HR Specialist - Talent Outreach

UNOPS is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve peace and sustainable development.

UNOPS areas of expertise cover infrastructure, procurement, project management, financial management and human resources.

Working with us

UNOPS offers short- and long-term work opportunities in diverse and challenging environments across the globe. We are looking for creative, results-focused professionals with skills in a range of disciplines.

Diversity

With over 4,000 UNOPS personnel and approximately 7,000 personnel recruited on behalf of UNOPS partners spread across 80 countries, our workforce represents a wide range of nationalities and cultures. We promote a balanced, diverse workforce — a strength that helps us better understand and address our partners’ needs, and continually strive to improve our gender balance through initiatives and policies that encourage recruitment of qualified female candidates.

Work life harmonization

UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands.

The incumbent will play an important role to support the gender parity efforts of the Africa Region and the global Peace and Security Cluster.  

Africa Region (AFR)

The Office of the Regional Director for Africa is located in Copenhagen, Denmark. UNOPS Africa Region (AFR) currently consists of six Multi Country Offices in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya and Tunisia (each of those has a collection of smaller operations in the neighbouring countries). It also consists of two key Country Offices, in Somalia and South Sudan.The AFR delivery portfolio has significantly grown over the past years, passing $250M in 2016, with close to 900 personnel. AFR’s portfolio focuses predominantly on supporting fragile and conflict-affected states in Africa in infrastructure development, procurement and project management in support of sustainable development, peace and security as well as humanitarian interventions.

Peace and Security Cluster (PSC)

Over the past 20 years, UNOPS Peace and Security Cluster (PSC) has developed expertise in implementing projects in complex environments where security and logistical challenges hamper peace and security, humanitarian and development activities. UNOPS PSC works closely with its partners across a number of key areas such as human resources and talent management, supply chain, and contract management of works, goods and services. Within its current portfolio, the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) remains the cluster’s main partner. In this capacity, PSC provides project implementation support in the area of mine action and broader explosive hazard threat mitigation for UNMAS activities in over 18 field progammes with more than 500 personnel.

We are recruiting an enthusiastic recruitment professional to join the team and support both the Africa Region and the Peace and Security Cluster.

Under the direct supervision and day to day coordination from the Talent Outreach Advisor in  the People and Change Group (HQ) on behalf of the Africa Region and Peace and Security Cluster, the position will be accountable for the achievement of talent outreach results to the leadership of the Africa Region and the Peace and Security Cluster, globally.

The HR Specialist - Talent Outreach will work on strengthening UNOPS capacity to effectively source and attract the best talent, with a focus on qualified women.

The incumbent will actively support the two units in improving the diversity in their recruitment pipeline. Currently the focus is on improving the gender diversity within our workforce as explained in our Gender Parity strategy. The HR Specialist - Talent Outreach is expected drive the improvements of talent attraction and recruitment approaches, especially to attract qualified female candidates (with a special attention on diaspora) to hardship locations.

The HR Specialist - Talent Outreach  will contribute to fostering a positive work environment, respectful of all genders, and ensure that the highest standards are observed.

S.he will have a sound understanding of international best practices in recruitment and diversity , together with an open mind for innovation, while being focused on delivering practical solutions. The role will require a relationship-driven approach and a result-driven mind-set to build and sustain global, regional and local networks that will expand UNOPS diverse talent network. Specific responsibilities (with a clear focus on women) include, but are not limited to:

• Drive and initiate outreach activities, to improve the quality of applications and their diversity, with the special focus on qualified women candidates.

• Identify and handle direct candidates searches for specific recruitment processes (headhunting) for example for  technical positions in hardship locations.

• Identify and implement sourcing systems, tools, and approaches to attract qualified diverse candidates with a special attention for diaspora.

• Identify and implement special outreach initiatives to attract qualified professional

• Contribute to develop innovative recruitment campaigns including media, print, web/online content and event promotion for employer brand awareness.

• Promote and communicate UNOPS as an employer of choice, through relevant job fairs, social media platforms and other appropriate channels.

• Ensure the development of national capacity of HR colleagues on recruitment outreach.

• Develop and maintain influencing conversations with management to lead recruitment result in line with strategic objectives

• Identify and develop collaboration with relevant networks in order to attract qualified candidates; such as within female military veterans, military veterans with expertise in explosive hazard management and diaspora.

The location of the position will be Copenhagen, Denmark.

Education

• At least a Bachelor degree or equivalent in a relevant discipline is required.

Experience

• Minimum 5 years of experience working in recruitment management or attraction of diaspora.

• Experience in direct sourcing of candidates (headhunting) is required.

• Experience in attracting candidates from African diaspora is highly desirable.

• Experience with military networks is highly desirable

• Experience in working on diversity and inclusion initiatives, such as gender parity, diversity and inclusion or similar areas, ideally within an international HR context, is desirable.

• Experience in designing and delivering training is desirable.

Language requirements

• Fluency in written and verbal English and French is required.

Contract type: International Individual Contractor Agreement  Contract level: IICA_2 (ICS 10)
Contract duration: Open-ended, subject to satisfactory performance and funding availability


For more details about the ICA contractual modality, please follow this link:
https://www.unops.org/english/Opportunities/job-opportunities/what-we-offer/Pages/Individual-Contractor-Agreements.aspx 

• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• Work life harmonization - UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands. We have a progressive policy on work-life harmonization and offer several flexible working options. This policy applies to UNOPS personnel on all contract types
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns. Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.