Overview
The Regional People Business Partner serves as a senior strategic HR partner to Regional and Country leadership, co-owning the people agenda to enable effective service line delivery, operational performance, and sustainable growth.
Key Responsibilities
- Co-own the regional people agenda, ensuring alignment between workforce strategies and service line priorities.
- Participate in key decision-making fora at regional and country levels.
- Translate service line demand into workforce strategies.
- Maintain strategic partnerships with key stakeholders.
- Serve as the primary bridge between HQ and the region.
- Contribute to organizational change initiatives.
- Align workforce planning with service line pipelines and demand forecasts.
- Strengthen talent acquisition and deployment strategies.
- Use workforce analytics to generate insights.
- Drive a culture of performance, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Advise leadership on structures and role design.
- Identify capability needs linked to current and future service delivery requirements.
- Guide in-country HR practitioners on applying learning frameworks and policies.
- Partner with L&D and SMEs on region and country-level initiatives.
- Work with Learning & Development Partners to coordinate region-wide learning plan execution.
- Collaborate with Learning & Development Partners to define relevant KPIs for measuring learning impact.
- Provide strategic workforce input into project design and implementation.
- Identify workforce risks that may affect project timelines, quality, or partner satisfaction.
- Contribute to project proposals with insights on talent availability, workforce costs, and delivery implications.
- Ensure workforce considerations are integrated into project governance and engagement processes.
- Exercise delegated authorities to facilitate decision-making that is compliant with the UNOPS regulatory framework.
- Apply HR policies in a manner that supports efficient operations while maintaining compliance and integrity.
- Review requests for exceptions from policy.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of policies and practices.
- Provide practical, solutions-oriented advice that enables leaders to navigate workforce challenges.
- Collaborate with the Chief of People Partnering and PCG centres of expertise to deliver integrated HR solutions.
- Support institutional gender and diversity initiatives.
- Foster a culture aligned with UNOPS values.
- Lead the regional implementation, analysis and follow-up action planning of the annual culture and engagement survey.
- Support leaders in managing change effectively.
- Partner with HQ to promote DEI.
- Ensure regional training and capacity-building initiatives on ethics, code of conduct, and PSEAH.
- Promote personnel wellbeing initiatives.
Required Experience
- Relevant experience must include operating as a strategic HR Business Partner in delivery-driven or complex operational environments, providing strategic HR advice and coaching to senior leaders or implementing strategic HR initiatives, including talent and performance management, workforce planning, organization design and development, employee engagement, change management or related areas.
- Experience with aligning workforce strategies with business performance, delivery outcomes and organizational priorities is required.
- Demonstrable track record of enabling organizational effectiveness and delivery through people strategies is required.
- Experience using analytics to inform strategic and operational decision-making is required.
- Experience of working in multicultural environments or UN system organizations in a developing country is desired.
- Experience in development or humanitarian contexts is desired.
- Experience supporting large-scale organizational change or transformation is desired.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Human Resources, Business Administration, Industrial-Organizational or Business Psychology, Behavioural Science, Organizational Development, Public Administration, or relevant social sciences with 9 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree (or equivalent) in any of the above or related fields with 7 years of relevant experience is required.
- Certification from a recognized coaching organization (e.g. ICF) is an asset.
