Human Resources Officer, P2, TA, Office of Innovation, Stockholm, Sweden, Duration: 6 months with possibility of extension

For every child…

UNICEF has a 70-year history of innovating for children. We believe that new approaches, partnerships and technologies that support the realization of children’s rights are key to improving children’s lives.

Worldwide, we innovate to tackle the most pressing problems faced by the most vulnerable children. We take a systematic approach to innovation, applying skills and energy across new tools and technologies, products, innovative financing and new ways of working to boost our impact.

The Office of Innovation (OoI) works to catalyze UNICEF’s and all its partners’ expertise and resources against key children-outcomes bottlenecks, with a view to continuously ideate and scale the most effective solutions with transformational potential at scale to achieve the child-related SDGs. 

The office is doing this by continuously exploring new ways of accelerating results for children, investing across a range of early stage solutions, and harnessing internal and external expertise towards continuously iterating and fine-tuning the most promising solutions for children through a systematic portfolio management approach, and leveraging all stakeholders’ innovation energy, know-how and resources from intergovernmental, multilateral, private sector and non-governmental fora (think tank, academia).

As part of a global organizational improvement initiative within UNICEF, the structure and operating model of the OOI is being reimagined to optimize its function across the organization in order to accelerate the pace at which innovations for children are scaling and delivering against the SDGs.

To support and embody such a radical shift, OOI is in the process of relocating its headquarter (Core) office from New York to Stockholm, Sweden. Simultaneously, we are also establishing a range of new global innovation hubs, each dedicated to a specific priority innovation area, which is aligned to key programmatic challenges to accelerate delivery of UNICEF’s Strategic Plan results and child-focused SDGs.

The office is in the process of recruiting a variety of new staff posts and relocation current staff, and we are therefore seeking an experienced Human Resources Officer that can support this challenging exercise and kick-off related processes as soon as possible.

How can you make a difference?

You will coordinate various HR-related aspects of the OOI relocation and help drive the recruitment of a variety of new staff positions that will be hired in the new Core and Hub offices as well as the some initial relocations of OOI staff to their new location.

Key functions, accountabilities and related duties/tasks:

In liaison with OOI Operations and the HRBP team:

• Support the various recruitment processes in OOI related to the relocation by engaging in recruitment planning and establishing relevant outreach strategies maintaining established KPIs.
• Oversees the maintenance of the recruitment tracker and prepares regular status reports on ongoing recruitments as needed.
• Classifying unique job descriptions by application of promulgated classification standards.
• Helping supervisors determine qualification requirements for vacant post.
• Coordinate launching of vacancy announcements, expression of interests (EOIs), screening of candidates and producing quality shortlists.
• Advise on the best use of different assessment tools and methods, including but not limited to, technical tests, psychometric evaluations, etc. Administer written tests or other assessment methods.
• Schedule and attend interviews and draft quality selection reports; liaise with panels and support hiring managers in conducting and compiling reference checks.
• Organize selection package, route for approvals via the PageUp talent management tool.
• Support the relocation of staff members as well as the onboarding of newly hired staff members in the new locations. Coordinate inputs to new welcome packages for the new OOI duty stations.
• Support in hiring consultants and individual contractors, including preparation of vacancy announcements, review of Terms of Reference, selection reports and coordination of the contracting process.
• Performs other duties as required.

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• A University Degree in human resource management, business management, international relations, psychology or another related field is required.
• Two years of professional experience in human resource management in an international organization and/or large corporation is required.
• Advanced knowledge of the principles and concepts of human resources management.
• Ability to identify issues, conduct rigorous research, and make conclusions and recommendations.
• Strong research, planning and organizational skills.
• Excellent knowledge of information technology systems and tools.
• Ability to communicate effectively in a diverse organization tailoring language, tone, style and format to match audience.
• Ability to empathize with client managers, supervisors and staff while advocating for consistent and equitable applications of promulgated HR regulations and rules.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language or local language of the duty station is considered as an asset.

Core Values

• Care
• Respect
• Integrity
• Trust
• Accountability

Core Competencies

• Nurtures, Leads and Manages People (1)
• Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (2)
• Works Collaboratively with others (2)
• Builds and Maintains Partnerships (2)
• Innovates and Embraces Change (2)
• Thinks and Acts Strategically (2)
• Drives to achieve impactful results (2)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)

Functional Competencies

• Analyzing (1)
• Applying technical expertise (2)
• Planning and organizing (1)

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

Click here to learn more about UNICEF’s values and competencies.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

UNICEF only considers higher educational qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The list can be accessed at http://www.whed.net/

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

The VA is open to all (internal and external) candidates.

The position is based in Stockholm, Sweden, however the selected candidate can work remotely with at least 50% alignment with Stockholm time zone and working hours.