Temporary Appointment - UN Women Human Resources Analyst - Directorate, P-2

NOTE: Applications from candidates who applied previously are still valid.

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 Resource Division is responsible for the timely, accurate, equitable, effective and efficient delivery of all human resources management services, i.e. strategic staff planning, recruitment, staff administration, organizational and design and learning/career development, for the continuous development and improvement in human resource operations, policies, and methods to align with UN Women evolving business needs, and for providing advisory support to the Executive Director in the formulation and implementation of UN Women's overall mission, strategy and plans of actions.

Under the supervision of the Deputy Director with matrix reporting line to the Division Director and in collaboration with other HR Functional Leads and HRBPs, the Human Resources (HR) Analyst will support in various HR activities, particularly supporting HR Management in coordinating and implementing change management and other special initiatives. The HR Analyst will also support the HR Division on the development of necessary tools and systems and contribute to the development of HR reports.

Contribute to the formulation and implementation of strategic workforce planning initiatives:

• Provides support to the Deputy Director and HR Specialist, Organisational Design, in the development, maintenance and updating of standards, policies and procedures in strategic workforce planning. 
• Contributes to developing and implementing innovative and insightful solutions for strategic workforce planning that will be applied across UN Women.
• Collaborates with internal stakeholders, to ensure their needs are incorporated in the strategic workforce planning approach.
• Supports the study of current workforce planning practices throughout the UN System through appropriate analysis, including of data; provides inputs to improve workforce planning.
• Supports the preparation of reports and information for various stakeholders in strategic workforce planning; researches, analyzes and presents information gathered from diverse sources; prepares various written outputs, e.g. draft background papers, briefing notes, etc.
• Contributes to efforts to innovate, modernize and streamline the work of the HR Division, including the use of technology.
• Supports management in monitoring operational performance, with the aim of improving business processes, and reducing response times for clients; recommends solutions to address bottlenecks.
• Takes on special projects and performs other related duties, as required.

Contribute to the formulation and implementation of change management initiatives:

• Contributes to the design, development and roll-out of a toolbox for organizational development and change management support.
• Coordinates activities related to providing organizational change management support, including learning strategies and teambuilding interventions.
• Supports direct organizational development and change management initiatives, working under the supervision of the Deputy HR Director and with relevant HR Functional Leads to provide customized and innovative solutions.
• Monitors and analyses specific aspects of HR project development and implementation; reviews relevant documents and reports; identifies problems and issues to be addressed and recommends corrective actions; liaises with partners; identifies and tracks follow-up actions.
• Assists in the drafting of materials related to change management (correspondence, reports, presentations, background papers, analytical notes and others), based on quantitative research and analysis.
• Identifies trends, patterns and causal relationships in organization-wide data sets related to organizational development and change management; makes recommendations and prepares summary reports.

Provide support to Deputy Director on internal HR communications and the development of reports on various HR initiatives:

• Draft HR communications for internal and external stakeholders, including regular updates to internal newsletter and HR Bulletin.
• Ensure that HR intranet pages are up to date and regularly post new materials on the HR Updates pages in Yammer.
• Gather and compile documentation, and information related to special projects.
• Draft and prepare documents, statistics and