HR Specialist (Workforce Planning), P3, DHR, Istanbul, Turkiye

Contract

This is a P-3 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 5 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 108,316 USD and 141,831 USD.

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, a Future!

How can you make a difference?

The HR Specialist (Workforce Planning) is considered an experienced professional and is responsible for the implementation and execution of work force planning strategy as well as global framework. The incumbent will report to the HR Manager (Workforce Planning) and will act as a subject matter expert (SME) inclusive of providing guidance to key stakeholders and partners on all workforce planning matters. The Workforce Planning initiative is currently focused on four key areas:

1. Functional areas mapping –review of existing functional areas of UNICEF to determine if functions need to be added, merged, removed.

2. Skills mapping – capture the existing skills of UNICEF staff, develop a skills ‘inventory’ of required skills of current posts (both current state and future needs) and take measures to close the skills gap. This involves overseeing stakeholder relations, effective communication, and providing training to staff members.

3. Work modalities tool – review, monitor and / or roll out of the tool (e.g. office-based, blended telework at duty station, home-based, surge mechanisms, retainer modality, part-time work, expanding the humanitarian Emergency Response Team (ERT) concept to non-humanitarian contexts, etc.)

4. Implement various features of Internal Talent Marketplace platforms and system functionality.

• Work closely with external vendors and facilitate the integration of systems and functionalities crucial to UNICEF's operations.

1. Collaborate closely with external vendors to gain a deep understanding of system functionalities, features, and capabilities.
2. Identify key points of contact and establish effective communication channels to facilitate the application and availability of functionalities for UNICEF.
3. Evaluate and pinpoint areas that require updates or modifications to enable the use of functionalities.

4. Work hand-in-hand with vendors to ensure project milestones and activities are completed within established timelines.

   5. Provide skills mapping analysis report to key stakeholders and management team, which requires generating skills mapping reports from external vendors and adeptly interpret the data and producing an easy to read and digest skills mapping report.

6. Support the review and strengthen guidance and support on workforce planning including, but not limited to:

1. Integration of Workforce Planning in the Talent Mobility Strategy and linkage between recruitment, mobility and career development.
2. Supporting the ongoing development of the skills inventory for both posts and staff and tying this to the capabilities framework being developed by Performance Management and Talent Development Teams.
3. Review the sources and content of workforce data and how it can better support talent pipeline management and develop an action plan accordingly.
4. Support key stakeholders with the functional area mapping as needed.

7. Review the sources of workforce data and validate accuracy of data. Identify external sources that will assist with searching sources of data in targeting the needs/gaps and leverage data to support workforce analysis.

8. Support Talent Engagement and Partnerships initiatives as needed.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• An advanced university degree (master’s or higher) in any of the following relevant areas: human resources, data & analytics, and organization design is required. *A first University Degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
• A minimum of five years of relevant professional experience in human resources, with at least three (3) years’ experience in strategic workforce planning.
• Multi-sector experience is welcomed.
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

• Builds and maintains partnerships (1)
• Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (1)
• Drive to achieve results for impact (1)
• Innovates and embraces change (1)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)
• Thinks and acts strategically (1)
• Works collaboratively with others (1)

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are also subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

Remarks:

UNICEF only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at http://www.whed.net/

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.