The World Food Programme is the food assistance branch of the United Nations and the world's largest humanitarian organization addressing hunger and promoting food security.
Role Purpose
To deliver professional, client‑focused HR services across specific Country Offices by partnering with managers to implement effective HR solutions aligned with WFP corporate priorities. As a Roving HR Officer, the role ensures consistent application of HR policies, supports operational agility, and enhances workforce management in diverse and evolving contexts. The job holder reports to the senior Human Resources Officer, or their designate.
Key Accountabilities
- HR Planning and Delivery: 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.
- Roving HR Support: Provide timely HR support to Country Offices requiring surge capacity, operational backfill, or specialized expertise.
- Recruitment: Support Country Offices in end‑to‑end recruitment processes, including workforce planning, vacancy management, candidate screening, interviewing, selection, and onboarding.
- Learning and Development (L&D): Coordinate L&D activities in collaboration with CO management, helping to identify learning needs and facilitate implementation of corporate learning programmes.
- Engagement and DEI: Support initiatives that strengthen staff engagement, wellbeing, diversity, equity, and inclusion across Country Offices.
- Capability Building: 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.
- Onboarding: Deliver onboarding activities which ensure new employees have a positive experience of WFP, and are successfully integrated into their new role and the organisation.
- Talent Management: 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.
- Organizational Design: 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.
- Supervision: Guide and supervise junior staff, acting as a point of referral and supporting them with analysis and queries.
- Data Analysis: 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.
- Continuous Improvement: Contribute to continuous improvement by implementing new/updated HR policies, procedures and systems and recommending improvements to ways of working.
Requirements and Qualifications
- Education: Advanced university degree in Human Resource Management, Public or Business Administration, Industrial Psychology or other relevant field, or First University degree with additional years of related work experience or trainings/courses.
- Experience: Three or more years of postgraduate professional experience in Human Resources with an interest in international humanitarian development.
- Functional Expertise: Demonstrated experience in providing HR services across multiple HR functional areas (e.g., talent acquisition, benefits, contract management, workforce planning).
- Field/Emergency Experience: Experience in supporting field or emergency operations, or in multiple duty stations/country offices.
- Systems Knowledge: Experience of using HR information systems (e.g., Workday, SAP, or similar platforms).
- Knowledge & Skills: Broad knowledge of HR best practices; ability to supervise junior staff; ability to analyze data and recommend actions; good communication and client-oriented service skills.
- Language: Fluency (level C) in English language.
How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates are encouraged to apply online via the official recruitment portal at World Food Programme (WFP) on wd3.myworkdaysite.com.
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