Human Resources Officer (Employer Branding), P2, DHR, Istanbul

Contract

This is a P-2 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 2 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 83,666 USD and 113,639 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, Hope!

The Human Resources Officer (Employer Branding) is responsible for providing ongoing support in strengthening the talent outreach and organizational employer brand which encapsulates UNICEF’s candidate experience. Moreover, the Human Resources Officer is responsible for assisting in developing and implementing organization-wide talent outreach strategies, campaigns, and initiatives, which will enable HR Business Partners and Hiring Managers to better identify, attract and engage top-quality and high-potential talent from diverse backgrounds for priority staffing areas. The incumbent will work closely with the DHR Communication Specialist and other key partners in the division to ensure strategies are activities are aligned with the OneHR Strategy 2022-2025 and DHR priorities. The Human Resources Officer will also work closely with relevant teams outside of the division, including the Division of Global Communication and Advocacy (GCA) and UNICEF’s Culture and Diversity team.

How can you make a difference?

Such efforts will aim to give UNICEF a competitive advantage in attracting and nurturing employees who embody the brand, leading to a motivated and committed workforce, and to reinforcement of the perception of UNICEF as an organization with staff members that are motivated, proud, and committed to its mission.

This will include:

Employer Branding

• Support the development and implementation of an effective content strategy to enhance UNICEF’s employer brand and engage targeted talent communities in a dynamic, interactive, and meaningful manner.
• Develop compelling and engaging editorial, multimedia, and digital content to be disseminated across multiple talent outreach channels, such as websites, social media, newsletters and career events.
• Arrange and coordinate day to day multidimensional employer branding activities from initial planning to execution and post-launch optimization.
• Provide active support in designing, executing, and evaluating global employer branding and outreach campaigns.
• Monitor and measure the impact and effectiveness of employer branding activities, generate performance reports on a timely basis, and ensure maximum impact and continuous improvement of branding efforts.
• Work closely with relevant colleagues and stakeholders across the organization to ensure alignment with the organizational brand and collaborate on joint talent outreach and employer branding activities.
• Assess needs and initiate the development of materials that address the employer brand. This includes digital and print materials, guidelines and online toolkits that offices can use for their outreach and branding needs.

Talent Outreach

• Assist with the implementation and on-going evaluation of the Global Talent Outreach Strategy.
• Support in the conceptualization and development of outreach strategies and plans to be aligned with functional/geographical staffing goals and priorities.
• Support in the establishment and management of strategic partnerships with governments, civil society, academic institutions, professional associations and networks, private sector organizations and service providers.
• Assist and participate in the planning, execution and evaluation of global talent outreach activities and initiatives.
• Provide recommendations to HR Business Partners, the wider HR Community and Hiring Managers in identifying the most effective talent outreach channels and sources to attract a diverse population of candidates that are aligned with the organization’s vision and values.
• Develop and implement targeted campaigns for global recruitment initiatives, generic vacancy announcements and other priority recruitments as required.

Capacity Building

• Support in the preparation and development of guidelines, documents, trainings, workshops, webinars, learning materials, case studies, best practices and guides to build organizational talent outreach and employer branding capacity;
• Provide in-depth research and analytics reports to identify innovative technologies and marketing approaches, and to recommend tactics to advance UNICEF’s talent outreach and employer branding efforts).
• Provide inputs on performance indicators and monitor progress towards capacity building outcomes and impacts.
• Support in managing an organizational talent outreach knowledge sharing portal and respond to queries sent to UNICEF Careers mailbox.
• Organize, manage and maintain an up-to-date documentation center on the team shared drive, including employer branding assets, digital and multimedia content, talent outreach documents and files, knowledge library, etc.
• Act as a liaison between teams in DHR and GCA to align and update the strategy and content calendar to global communication and advocacy priorities
• Contribute to DHR’s internal communication and engagement around talent outreach by developing and promoting content on SharePoint, Viva Engage and other key platforms
• Additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed.

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

• A first university degree (bachelor's) in human resources, business management, marketing, advertising, digital media, public relations, or other related social science field is required. A master’s degree in a relevant field is desirable.
• A minimum of two years of relevant professional experience in human resources, talent acquisition, digital marketing, brand management, or public relations in an international organization and/or large corporation is required.
• Experience with content marketing, social media strategy/management, market research and data analytics is highly desirable.
• Employer branding, recruitment marketing, relationship management, digital content creation experience would be a strong asset.
• Proficiency in effective communication is essential.
• 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…

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

Remarks:

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.

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