Roster: Human Resources Associate SC-6 | Kyiv, Ukraine

WHY JOIN WFP?

• WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
• WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.

WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.

• A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
• We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).

What will you do in this position?

This is an opportunity for a professional to grow his/her HR career in an exciting, a multi-cultural, hardworking, fun and interdisciplinary HR team of more than 12 staff. WFP is in the process of adopting the Workday, world leading Human Capital Management software, for managing all its HR processes and staff globally. Over time, you will contribute to all areas of HR: Talent Acquisition; Learning and Performance Management; Staff Relations; Contracting, Entitlement and Payroll.

Why work with WFP Ukraine?

The war in Ukraine has had drastic consequences, both for people inside the country and for those around the world who depend on its food supplies. The war has caused immense suffering for civilians, displaced families, and disrupted supply chains and food production. It has caused one of the fastest forced population movements since the Second World War. Close to 6 million Ukrainians are still living as refugees across Europe, and almost 3.3 million are internally displaced. Many have lost their homes and livelihoods. As food production and supply lines are disrupted by fighting, many families in the east and south of Ukraine do not have reliable access to nutritious food.

WFP uses a combination of food and cash assistance to support communities affected by the war. This includes working with local partners to distribute food boxes in areas near the frontline and providing cash transfers in locations where people have access to banks and markets to buy food. Since March 2022, WFP has distributed food and cash assistance equivalent to 3.01 billion meals to people displaced and affected by the war.

At WFP Ukraine, we offer a wide range of benefits and entitlements and favorable working conditions for Service Contract holders. Some of them are:

✅ Medical insurance with the possibility to enroll eligible dependents

✅ Annual leave - 30 days per year

✅ 18 weeks of parental leave for birth mothers and 4 weeks of parental leave for non-birth parent

✅ 1 day per week remote working option within the duty station (subject to conditions)

✅ Accessible premises & reasonable accommodation

✅ Learning & development opportunities

How can you make a difference?

In this position, you will:

• Manage a wide range of complex HR queries and follow up actions, to ensure consistent and high-quality client-focused HR services are delivered to clients.
• 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 organization and recommend changes in HR processes and procedures, to support improvements in HR services.
• Review and compile a variety of data on staff recruitment and selection, contractual conditions, entitlements, performance and training requirements, workforce, etc., to support analysis and reporting needs.
• On board 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 Workday (HCM) HR management systems for reviewing, entering and updating a variety of HR data including monitoring various deadlines ensuring compliance with the established deadlines and accuracy of HR data.
• Monitor staff deployment and handle related administrative actions s including preparation of reports, to support efficient HR service enabling WFP to respond quickly to issues.

To join us in saving lives, changing lives, you will have

• Three (03) years of work experience in combination with a Master’s Degree;
• Four (04) years of work experience in combination with a Bachelor’s Degree.

• Sound theoretical understanding of HR concepts and principles with a broad knowledge of best practices, techniques and processes.
• Good communication skills with the ability to persuade, influence and adapt communication style to different situations and individuals. Ability to quickly build credibility with internal stakeholders.
• Ability to conduct analyses in order to generate periodic reports and make recommendations for further actions.
• Ability to work with minimum supervision and use initiative to perform tasks within broad WFP guidelines and standards.
• Good problem-solving skills with the ability to continuously adapt approaches and recommendations to a specific context.

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REMINDERS BEFORE YOU SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION

• All applications must be submitted exclusively through our online recruiting system. We do not consider CVs or applications sent by email, LinkedIn, or any other channel.
• We strongly recommend that your Workday profile is accurate and complete, and that all sections are filled in, including your employment history, academic qualifications, language skills, and UN grade (if applicable). Once your profile is completed, please apply, and submit your application.
• If you experience technical issues while submitting your application, you may contact us at global.hrerecruitment@wfp.org. Please note that this email is only for technical issues with an application - unsolicited applications or documents sent to this inbox will not receive a reply.
• At the application stage, the only required documents are your CV and Cover Letter. Additional documents (passport, certificates, recommendation letters, etc.) may be requested later in the process.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and invited to proceed to the next stage of the recruitment process.