Overview
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.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute towards the development of country specific plans and processes, and deliver HR operational activities or projects.
- Provide Roving HR Support to Country Offices.
- Support Country Offices in end‑to‑end recruitment processes.
- Coordinate L&D activities.
- Support initiatives that strengthen staff engagement, wellbeing, diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Contribute to staff capability building.
- Deliver onboarding activities.
- Contribute to building and managing talent within WFP.
- Support organizational design activities.
- Guide and supervise junior staff.
- Collate and analyse data for reporting.
- Contribute to continuous improvement by implementing new/updated HR policies, procedures and systems.
Required Experience
- Has provided directions and instruction to more junior staff members within area of expertise.
- Has gained extensive experience providing administrative and systems support across multiple activities in employment life cycle including: recruitment, interviews, training support, performance management, relocation support and policy implementation within a country office environment.
- Has collated and analysed data in order to support aspects of broader change initiatives and programme design.
- Three or more years of postgraduate professional experience in Human Resources with an interest in international humanitarian development.
- Demonstrated experience in providing HR services across multiple HR functional areas (e.g., talent acquisition, benefits, contract management, workforce planning).
- Experience in supporting field or emergency operations, or in multiple duty stations/country offices.
- Experience of using HR information systems (e.g., Workday, SAP, or similar platforms).
- Proven experience supporting HR operations across multiple countries.
Qualifications
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.
