Human Resources Officer, P3 (Strategic Workforce Planning) at the United Nations World Food Programme (UN WFP)

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to help the world achieve Zero Hunger in our lifetimes. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Human Resources Officer, P3 (Strategic Workforce Planning)

Requisition ID: 680628
Location: Unspecified
Employment Type: Limited Fixed Term

Job Details

• Are you an experienced Human Resources specialist within organizational design and change management interested in further developing your professional experience while contributing to ending global hunger? Are you passionate about helping those in need? Would you like to join a global organisation investing in its people? 
• If so, an exciting & fulfilling career awaits you! Join our diverse and passionate team that works on varied and international projects directly contributing to saving & changing millions of lives around the globe. 

The Role and Organizational Context

• Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) practice launched in WFP in 2020, enables WFP to purposefully plan for, manage and prepare its future workforce to respond effectively to the increasing demands of the organization within a globally complex environment.
• Working at WFP will give you the opportunity to work beyond your expectations, to be enriched by truly meaningful work and improve your growth and professional expertise.
• This role supports the design, delivery and monitoring of workforce plans and structural reviews and works in close collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, from WFP’s management, to functional subject matter experts, HR colleagues and external experts. 
• WFP offers life-changing job opportunities you are unlikely to find in other organizations. 
• You will be part of a dynamic team, helping connect our strategy with our operational needs in terms of people, skills and capabilities required to deliver on our important mandate.

Key Accountabilities (Not all-inclusive)
Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like WFP, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following accountabilities:

• Act as a Subject Matter Expert on Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) and Organizational Alignment Reviews (OA), conducting SWP and/or OA exercises for the Country Offices based on established procedures, incorporating the results of functional and global workforce plans.
• Through desktop reviews and stakeholder meetings, assess the strategic direction of Country Offices as well as possible future scenarios and derive insights into the implications of these on the workforce using a strategic workforce planning methodology and software.
• Identify and analyze the current workforce and its relevant characteristics, including current skills of the workforce through skills gap analyses, talent reviews and/or functional talent assessments.
• Assess future demand for talent based on strategic direction, and future supply of internal talent through data analysis. Project supply versus demand models for the Country Offices and identify gaps.
• Work with HR colleagues and management to develop a strategy to close gaps by identifying appropriate workforce and/or talent management solutions to bridge the gaps over short, medium, and long-term including costs, timeframes, and benefits.
• Analyze Country Office current organizational set-ups, structures, workforce composition and design organizational structures based on the workforce planning results.  
• Provide guidance and advice on formulating detailed implementation plans to ensure that the gaps between the current and future structures and workforce can be smoothly bridged.
• Prepare appropriate communications materials to keep all stakeholders informed of SWP and structure alignment progress, to request action and to build engagement.
• Monitor the implementation of Country Office workforce plans through the management of project plans, conduct lessons-learned exercises and contribute to the refining of workforce planning practices across WFP.
• Coordinate and streamline the collection, interpretation and validation of workforce data and its analysis ensuring that quality standards and data privacy compliance are maintained.
• Establish knowledge management systems, including best practices, benchmarks and knowledge repositories on Strategic Workforce Planning and organizational structures, sharing them proactively with the counterparts within the SWP team.
• Drive the efforts on creating awareness on SWP and OA processes and methodology as appropriate among established stakeholders (HR community, Leadership of the Regional Bureau and Country Offices). Lead capacity building/strengthening efforts among designated HR community in relation to organizational alignments and structural reviews. 
• Other, as required.

Qualifications and Key Requirements
Education - You have: 

• University Degree in Human Resources, Statistics, Economics, Business Administration or other related field.

Experience - You have:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in Human Resources, Consulting or relevant post-graduate experience with excellent analytical, communication and project management skills.

Language - You have:

• Excellent command of English - fluency (level C) in oral and written English is essential.
• Good level of other UN language is a plus (priority requirements for French, Spanish).

More About You:

• Strong track record on organizational design and change management;
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, planning and problem-solving skills;
• Strong attention to detail;
• Ability to handle ambiguity and change, as well as balance multiple priorities;
• Customer orientation;
• Excellent written/verbal communication skills;
• Ability to build effective relationships across and outside the organization, at all levels;
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word and Powerpoint;
• High level of organization to compile and derive insights from data, working with multiple sources and coping with rapidly changing information;
• Knowledge of workforce planning tools and data analytics/visualisation/ reporting technology is desirable.

Application Closing Date
15th April, 2023 (11:59 PM CET).