Consultant – Strategic Human Resources Planning and Competency Management Systems Development

Result of Service

The consultancy aims to support the Ministry’s transition from traditional personnel administration approaches toward a more strategic competency-based management system capable of enhancing institutional performance, sustaining critical competencies, and supporting anticipatory workforce planning. In particular, the consultancy will contribute to strengthening the Ministry’s institutional capacity to:

• modernize job and competency reference frameworks;
• enhance strategic workforce and competency planning;
• improve recruitment, training, mobility, and evaluation processes;
• identify and address current and future competency gaps;
• support continuity of critical competencies and knowledge transfer; and
• enhance institutional readiness for digital transformation and administrative reform.

Work Location

Remote - Morocco

Expected duration

4 Months

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Background The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), through its Governance and Conflict Prevention Cluster, supports member States in advancing public sector governance, institutional modernization, and strategic human resources management in line with administrative reform priorities and emerging governance challenges. In the context of accelerating digital transformation, evolving public sector functions, and growing demand for efficient and future-ready administrations, Arab governments are increasingly pursuing modern approaches to public administration based on strategic, competency-based, and anticipatory human resources management systems. Within this framework, ESCWA is collaborating with the Ministry of Digital Transition and Administration Reform of the Kingdom of Morocco on the development of a modern and integrated framework for strategic human resources management and competency-based workforce planning. The initiative aims to support workforce modernization, competency management, and anticipatory human resources planning within the Ministry, including approaches related to anticipatory management of jobs and competencies (Gestion Prévisionnelle des Emplois et des Compétences – GPEC). The initiative builds on ESCWA’s ongoing work on competency-based public administration reform, strategic workforce planning, and institutional modernization in the Arab region, while contributing to the Ministry’s efforts to strengthen strategic competency management and forward-looking workforce planning approaches. Given the technical scope of the assignment, ESCWA seeks to recruit a national consultant based in Morocco to provide specialized technical expertise for the assessment, development, implementation, and sustainability of strategic competency management and workforce planning systems within the Ministry. The consultancy will support:

• the review and updating of job and competency reference...