People and Culture Officer, P-2

People and Culture Officer, P-2 (Temporary Position, 11 months) at UNICEF Supply Division

Overview

UNICEF Supply Division (SD) works to ensure equitable and inclusive access to essential supplies and services for children and their families, in development, humanitarian and fragile contexts. These supplies are critical to saving lives, supporting children’s health and education, and protecting them from abuse, exploitation, and neglect. As the UN’s largest end to end supply chain entity, UNICEF leverages its global reach, market influence, supply chain expertise and partnerships with governments, civil society, private sector, industry, and other stakeholders to meet children’s needs and protect their rights around the world.

SD focuses on three areas to maximize impact, scale, and effectiveness: strategic procurement; supply preparedness and response in humanitarian and fragile contexts; and supply chain optimization. To facilitate and accelerate progress toward these results, SD employs three change strategies: financing for supply and services, supply chain digitalization and supply chain localization.

The People and Culture Centre leads strategic human resources management by strengthening workforce capabilities, promoting high performance, and fostering an inclusive work environment. It drives the development and delivery of strategic HR solutions across the organization. The Centre oversees workforce planning, talent management (including succession planning and staff mobility), the deployment of supply staff to respond to emergencies and the development of a future-ready workforce within the supply community.

This position is within the Supply Community Talent Management Unit as a core part of the Supply Division’s People & Culture Centre. As such, the incumbent understands the different areas of integrated Talent Management and demonstrates proficiency in implementing learning & development solutions which require ongoing and proactive engagement with various stakeholders across the Supply Community.

How can you make a difference?

Under the overall guidance of Chief, People and Culture & direct supervision of the People & Culture Specialist (Supply Community Talent Management), the People & Culture Officer (Talent Development) contributes toward and help coordinate the Supply talent & learning strategies, enabling staff members to grow the skillset and competencies necessary to lead and work in the Supply Function globally. The role also provides support in performance management, talent reviews, staff mobility and talent partnerships, in line with the objective of having current and future talent gaps addressed in alignment with People & Culture and business objectives.

Key functions, accountabilities and related duties/tasks:

• Talent Development & Programme Delivery
• Talent Development & Learning Solutions
• Supply

Skills

• Taxonomy and Architecture

• Integration, analytics and knowledge products

• If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: JD - People & Culture Officer_P2.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Minimum requirements:

• Education: Bachelor or equivalent (First Level University Degree) in human resources management, business administration, international relations, psychology or another related field is required.
• Work

Experience

• At least 2 years of experience in human resources, learning & development, or talent management, in international or complex operational contexts is required.
• Relevant experience at the international level in planning, monitoring and project management in initiatives related to learning and/or talent management is required.
• Experience in liaising with external learning and/or talent management vendors to establish contracts and coordinate deliverables is required.
• Ability to analyze and present findings from learning & development initiatives to business leaders, and act on the inputs received is a requirement.
• Skills: Talent Management, L&D Project, Vendor Management
• Language

Requirements

• Fluency in English is required.

Desirables:

• Language: Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
• Experience in the supply & logistics function in the private sector or in the United Nations is an asset.
• Experience in rolling-out competency framework and/or skills mapping is an asset.
• Artificial Intelligence fluency and responsible use is an asset.
• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF's Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships

(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness

(3) Drive to achieve results for impact

(4) Innovates and embraces change

(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity

(6) Thinks and acts strategically

(7) Works collaboratively with others

Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels.

UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.

UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates,

• regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.
• UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, discrimination, fraud, corruption and other forms of serious misconduct.

UNICEF is committed to promoting the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference, safeguarding and background verification checks. These checks may include verification of academic credentials and employment history, screening against relevant United Nations misconduct databases, and requests for misconduct disclosures from current and former employers, professional associations, other relevant organizations and participating organizations under inter-agency safeguarding initiatives, including the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme.