UNDP Jobs - 54564- Director, Office of Human Resources

Director, Office of Human Resources

Location :

New York, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Type of Contract :

FTA International

Starting Date :

Application Deadline :

05-Apr-15 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

D-2

Duration of Initial Contract :

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Background

UNDP is a unique working environment. Our staff provide services to some of the worlds most vulnerable people, investing in development programmes across the globe, “working as one” with our UN sister agencies, to achieve our vision of “Empowered Lives and Resilient Nations”. This working environment presents special challenges for people management.

The role of the Office of Human Resources (OHR) is to provide UNDP and its leadership with the best strategic HR advice. Leading the provision of HR business focused services, the office delivers best practice HR services and interventions that deliver results.

The Office is accountable for the strategies, policies, systems and frameworks that enable UNDP to attract, develop, retain and motivate a highly skilled and diverse workforce. It shapes and cultivates a workplace that enables the organization’s staff to be productive, valued and rewarded. Based in HQ in New York, and with its presence in the five regional hubs, Panama, Amman, Addis Ababa, Istanbul and Bangkok, OHR offers high quality business focused HR services across the globe.

OHR ensures the availability of a highly skilled, aligned and engaged workforce to deliver today and tomorrow. Services include workforce planning, change management, recruitment, talent development including leadership development, engagement, performance management and succession management. It provides advisory and oversight services for human resources management of its global workforce. It provides the learning and knowledge management systems to ensure that staff skills and competencies remain highly competitive for advisory and development services. It ensures that the Human Resources architecture is aligned to support the organization’s direction and the UN Reform.

OHR administers the global workforce through its systems support and advisory services. Key functions of OHR include:

Thought leadership
Integrated talent management
Policy development, including compensation
Business partnering

Staff administrative services are provided through a separately managed BOM Business Transactions Unit.

Duties and Responsibilities

HR strategic Contribution

Defines the global vision and strategic direction of the organization’s human-resources-management practice consistent with evolving business needs and best practice, and leads and drives change to achieve the identified vision.
Exercises thought leadership, introduces and originates methods and systems to align talent to give effect to UNDP’s strategic plan.
Ensures the provision of critical business reporting, information and insight to senior management on workforce trends, profile, and emerging issues to position the organization and proactively anticipate, plan and meet future workforce needs.
Identifies risks and ensures quality assurance for all people processes and systems, liaising with independent evaluation, ethics and other oversight bodies.

HR technical Leadership

Establishes the parameters, and provides strategic direction to the work programmes and strategies of the accountable areas of the Office of Human Resources (OHR) to achieve results.
- Strategy
- Workforce planning
- Change management
- Integrated Talent Management
- Management Consultancy Services
- Organizational Development
- Staff Engagement
- Performance
- Diversity
- Strategic Sourcing/Succession,
- Learning/Career Development
- Leadership
On behalf of the UN system, oversees the administration of the Resident Coordinator/Resident Representative assessment, selection and placement processes including UN-system governance arrangements
Provides technical leadership to the HR community including HR expertise in country offices.
Provides crisis response as appropriate for people matters in sudden and unexpected emergency situations.

Management

Oversees and directs the planning, resources provision, management, operations, activities and change priorities of the specialized team leaders in diverse disciplines for consistently high levels of performance, efficiency and engagement.
Approves the Office’s annual work plans. Collaboratively sets objectives, performance measurements, standards and expected results and delivers within agreed budgets and timeframes.
Inspires the team, cultivates engagement and ensures alignment
Guides and shapes the development and implementation of updated HR systems, processes, and tools, with an emphasis on e-HR and simplification. Redesign systems to improve the experience of managers and staff in using HR tools and increase productivity and efficiency for all HR activities at HQs, in regional hubs and in Country Offices.
Builds capability for HR expertise, within the OHR office and also across the wider HR community.
Role models excellence in management and leadership practice.

Partnerships and Representation

Defines the vision and establishes methods for building and maintaining strategic partnerships to support the achievement of the organization’s HR objectives and enhance the reputation of UNDP.
Positions UNDP as a leader in UN Human Resources reform ensuring the evolution of a modern and dynamic international civil service, actively partnering with the United Nations Common System with particular attention to the demands of field-based programmes and the challenges of staff mobility.
Works with HR colleagues in UN sister agencies of the whole system on people matters to ensure joined up thinking and a “one UN” approach.
Serves as UNDP's principal representative with the International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), the HR Directors Forum and other policy making bodies.
Supports the management of the strategic partnership with the Staff Association to advance harmonious and effective staff-management relations.
Supports the Bureau for external relations to contribute to their agenda in developing partnerships with key stakeholders.
Develops new partnerships for strategic alignments to advance the talent development agenda to ensure a diverse workforce in the future.

Leader within the Bureau of Management and UNDP

As a Senior Manager of the Bureau of Management, contributes to the design and delivery of a vision for management services aligned with evolving business needs
As a senior leader within the Bureau of Management, work collaboratively with peers and colleagues to provide joined up services to clients. This includes joined up reporting, developing whole of business solutions and participating in the management committee for the Business Transactions unit.
Provides leadership across UNDP through participation in appropriate forums and senior management meetings.
Acts as a confidential and trusted advisor to the Administrator and Senior Executives surfacing the hard issues and reflecting the truth on people matters. Provides a safe haven for challenging ideas.