HR Officer Project Management

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Job Description

The Strategy and Organizational Effectiveness unit is the backbone of the HR function to drive the delivery of strategy initiatives across critical areas like organizational design, employee engagement, and strategic workforce planning, among others. We are seeking a Project Management Officer to drive HR projects, facilitate impactful changes, and enhance overall project management efficiency and department effectiveness.

The Project Management Officer plays both a hands-on and strategic role, supporting HR strategic initiatives. The incumbent will drive transformative projects, manage change, facilitate HR functional excellence, and align people, processes, measurements, and standards. This role demands an experienced professional with a demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with senior stakeholders, implement agile methodologies, and exert influence for fostering organizational change.

Duties and Accountabilities:

Define project objectives, scope, and success criteria for HR initiatives aligned with the Talent Management strategy.
Develop project plans, manage dependencies, and ensure project excellence.
Implement agile practices and techniques for project success.
Create dashboards, monitor projects, provide updates, and track progress with KPIs.
Foster Agile principles and scrum practices within the HR team.
Facilitate sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives to promote continuous improvement.
Establish project management framework, compliance standards and implement PMO controls to ensure compliance.
Collaborate for change management planning and execution.
Perform all other duties and projects that may be assigned.

Selection Criteria:

Master’s degree with at least 5 years’ experience in a project management role, preferably in Human Resources in a large, global organization.
Project Management Professional (PMP) or other relevant project management certification.
Experience or familiarity with several project management methodologies (Six Sigma, Agile, Scrum, PRINCE2, etc.)
Proven track record of planning, executing, controlling, and closing complex, cross functional projects, and the ability to manage a project and its components simultaneously.
Working knowledge of business intelligence tools such as Tableau or Power Bi.
Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical and reporting skills.
Strong communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex information to different audiences and identify and resolve challenges on the go.
Strong people skills, with the ability to competently mediate disagreements and negotiate agreeable resolutions across different stakeholder groups.
Experience in HR transformation, process changes and implementation.
Self-starter, strong drive and result oriented.
Excellent written and oral communication skills in English for reports and presentations.

Source: https://worldbankgroup.csod.com/ats/careersite/JobDetails.aspx?id=25962&site=1

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