Roving Human Resources Consultant, Level I at World Food Programme (WFP)

• 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.

• Has provided directions 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.

• Has provided direction and instruction to more junior staff members within area of expertise;
• Has collated and analysed data in order to support aspects of broader change initiatives and programme design.

• 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)

• 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.

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