Overview
The HR Officer will lead the Talent Acquisition team and contribute to successful people operations for WFP’s Syria Country Office. The role focuses on developing and enhancing talent acquisition strategies to identify and engage top talent.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute towards the development of country specific plans and processes, and deliver HR operational activities or projects.
- Shape and enhance processes to ensure effective and streamlined talent acquisition strategies.
- Manage the HR talent acquisition team, acting as a mentor and guiding more junior staff.
- Responsible for full cycle recruitments for national positions ensuring transparency, consistency and adherence to HR framework and policies.
- Research availability of diverse talent pools focusing on gender, disability inclusion.
- Engage and partner with managers to understand their specific functional staffing needs and implement solutions.
- Articulate WFP’s employee value proposition to enhance visibility and reputation.
- Build partnerships, develop and maintain strong relationships with recruiting sources.
- Contribute to preparation of regular, accurate reports on talent acquisition activities.
- Act as a point of contact for all recruitment related matters.
- Contribute to staff capability building, working with managers to understand individual skills and business requirements.
- Coordinate internal and external communications with stakeholders and applicants.
- Other duties as required.
Required Experience
- Has provided direction 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, and performance management within a country office environment.
- Has had exposure to supervisory responsibilities in previous experiences.
- At least one (1) year of postgraduate professional experience in Human Resources with strong experience in recruitment/selection and talent acquisition and with an interest in international humanitarian development.
- Experience in sourcing and recruiting hard-to-fill profiles.
- Demonstrated success developing and deploying creative, effective candidate pipeline development methodologies and effective outreach strategies.
- Ability to leverage social media to connect with diverse community to do Employer Branding and recruitment market.
- Knowledge of the Syrian employment Market.
- Knowledge of Talent Acquisition best practices – latest trends (Sourcing, EVP, Selection methodologies, Onboarding, Retention, etc).
- Experience working as part of a multicultural and diverse team.
- Ability to transfer knowledge, best practices to colleagues in a context-relevant and credible way.
- Strong analytical – reporting skills to compile, maintain, analyze and prepare strong people reports.
- Experience in partnering with senior management and managers is desirable.
Qualifications
• Advanced university degree in Human Resource Management, Public or Business Administration, Industrial Psychology or other relevant field, or First University degree with two additional years of related work experience.
