Human Resources Specialist, P-3, Fixed Term Position, Lilongwe, Malawi #00043611

UN Children's Fund - UNICEF

Staff Closes 22 Apr 2026 9 days left

Overview

The role is responsible for all employee lifecycle matters, providing client-focused advice and ensuring policy-compliant solutions. It supports strategic HR initiatives, promotes diversity and inclusion, and contributes to key functions such as recruitment, performance management, and staff development.


Key Responsibilities
  • Manage people and culture activities including the supervision of the P&C team.
  • Provide guidance in people and culture matters that promote a gender-balanced multidisciplinary team of professionals.
  • Act as the primary P&C partner for an assigned client portfolio, providing end-to-end advice across the employment life cycle.
  • Deliver timely, accurate, and practical guidance on P&C policies and processes.
  • Proactively support the resolution of people-related issues.
  • Champion equitable, transparent solutions that protect both staff and organizational interests.
  • Contribute to the development and implementation of corporate and regional P&C strategies.
  • Help shape and continuously improve P&C systems, policies, and processes.
  • Support the delivery of one or more P&C service areas such as recruitment, job classification, performance management, learning and development, career development, or HR analytics.
  • Partner with business owners to design and deliver learning solutions that build skills, strengthen competencies, and support career development.
  • Contribute to competency mapping and talent pipeline development.
  • Recommend cost-effective learning products.
  • Serve as a resource person in capacity-building initiatives.
  • Use HR data to generate insights that inform strategic decision-making.
  • Analyze trends, strengthen data quality through improved systems and processes.
  • Work with country offices and partners to enhance HR information management and evidence-based people strategies.
Required Experience
  • Minimum 5 years of increasingly responsible professional work experience in human resource management in an international organization and/or large corporation is required.
  • Experience and ability to implement targeted and innovative human resources strategies to address clients’ people-related needs is required.
  • Ability to implement innovative HR programs within a fast paced, evolving, and wide organizational setting is required.
  • In-depth technical knowledge of the principles and concepts of human resources management is required.
  • Ability to identify and analyze systemic issues, formulate opinions and make conclusions and recommendations to resolve same is required.
  • Excellent knowledge of organizational and P&C information technology systems and tools is required.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in a diverse organization tailoring language, tone, style and format to match audience is required.
  • Ability to empathize with client managers, supervisors and staff while advocating for consistent and equitable applications of promulgated P&C regulations and rules is required.
  • International experience, Coaching, Training facilitation, Power Bi.
  • Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.
Qualifications

Master or equivalent (Advanced University Degree) from an accredited institution in one of the following fields is required: in human resource management, business management, international relations, psychology or another related field is required.

Other Details
Languages Required
Fluency in English is required.
Languages Preferred
Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language.
Contract Duration
Not specified
Work Modality
Not specified
Remuneration
Not specified
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