Human Resources Associate G6 (RBC HR Services Team) - Jobs in Cairo, Egypt

Job Description

JOB PURPOSE?This position is based in the Regional Bureau for the Middle East and northern Africa, based in Cairo. RBC provides strategic guidance, policy/technical support and direction to WFP operations and activities in 14 countries: Algeria, Armenia, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Palestine, Syria,Tunisia, Turkey and Yemen. The position of Human Resources Associate will report to the HR Officer, and will be part of the team responsible for ensuring high standard end-to-end HR services for approximately 200 employees and managers in the Regional Bureau office.The HR Associate will deliver a full range of HR support services to ensure accurate implementation of WFP policies and procedures and facilitate the effective functioning of client-focused and strategy-oriented HR services.KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)?

• Provide assistance on a wide range of complex HR queries and follow up actions, to ensure
• consistent and high quality HR services are delivered to clients (all employees and management of the regional bureau).
• Allocate responsibilities and support on-the-job learning and development of junior support staff, to ensure they have adequate knowledge of HR systems and procedures required to perform their duties and subsequently can contribute to the provision of effective HR services.
• Identify evolving needs of the organisation and recommend changes in HR processes and procedures, to support improvements in HR services.
• Analyse and respond to various internal and external queries, to ensure that clients are well-informed and that HR team activities are aligned with broader WFP objectives.
• Review and compile a variety of data on contractual conditions, entitlements, performance and training requirements, workforce, etc., to support analysis and reporting needs.
• Support activities in the areas of work allocated by the officer in compliance with relevant processes and procedures.
• Support and deliver on boarding for new staff joining WFP, to ensure that relevant processes are followed and the conditions of terms of service are explained and understood.
• Prepare a range of complex HR documentation required for the specific area of work (e.g. employment contracts, transfer/separation letters, training-related documents, etc.) ensuring accuracy and meeting established deadlines.
• Use HR management systems for reviewing, entering and updating a variety of HR data including monitoring various deadlines (e.g. contract expiration, PACE, etc), ensuring compliance with the established deadlines and accuracy of HR data.
• Co-ordinate the maintenance of confidential personnel records, HR databases and archives, to ensure data and files are accurately stored and updated in compliance with the established standards

4Ps CORE ORGANISATIONAL CAPABILITIESPurpose

• Understand and communicate the Strategic Objectives: Coaches team in the most effective ways to communicate WFP?s Strategic Objectives to WFP team and partners in the field.
• ?Be a force for positive change: Implements new methods or tools to improve team?s work processes and productivity.
• ?Make the mission inspiring to our team: Maps team?s activities and tasks to specific successes in beneficiary communities to showcase positive impact.
• ?Make our mission visible in everyday actions: Explains to teammates how each unit contributes to the overall WFP mission.

People

• Look for ways to strengthen peoples skills: Identifies skill development opportunities such as training modules or on-the-job experiences for self, colleagues and direct reports.
• ?Create an inclusive culture: Facilitates team building activities to build rapport in own unit.
• ?Be a coach & provide constructive feedback: Facilitates the pairing of junior colleagues with coaches within own team.
• ?Create an ?I will?/?We will? spirit: Proactively anticipates potential challenges and develops mitigation plans to ensure that team meets goals and targets.

Performance

• Encourage innovation & creative solutions: Identifies opportunities to be creative in own work and to help team be more innovative and accurate in their respective tasks and areas of work.
• ?Focus on getting results: Monitors team?s deliverables and provides feedback to ensure outcomes are delivered consistently and accurately.
• ?Make commitments and make good on commitments: Provides accurate guidance to team on expected responsibilities and tasks, whilst also upholding own commitment to the team.
• ?Be Decisive: Sets an example and provides guidance to junior team members on when to escalate issues when faced with challenging issues in the workplace or in the field.

Partnership

• Connect and share across WFP units: Facilitates partnerships with other WFP units to accomplish missions in the field.
• ?Build strong external partnerships: Sets an example and provides guidance to team on how to build relationships with external partners.
• ?Be politically agile & adaptable: Articulates to colleagues or direct reports the value of contributing to other WFP teams and agency partnerships in fulfilling WFP?s goals and objectives.
• ?Be clear about the value WFP brings to partnerships: Organizes, monitors, and prioritizes own and team?s efforts to ensure that they will fulfill the needs of internal and external partners.

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