Vacancy At UNICEF For Human Resources Manager, P-4 | United Nations Children’s Fund

UNICEF works in 190 countries and territories to protect the rights of every child. UNICEF has spent 70 years working to improve the lives of children and their families. Defending children’s rights throughout their lives requires a global presence, aiming to produce results and understand their effects. UNICEF believes all children have a right to survive, thrive and fulfill their potential – to the benefit of a better world.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Human Resources Manager, P-4
Job Number: 514313
Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Work Type: Fixed Term Staff

Brief country context

Nigeria is a populous country with extremely diverse cultural, demographic and development profiles.  The country combines both development and emergency context as there is an ongoing major humanitarian operation in the conflict prone North East.
Economically, the country presents huge potential for leveraging domestic resources (from both public and private sectors) for child-centered development.  Within its capital, Abuja, it hosts the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and a large number of development partners.
The UNICEF Nigeria Office is one of the largest UNICEF Country Offices and has a staffing complement of almost 400 staff. The office is also supported by approximately 130 consultants at any given time.
Staff and consultants are located in the national office (Abuja) and nine field offices, some of which are the size of a small country office with 30 – 40 staff members.
The Human Resources unit is centralized in Abuja, serving all the staff and consultants as necessary.
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COUNTRY TYPOLOGY:

Country Income Level: Nigeria is a lower middle income country.
Duty Station: Abuja is a “C” family, and non- emergency duty station.
Office Size: (375 established positions, 9 Field Offices plus a country office)
Annual Budget: (USD296,200,000)
Schooling: international schools available, covering different curriculum (British, American and French)
HOW CAN YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

As HR Manager you will work closely with programme and operations managers and your HR Team on all staffing issues in this highly decentralized setting and high-risk environment.

Working under the direct supervision of the Chief of Operations, your key functions and accountabilities would include:

Coordination of nation-wide HR related activities eg. Staff learning; and wellbeing including efficient management/staff relations in the various field offices.
Inter-agency engagement with HR managers from other UN agencies
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Developing Human Resources strategy and workplan
Playing a key role in the staff planning process (CPMP/{PBR) ensuring principles of equity, transparency, consultation and feedback to all staff
Recruitment of new personnel
Management of staff contracts and entitlements
Ensuring staff receive any necessary psychosocial support


PERSON PROFILE
The ideal candidate will be a strategist and a leader able to acquire and retain a talented multicultural and diverse workforce through effective performance management by directing the country programme towards results for children while implementing UNICEF’s vision, mission and objectives.

S/he will have strong management skills and demonstrated ability to foster partnerships with governments, the private sector, UN agencies and civil society.
The ideal candidate will have also demonstrated as follows:
Collaboration and Influencing skills: able to encourage collaboration throughout the country office and support integrated and cross-cutting programmes.  Ability to develop positive and effective relationships and build consensus through effective communication and interpersonal skills
Change leadership skills: able to create, operational, and optimize change initiatives that contributes to strengthen UNICEF’s presence and relevance globally
People leadership skills: Able to provide inspiration, vision and effective direction, and unleash high performance from an increasingly diverse and/or dispersed team
Team leadership skills: the ideal candidates will have built, developed and led diverse, cross-functional teams of significant size at the international level.  The most critical element will be demonstrated ability to attract and retain talent through effective performance management
Result orientation skills: able to create an environment of accountability, to make tough decisions when necessary and focused on results

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