UN Women: Chief, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Bonn, Germany, P-5, Fixed-Term Appointment

Background:

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security.

The Human Resources Division serves as a strategic partner to leadership and workforce enabler, aligning talent strategies with organizational mission and priorities. Through integrated workforce planning, talent acquisition, organizational design, and people development, the Division ensures UN Women has the right people, in the right roles, at the right time to deliver on its mandate. By providing strategic advisory support to the Executive Director and driving evidence-based HR solutions, the Division strengthens organizational effectiveness and cultivates a high-performing, inclusive culture that advances gender equality worldwide.

With substantial autonomy and reporting to the HR Director, the Chief, Talent Management, Leadership Development and Organizational Design shapes and directs UN Women’s strategic talent management agenda, institutionalizes workforce planning and talent analytics capabilities, and provides authoritative leadership on organizational designs and change management. The incumbent consults the HR Director on matters of strategic, politically sensitive, or cross-divisional significance.

The Chief, Talent Management, Leadership Development and Organizational Design, leads the Talent Management, Leadership Development and Organizational Design Branch and supervises three HR specialists and one administrative staff.

The Chief, Talent Management, Leadership Development and Organizational Design works in close collaboration with the Office of the HR Director, the HR Client Services Branch, including the Recruitment Unit and HR Business Partners both in HQs and in the regions, the Workplace Relations Branch, the Business Transformation Unit and with business units, as appropriate, to ensure successful implementation of professional development, leadership development, and performance development programmes, to establish strategic workforce planning both at corporate and business unit level, and to ensure organizational designs are developed and implemented effectively.

Shape an integrated, strategic approach to talent management in UN Women

• Direct the design and implementation of all talent management programmes and activities as an integrated, strategic whole, aligned to support UN Women’s workforce strategies and enabling its people to effectively deliver the Organization’s Triple Mandate with maximum effectiveness.
• Shape UN Women’s HR policies, processes and practices to embed effective talent management across the organization, setting authoritative standards for their alignment.

Direct the development of workforce strategies and plans

• Establish and institutionalize a talent analytics architecture and corresponding capacity in UN Women, providing authoritative workforce intelligence to inform strategic decision-making.
• Direct the development of the organization’s workforce planning model and oversee the institutionalization of workforce planning capacity at corporate level and within business units.
• Shape workforce strategies that enable the organization to make authoritative, data-based decisions on workforce structure, staffing models, talent deployment and talent development.

Enhance Performance and Career Development

• Direct the performance management process to generate measurable organizational performance gains through sustained development and growth of its people.
• Drive the transformation of the current performance management process away from backward-looking assessment toward a future-oriented model centered on continuous skills and capabilities growth supported by continuous, multi-source feedback.
• Oversee the delivery of coaching and mentoring programs, developmental assignments and other career enhancement opportunities across all UN Women personnel, ensuring equitable access and measurable outcomes.
• Establish and institutionalize career advisory services accessible to all personnel,building a culture of proactive career development.

Shape and direct a strategic approach to learning and professional development

• Shape and direct, in consultation with key stakeholders, a comprehensive strategic approach to learning and professional development, including
  • Assessing and mapping the professional development needs of personnel; 
  • Directing authoritative prioritization of all learning and development programmes/offerings both at corporate and business unit level to ensure the organiza