Fields of Purity - Chief Human Resource Officer

- Reporting to the Head of Administration of the Organization, HRM specialists at this level are fully responsible for managing the overall HRM programme of an entire organization which is characterized by a variety of interrelated and continuing mandates a structure that includes established offices at field locations and a relatively homogenous workforce (fields of work and categories of staff).

- The HRM programme is centrally administered and covers all HRM functions.

Typical duties and responsibilities include:

- Managing the operations of the HRM office which include overseeing the development, implementation and day-to-day execution of operating policies related to the recruitment of staff, the staffing and classification of posts, the planning and development of careers, staff training, staff-management relations, staff welfare and social security

- Supervising Professional and General Service staff, reviewing the work of subordinate Chiefs of Sections and Units for the attainment of objectives

- coordinating submissions for the programme and budget, medium or long term plans and annual reports

- Providing authoritative advice to the Executive Head and the legislative body of the Organization regarding the establishment of policies covering all aspects of HRM by reviewing and approving, or proposing for approval, the development and implementation of new personnel policies, programmes and systems

- endorsing, approving and guiding programmes of organizational change through appropriate personnel policies and programmes

- submitting statistical and analytical reports and proposing changes to staff rules and regulations

- Representing the Executive Head and the Organization in negotiations with representatives of line management and the staff on the full range of personnel matters such as staffing and policy matters

- holding regular consultations with elected staff representatives and chairing/participating in joint advisory bodies and committees

- Acting as a representative of the Organization in meetings with Representatives of the Organization and visiting senior government officials to discuss recruitment priorities and request the cooperation and assistance of Members

- Representing the Organization in the work of inter-agency bodies dealing with standard system human resources management questions with authority to commit the Organization on policy issues not requiring changes in staff rules or regulations

- coordinating a common approach to the administration of conditions of service with heads of HRM of other organizations within the duty station.