

12. Experience documenting investigations findings and recommendations.

13. Experience presenting findings and recommendations to leadership or those with dissenting opinions.

14. Problem-solving, analytical, critical thinking skills and high degree of comfort working with data.

15. Flexible and adaptable to rapidly changing environment.

Preferred Qualifications:

Preferred Qualifications:

16. Bachelor degree in HR/Business, Employee Relations and/or Employment Law.

17. Experience identifying relevant legal issues.

18. Project management experience both at a strategic and tactical level.

19. Experience in conducting facilitation and/or mediations.

20. Experience, either in conducting and/or managing investigations or in practising employment law.

Industry: Internet