Position: Human Resources Associate -World Food Programme (Deadline June 2024)
Position: Human Resources Associate -World Food Programme (Deadline June 2024)
Career Opportunity: Human Resources Associate – G6 – Kabul, Afghanistan
About WFP
The World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives, delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. WFP’s mission is crucial in Afghanistan, where a severe hunger crisis is escalating, with 15 million people facing acute food insecurity. This situation is compounded by the worst drought in years, deeply affecting the 85 percent of the population who rely on agriculture for their livelihoods. WFP’s goal is to prevent a significant increase in hunger and malnutrition through comprehensive food security and nutrition interventions. This involves scaling up crisis response and resilience programs across the country to ensure timely, targeted, and impactful assistance.
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Requisition ID: 833364
Posted: 09/06/2024
Type of Contract: Fixed Term
Grade: G6
Duration: 12 months (Extendable)
Duty Station: Kabul
Vacancy Number: 833281
Number of Positions: 2
Deadline of Application: 23 Jun 2024
Organizational Context
The hunger crisis in Afghanistan is unfolding at a rapid pace. Work opportunities are shrinking, with most households now reporting just one day of work per week. This comes on top of severe drought conditions that threaten the livelihoods of the majority of the population dependent on agriculture. To address this, WFP is scaling up its crisis response and resilience programs across Afghanistan, targeting the most affected areas and ensuring maximum program impact through continuous monitoring and donor advocacy.
Job Purpose
The primary aim of the Human Resources Associate role is to deliver a comprehensive range of HR support services. This ensures the accurate implementation of WFP policies and procedures and facilitates the effective functioning of a client-focused and strategy-oriented HR service. The incumbent will play a critical role in supporting the HR team to manage recruitment, staff deployment, and various administrative functions.
Key Accountabilities (not all-inclusive)
- HR Support Services: Provide assistance on a wide range of complex HR queries and follow-up actions, ensuring consistent and high-quality HR services are delivered to clients.
- Team Development: Allocate responsibilities and support the on-the-job learning and development of junior support staff, ensuring they have adequate knowledge of HR systems and procedures required to perform their duties.
- Process Improvement: Identify evolving needs of the organization and recommend changes in HR processes and procedures to support improvements in HR services.
- Client Communication: Analyze and respond to various internal and external queries to ensure clients are well-informed and HR team activities are aligned with broader WFP objectives.
- Recruitment: Work closely with hiring managers to understand their staffing needs, provide expert advice on recruitment best practices, and manage the end-to-end recruitment process, including job postings, screening, assessments, and candidate communication.
- Data Management: Review and compile a variety of data on staff recruitment and selection, contractual conditions, entitlements, performance, and training requirements to support analysis and reporting needs.
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- Onboarding: Support and deliver onboarding for new staff joining WFP, ensuring that relevant processes are followed and terms of service are explained and understood.
- Documentation: Prepare a range of complex HR documentation required for the specific area of work (e.g., employment contracts, transfer/separation letters, training-related documents), ensuring accuracy and meeting established deadlines.
- HR Systems: Use HR management systems for reviewing, entering, and updating a variety of HR data, including monitoring various deadlines (e.g., contract expiration, PACE), ensuring compliance with the established deadlines and accuracy of HR data.
- Records Maintenance: Coordinate the maintenance of confidential personnel records, HR databases, and archives to ensure data and files are accurately stored and updated in compliance with established standards.
- Staff Deployment: Monitor staff deployment and handle related administrative actions, including preparation of reports, to support efficient HR service enabling WFP to respond quickly to a crisis.
Standard Minimum Qualifications
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in a discipline related to Human Resource Management, Public or Business Administration, Industrial Psychology, or other relevant field to the post.
Experience:
- Six or more years of progressively responsible work experience, with at least four years in Human Resources.
Knowledge & Skills:
- Knowledge of specialized HR administrative work practices and methods, gained through relevant technical training and experience.
- Good communication skills and a solid understanding of HR principles and their application to respond to and resolve a range of HR queries.
- Ability to conduct basic analyses to generate periodic reports and make recommendations for further actions.
- Ability to build relationships with a variety of individuals across functions and outside WFP to effectively contribute to the functioning of the unit.
- Experience in supervising and coordinating tasks of subordinates to be able to train and supervise junior staff members within the HR function.
- Ability to work with minimum supervision and use initiative to perform administrative tasks within broad WFP guidelines and standards.
Language:
- Fluency in English and local languages is required.
How to Apply
To be considered, interested candidates are invited to apply via WFP Careers. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
For any accessibility needs, please contact afg.hrrecruitment@wfp.org.
Additional Information
WFP is committed to promoting diversity and the principle of equal employment opportunity for all our employees. We encourage qualified candidates to apply irrespective of religion or belief, ethnic or social background, gender, gender identity, and disability.
WFP has a zero-tolerance approach to conduct such as fraud, sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to WFP’s standards of conduct and will undergo rigorous background verification. Misrepresentation during the recruitment process may lead to disqualification or termination of employment.
WFP will not request payment at any stage of the recruitment process. Any requests for payment should be refused and reported to local law enforcement authorities for appropriate action.
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