Overview
The HR Analyst ensures effective delivery of HR services in a medium size Country Office, interpreting and applying HR policies, rules, and regulations to provide solutions to a wide spectrum of HR issues.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure full compliance of HR activities with UN rules and regulations and UNDP policies, procedures, and strategies.
- Continuously analyze corporate HR strategies and policies, assess the impact of changes, and make recommendations on their implementation in the CO.
- Advise personnel, as necessary, and keep management informed on new HR practices, policy updates, and their implementation.
- Provide support to CO HR business processes mapping and establishment/update of internal HR Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
- Advocate for implementation, monitoring and compliance of HR policies and corporate programmes.
- Analyze and elaborate proposals for and implement a strategic approach to CO HR interventions.
- Support the organization and coordination, if applicable, of inter-agency exercises and surveys.
- Coordinate the Country Office HR support to the UN-system.
- Support the elaboration and implementation, in coordination with the supervisor and management, of HR strategy on audit recommendations.
- Analyze and advise on the risk management of Country Office HR activities.
- Manage transparent and competitive recruitment and selection processes.
- Liaise and coordinate with relevant GSSC teams on the management of contracts.
- Facilitate timely contract management actions.
- Perform HR Manager functions in ERP and validate cost-recovery charges in ERP.
- Develop and manage CO rosters as appropriate.
- Manage International staff entitlements and position funding.
- Initiate contract management, payroll, and separations.
- Support workforce reporting and HR data analysis.
- Support the design and implementation of strategies on staff wellbeing related issues.
- Manage HR processes delegated to the CO, as applicable.
- Analyze requirements, elaborate the protocol for and facilitate the performance management process.
- Play a key role in organizing formal CO management groups responsible for collectively reviewing and discussing performance and talent management/career development.
- Support implementation of effective interventions for the performance evaluation process.
- Facilitate Performance Management reporting and monitoring.
- Advise management and personnel on CO work plan and performance management cycles and policies.
- Support effective learning management including establishment of the CO-wide Learning plan and individual learning plans.
- Implement the Universal Access strategy.
- Advise office management on personnel competency, career management/development, and training needs.
- Provide effective counseling to staff on career management, development needs, and learning possibilities.
- Elaborate proposals on and implement strategic staffing policies.
- Organize training for the Operations and projects staff on HR issues.
- Synthesize lessons learned and best practices in HR.
- Make sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice.
Required Experience
- Applicants with a Bachelor’s degree are required to have a minimum of two (2) years of relevant professional experience at the national or international level in providing HR advisory services and/or managing staff and operational systems.
- Experience in the use of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and advanced knowledge of web-based management systems such as ERP.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (Master's degree) in Human Resources, Business Administration, Public Administration, or related field is required, or
- A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s degree) in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
