People and Culture Manager Vacancy-Job Ref: JKMLUNICEF/2409/202632

People and Culture Manager Vacancy-Job Ref: JKMLUNICEF/2409/202632

Bamako (Mali)

Job Description
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

For every child, the right to Care

In Mali, UNICEF works with government, civil society, communities and partners to support children and families affected by overlapping development and humanitarian challenges, including insecurity, displacement, limited access to basic services and climate-related pressures.

In this context, the strength, agility and wellbeing of UNICEF’s workforce are central to programme delivery. The People and Culture Manager will play a critical role in ensuring that UNICEF Mali has the right people, capabilities, systems and culture to stay and deliver for every child.

The People and Culture Manager, P4 Reports directly to the Mali Country Representative, and will partner with senior management and programme leaders to align people strategies with country priorities; strengthen workforce planning, talent, performance, learning and organizational design; and promote a workplace culture grounded in UNICEF’s values of care, respect, integrity, trust, accountability and sustainability.

Furthermore, the position is responsible for planning, organizing and supervising a team of HR staff as well as for managing broad and complex projects.

How can you make a difference?

You are accountable for implementing HR services that enhance the capacity of their clients to deliver on their business goals and objectives. In doing so, you demonstrate the ability to anticipate HR-related needs and develop subsequent plans and solutions that align HR management with business objectives.

Summary of key functions/accountabilities:

Management of Unit
Technical HR Leadership
Business Partnering
Strategic Human Resources
Implementation of assigned Human Resources Services
Learning and Capacity Development
HR Data Analytics

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Minimum requirements:

Education: An Advanced University Degree in human resource management, business management, international relations, psychology or another related field is required.
Work Experience: Eight years of professional experience in human resource management in an international organization and/or large corporation is required.

Skills:
Managerial: The ability to allocate appropriate time and resources for successful achievement of goals, and foresee risks and allow for contingencies when planning. Ability to implement clear goals that are consistent with agreed strategies, identify priority activities and assignments, adjust priorities as required.
Strategic: Experience and ability to help design and implement targeted and innovative human resources strategies to address clients’ people-related needs. Ability to help design and implement innovative HR programs within a fast paced, evolving, and wide organizational setting.

Technical: Authoritative technical knowledge of the principles and concepts of human resources management. Capacity to adapt policies, approaches and models to meet emerging needs. Ability to identify and analyze systemic issues, formulate opinions and make conclusions and recommendations to resolve same. Excellent knowledge of organizational and HR information technology systems and tools.
Interpersonal and Communication: Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively in a diverse organization tailoring language, tone, style and format to match audience. Ability to empathize with client managers, supervisors and staff while advocating for consistent and equitable applications of promulgated HR regulations and rules.
Language Requirements: Fluency in French is required.

Desirables:

Language: Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish) or a local language. Intermediate level of English is highly desirable for effective engagement in regional and global operating context.
Strong familiarity with HR data systems, workforce dashboards and evidence-based people management approaches.
Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.

Experience supporting emergency operations, scale-up recruitment, rapid workforce planning or organizational change in complex environments.
Experience working in Francophone contexts, particularly in WCAR and the Sahel, would be an advantage.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships
(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
(3) Drive to achieve results for impact
(4) Innovates and embraces change
(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity
(6) Thinks and acts strategically
(7) Works collaboratively with others
(8) Nurtures, leads and manages people

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