Human Resources Officer, FTA-NOB (Khartoum)

Job Description

ABOUT WFP:The United Nations World Food Programme is the worlds largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.?The mission of WFP is to help the world?achieve Zero Hunger?in our lifetimes.?Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.?WFP Sudan has the potential to reach millions of food insecure people across Sudan ? with a total of 4 million people assisted in 2018. WFP Sudan, one of the largest and complex operations for?WFP globally,?is currently rolling out its five-year?Country Strategic Plan?(2019-2023), which aims to provide emergency assistance through a hybrid approach (Cash, food and vouchers), along with life-changing types of programmes (Nutrition, Resilience and School Feeding). WFP Sudan employs a?diverse workforce of 1,100 employees across 17 offices at regional and deep field level. The Human Resources team in Sudan enables the delivery of a professional, client-focused services, partnering with manager to implement HR solutions aligned to corporate priorities. The team ensures that WFP Sudans life saving and life changing activities are enabled by an efficient and agile staffing structure and an engaged human resource with the right skill sets, supported supported by a culture of leadership, performance and learning.?JOB PURPOSE:To deliver a professional, client-focused HR services, partnering with managers to implement HR solutions in line with WFP corporate priorities.KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)1. Contribute towards the development of country specific plans and processes, and deliver HR operational activities or projects, following standard processes and ensuring alignment with wider WFP policies.2. Provide advice to managers and employees, understanding their needs and ensuring policies, procedures, processes, systems and tools are available and correctly applied to support them.3. Provide effective management of the employment relationship between WFP and its staff, by administering conditions of service, contracts and appropriate entitlements, and resolving employee relations issues.4. Contribute to staff capability building, working with managers to understand individual skills and business requirements, and organizing/delivering development solutions which equip people with the skills and knowledge required to meet current and future challenges.5. Deliver onboarding activities which ensure new employees have a positive experience of WFP, and are successfully integrated into their new role and the organisation.6. Contribute to building and managing talent within WFP, working with managers to understand their needs and delivering solutions to recruit, retain, manage and develop a high caliber workforce to deliver business objectives.7. Support organizational design activities that enable senior management to define and organize structures and jobs, and allocate people to the right places in order to improve efficiency.8. Guide and supervise junior staff, acting as a point of referral and supporting them with analysis and queries.9. Collate and analyse data for the preparation of accurate and timely reporting, supporting a WFP wide view of HR activities that enables informed decision-making and consistent information for stakeholders.10. Contribute to continuous improvement by implementing new/updated HR policies, procedures and systems and recommending improvements to ways of working.11. Other as required.

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