VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT N°024/CO/CMR/2015

(Female candidates are encouraged to apply)

The United World Food programme is looking for the services of a Human Resources Officer with competences listed below

TITLE: Human Resources Officer

CATEGORY: Professional

GRADE: NOA

CONTRACT TYPE: Fixed-Tern

CONTRACT DURATION: 12 months (renewable)

DUTY STATION: Yaoundé

CLOSING APPLICATION DATE: 15 JANUARY 2016

Accountabilities: 

Under the direct supervision of the Country Director & Representative, the incumbent will be responsible for the following duties and responsibilities:

• Support HR operational activities or projects that are aligned to business needs, following standard processes and ensuring alignment with wider WFP policies
• Respond to queries from managers and staff, understanding their issues and ensuring policies, procedures, processes, systems and tools are available and correctly applied to support them.
• Contribute to the effective management of the employment relationship between WFP and staff, by administering conditions of service, contracts and appropriate entitlements.
• Support staff capability building, working with managers to understand individual skills and business requirements, and organizing development solutions which equip people with the skills and knowledge required to meet current and future challenges.
• Support and deliver on boarding activities to ensure new employees have a positive experience of WFP, and are successfully integrated into their new role and the organization.
• Provide support in building talent within WFP, and are successfully integrated into their new role and the organization.
• Support for 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.
• Collate data and contribute to preparation of accurate and timely reporting, supporting a WFP wide view of HR activities that enables informed decision-marketing and consistent information for stakeholders.
• Conduct straight forward data analysis under close guidance of a Regional HR Officer, in order to support others on projects or contribute to process efficiencies and improvements.
• Perform any other duties as required

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.

Knowledge and skills.

• Knowledge of HR best practices, techniques and processes with some understanding of the basic theoretical background.
• Ability to support more junior and/or less experienced members of the team.
• Basic analytical ability to compile, maintain and analyze data, prepare reports and draw initial conclusions in support of work carried out by another officer, skills in developing sources for data collection.
• Good communication skills required to give and receive information and work with a variety of individuals.
• Knowledge of, or the ability to quickly assimilate, UN/WFP specific processes and systems.
• Knowledge of WFP HR information system is an asset.

Language: 

• Fluency (level C) in English language and duty station’s language if different.

Other desire skills:

• Good working knowledge of Microsoft software application, particularly MS- office (Word, Excel, Access, Power Point, etc.)

Completed files (Letter of motivation, Curriculum Vitae with references, Diplomas, etc.) should carry the post title on the sealed envelope marked "confidential" quoting VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT 024/CO/CMR/2015

Applications can be deposited at the WFP office in Yaoundé.

Please address the applications to:

Country Director/representative

World Food Programmer

Giscard d’Estaing Avenue

Behind the Municipal Council

PO Box: 7308

Yaoundé

Closing date of application 15 January 2016

Only applicants with correspond profiles will be given due consideration.