Deadline: 27 July, 2020
Location: Monrovia, Liberia
The World Food Programme (WFP) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Human Resources Officer.
The WFP is the world’s largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Support HR operational activities or projects tied to business needs
- Respond to queries from managers and staff, understanding their issues and ensuring policies, procedures, processes, systems and tools are available and correctly applied to support them
- Contribute to the effective management of the employment relationship between WFP and its staff by administering conditions of service, contracts and appropriate entitlements
- Support staff capability building, work with managers to understand individual skills and business requirements, and organise development solutions which equip people with the skills and knowledge required to meet current and future challenges
- Support and deliver onboarding activities to ensure new employees have a positive experience of WFP, and are successfully integrated into their new role and the organisation
- Provide support in building talent within WFP, working with managers to understand their needs, and organise solutions to recruit, retain and develop a high caliber workforce to deliver the business strategy
- Support for organisational design activities that enable senior management to define and organise structures and jobs, and allocate people to the right places in order to improve efficiency
Requirements
- Advanced degree in Human Resources Management, Public or Business Administration, Industrial Psychology or another relevant field, or first degree with years of related work experience or training/courses
- One year, minimum, of postgraduate professional experience in human resources with an interest in international humanitarian development
- Knowledge of HR best practices, techniques and processes with some understanding of the basic theoretical background
- Ability to support more junior and/or less experienced members of the team
- Basic analytical ability to compile, maintain and analyse data, prepare reports and draw initial conclusions in support of work carried out by another officer
- Good communication skills required to give and receive information and work with a variety of individuals
- Knowledge of, or the ability to quickly assimilate UN/WFP specific processes and systems
- Fluency (level C) in English
To apply and for more information, click here.
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