Internal/External VA: Human Resources Specialist (HR-Administration), P-3, UNICEF Global Shared Services Centre, Budapest, Hungary (only for non-Hungarian nationals)

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 74,649 USD and 97,747 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.

How can you make a difference?

The Human Resources Specialist leads the human resources offboarding work stream in GSSC in delivering high quality, responsive, timely and equitable human resources services for UNICEF offices for personnel entitlements, benefits and other administration.

This will involve:

1. Technical leadership, operational support and guidance

• Interpret and apply UN and UNICEF organization human resources rules, regulations, systems, procedures and processes.
• Review policy changes to ensure staff entitlement and conditions of service issues are addressed.
• Ensure timely, transparent and systematic administration of HR benefits, entitlements, contracts renewal and termination, performance management, and other HR activities.
• Manage and address complex issues related to staff administration and benefits.

2. Management of Global Shared Services Centre priorities & Transactional service management

• Actively monitor and manage performance targets.
• Ensure accountability, customer service orientation and systematic performance management of the unit.
• Monitor progress of offboarding unit and individuals’ work, setting and maintaining SLAs and quality standards to improve overall organizational performance.
• Manage exceptions through establishment of systems, mechanisms and knowledge database library.
• Provide general overview of HR cases to management and facilitate analysis and fixes.
• Promote efficiency and excellence in the unit through continuous improvement projects on automation and process simplifications.

3. Partnership with internal and external partners to deliver services and improve business processes

• Liaise with DHR, ICTD, Staff Well Being Unit and Payroll Unit as well as other internal and external entities, e.g. Country and Regional Offices, UN Pension Fund, UN Tax Unit, UN Insurance Unit and UN medical services, to ensure staff are paid on time and correctly.
• Consult with organizational units globally to identify service needs and areas for process improvement.

4. Leadership and management of staff

• Lead and develop staff through coaching and mentoring.
• Ensure team leadership and cross-functional collaboration.
• Support and advise staff to improve relations, achieve consensus and resolve issues.
• Provide administrative and technical support to staff-management bodies in the capacity of HR focal point in the office.
• Promote management excellence and work life balance in the office.

5. Build networks with other agencies & explore best practices and innovation

• Maintain effective and steady communication and working relations with UN agencies to seek harmonization as well as new ways to enhance effectiveness of HR management and development in UNICEF.
• Support identification of common strategies and approaches for enhancement of the HR reform within the common system.
• Research and identify best practices in HR and suggest innovation to improve processes and effectiveness.

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

• An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in in Human Resources, Business Administration, International Relations, Social Sciences, Psychology or related areas. *A first University Degree (Bachelor’s 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, at the national and international levels, in human resources management and human resources administration.
• Proven supervisory and people management experience especially including developing and maintaining high performing teams is required.
• Experience of shared services/business support Centre will be an advantage.
• Fluency in English both verbal and written. Knowledge of an additional UN Language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish).

Remarks****:

The hiring manager may apply other criteria within the context of the job requirement, beyond the minimum requisites, for shortlisting.

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

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results. https://uni.cf/UNICEFValues

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are...

- Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (3) - Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (2) - Works Collaboratively with others (2) - Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2) - Innovates and Embraces Change (2) - Thinks and Acts Strategically (2) - Drives to achieve impactful results (2) - Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

Click here to learn more about UNICEF’s values and competencies.

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 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 also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. 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.

- Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.