Human Resources Specialist

Food and Agriculture Organization

Rome, Italy

Experience: 0 to 3 Years

Skill Required: HR and Admin

The HR Specialist will work under the overall guidance of the Senior HR Officer/Head of Recruitment and the Deputy Director, Human Resources Division.

The HR Specialist working with OER in addition to the above, will work under the functional supervision of the Team Leader, Enabling Environment, Office of Emergencies and Resilience (OER). 

Technical Focus :

Talent Management: recruitment, selection, staffing, mobility, competency-based assessment(s), duty of care – with an added focus on HR policies and HR support in the humanitarian domain

   
Tasks and responsibilities:

  • Plan and facilitate the effective recruitment and selection of FAO workforce; 
  • Analyse HR requirements, information, data, statistics, and/or issues to support service delivery, new HR initiatives, and the preparation of plans, strategies, reports, procedures; 
  • Provide specialist HR advice and expertise to designated hiring manager, internal and external clients on specific or complex cases, staff requirements, policy interpretation issues, labor relations issues and/or best practices, etc.;  
  • Contribute to the overall planning and organization of recruitment and selection process for FAO Offices at HQ, or in Country Offices in crises contexts, especially those with Level 3 Scale-up declarations (especially Afghanistan). 
  • Review and identify staffing needs and provides advice and guidance to hiring managers on outreach and sourcing of qualified candidates in accordance with the target on gender and geographic balance 
  • Monitor recruitment and selection activities and prepare relevant analytical reports
  • Represent FAO at inter-agency meetings in the humanitarian sector; 
  • Assist FAO Offices at HQ, in selection panels as and when required;
  • Produce reports on assigned work, provide data analysis and staffing reports; 

Specifically:

  • Conduct a review of existing recruitment and selection procedures for all categories of staff working in emergencies and provide recommendations on fast-track procedures (including Director and above, Professional, General Service recruitment)
  • Research relevant regulations, rules, policies, and practices of other UN entities to identify needs for changes in FAO’s recruitment procedures for emergency and resilience
  • Review organigrams, work-flows and structure of country offices with large, medium and small emergency and resilience portfolios and make recommendations for improvements, in coordination with the corporate exercise on Country Office Transformation
  • Undertake support missions to Level 3 country offices and those with large emergency portfolios as needed.
  • Draft a people strategy on emergency and resilience with a focus on enhancement of talent acquisition, staff wellbeing and rapid deployment of employees on surge support, including for national staff (Temporary duty mechanisms)
  • Assist the Office of Emergencies and Resilience in selection panels as and when required;
  • May represent FAO at inter-agency meetings in the humanitarian sector.

Source: https://jobs.fao.org/careersection/fao_external/jobdetail.ftl?job=2201718