Strategic Talent Engagement and Partnerships

• Within the context of UNICEF’s priorities, aligns the organization’s HR strategy in planning, managing, and implementing staff selection processes, ensuring UNICEF uses best practices to identify, source and attract potential candidates in a timely manner.
• Contributes to the establishment of corporate standards, tools, and other products to drive mobility strategy, which is informed by career aspirations and life cycles as well as organizational needs ensuring quality, consistency, transparency, and fairness of the relevant processes.
• Engages in strategic HR workforce planning and outreach for pro-active talent management/sourcing, design and implement strategic talent initiatives.
• Collaborates with Policy, Employee Relations, Compensation & Social Benefits (PERCS) team to develop, as well as enhance relevant policies as needed, aligned to the operational contexts. Recommends policy changes, to ensure that Staff Selection and Mobility processes are aligned to evolving corporate priorities.
• Engages in strategic partnering with clients internal and external to UNICEF to network on trends and best practices in the United Nations system and public/private sectors; builds and enhances the capacity of partners/ clients.
• Aligns the talent programme with the overall Outreach Strategy to bring diverse talents in the workforce through strategic partnerships. This includes the JPO and Secondment programme, Fellowship and Internship programme, UNV programme and all other strategic partnerships with public and private sectors.
• Working closely with the Deputy Directors and Associate Director of Division of Human Resources (DHR), Regional Chiefs of HR, Section Chiefs in DHR and others, prepare and finalize an Integrated Talent Management Strategy for UNICEF.
• Manages the provision of technical and substantive inputs on UNICEF audit observations and other corporate management exercises related to staffing and recruitment. Responds to internal and external audits, surveys and requests related to staff selection and mobility policies.

Management, Coordination and Representation

• Provides leadership in people management through recruitment, performance, and career management of staff in the team;
• Ensures staff directly supervised meet their developmental needs.
• Engages in effective resource management by providing strategic and data inputs into HR position papers, task forces, etc.
• Identifies, manages, and supports avenues for collaboration with other UN organizations and teams within the Division, with a view to harmonization of policies and practices that are related to Talent Engagement and Partnerships.
• Participates and represents UNICEF in UN Inter-Agency fora on issues related to talent outreach and engagement.
• Represent the team in divisional and inter divisional meetings, providing Talent Engagement related advisory services;
• Represents the division/organization, as appropriate, in human resources management issues before inter-governmental bodies, individuals/ groups, governmental/ nongovernmental organizations, UN agencies, and external partners.

Requirements: 

Minimum requirements:

• Education: An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in human resource management, business management, international relations, psychology, or another related field is required.
• Work Experience: At least ten (10) years of increasingly responsible professional experience in human resource management in an international organization and/or large corporation is required, specifically in an advisory capacity with an emphasis on mobility, streamlining of staffing processes, proven experience with “decentralized/delegated recruitment authority” implementation, and demonstrated experience with creative sourcing of talent is essential.
• Good knowledge of HR technologies supporting staffing processes and providing HR metrics, capable of detecting new trends and relevance of new technologies.
• Skills****:
• Capacity to anticipate and resolve conflicts by pursuing mutually agreeable solutions and demonstrate the courage to take unpopular stands.
• Ability to develop clear goals that are consistent with agreed strategies, identify priority activities and assignments, adjust priorities as required.
• Demonstrated ability and experience advising and influencing executives, providing insights that lead to key decision-making within the business.
• Capacity to adapt policies, approaches, and models to meet emerging needs.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in a diverse organization tailoring language, tone, style, and format to match audience.
• Ability to empathize with client managers, supervisors and staff while advocating for consistent and equitable applications of promulgated HR regulations and rules.
• Language Requirements: Fluency in English language is required.

Desirables:

• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency.
• Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.