Senior People & Culture Associate

Provides human-resources support to UNICEF’s Multi-Country Office for Sri Lanka and Maldives in Colombo. The associate supports business partnering and compliant HR processes; helps deliver recruitment, onboarding, benefits, workforce planning, learning and development, organisation design and job classification; and promotes client-focused people and culture services.

• Provide administrative, procedural and operational support across human-resources functions
• Support business partnering initiatives and client-focused HR services
• Process entitlements and benefits
• Support recruitment, placement and onboarding
• Support organization design and job classification
• Support learning and capacity development

• Sri Lankan nationality is required
• Secondary education in Human Resources Management or a related field
• At least seven years of relevant experience in human resources, recruitment, staffing, benefits administration, onboarding, offboarding, job classification, workforce planning, learning and development, performance management or HR operations
• Fluency in English is required

• International organization or UN experience is desirable
• Knowledge of Sinhala or Tamil is a strong asset
• Knowledge of another official UN language is an asset
• Country-level experience in development, fragile settings or humanitarian contexts is desirable

• Human resources administration
• Recruitment support
• Benefits administration
• Workforce planning
• Learning and development
• HR policy compliance