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About the Role

The Chief of People and Culture will lead strategic workforce transformation, driving organizational effectiveness, talent strategy, and an inclusive, high-performance culture at the executive level. This role offers an opportunity to shape people strategy and deliver lasting impact in a complex, purpose-driven environment.

Responsibilities

• Leading and managing a team of HR professionals to implement HR services that enhance client capacity to achieve business goals.
• Creating an environment where staff anticipate HR needs and develop solutions aligning HR management with business objectives.
• Serving as a key strategic advisor to office leadership in spearheading UNICEF’s global HR transformation.
• Management of Section
• Strategic Human Resources
• Networking and Partnerships
• Business Partnering
• Leadership and Design of assigned Human Resources Services
• Learning and Capacity Development
• HR Data Analytics

Requirements

• Master or equivalent (Advanced University Degree) in human resource management, business management, international relations, psychology or another related field is required.
• Ten years of increasingly responsible professional experience in human resource management in an international organization and/or large corporation is required.
• Candidates must bring extensive senior HR leadership experience, strong change management capability, and a proven ability to influence at scale.

Skills

• Strategic thinking
• Business acumen
• Strong leadership skills
• Stakeholder management
• Solid knowledge of UN HR policies and benefits and entitlements
• Fluency in English
• Knowledge of Arabic is highly desirable
• Knowledge of another official UN language (Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.
• UNICEF's Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS)
• Builds and maintains partnerships
• Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness
• Drive to achieve results for impact
• Innovates and embraces change
• Manages ambiguity and complexity
• Thinks and acts strategically
• Works collaboratively with others
• Nurtures, leads and manages people

Location

• East Jerusalem, State of Palestine

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior level
• Ten years of experience

Education Level

• Master or equivalent (Advanced University Degree)

Benefits

• Attractive compensation and benefits package
• Paid parental leave
• Breastfeeding breaks
• Reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities

About the Company

• 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.
• 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.
• UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children.
• Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF's Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.

Equal Opportunity

• The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.
• UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence.
• For this position, eligible and suitable candidates from targeted underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply.