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Human Resources Specialist, P-3, Fixed-Term, Senior Leadership Support Team, Division of People and Culture, Istanbul, Turkiye, Post# 122454 - Istanbul

Turkey

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5 Year
Male, Female, Both
Master Degree

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.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:
1. Provide technical guidance on inter-agency movements (Loans, Transfers & Secondments), including liaison with requesting offices/ agencies and individual staff members. Advise and guide on the programme modalities with various Internal Divisions/ Offices and external UNagencies/ Offices.
2. Provide effective and strategic support to relevant inter-agency processes, as well as negotiations of issues that are relevant to UNICEF’s priorities or its proramme of work.
3. Represent UNICEF in the inter-agency mechanisms in support of key inter-agency meetings relevant to the sustainability of the programme.
4. Carry out development and guidance of inter-agency functions; facilitate and organize consultations with other UN organizations and departments, and contribute to the development of UNICEF’s inter-agency positions and relevant substantive programme areas.
5. Contribute to the communicators plan of the Senior Leadership Support Team. Develop and maintain an internal web site on inter-agency issues and contribute to providing regular updates on issues related to inter-agency coordination
6. Coordinate the provision of development opportunities for Leadership Talent Group members through inter-agency loans/secondments, developmental assignments, shadowing opportunities, coaching, mentoring, etc. in close coordination with other UN entities.
7. Analyze existing talent pipelines from the learning and talent management perspective, providing pro-active, candid, consistent, relevant, and comprehensive advice and guidance that contributes to growth, development, and employee satisfaction.
8. Support Resident Coordinator (RC) and Humanitarian Coordinator (HC) system matters as a UNICEF focal point, including managing the respective talent pipelines; and liaising with the United Nations Development Coordination Office (UNDCO) and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
9. Support the Section Chief in identifying inter-agency opportunities and facilitation discussions on career paths for the SSR cadre and eligible Leadership Talent Group members.
10. Support the Section Chief in overseeing accreditation and agreement process for UNICEF’s Representatives.
11. In close collaboration with the Learning and Development Team, DHR, contribute to the career development and learning for the senior leadership cadre and the leadership pipeline.
12. Provide support to the Office of the Executive Director and affiliated offices on talent acquisition, job classification, career development, performance management, data analytics, learning & development etc.
13. Work closely with immediate team members and members of OneHR to support and contribute to corporate HR strategy formulation and global implementation. Provide feedback and make recommendations on the establishment and improvement of HR systems, policies, and processes. Other similar duties as requested by Chief, Senior Leadership Support Team.

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:
    • Five years of increasingly responsible professional experience in human resource management in an international
      organization and/or large corporation is required.
    • 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.
    • Prior experience from a high-paced environment with changing priorities is an asset.
    • Demonstrated experience in strict adherence to tact, discretion and confidentiality is required.
  • Skills:
Strategic
  • 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.
Technical
  • 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.
Interpersonal and Communication
  • 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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