HR Officer

The HR Officer ensures consistent application of UNOPS HR policies across assigned countries, supporting recruitment, contract administration, policy interpretation, learning, and personnel realignment. The role involves leading HR initiatives, providing strategic guidance, and collaborating with stakeholders to foster effective HR service delivery aligned with organizational goals.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to HR policy development and corporate initiatives by providing data-driven insights on workforce trends, risks and opportunities, and by sharing country-specific best practices.
• Lead the implementation of corporate HR strategies and initiatives in consultation with management.
• Design and lead HR projects and initiatives aligned with corporate HR strategy.
• Collaborate with leadership to develop and implement workforce planning initiatives and monitor workforce status and trends.
• Communicate changes in HR policies and rollout of new initiatives to management and personnel, offering guidance and support.
• Maintain or oversee HR analytics and data parameters to support informed decision-making.
• Provide strategic guidance on HR policy application in people management and deliver consultative support to management.
• Design, deliver and model HR services, programmes and communications to enhance personnel experience.
• Advise, support and mediate on sensitive and complex personnel relations issues in collaboration with corporate HR teams.
• Promote line management accountability in HR policy implementation and provide coaching to strengthen supervisory capabilities.
• Support continuous improvement and professional development by advising on learning and development activities.
• Advance institutional gender and diversity priorities by offering education and guidance on equity, compliance, inclusion, and diversity.
• Oversee implementation of talent acquisition and management policies and processes including recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and contract administration.
• Coordinate administration of various contractual modalities including loans, exchanges and secondments.
• Lead personnel realignment exercises ensuring timely competency mapping, sourcing, selection, placement and transition of talent.
• Identify critical talent needs and develop plans to attract, develop and retain key talent.
• May oversee the Office HR team to ensure effective delivery of HR services across assigned countries.
• Support organization, facilitation and delivery of training and learning sessions on HR topics.
• Participate in knowledge-sharing initiatives and Communities of Practice, contributing insights and lessons learned.
• Conduct research on HR-related topics and contribute to drafting reports, summaries and briefing notes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in any discipline with 2 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree (or equivalent) in any discipline with 0 years of relevant experience is required.
• A globally or nationally recognized professional certificate in Human Resource Management (HRM) is desired.
• Relevant experience is work in recruitment, HR contract administration, employee relations, organization design and development, or related areas.
• Experience in the use of collaboration and productivity tools (e.g. MS Office, G-Suite, etc) and web-based management systems is required.
• Experience of working in multicultural environments or UN system organizations in a developing country is desired.
• Experience in development or humanitarian contexts is desired.
• Fluent English language proficiency is required.
• Fluent Bengali language proficiency is required.

Skills

• Human Resources Management
• Recruitment
• HR Contract Management
• Employee Relations
• Organizational Design
• Organization Development
• Collaboration Tools
• Productivity Tools
• Web-based Management Systems
• Policy Interpretation
• Learning and Development
• Personnel Realignment
• Strategic HR Advice
• Multicultural Environment Experience
• UN System Experience

Languages

English, Bengali