Leadership Development Consultant

Closing date: Thursday, 14 May 2015

Leadership Development Consultant Human Resources Division About UN World Food Programme The United Nations World Food Programme is the world's largest humanitarian agency fighting hunger worldwide.

The mission of WFP is to end global hunger. Every day, WFP works worldwide to ensure that no child goes to bed hungry and that the poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, can access the nutritious food they need. WFP's greatest strength is its dedicated people working tirelessly around the world to reduce hunger, often under difficult conditions where security threats and risks to personal safety are considerable. The global context in which WFP operates is rapidly changing which means the need for effective people management is becoming important than ever before.

The organization is committed to transform its HR function to a strategic business partner. To achieve this, we need more outstanding HR professionals to get involved and contribute to a key moment in WFP's history - for the first time, we are setting up a strategic HR capability to enable WFP to meet its vision of zero hunger. About the role Under the general supervision of the Chief, Capability Development and under direct supervision of the Capability Development Specialist in charge of WFP Leadership Development Project, the Consultant will primarily support the following 4 key phases of Leadership Development Programme for WFP.

Once the programme of Leadership Development is launched, the Consultant is in charge to keep the learning programme for WFP leaders running through the faculty of internal trainers. The position will be based in our headquarters in Rome, Italy, for an initial contract period of 11 months.

Key responsibilities

Project Management

• Support Leadership Development Project Manager with planning, administration, and tasks coordination during each phase of the project;
• Assist Project Manager with tracking progress made on project plan and with regular status updates to advisory board and lead sponsor;
• Organise meetings for project team, with key stakeholders, with advisory board/ lead sponsor and with external learning provider;
• Liaise on a regular basis with external learning provider. Click here to see who we are and what we do.

Learning Coordination

• Upload and keep updated any learning solution on LMS for the Leadership Development Programme;
• Schedule and coordinate the actual learning events / solutions once the leadership development programme is kicked off;
• Prepare or support with the actual preparation of the learning events (booking and setting up rooms and needed equipment, preparing webinars, testing e-learnings, sending invites through LMS, notifying line-managers, printing material, inviting sponsor(s) for the opening of face-to-face sessions, inviting and briefing guest speakers);
• Coordinate and follow-up on the action learnings component in the leadership development programmes;
• Handle system administration for tracking learning hours and learning KPI's and report on the learning KPIs;
• Ensure compliance with the WFP learning rules;
• Be the first contact person for any question from participants on leadership development programme.

Internal Trainers Faculty for Leadership Development Program

• Plan, organize, and facilitate the internal trainers selection to compose the faculty of 40 internal trainers for the delivery of the face-to-face component in the Leadership Development Programme;
• Organize and coordinate the train-the-trainers sessions and the subsequent shadowing sessions;
• Organize the follow-up coaching sessions for all the internal trainers;
• Support with the definition of guidelines - rules for the internal trainers, communicate these guidelines - rules and ensure compliance;
• Create and maintain an internal trainers 'community;
• Ensure regular feedback is collected and shared with each individual internal trainer and create dashboards for internal trainers.

Communication Responsibilities

• Support with the definition of the engagement/communication plan for the leadership development programme;
• Implement the actual communication plan for leadership development in integration with the overall people strategy communication and in close collaboration with internal communication department of WFP;
• Create and keep updated the Leadership Community;
• Track the implementation of the project communication plan.

In addition, the Consultant is expected to support the Capability Development Branch with other learning programmes from the learning needs analysis through vendor management, learning solution development, learning delivery, LMS administration until learning measurement and reporting.

Qualifications & Experience Required

Education

• University degree in Human Resources Management or related field.

Experience

• At least three years of experience in learning coordination/administration for large scale global capability building/development solutions;
• Strong vendor management experience;
• Basic experience in project management;
• Previous experience with leadership development & learning is desirable.

Technical Skills & Competencies

• Creative problem solver, flexible and constructive approach to overcome challenges;
• Excellent interpersonal skills to collaborate and influence internally with various stakeholders and subject matter experts across business functions, levels and geographical areas;
• Proficiency in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook) and other standard office software packages and systems. Language:
• Working knowledge (proficiency/level C) of English;
• Intermediate knowledge (level B) of another UN official language (Arabic, French, Spanish, Russian or Chinese) or Portuguese (one of WFP's working languages).

Terms and Conditions

WFP offers a competitive compensation package which will be determined by the contract type and selected candidate's qualifications and experience. Please visit the following websites for detailed information on working with WFP. http://www.wfp.org Click on: 'Where we work' and 'Our work' to learn more about WFP's operations. http://www.unstaffmobility.org Learn more about countries where the UN operates.

Application procedures: Go to: http://i-recruitment.wfp.org/vacancies/15-0017708

Step 1: Create your online CV.

Step 2: Click on 'Description' to read the position requirements and 'Apply' to submit your application.

NOTE: You must complete Step 2 in order for your application to be considered for this vacancy.

Application deadline: 14 May 2015

WFP has zero tolerance for discrimination and does not discriminate on the basis of HIV/AIDS status. Qualified female applicants and qualified applicants from developing countries are encouraged to apply.

No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.

REF: 15-0017708

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