Career Opportunities: Human Resources Assistant SSA5 - United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)

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WHO ARE WE?
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), a highly prestigious, reputable & world’s largest humanitarian organization, operating in more than 120 countries and territories, bringing life-saving assistance in emergencies, building pathways to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change and supporting sustainable and resilient livelihoods for a world with zero hunger.  

At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do, and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP's values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.  

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ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT
WFP Cameroon is part of the Country Offices in the Regional Bureau for Central and West Africa (RBD) facing multiple humanitarian crises that simultaneously aggravate existing socio-economic vulnerabilities in the country. The fragile security situation in the Northern part of the Country, a protracted refugee operation in the East and crises in the Northwest and Southwest regions has left millions of people vulnerable to food insecurity. WFP provides a key emergency response component of the Humanitarian Response Plan through regular food and sustainable development assistance to part of the food insecure and vulnerable people in the country. With the launch of the second-generation strategic plan, it is imperative to obtain the optimum capacity of staff, partners and beneficiaries given the precarious humanitarian situation and importance of delivering efficient and quick support. This role further described below, will contribute to the World Food Programme's mission in Cameroon to Saving Lives, Changing Lives.  

JOB PURPOSE
To perform a range of HR tasks to support accurate implementation of WFP policies and procedures and facilitate the effective functioning of a client-focused and strategy-oriented HR services.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Education: Completion of secondary school education. A post-secondary certificate in the related functional area is desirable.
Experience: Five or more years of progressively responsible support work experience in general administrative work, including at least two years in human resources or other related field.
Knowledge & Skills:

• Knowledge of general HR administrative work practices and methods, gained through relevant technical training and experience.
• Good communication skills and basic understanding of HR principles and their application in order to respond to and resolve general HR queries.
• Ability to develop and maintain relationships with a wide range of individuals in order to provide a high quality support service.
• Ability to collate and compile relevant data from a variety of sources in order to produce periodic reports for supervisor(s).
• Ability to monitor and record personnel files and documentation in an organised manner and in line with compliance standards.
Language: General Service (Headquarters): Fluency (level C) in English language. Fluency (level C) or intermediate knowledge (level B) of another official language may be required depending on the location of the post or area of responsibility. General Service (Field): Fluency in both oral and written communication in the UN language in use at the duty station and in the duty station’s language, if different.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)
Provide assistance on general HR queries and follow up actions, to ensure consistent and high- quality HR services are delivered to clients.
Maintain confidential personnel records, HR databases and archives, to ensure data and files are accurately stored and updated in compliance with the established standards.
Provide guidance and on the job training to other staff, to support their development and increased knowledge of HR systems and procedures required to perform their duties.
Provide administrative support in various HR activities in the areas of work allocated by the professional officer including onboarding of new staff members in compliance with relevant processes and procedures.
Extract and compile HR data on Performance and Training requirements to support analysis and reporting needs.
Use HR Management systems for entering and updating a variety of HR data including assistance in monitoring various deadlines (e.g PACE, Mandatory Trainings completion), ensuring compliance with the established deadlines and accuracy of HR data.
4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIES
Purpose

Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Helps teammates articulate WFP’s Strategic Objectives.
 Be a force for positive change: Suggests potential improvements to team’s work processes to supervisor.
 Make the mission inspiring to our team: Explains the impact of WFP activities in beneficiary communities to teammates.
 Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Articulates how own unit’s responsibilities will serve WFP’s mission.
People

Look for ways to strengthen people's skills: Trains junior teammates on new skills and capabilities.
 Create an inclusive culture: Seeks opportunities to work with people from different backgrounds.
 Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Serves as a peer coach for colleagues in same area of work.
 Create an “I will”/”We will” spirit: Tracks progress toward goals and shares this information on a regular basis with supervisor.
Performance

Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Explores ways to consistently be more efficient and accurate in own areas of work and shares new methods of work with colleagues.
 Focus on getting results: Focuses on getting results and tracks trends in completion rates for own tasks to identify opportunities for efficiency.
 Make commitments and make good on commitments: Takes responsibility for own tasks and notifies supervisor as soon as possible of potential delays in meeting deadlines or commitments.
 Be Decisive: Independently decides what action to take when faced with critical choices in the workplace or in dangerous situations in the field.
Partnership

Connect and share across WFP units: Suggests opportunities for partnering with other units to supervisor.
 Build strong external partnerships: Identifies opportunities to work with colleagues and partners in the field towards common goals.
 Be politically agile & adaptable: Develops an understanding of the value of WFP’s teams and external partners in fulfilling team’s goals and objectives.
 Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Aligns own activities with supervisor’s priorities to fulfill internal and external partner needs.
 
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Contract Type: Special Service Agreement - SSA  

Unit: Human Resources Unit

Duty Station: Yaoundé, Cameroon  

Duration: 11 months

 

DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
Application Deadline: Monday, 1st April 2024 (11:59 PM UTC+1) 

All applications must be submitted ONLINE at :  https://fr.wfp.org/careers/job-openings