WFP seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles.
Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting diversity and gender balance.
Human Resources Officer reports to the Country Director, operates with minimal supervision, and provides guidance to junior staff to ensure that operational and project objectives are achieved. The candidate will be involved in day–to–day HR activities, analytical work and providing advice on complex issues, applying HR rules, regulations, and expertise in making determinations and recommendations across a range of activities.
1. Contribute towards the development of
country specific plans and processes, and deliver HR operational
activities or projects, following standard processes and ensuring
alignment with wider WFP policies.
2. Provide advice to managers and
employees, understanding their needs and ensuring policies, procedures,
processes, systems and tools are available and correctly applied to
support them.
3. Provide effective management of the employment
relationship between WFP and its staff, by administering conditions of
service, contracts and appropriate entitlements, and resolving employee
relations issues.
4. Contribute to staff capability building,
working with managers to understand individual skills and business
requirements, and organizing/delivering development solutions which
equip people with the skills and knowledge required to meet current and
future challenges.
5. Deliver onboarding activities which ensure new
employees have a positive experience of WFP, and are successfully
integrated into their new role and the organisation.
6. Contribute
to building and managing talent within WFP, working with managers to
understand their needs and delivering solutions to recruit, retain,
manage and develop a high caliber workforce to deliver business
objectives.
7. Support organizational design activities that enable
senior management to define and organize structures and jobs, and
allocate people to the right places in order to improve efficiency.
8. Guide and supervise junior staff, acting as a point of referral and supporting them with analysis and queries.
9. Collate and analyse data for the preparation of accurate and timely
reporting, supporting a WFP wide view of HR activities that enables
informed decision-making and consistent information for stakeholders.
10. Contribute to continuous improvement by implementing new/updated HR
policies, procedures and systems and recommending improvements to ways
of working.
11. Other as required.
Education:
Advanced university degree in Human Resource Management, Public or
Business Administration, Industrial Psychology or other relevant field,
or First University degree with additional years of related work
experience or trainings/courses.
Experience: Typically three or more
years of postgraduate professional experience in Human Resources with
an interest in international humanitarian development.
Knowledge & Skills:
•
Broad or specialised knowledge of HR best practices, techniques and
processes with some understanding of the basic theoretical background.
• Ability to supervise and support more junior and/or less experienced members of the team.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to analyze data, draw conclusions and recommend a course of action.
• Good communication skills required to give and receive information and work with a variety of individuals.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with
clients and provide client oriented service. Ability to identify
client’s needs and match them to appropriate solutions.
• Knowledge of, or the ability to quickly assimilate, UN/WFP specific processes and systems.
Language: International Professional: Fluency (level C) in English
language. Intermediate knowledge (level B) of a second official UN
language: Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish, and/or WFP’s
working language, Portuguese.
National Professional: Fluency (level C) in English language and Swahili, is a MUST.
Purpose
- Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Understands WFP’s Strategic Objectives and the link to own work objectives.
- Be a force for positive change: Flexibly adapts individual contributions to accommodate changes in direction from supervisors and internal/external changes (such as evolving needs of beneficiaries, new requirements of partners).
- Make the mission inspiring to our team: Recognizes and shares with team members the ways in which individual contributions relate to WFP’s mission.
- Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Sets own goals in alignment with WFP’s overall operations, and is able to communicate this link to others.
People
- Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Assesses own strengths and weaknesses to increase self-awareness, and includes these in conversations on own developmental needs.
- Create an inclusive culture: Participates in open dialogue, and values the diverse opinion of others, regardless of background, culture, experience, or country assignment.
- Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Proactively seeks feedback and coaching to build confidence, and develop and improve individual skills.
- Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Participates in accomplishing team activities and goals in the face of challenging circumstances.
Performance
- Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Shows willingness to explore and experiment with new ideas and approaches in own work.
- Focus on getting results: Consistently delivers results within individual scope of work on time, on budget and without errors.
- Make commitments and make good on commitments: Commits to upholding individual accountabilities and responsibilities in the face of ever-changing country or functional priorities.
- Be Decisive: Makes rational decisions about individual activities when faced with uncertain circumstances, including in times of ambiguity regarding information or manager direction.
Partnership
- Connect and share across WFP units: Seeks to understand and adapt to internal or cross-unit teams’ priorities and preferred working styles.
- Build strong external partnerships: Demonstrates ability to understand and appropriately respond to and/or escalate needs of external partners.
- Be politically agile & adaptable: Portrays an informed and professional demeanor toward internal and external partners and stakeholders.
- Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Provides operational support on analyses and assessments that quantifies and demonstrates WFP’s unique value as a partner.
ONLY SHORTLISTED CANDIDATES WILL BE CONTACTED
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION IS 2 APRIL 2021
Female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are especially encouraged to apply
WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status.
No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.
