HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICER

Org. Setting and Reporting

This position is located in the Organizational Development Section (ODS), Strategic Talent Management Service (STMS), Global Strategy and Policy Division (GSPD), Office of Human Resources (OHR), Department of Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance (DMSPC). The incumbent reports directly to the Chief, ODS, and works collaboratively with the Anti-Racism Office (ARO) in the Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance. The Secretary-General is committed to zero tolerance and organizational action to address racism and racial discrimination and the equal treatment and full inclusion of all United Nations personnel in the work of the Organization. He has therefore launched a Strategic Action Plan on Addressing Racism and Promoting Dignity for All in the United Nations Secretariat (hereafter the "strategic action plan") to tackle this abhorrent behaviour. ODS is responsible for designing approaches to build a working environment that embraces the widest possible spectrum of diversity and provides an enabling and gender-sensitive workplace. It also builds a culture of engagement, leadership, accountability and result-orientation, based on the organizational values and competencies. With this organization-wide mandate, ODS plays a key role in implementing a wide-breadth of strategic action plan recommendations proposed to shift the culture, policies, accountability mechanism, and practices of the UN Secretariat to address racism and racial discrimination and augment racial diversity and inclusion.

Responsibilities

Within limits of delegated authority, the Human Resources Officer (Anti-Racism) will be responsible for the following duties: Learning and Development

• Leads the development of anti-racism learning content and comprehensive training frameworks for UN Secretariat personnel, leadership, managers, staff counselors/ support, and newly hired personnel.
• Consults and partners cross-functionally with the ARO, the Capacity Development and Operational Training Service (CDOTS) in the Department of Operational Support (DOS), key partners in entities, and other collaborators to facilitate research-based learning curriculums to build knowledge and address personal, interpersonal, structural and institutional racism in the Organization's workplaces.
• Coordinates & liaises with relevant learning and development counterparts to co-produce anti-racism learning & training curricula and tools that are relevant to UN Secretariat personnel.
• Supervises the work of instructional designers conducting needs assessment, developing programmes & courses, storyboards, etc.; and subject matter experts reviewing overall learning requirements, mapping contents, identifying synergies, etc. Entity-level capacity building
• Works with entity-level Anti-Racism Advocates to develop region-specific and support regional localization of tailor...