Human Resources Intern – Yaoundé
UNICEF
Yaoundé, Centre, Cameroon
·22 Feb. 2024
·Internship
·Human Resource
·Human resources assistant
Contract type:Internship
Duty Station:Yaounde
Level:Internship
Location:Cameroon
Categories:Human Resources
1. Support in recruitment and placement
- Works closely with hiring managers to prepares and circulates vacancy advertisements.
- Liaises with candidates in the various stages of the recruitment process, with specific focus on supporting scheduling of technical testing and interviews.
- Prepares formal pre- offer and liaises with GSSC related to offers and onboarding.
- Records and maintains recruitment files, ensuring all necessary documentation has been uploaded through TMS.
- Monitors life-cycle of recruitment process to update panel members as necessary.
- Support onboarding staff to join UNICEF Cameroon is the smoothest manner possible – supporting but not limited to onboarding tasks with GSSC, liaison for visa and travel formalities, advise on related entitlements related to onboarding.
- Proactively identify and elevate possible bottlenecks related to onboarding.
- Support staff by issuing required documentation related to confirmation of employment with UNICEF Cameroon.
- Manage and monitor FWA with staff and managers to ensure correct information is inserted into the system and entitlements correctly processed.
- Ensure appropriate early action is taken for offboarding to effectively support staff
- Initiates the processing of a wide range of personnel actions in accordance with UNICEF rules and regulations, by ensuring all relevant forms and actions are completed by staff and forwarded to the GSSC.
- In consultation with supervisors, analyze, research, and verify information for the purpose of responding to staff queries on areas related to benefits and entitlements.
- Statistics maintenance and issuance of reports (PERs, development plans, leave, gender, geo balance, staff lists, etc.) and organograms;
- Maintains all personnel-related records and files, ensuring relevant information are up-to-date and accurate.
- Be enrolled in a graduate or Ph.D. degree programme in HR Management or have graduated within the past two years.
- Applicants must be at least 18 years old.
- Be proficient in English and French.
- Have excellent academic performance as demonstrated by recent university or institution records.
- Have no immediate relatives (e.g. father, mother, brother, sister) working in any UNICEF office; and
- Have no other relatives in the line of authority which the intern will report to.
- Residing in Cameroon.
- Familiarity with digital marketing, digital spaces for outreach, recruitment, or job search.
- Solid overall computer literacy also in using digital platforms/ applications for project management.
- Attention to detail, sound judgement and discreet.
- At least one year's previous professional experience.
- Accuracy and professionalism in document production and editing.
- Excellent interpersonal skills, culturally and social sensitive.
- Ability to work and adapt professionally and effectively in challenging environment and in multicultural team of international professionals.
- Self-motivated and ability to work with tight deadline.
- Consideration will be given to candidates with disabilities.
- Have never completed an internship at the Cameroon office.
- Meet UNICEF child protection standards.
