WFP Talent Acquisition Specialist, Rome, Italy

The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide. The mission of WFP is to end global hunger. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need.

In emergencies, WFP gets food to where it is needed, saving the lives of victims of war, civil conflict and natural disasters. After an emergency, WFP uses food to help communities rebuild their shattered lives. Present in nearly 80 countries, the organization has the global footprint, deep field presence and local knowledge and relationships necessary to provide access to nutritious food and contribute to the lasting solutions, especially in many of the world’s most remote and fragile areas.

WFP’s greatest strength is its dedicated people working tirelessly around the world to reduce hunger, often under difficult conditions where security threats and risks to personal safety are considerable. The global context in which WFP operates is rapidly changing which means the need for effective people management is becoming more important than ever before.

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About the role

WFP is committed to transform its Human Resources function to a strategic business partner. To achieve this, we need more outstanding HR professionals to contribute to a key moment in WFP’s history - for the first time we are setting up a strategic HR capability to enable WFP to meet its vision of zero hunger.

We are currently recruiting a Talent Acquisition Specialist to shape the Global Talent Acquisition function at WFP. The position will be based in our headquarters in Rome, Italy, for an initial contract period of 11 months.

Key Responsibilities

The selected candidate will report directly to the Chief, Global Talent Acquisition Branch and will be responsible for the following activities:

• Work with our senior clients to define their Talent strategy;
• Work as strategic Business Partner with our clients to deliver outcomes to issues identified;
• Analyze, design and implement new operating models and organization designs to achieve business objectives (including for Talent Acquisition);
• Build and communicate WFP’s employer brand through innovation and leading-edge tools;
• Analyze current resource and talent levels to create recruitment plans and reporting mechanism;
• Design, develop and deliver Talent sourcing solutions for a variety of client specific scenarios;
• Build strong and sustained client relationships.

Qualifications & Experience Required

Education:

• University degree in Human Resources Management.

Experience:

• At least 5-8 years of progressive experience across Talent Resourcing, Talent Acquisition, Business Partnering, with at least the 3 most recent years leading or working on a large scale global talent acquisition strategy and solutions;
• Experience working with the Executive Management level.

Technical Skills & Competencies:

• Deep business acumen and strategic business viewpoint;
• Excellent interpersonal and intercultural skills to influence and collaborate with stakeholders and subject matter experts across business functions, levels and geographical areas;
• Excellent project management and organizational skills including the ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines;
• Solid understanding of Talent Acquisition principles and concepts;
• Ability to analyze complex problems and develop innovative and strategic solutions with a customer/client focus;
• Ability to demonstrate high personal impact and influence to build a trusted advisor relationship with business leaders;
• Ability to work with ambiguity and build consensus across diverse and global teams;
• Confidence in ability to work in a broader change management role to support business transformation.

Language:

• Working knowledge (proficiency/level C) of English;
• Intermediate knowledge (level B) of another UN official language (Arabic, French, Spanish, Russian or Chinese) or Portuguese (one of WFP’s working languages).

Competitive Salary*We offer a competitive salary (tax exempted) ranging from USD8,500 to USD10,000 per month depending on the selected candidate’s professional background*

How to apply:

Go to: http://i-recruitment.wfp.org/vacancies/14-0014987

Step 1: Create your online CV.

Step 2: Click on “Description” to read the position requirements and “Apply” to submit your application.

NOTE: You must complete Step 2 in order for your application to be considered for this vacancy.

Application deadline:1 April 2014

REF: 14-0014987