HR Manager

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• Prepare HR and staffing plans based on the additional human resources needed for the immediate response (relating to short, medium and long-term needs).
• Support COs with HR requirements for short-term, medium-term and long-term sustainability needs, while organizing COs meeting on HR strategy and planning to sustain the response to the emergency.
• Coordinate with relevant stakeholders to ensure smooth and rapid scale up after onset emergencies.
• Develop exit strategy and implement for smooth transition and scale-down.
• Review existing CO staffing and facilitate immediate deployments in the affected areas.
• Assess Human Resources capacity and propose additional capacity to efficiently respond to emergencies.
• Identify staffing gaps and coordinate with the relevant stakeholders to address immediate needs and develop longer-term plans,
• Review the staffing structure of the CO and identify most suitable sourcing modalities, as well as gaps including cluster staffing requirements to implement humanitarian response.
• Provide support to COs throughout employee-life cycle, with all HR initiatives and programmes, including the preparation of PBR submissions, recruitments, all aspects of talent management.
• Provide guidance on policy interpretation.
• Promote organizational targets (geographic and gender diversity etc.)
• Conduct workshops, HR clinics to inform senior management and staff of HR-related issues (E.g. career management and staff development, performance management, benefits and entitlements, change management;
• Work with the HR and Management team to promote the value of care and ensure staff wellbeing issues are addressed.
• Ensure proactive recruitments to reduce short-term deployments and ensure business continuity. 
• Develop guidance documents, lessons learnt/best practices and SOPs to support HR operations and the transfer of knowledge and learning.
• Prepare End of mission reports, which include recommendations.
• Prepare information sessions upon return to share knowledge, lessons learnt and good practices.

• An advanced university degree (master’s or higher) in human resource management, business management, international relations or another related field is required.
• A minimum of eight years of increasingly responsible professional experience in human resources management in an international organization and/or large corporation is required.
• Developing country experience is required.
• Extensive experience in HR in emergency context is highly desirable.
• Background/familiarity with human resources in emergencies is required.
• Familiarity with the UN system is an asset.
• Ability and willingness to travel to emergencies countries on short notice is required.
• Facilitation skills and experience in capacity building of individuals and teams is highly desirable. 
• Fluency in English is required. Proficiency in French, Spanish and/or Arabic is considered a strong asset.

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