Roving Human Resources Consultant, Level I

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

Experience:

• Three or more years of postgraduate professional experience in Human Resources with an interest in international humanitarian development.
  
• Demonstrated experience in providing HR services across multiple HR functional areas (e.g., talent acquisition, benefits, contract management, workforce planning).
  
• Experience in supporting field or emergency operations, or in multiple duty stations/country offices.
  
• Experience of using HR information systems (e.g., Workday, SAP, or similar platforms)
  

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 engage with high level stakeholders.
  
• 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 including Workday, WINGS and Payroll application systems.
  
• Proven experience supporting HR operations across multiple countries.
  
• Ability to build strong working relationships across diverse teams, culture and professional background.
  

Language: Fluency (level C) in English language.

• 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 Roving HR Support to Country Offices. Deliver timely, HR support to Country Offices requiring surge capacity, operational backfill, or specialized expertise.
  
• Support Country Offices in end‑to‑end recruitment processes, including workforce planning, vacancy management, candidate screening, interviewing, selection, and onboarding.
  
• Coordinate L&D activities in collaboration with CO management, helping to identify learning needs and facilitate implementation of corporate learning programmes.
  
• Support initiatives that strengthen staff engagement, wellbeing, diversity, equity, and inclusion across Country Offices.
  
• 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 positive experience of WFP, and are successfully integrated into their new role and the organisation.
  
• 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 in order to improve efficiency.
  
• Guide and supervise junior staff, acting as a point of referral and supporting them with analysis and queries.
  
• Collate and analyse 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.