Human Resources Analyst
New York City
- Organization: UNOPS - United Nations Office for Project Services
- Location: New York City
- Grade: Junior level - IICA-1, International Individual Contractors Agreement
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Occupational Groups:
- Human Resources
- Closing Date: 2023-03-30
Functional Responsibilities
**Even though the duty station is indicated as New York, USA, consideration may be given to allow the position to be home-based, depending on the incumbent's personal situation. For home-based positions, a location-specific fee scale is applied in determining the contractor's fee.**
Reporting to the Human Resources Team Lead, the Human Resources Analyst will carry out the following tasks:
1. Support to policy development and implementation
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Support the HR advisor on policy development and cluster-wide HR initiatives by providing data on trends, risks and opportunities and sharing local HR best practices; drive the implementation of the cluster’s HR strategy and initiatives
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Assist the HR Advisor to develop and implement workforce planning initiatives, employing HR business processes mapping, to ensure efficient and effective services and work flows
2. HR Analytics
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Perform regular quality control checks across main dashboards to ensure accuracy of data
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Work with field colleagues to collect data on key stages of recruitment processes
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Identify and analyze trends and patterns in recruitment data, especially how they pertain to recruitment delays
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Ensure that data in the HR dashboards matches the data in the roster database system
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Work with information management colleagues to troubleshoot technical problems with the analytics system
3. Advisory Services
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Assist with the provision of guidance on HR policy application for personnel management, assessing and anticipating HR needs to provide value-added consultative service to HR practitioners in the field and NY-based portfolio team and senior management colleagues
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Communicate HR policy changes and new HR initiatives to and personnel, especially field and portfolio team colleagues, providing guidance as needed
4. Talent Acquisition and Administration
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Talent Acquisition - Carry out full cycle recruitment for New York-based positions as well as senior management positions in the field offices, including outreach, shortlisting, coordination of technical assessment, coordination of interviews, reference checks, and submission to review bodies
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Support the team in managing rosters, especially full cycle roster replenishments
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Perform regular quality control checks on the roster database system, ensuring that roster members' memberships are up-to-date, documents are uploaded, and that job orders are up-to-date
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Perform comprehensive compliance reviews for recruitment of ICA contractors
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Oversee the operation of the interview minute writers system
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Oversee the operation of the endorsed candidates database system
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Oversee the operation of the written test database
5. Knowledge building and knowledge sharing
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Organize, facilitate and/or deliver training and learning initiatives for personnel on HR-related topics
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Support the execution of initiatives on capacity development and knowledge building for HR personnel, including network development, plans, learning plans and activities, HR practice information and best practice benchmarking
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Contribute to HR knowledge networks and communities of practice, including collaborative synthesis of lessons learnt and dissemination of best practices in human resources management
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Support the team’s collection of feedback, ideas, and internal knowledge about processes and best practices and utilize productively
Education/Experience/Language requirements
Education
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Advanced university degree (master or equivalent) OR
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First level university degree (bachelor or equivalent) with 2 years of relevant experience
Experience
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Relevant experience is defined as experience performing administrative operations in a private or public organization
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Experience in HR operations is desired
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Experience with applicant tracking systems is desired
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Experience with HR analytics is desired
Languages
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Fluency in English (read, write, speak) is required
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Fluent French is desired