HR Business Partner Specialist

The HR Business Partner Specialist is responsible for delivering strategic HR services to the Regional Bureau for Arab States and its Country Offices, supporting workforce planning, HR analytics, performance monitoring, and business process reengineering. The role involves providing strategic advice on human resources management and collaborating with talent management and organizational effectiveness teams to enable effective HR management aligned with UNDP policies.

Responsibilities

• Generate workforce data, interpret data and statistics, and provide authoritative advice and recommendations based on HR analytics.
• Prepare HR reports, presentations, and briefing notes based on workforce data analysis.
• Recommend and implement HR practices and strategic interventions to optimize talent management.
• Analyze and provide advice on selection and recruitment initiatives.
• Advocate best HR practices, staffing, development, and organizational workforce planning to achieve business objectives.
• Study and analyze results of global/regional HR surveys and contribute to design interventions and action plans.
• Gather data from Performance Reviews to develop reporting of potential career paths and development needs for staff.
• Provide advice based on HR analytics and propose enhancements of existing platforms and reports.
• Interpret HR policies, implement corporate HR exercises, and ensure quality assurance.
• Provide advice and support to managers and staff on human resources related matters.
• Ensure continuous analysis of corporate HR strategies and policies and make recommendations on their implementation.
• Interpret corporate strategic sourcing and succession planning and ensure accurate projection of vacancies and staffing requirements.
• Provide Quality Assurance of UNDP people management standards in the assigned Bureau.
• Monitor recruitment processes liaising with the Central Recruitment Unit and People Transaction Services Unit.
• Liaise with OAI, Legal, and Ombudsman’s office as needed.
• Support HR corporate initiatives for bureau and provide inputs to management plans, products, strategies, and tools.
• Deliver workshops and virtual clinics to enhance capacity of HR staff and disseminate lessons learned and best practices.
• Contribute to organizational design solutions and change management facilitation.
• Support senior managers on implementation of structural changes through effective information sharing and problem solving.
• Identify risks and liaise with relevant stakeholders.
• Perform other duties within functional profile as necessary.

Requirements

• An advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in Social Sciences, Business Administration, Public Administration, Organizational Psychology, Psychology, Sociology, Economics, Development Economics, International Relations, Human Resource Management, Organizational Development or any other related field is required.
• A first level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the above-mentioned fields, in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of advanced university degree.
• Minimum of five (5) years (with master’s degree) or seven (7) years (with bachelor’s degree) of relevant experience in human resources management or must have held similar positions in other international organizations is required.
• Experience with UN/UNDP HR policies and procedures, rules and regulations’ interpretation and application is desirable.
• Experience in providing strategic HR advisory/business partnering services in complex international organizational settings is desired.
• Experience supporting organizational design/workforce optimization or change management initiatives is desired.
• Experience in advising on talent sourcing/recruitment and selection processes desirable.
• Experience in analyzing HR data, reporting in support of HR strategy development and workforce planning initiatives desirable.
• Experience in the usage of computers, office software packages is required; and experience using Quantum modules related to HR functions is desired.
• Experience working with UNDP country offices set up and context is desirable.
• Fluency in English and French language is required.

Skills

• Human Resources Management
• Strategic HR Advice
• Business Partnering
• Organizational Design
• Workforce Optimization
• Change Management
• talent sourcing
• Recruitment and Selection
• HR Data Management
• HR Reporting
• Workforce Planning
• HR Strategy Development
• Performance Monitoring
• Business Process Reengineering
• UNDP HR Practices
• Quantum HR Modules
• Office Applications
• International HR Experience

Languages

English, French