Overview
Job Title: Human Resources Associates (GS-6)
Job number: 571230
Type of position: Permanent Appointment
Location: Tanzania, the United Republic of
From early infancy through adolescence, UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to protect children’s rights, save lives, and enable them to reach their full potential.
We at UNICEF are devoted, enthusiastic, and proud of the work we undertake. Encouraging the rights of every child is a calling, not simply a job. At UNICEF, careers are developed through a variety of personal and professional development opportunities that enable employees to perform a meaningful mission and build successful careers. We take great satisfaction in providing a work environment that fosters employee growth in addition to an alluring benefits and compensation plan.
For each youngster, an opportunity
Tanzania is a young country, with half of its population being children and adolescents. It has achieved notable strides in improving access to healthcare, lowering child mortality, increasing school enrollment, and providing social safety for low-income households. The nation still faces socioeconomic challenges, including poverty, a lack of opportunities for women and girls to pursue higher education, and the need to respond to external shocks like the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic and climate crises, even though the pace of poverty reduction has slowed. Tanzania acknowledges the need to create jobs and invest in human capital in order to take advantage of the potential for economic growth during the shift towards a demographic dividend, and it has an ambitious development strategy to address these concerns. In order for Tanzania to fully benefit from the demographic dividend, UNICEF’s Country Programme for 2022–2027 is assisting the government in advancing its development agenda by emphasizing inclusive and sustainable socioeconomic development. This ensures that all children and adolescents, including those with disabilities, have access to high-quality education and protection, can fulfill their full potential, and can meaningfully participate in society without falling behind.
How are you going to change things?
The Human Resource Associate will be responsible for providing administrative, procedural, and operational support and assistance to the effective implementation of a wide range of HR functions for all staff categories in the office, under the supervision and direction of the Human Resource Officer. This will involve ensuring accurate and timely delivery, promoting a client-based, quality, and results-oriented approach to the unit, and ensuring compliance with UNCEF HR rules and regulations.
Synopsis of principal roles and responsibilities:
1. Assistance in business collaboration.
- Assist the business partners in creating programs that promote employee appreciation and well-being.
- By offering clients advice on modifications to HR procedures under the direction of an HR Business Partner, you may assist in the management of change processes.
- Help clients use HR tools like talent management, Agora, and Achieve by supporting business partners.
2. Assistance with benefit and entitlement processing.
- To enable the consistent and fair application of judgments and the execution of agreed-upon action, evaluate, investigate, confirm, and gather data and information on situations that do not comply with UN or UNICEF’s HR Rules & Regulations in conjunction with your supervisor.
- Analyze, investigate, and confirm material in cooperation with the supervisor in order to address staff inquiries about areas pertaining to benefits and entitlements.
- Ensures that the necessary forms and actions are filled out by staff and sent to the GSSC in order to begin processing a variety of personnel actions in compliance with UNICEF policies and procedures.
- Focal point for contract and leave monitoring keeps all personnel-related documents current and accurate ensures that all staff member information is available.
3. Assistance with hiring and placing
- Creates and distributes adverts both inside and outside the company.
- Communicates with applicants throughout the course of the hiring process.
- Drafts official letters of apology, offer, and acknowledgement.
- Initiates and monitors the completion of additional background checks, academic verifications, and reference checks.
- Keeps an eye on the hiring process’s lifecycle and updates the supervisor as needed.
- Assistance with job classification and organization design.
- Helps the HR Specialist prepare workforce planning reports for the supervisor to assess against benchmarks, such as gender and geographic balance and other recruitment-related key performance indicators, by conducting research, analyzing, validating, and gathering data.
4. Assistance in learning and building capacity.
- Research and analyze data and information in cooperation with your supervisor to determine what training needs exist in your office so that learning plans and other focused training interventions can be developed.
- Researches, evaluates, confirms, and gathers data on available external training programs and educational institutions in cooperation with supervisor to assist supervisor in selecting learning initiatives that fill in knowledge gaps in his or her country office.
- Participates in activities aimed at developing stakeholders’ capacity in order to support the team in planning and executing workshops, seminars, and events.
- creates and manages contracts with organizations that offer instruction and training while making sure that UNICEF policies are followed.
- Helps the team plan and execute training sessions, workshops, and events by arranging participant materials, making sure training locations and necessary tools and supplies are available, and offering secretarial and logistical support when needed for workshops and events.
- Monitors the activities involved in the performance management cycle, making sure that assessments are distributed on time and are completed and returned on time.
To be able to support each and every child you will have…
- Secondary school completion, ideally with technical or collegiate coursework pertinent to the organization’s operations.
- It is necessary to have at least six years of increasingly responsible clerical or administrative work experience.
- Candidates with a bachelor’s or master’s degree, respectively, may replace three (3) years and an extra two (2) years of experience.
- Experience relevant to a UN system agency or organization is viewed as a plus.
- Extensive familiarity with UN HR policies, guidelines, and processes
- Computer literacy and the ability to effectively use standard office software tools as well as good knowledge and skill in using HR systems.
- Ability to extract and format data and to solve operational problems.
- Ability to organize own work, set priorities and meet deadlines.
Language Requirements: English proficiency is necessary. It is advantageous to know a local language or one of the other official UN languages (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, or Spanish).
You exhibit for each child…
Everything we do and the way we do it is guided by UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS). Learn About Our Values The Charter UNICEF Principles
The UNICEF proficiencies necessary for this role are…
(1) Establishes and sustains relationships;
(2) Exhibits self-awareness and ethical awareness;
(3) Has a strong desire to make an impact;
(4) Innovates and welcomes change;
(5) Handles ambiguity and complexity;
(6) Thinks and acts strategically;
(7) Collaborates with others
Become familiar with the various levels of our competency system.
Serving the most underprivileged children on the planet is UNICEF’s mission, and the diversity of those children must be reflected in our global staff. Regardless of a person’s color or ethnicity, age, handicap, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, country, socioeconomic status, or any other trait, the UNICEF family is dedicated to including everyone.
In addition to paid parental leave, nursing breaks, and appropriate accommodations for people with disabilities, we provide our employees with a host of other perks. UNICEF is a prominent proponent of flexible work options.
Candidates who are married to children (those under the age of eighteen) are not hired by UNICEF. When it comes to behavior that contradicts UNICEF’s mission and goals, such as sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, misuse of power, and discrimination, UNICEF maintains a zero-tolerance policy. UNICEF is dedicated to advocating for the defense and preservation of every child. All chosen applicants will be required to abide by these guidelines and standards and will be subject to stringent reference and background checks. Verification of academic credentials and employment history will be part of background checks. It could be necessary for chosen candidates to supply more details in order to perform a background investigation.
Medical clearance is required for UNICEF employment. For IP posts, the host nation of the duty station must issue a visa; UNICEF can help with this. Additionally, vaccine requirements, particularly those against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid), may apply to appointments. If you are chosen for a UNICEF job, you will need to obtain a medical exemption from the appropriate UN agency or get the necessary vaccinations. The choice will be removed if not.
Notes:
For UNICEF to provide the best outcomes for children, diversity and inclusion must be actively pursued. Female candidates who meet the requirements are encouraged to apply for this role.
conditions for residence for visas: i.e., UNICEF will not assist in the issuing of a visa and a work permit for applicants considering jobs as national officers or general service members.
During the entire recruiting, selection, and hiring process—that is, during the application, interview, validation, appointment, and training stages—UNICEF does not impose a processing fee. The bank account details of applicants will not be requested by UNICEF.
All UNICEF jobs are posted, and only those who make the short list will be contacted and proceed to the next round of the hiring process. If qualified for the position, an internal applicant who meets the requirements of the post in the relevant functional area or an external applicant from the matching Talent Group may be chosen without the need to evaluate other applicants.
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Published: April 17, 2024 Eastern Standard Time
Deadline for applications: April 24, 2024, Eastern Standard Time
