Deadline: 13 September, 2020
Location: Dakar, Senegal
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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Contribute to staff capability building, working with managers to understand individual skills and business requirements, and organising/delivering development solutions which equip people with the skills and knowledge required to meet current and future challenges
- Contribute to building and managing talent within WFP, working with managers to understand the needs of employees and delivering solutions to recruit, retain, manage and develop a high calibre workforce to deliver business objectives
- Support 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
- Guide and supervise junior staff, acting as a point of referral and supporting them with analysis and queries
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources Management, Public or Business Administration, Industrial Psychology or other relevant fields
- Degree with related work experience or training/courses
- Three years of experience in human resources with an interest in international humanitarian development
- Experience in talent acquisition and people management tools, practices, strategy and implementation
- Experience in strategy development and implementation
- Ability to facilitate and deliver training
- Ability to effectively make use of the performance management, learning and recruitment software platforms and tools
- Ability to supervise and support more junior and/or less experienced members of the team
- Ability to analyse data, draw conclusions and recommend a course of action
- Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with clients and provide client-oriented service
- Ability to identify client’s needs
- Ability to quickly assimilate UN/WFP specific processes and systems
- Fluency in French and English languages
- Nationality of Senegal
To apply and for more information, click here.
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