Internal and External VA: Human Resources Officer (Emergencies), TA, 6 months, ESARO, Nairobi, Post # 124143

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived kids. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Throughout 190 nations and territories, we work for each baby, all over the place, day-after-day, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means quit.

For each baby, a protected residence

For greater than 4 years now, the East and South African Area is constantly topic to a number of humanitarian emergencies (public well being, local weather associated, armed conflicts associated emergencies…) together with multi nation emergencies affecting in common  40% of nations within the area. The Regional Workplace (RO) by means of its HR part performs an instrumental position in making certain affected and threatened COs have the required stage of surge and staffing help and that responsibility of care measures are in place to help employees responding to those emergencies.

Contemplating the various competing emergencies throughout the organisation, sourcing and deployment of certified inner and exterior surge capacities grow to be a problem, inflicting hole within the settlement of early and environment friendly emergency responses.

The event of regional rosters is likely one of the key pillars to enhance the HR response to humanitarian emergencies throughout the area and to ship high-quality outcomes for youngsters and girls.

How will you make a distinction?

The HR Officer (Emergency) will help the HR in Emergency portfolio in coordinating the  growth of regional emergency and advisor rosters, and in offering HR help to nation workplaces affected by emergencies.

Below the steering and supervision of the Human Useful resource Officer, P2, ESARO, the Human Assets Officer (Emergency) will finalize the present growth of the exterior roster, pursue the replace of the interior rosters, and launch the replace of the advisor rosters.

The incumbent will present lively help to the HR in emergency (HRiE) portfolio by means of the identification of surge, staffing and advisor wants throughout the area. S/He may even develop associated rosters in collaboration with totally different stakeholders.

The chosen candidate for this task could also be assigned the contributory accountabilities for all or a part of the next areas of main duties:

 

1. Coordination of rostering course of in collaboration with key stakeholders:

• Coordinate communication campaigns to replace employees members and totally different stakeholders throughout the area and the group on the rostering course of.
• Launch emptiness bulletins associated to advisor rosters.
• Coordinate the talents evaluation course of for chosen candidates, in collaboration with concerned RO sections.
• Agree on lists of advisable candidates.

 

2. Coordinate the capability reinforcement technique of advisable candidates in collaboration with Agora colleagues and RO sections.

• Establish Agora programs for advisable candidates for the exterior roster,
• In collaboration with RO sections determine the Agora studying path and different capability reinforcement actions to be delivered to chose candidates for the interior roster
• Develop and monitor the implementation of a studying plan for advisable candidates for the interior and exterior emergency rosters.

 

3. Growth of rosters/expertise swimming pools in TMS

• Assign profitable candidates to respective rosters/expertise teams.
• Ship acceptable communications on course of outcomes and subsequent steps to candidates who participated within the course of (profitable and unsuccessful candidates).

 

4. Capability reinforcement of roster customers

• Coordinate with TMS colleagues to grant entry rights to recognized customers for the respective rosters.
• Set up coaching periods for roster customers on the RO and CO ranges.

5. Surge and staffing wants identification:  

• In collaboration with key stakeholders and counterparts on the CO, RO and HQ stage, determine emergency personnel and advisor associated wants.
• Present steering to regional workplace sections to develop phrases of references for recognized personnel (surge, staffing and consultants).
• Assessment and finalize phrases of references and create an emergency phrases of reference information base for ESAR.

6. Present help to the RO HR staff as wanted.

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you’ll have…

• College diploma in social sciences, information administration or different related disciplines (human assets, enterprise administration, worldwide relations, psychology, and so forth). Extra skilled coaching or certification in Human Assets is a bonus.  

• A minimal of two years of related skilled expertise in Human Assets administration, HR Knowledge administration or related discipline in a global group is required, and expertise in a humanitarian setting is advantageous.

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  Expertise in information evaluation and database growth for all kinds of audiences is fascinating.

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  Planning and group expertise.

• Creating nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency is taken into account an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Data of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset.

For each Youngster, you exhibit…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every thing we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: UNICEF Values

 

UNICEF competencies required for this put up are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (3) Drive to attain outcomes for influence (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others.

Throughout the recruitment course of, we check candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges: competency framework here.

 

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our world workforce should replicate the variety of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other private attribute.
We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all kids. 

Remarks:

UNICEF’s lively dedication in the direction of range and inclusion is vital to ship the most effective outcomes for youngsters. For this place, eligible and appropriate [Insert diversity profile] are inspired to use.

[If Applicable] Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the responsibility station, which can be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are additionally topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Do you have to be chosen for a place with UNICEF, you both have to be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. In any other case, the choice can be cancelled.

All chosen candidates will bear rigorous reference and background checks and can be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to offer further data to conduct a background examine.

Authorities workers which might be thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the fitting to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance isn’t obtained, or vital inoculation necessities aren’t met, inside an inexpensive interval for any motive.

Solely shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.