Organization: UNICEF – United Nations Children’s Fund
Location: Istanbul
Grade: Mid level – P-3, International Professional – Internationally recruited position
Occupational Groups:
Social Affairs
Human Resources
Culture and Sport
Closing Date: 2024-12-20
Description
Join UNICEF as an HR Specialist and make a direct impact on enhancing talent management and engagement for senior leadership. In this dynamic role, you will provide strategic guidance on inter-agency movements, including staff loans, secondments, and transfers, while fostering collaboration across UN agencies to align with UNICEF’s mission. With a focus on career development, succession planning, and leadership pipeline growth, you will contribute to creating innovative HR solutions in a fast-paced, global environment. Leverage your expertise to support key inter-agency mechanisms, facilitate development opportunities, and drive HR excellence in service of UNICEF’s critical work for children worldwide.
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.
At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for personal and professional development that will help them develop a fulfilling career while delivering on a rewarding mission. We pride ourselves on a culture that helps staff thrive, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: HR Specialist SLS P3
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Minimum requirements:
- Education: An Advanced University Degree (master’s or equivalent) inhuman resource management, business management,
international relations, psychology or another related field is required. First level degree may be considered in lieu of two additional years of relevant work experience.
- Work Experience:
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Five years of increasingly responsible professional experience in human resource management in an internationalorganization and/or large corporation is required.
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Demonstrated experience in talent acquisition, sourcing, succession planning is an asset. Prior experience in working ina client facing role, implementing HR strategies and solutions is an asset. Prior experience in engaging with all categories of staff, including most senior staff in the organization is required.
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Prior experience from a high-paced environment with changing priorities is an asset.
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Demonstrated experience in strict adherence to tact, discretion and confidentiality is required.
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- Skills:
- Experience and ability to implement targeted and innovative human resources strategies to address clients’ people-related needs.
- Ability to implement innovative HR programs within a fast paced, evolving, and wide organizational setting.
- In-depth technical knowledge of the principles and concepts of human resources management.
- Ability to identify and analyze systemic issues, formulate opinions and make conclusionsand recommendations to resolve same.
- Excellent knowledge of organizational and HR information technology systems and tools.
- 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 forconsistent and equitable applications of promulgated HR regulations and rules.
- Language Requirements: 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
The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
(3) Drive to achieve results for impact
(4) Innovates and embraces change
(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity
(6) Thinks and acts strategically
(7) Works collaboratively with others
[add the 8th competency (Nurtures, leads and manages people) for a supervisory role].
All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. An internal candidate performing at the level of the post in the relevant functional area, or an internal/external candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, may be selected, if suitable for the post, without assessment of other candidates.
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