Human Resources Officer NO-B

Bogotá

Organization: WFP - World Food Programme
Location: Bogotá
Grade: Junior level - NO-B, National Professional Officer - Locally recruited position
Occupational Groups:
- Human Resources
Closing Date: Closed

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) seeks candidates of the highest integrity and professionalism who share our humanitarian principles.

Selection of staff is made on a competitive basis, and we are committed to promoting diversity and gender balance. WFP is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status, physical or mental disability.

JOB TITLE:	Human Resources Officer
TYPE OF CONTRACT:	Fixed-Term, NO-B
UNIT/DIVISION:	WFP Colombia, Human Resources
DUTY STATION (City, Country):	Bogotá, Colombia
DURATION:	1 year (extendable)

ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT:

The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger. In Colombia, the support that WFP provides to the national government responds to Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 2 and 17 using innovative tools such as cash transfers and local purchase of food through farmer associations. WFP's activities in Colombia focus on the most vulnerable populations, which include victims of violence, marginalized communities, and ethnic groups. This is done progressively through the development of the capacities of local authorities to implement responsible programs that contribute to reducing food insecurity and malnutrition.

With 8 field offices strategically located in the capitals of the departments of Arauca, Caquetá, Córdoba, Chocó, La Guajira, Nariño, Norte de Santander, and Valle del Cauca, WFP operates in 23 departments saving lives and changing lives, promoting local socio-economic recovery and development and providing transformative and sustainable solutions through nexus approaches linking humanitarian, peace, and development efforts.

WFP's Human Resources (HR) Unit acts as a strategic ally to managers, supporting the building and empowering of an agile, diverse, talented, and engaged workforce working to save lives and change lives, for a world without hunger. It provides efficient and accessible services for all collaborators and leaders in the WFP. In cooperation with hiring managers, it attracts, develops, and retains the talent that makes up the WFP workforce. Works in compliance with the United Nations Staff Rules and other rules and policies, the WFP Code of Conduct and Core Values (Partnership, Commitment, Humanity, Inclusion and Integrity), and empowers employees to uphold these core principles in the performance of their duties, promoting an inclusive, respectful and healthy workplace.

Under the direct supervision of the Deputy Country Director for Support Services, job holders operate with minimal supervision, and provide guidance to junior staff to ensure that operational and project objectives are achieved. They are heavily involved in day–to-day activities and analytical work. Job holders provide advice on low complex issues, applying HR rules, regulations, and expertise in making determinations and recommendations across a range of activities

JOB PURPOSE:

To deliver a professional, client-focused HR services, partnering with managers to implement HR solutions in line with WFP corporate priorities.

ACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:

Contribute towards the development of country specific plans and processes, and deliver HR operational activities or projects, following standard processes and ensuring alignment with wider WFP policies.
Provide advice to managers and employees, understanding their needs and ensuring policies, procedures, processes, systems, and tools are available and correctly applied to support them.
Provide effective management of the employment relationship between WFP and its staff, by administering conditions of service, contracts, and appropriate entitlements, and resolving employee relations issues.
Contribute to staff capability building, working with managers to understand individual skills and business requirements, and organizing/delivering development solutions which equip people with the skills and knowledge required to meet current and future challenges.
Deliver onboarding activities which ensure new employees have a positive experience of WFP and are successfully integrated into their new role and the organization.
Contribute to building and managing talent within WFP, working with managers to understand their needs, and delivering solutions to recruit, retain, manage, and develop a high caliber workforce to deliver business objectives.
Support organizational design activities that enable senior management to define and organize structures and jobs and allocate people to the right places to improve efficiency.
Guide and supervise junior staff, acting as a point of referral and supporting them with analysis and queries.
Collate and analyses data for the preparation of accurate and timely reporting, supporting a WFP wide view of HR activities that enables informed decision-making and consistent information for stakeholders.
Contribute to continuous improvement by implementing new/updated HR policies, procedures and systems and recommending improvements to ways of working.
Other as required.

WFP LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK: COMMON STANDARDS OF BEHAVIOUR

Leads by Example with Integrity

Upholds WFP values, principles, and standards

Demonstrates and encourages others to uphold the WFP values, principles and standards

Respects others and values diversity

Values diversity using respectful and inclusive language, and encourages others to do the same

Stays focused and calm under pressure

Stays focused and calm when under

pressure, encourages others to do the same, and offers guidance and support to manage

difficult situations

Demonstrates humility and a willingness to learn

Demonstrates humility and a willingness to learn and share knowledge, frequently seeking and acting on feedback, and pursuing opportunities to develop

Drives Results and Delivers on

Commitments

Delivers results for maximum impact

Identifies and aligns objectives to the required outcomes, holding self and/or others accountable for the delivery of results for maximum impact

Delegates appropriately

Delegates responsibly and provides appropriate support empowering others to deliver results

Adapts readily to change

Responds readily to change in different contexts and adapts accordingly

Fosters Inclusive and Collaborative

Is inclusive and collaborative

Promotes inclusive teamwork and psychological safety by encouraging colleagues to collaborate by sharing ideas and openly raising issues

Gives timely and constructive feedback

Supports development for others by giving timely and constructive feedback

Builds and shares new perspectives

Seeks out, trusts and listens attentively to diverse views to capture, learn, build and share new perspectives

Applies Strategic

Thinking

Communicates and

fulfils WFP’s vision

Communicates and

fulfils WFP’s vision and operational outcomes to deliver meaningful solutions

Embraces curiosity and new ways of doing things

Demonstrates

curiosity, designs and implements new ways of doing things when relevant

Analyses and evaluates data

Gathers data and

different perspectives, shares knowledge and uses evidence to inform decision making

Considers the impact of decisions

Implements decisions, considering the risks and implications of actions for teams, projects and other

initiatives

Builds and

Maintains

Sustainable

Partnerships

Builds partnerships

Initiates and builds partnerships by identifying and promoting opportunities for mutual areas of interest and benefit

Collaborates to

deliver common objectives

Collaborates with partners to deliver common objectives by sharing information and cocreating innovative solutions with beneficiaries when appropriate

FUNCTIONAL CAPABILITIES:

Capability Name	Description of the behavior expected for the proficiency level
Employee orientation	Shows expert knowledge of Country Office / Division challenges and applies this to provide tailored HR guidance, advice and support to drive employee engagement. Proactively seeks information on the local employee context evolution. Manages and applies employee engagement tactics to influence employee perceptions and to achieve the best outcome for employees and WFP.
HR Expertise & Policy Knowledge	Is able to contextualize and apply deep knowledge of WFP policies and programmes, as well as internal regulations, in order to provide insights and advice to key organizational stakeholders. Contributes to policy development and improvement.
Business Knowledge & Partnership	Applies expert skill in building strong partnerships with senior stakeholders in order to get and in-depth understanding of WFP's organizational objectives and related operational challenges, and therefore ensure the ongoing alignment of the HR operating model. Applies this understanding to design people initiatives that support the achievement of WFP's strategic goals.
Enabling Talent Management Solutions	Demonstrates deep knowledge of all WFP HR solutions. Creates plans for their successful implementation and execution, in order to contribute to strategic HR and organizational outcomes.
HR Operations Management	Applies in-depth understanding of WFP HR Operations to ensure their full alignment with WFP's HR strategy. Drives continuous HR operations improvement and oversees implementation of changes, by maintaining robust review processes.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Education:

Advanced university degree in Human Resource Management, Public or Business Administration, Industrial Psychology or other relevant field, or First University degree with additional two (2) years of related work experience or trainings/courses.

Experience:

Three (3) or more years of postgraduate professional experience in Human Resources with an interest in international humanitarian development.
Strong professional working experience in Human Resources management.
Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and experience in handling of web-based management systems.
Has provided direction and instruction to more junior staff members within area of expertise.
Has gained extensive experience providing administrative and systems support across multiple activities in employment life cycle including: recruitment, interviews, training support, performance management, relocation support and policy implementation within a country office environment.

Knowledge & Skills:

Broad or specialized knowledge of HR best practices, techniques and processes with some understanding of the basic theoretical background.
Ability to supervise and support more junior and/or less experienced members of the team.
Ability to work with minimal supervision.
Ability to analyze data, draw conclusions and recommend a course of action.
Good communication skills required to give and receive information and work with a variety of individuals.
Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with clients and provide client-oriented service. Ability to identify client’s needs and match them to appropriate solutions.
Knowledge of, or the ability to quickly assimilate, UN/WFP specific processes and systems.

Languages:

Fluency in Spanish and English (Level C).

Application deadline: 18 December 2022

For this vacancy, only applications of candidates with Colombian nationality that comply with all the requirements established in the job profile, will be taken into consideration. Applications using P11 format are encouraged, and it may be found by typing "Fomato P11" in the search engine of your preference. Download it, fill it out, sign it and attach it to your application.

All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. Therefore, all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks and all employment applications will be treated with the strictest confidentiality.

Successful candidates will be placed in a roster for two (2) years.

Please visit the following website for more information on the work that WFP does (http://www.wfp.org).

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