Overview
This role shapes and directs UN Women’s strategic talent management agenda, institutionalizes workforce planning and talent analytics capabilities, and provides authoritative leadership on organizational designs and change management.
Key Responsibilities
- Shape an integrated, strategic approach to talent management in UN Women.
- Direct the design and implementation of all talent management programmes and activities.
- Shape UN Women’s HR policies, processes and practices to embed effective talent management.
- Direct the development of workforce strategies and plans.
- Establish and institutionalize a talent analytics architecture and corresponding capacity.
- Direct the development of the organization’s workforce planning model.
- Shape workforce strategies that enable data-based decisions on workforce structure, staffing models, talent deployment and talent development.
- Enhance Performance and Career Development.
- Direct the performance management process to generate measurable organizational performance gains.
- Drive the transformation of the current performance management process.
- Oversee the delivery of coaching and mentoring programs, developmental assignments and other career enhancement opportunities.
- Establish and institutionalize career advisory services.
- Shape and direct a strategic approach to learning and professional development.
- Institutionalize Leadership Development.
- Shape and promulgate a shared leadership model for UN Women.
- Cultivate and commit UN Women to high-level strategic partnerships for the development and delivery of Leadership Development Programmes.
- Direct such programmes will build leadership skills across all management levels.
- Institutionalize internal mechanisms to support managers at all levels.
- Shape UN Women’s leadership pipeline by identifying and systematically nurturing emerging leaders.
- The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary.
Required Experience
At least 10 years of progressively responsible work experience in Human Resources or Workforce Management is required. Experience in Talent Management is required. Experience in OD/change interventions is required. Experience leading and managing personnel in international settings is required. Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and analytical software, such as spreadsheet and database packages, is required. Experience in enhancing performance management systems is desirable. Experience in workforce planning is desirable. Experience in the use of a modern web-based ERP System, preferably Oracle Cloud, is desirable.
Qualifications
Master’s degree or equivalent in HR, Business Administration (MBA), Public Administration (MPA), Organizational Development or a related field is required. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. A professional certification in HR Management, Talent Management or Talent Analytics would be an added advantage.
