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Human Resources Associate G6 (Performance Management and Learning & Development)

What will you do?
Onboarding

•  Engage all stakeholders who have a role to play in onboarding i.e., Information Technology, Security, Unit assistant, hiring manager, etc. to ensure a coordinated and smooth onboarding experience for any new joiner
•  Develop the Country Office welcome note for any new joiner and ensure it is timely shared across the office
•  Carry out the new joiner survey at expected times and analyze the insights collected

Learning & Development

•  Manage the learning and development calendar and provide administrative support to staff and managers in the planning and delivery of L&D events and strategy.
•  Support implementation of customized learning programmes to address current and future skill and capability gaps within the country office.
•  Arrange the booking of L&D facilitators, venues, travel, accommodation, and facilities for L&D programmes and events.

Performance Management

•  Manage the performance management cycle process and monitor timely and accurate completion of the performance evaluations.
•  Facilitate the required awareness and training sessions to equip all stakeholders on performance management system, policies and processes.

Data Analytics and Reporting

•  Use HR management systems for reviewing, entering, and updating a variety of HR data including monitoring various deadlines (e.g., contract expiration, performance management, Training courses completion, etc), ensuring compliance with the established deadlines and accuracy of HR data.
•  Prepare a range of reports required for the specific area of work (e.g., learning & development activities and KPIs, training-related documents, performance management etc.) ensuring accuracy and meeting established deadlines.

Others

•  Act as the first focal point for any employee query related to onboarding, performance management and L&D. Ensure timely and qualitative case management of any query.
•  Conduct research on latest trends and best practices around L&D, onboarding, and performance management and identify improvements based on evolving needs of the organisation in these areas.
•  Coordinate and develop programs that drive employee engagement, culture, and development in the country office.
•  Support HR and Country office management to develop and update the action plan log for the Global Staff Survey to ensure implementation and continuous development to make the CO meet its objectives.
•  Coordinate the employee recognition programme by overseeing and planning the programme from communication, data analysis, award ceremony and distribution of prizes.
•  Manage and oversee long service awards programme in the country office by maintaining up to date data, communicating to staff, work with HQ to distribute and ensure the country management acknowledges the long-serving employee.
•  Support any procurement process from the vendor identification to the final payment for services received in close liaison with Procurement team.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education:  Bachelor’s degree in human resource management, Public or Business Administration, Industrial Psychology or any other relevant field.
• Experience: Six or more years of work experience in human resources with in-depth expertise in performance management and learning & development.
• Language: Proficiency in oral and written communication in English.

Knowledge & Skills: 

• Good communication skills and understanding of HR principles and their application to respond to and resolve general HR queries.
• Ability to develop and maintain relationships with a wide range of individuals to provide a high-quality support service.
• Ability to train staff members various topics in the field of HR.
• Ability to collate and compile relevant data from a variety of sources to produce periodic reports for supervisor(s) and various units.
• Ability to work with minimum supervision and use initiative to perform administrative tasks within broad WFP guidelines and standards.

VAM Officer NOA ,Nairobi (829887)

JOB PURPOSE

The Programme Policy Officer will contribute to VAM evidence base that supports food security and nutrition policies and programmes (e.g., needs and market assessments and situation analyses, programme design, targeting, cost effectiveness, and operational efficiencies. They will advise on emerging technologies and provide geo-spatial data analytics and data visualizations to support contextual analyses and decision-making, and to enable data-driven project planning, implementation, monitoring, and communication of results.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES (not all-inclusive)

1. Contribute to the development of VAM projects and activities, plans and processes, ensuring alignment with wider WFP policies and guidance.
2. Support the development of systems and tools for the monitoring and assessment of food assistance needs in line with innovative methodologies and best practice.
3. Support the development of food and nutrition security and vulnerability analysis and the preparation of timely reports on food and market information needs in line with wider VAM policies, processes, and guidance to enable effective decision-making on the development of country strategy, policies and programmes.
4. Plan, design and lead market assessments, value chain analysis, surveys, and special studies to inform market-based programming in the various WFP Kenya Country Office outcomes and activities.
5. Provide technical advice on the composition and costing of the Minimum Expenditure Basket (MEB), the Minimum Food Basket (MFB), including their use in determining of Cash & Voucher transfer values.
6. Support on the coordination of data gathering and monitoring systems ensuring that rigorous quality standards are maintained.
7. Support in the design and maintenance of digital platforms for data analysis and data visualizations, including geospatial analysis, to support programme activities and provide background for decision-making and planning (using, e.g., MS Excel, MS PowerPoint, Tableau, Power BI, ArcGIS).
8. Support the capacity building of WFP staff, partners, and national government to conduct vulnerability and market analysis to effectively inform preparedness and response activities.
9. Participate in relevant coordination and technical forums with Government, agencies and partners ensuring WFPs views are represented and for exchange of information and joint initiatives.
10. Provide training and support to relevant partners that are focusing on food security and nutrition issues to enable sharing of experience, lessons learned and best practice.
11. Guide and supervise staff, acting as a point of referral and supporting them with analysis and queries.
12. Act in an assigned emergency response capacity as required to meet emergency food assistance needs.
13. Other as required.

STANDARD MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Education:
University degree in Economics, Food Security, Statistics, agri-business, Data Science, Public Health/Nutrition, Geography, Agriculture, Development studies or a field relevant to International Development Assistance.
Experience:

• Minimum two years professional postgraduate experience in the field of market, prices, and value chain analysis.
• Experience in handling both qualitative and quantitative data (e.g., collecting, cleaning, visualizing, interpreting).
• Experience in collaborative work with national governments, other UN agencies and key stakeholders in food and nutrition security.

Knowledge & Skills:

• Demonstrated proficiency in the use of several statistical tools and methods for food and nutrition security analysis.
• Developed practical expertise in food security analysis and mapping by participating in multiple assessments, including the design, data collection analysis and reporting.
• Demonstrated technical knowledge and understanding of WFP vulnerability mapping systems and emergency assessment standards.
•  Data analytics and visualization with Business Intelligence Tools like Tableau or MS Power BI.
• Geospatial data analytics (e.g. modelling, mapping with GIS software like ArcGIS, QGIS).

Languages:
Fluency (level C) in English language.

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