Strategic Talent Acquisition

• Develop and execute strategic, modern talent acquisition strategies, to enable the organization to identify, attract and hire the best talent in support of the Country Strategic Plan.
  
• Lead the organization workforce planning process on an annual basis, taking into consideration the key organization performance drivers, metrics, funding and overall progress of the Country Strategic Plan.
  
• Champion and lead the organizational talent review and succession planning process, in accordance with the developed guidelines and tools.
  
• Build and maintain strategic partnerships, including professional associations, academic institutions, talent sourcing institutions, and other recruiting sources to ensure constant presence of a talent pipeline.
  
• Improved the gender diversity and drive the improvements of talent attraction and recruitment approaches, especially attraction of qualified female candidates.
  
• Provision of timely and accurate staffing analytics across the various contract types and modalities.
  
• Collecting information and proposing best practices in the area of talent acquisition relevant to the country context. This includes, building a database or relevant job boards, networks, universities to source and attract talents from. The officer will further act as a focal point in the Country Office to implement Talent Acquisition best practices proposed from a regional and corporate level.
  

Training

• In close collaboration with the Senior HR Officer, develop and implement a plan to collect learnings needs for the Country Office and in liaison with the regional and corporate colleagues propose interventions to address skills gaps identified through the analysis. Collect data from participants/managers to understand their training experience and propose improvements to existing learning interventions.
  

Human Capital Development

• Lead and guide the various organization units in conducting the annual learning needs assessment exercise.
  
• Lead the development and execution of an organization-wide learning and development strategy and plan in line with the country wide priorities and strategic plan.
  
• Create and build key strategic partnerships with all managers, learning services providers, country leadership, regional and head office partners in relation to staff learning and development.
  
• Continuous monitoring and evaluation of the learning and develop plans, actions across the organization, using best practice methods;
  
• Provision of timely and accurate learning and development merits and reports for effective management decision-making.
  
• Drive increased utilization of the learning resources by staff across the organizations.
  

Performance Management

• Advise employees on the use of corporate performance management tools and propose ideas to strengthen the performance culture in the country office.
  
• Manage the ongoing performance management process ensuring all staff are informed, trained and coached on all aspects of the performance management cycle and timelines.
  
• Enhance utilization of the organization performance management tools, for example the feedback tools, among others
  
• Orient new staff, managers in the utilization of the online probation management system
  
• Drive organization-wide compliance with the corporate performance planning, review and assessment timelines.
  
• Provision of timely and accurate staff performance management data.
  
• Perform any other duties as required by the supervisor
  

Purpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Understands WFP’s Strategic Objectives and the link to own work objectives.
  
• Be a force for positive change: Flexibly adapts individual contributions to accommodate changes in direction from supervisors and internal/external changes (such as evolving needs of beneficiaries, new requirements of partners).
  
•  Make the mission inspiring to our team: Recognizes and shares with team members the ways in which individual contributions relate to WFP’s mission.
  
•  Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Sets own goals in alignment with WFP’s overall operations, and is able to communicate this link to others.
  

People

• Look for ways to strengthen people’s skills: Assesses own strengths and weaknesses to increase self-awareness, and includes these in conversations on own developmental needs.
  
•  Create an inclusive culture: Participates in open dialogue, and values the diverse opinion of others, regardless of background, culture, experience, or country assignment.
  
•  Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Proactively seeks feedback and coaching to build confidence, and develop and improve individual skills.
  
•  Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Participates in accomplishing team activities and goals in the face of challenging circumstances.
  

Performance

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Shows willingness to explore and experiment with new ideas and approaches in own work.
  
•  Focus on getting results: Consistently delivers results within individual scope of work on time, on budget and without errors.
  
•  Make commitments and make good on commitments: Commits to upholding individual accountabilities and responsibilities in the face of ever-changing country or functional priorities.
  
•  Be Decisive: Makes rational decisions about individual activities when faced with uncertain circumstances, including in times of ambiguity regarding information or manager direction.
  

Partnership

• Connect and share across WFP units: Seeks to understand and adapt to internal or cross-unit teams’ priorities and preferred working styles.
  
•  Build strong external partnerships: Demonstrates ability to understand and appropriately respond to and/or escalate needs of external partners.
  
•  Be politically agile & adaptable: Portrays an informed and professional demeanor toward internal and external partners and stakeholders.
  
•  Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Provides operational support on analyses and assessments that quantifies and demonstrates WFP’s unique value as a partner.