Emplois au PNUD - 35168- Consultant: Dual Career and Staff Mobility/SWB/OHR

Consultant: Dual Career and Staff Mobility/SWB/OHR

Lieu :

New York

Type de contrat :

Individual Contract

Date de commencement :

12-Feb-2013

Date limite de candidature :

30-Jan-13 (Minuit New York, États-Unis)

Niveau du poste :

National Consultant

Durée du contrat initial

Two years (Retainer)

Langues requises :

Anglais

Durée prévue de la mission :

Two years (Retainer)

Le PNUD s’engage à recruter un personnel divers en termes de genre, de nationalité et de culture. Nous encourageons de même les personnes issues des minorités ethniques, des communautés autochtones ou handicapées à postuler. Toutes les candidatures seront traitées dans la plus stricte confidentialité. Le PNUD ne tolère pas l’exploitation et / ou les atteintes sexuelles, ni aucune forme de harcèlement, y compris le harcèlement sexuel, et / ou toutes formes de discrimination. Tous/tes les candidats/tes selectectionnes /ées devront ainsi se soumettre à de rigoureuses vérifications relatives aux références fournies ainsi qu’à leurs antécédents.

Historique

The UNDP Office of Human Resources (OHR), Staff Well being Unit supports dual career and staff mobility through sponsoring workshops for the New York based expatriate Spouses/Partners of UN staff members. Each workshop will have approximately 25 participants. These participants will be relatively new to New York, new to a job search or have not had success in finding employment. There will be a series of seven workshops given in the spring and fall of each year. Each workshop will last three hours. The consultancy will be for two years on a retainer basis.

Devoirs et responsabilités

To familiarize the participants with the job situation on the regular job market in the New York area, and within the UN system organizations
Enhance the reflection on the skills and competencies they need in the competitive job hunting market;
Help individual attendees identify and resolve specific problems particular to their situation;
Provide for the attendees useful resources to facilitate their job search;
Perform a yearly study on the impact of the workshops on the participants;

Tasks:

To develop a series of five to seven half day career support workshops for expatriate spouses and partners of UN staff members;
To conduct the career support workshops twice a year;
The workshops should incorporate the topics on understanding how to job search in the US and United Nations Common System; characteristics of the US job market and American cultural values; how to write a competency based resume; competency based interviewing techniques and job interview preparation; and networking cross-culturally;
Track attendance, spouse/partner UN Agency affiliation and where and what type of job the successful workshop applicants got;
Provide the UNDP OHR Staff Well being Unit with a report containing statistics and feedback upon the completion of each workshop series;

Compétences

Facilitation and good interpersonal skills
Creativity
Initiative

Qualifications et expériences requises

Education:

Advanced University Degree (Master’s) in Human Resources management, Social Work, Psychology, or other related field.

Experience:

Demonstrate proficiency in designing and facilitating of career support workshops;
In-depth knowledge of the US/NYC job market and good knowledge of the UN job market;
Familiarity with the G-4 visa situation of UN staff members’ spouses
Intercultural sensitivity;
Previous working experience with the an UN system organisations an asset;

Languages:

Fluency in English essential; knowledge of French and/or Spanish an asset

Proposal submission:

A short proposal emphasizing the most important points of the career support workshops;
A summary of your professional background that supports your skills and competencies as noted above;
Provide at least one client reference;
Your per diem rate for requested services.