Director, HRd

**Organizational Setting**:
The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) is an international financial institution and a specialized United Nations agency dedicated to eradicating rural poverty and hunger. It does so by investing in rural people. IFAD finances programmes and projects that increase agricultural productivity and raise rural incomes, and advocates at the local, national and international level for policies that contribute to rural transformation.

The Corporate Services Department provides IFAD with the human resources, administrative services, safety and security and information technology resources required to allow IFAD to meet its objectives of enabling rural people overcome poverty.

The Human Resources Division (HRD) is fully integrated within the Corporate Services Department (CSD), servicing colleagues at Headquarters as well as in the field, with the ambition of being a strategic, business oriented and fully trusted professional partner with IFAD managers and staff. Its mission is to provide high quality HR expertise, nurturing a culture of excellence and contributing towards an inclusive and diverse workplace where People come first. We empower our People and support them throughout their career paths. We invest in our People to create a dynamic and high-performing workforce that is motivated and engaged to drive IFAD’s success in transforming the lives of small landholders and other rural people.. The division has three work units Talent Management, Policy and Strategic Support and HR Business unit and each unit has specific responsibilities to help achieve this vision and are bound with the same team-spirit, to offer comprehensive and seamless HR solutions to management and colleagues.

The Director, HRD, works under the direct supervision of the Associate Vice President (AVP), CSD.

**Job Role**:
Directors are responsible for managing a Fund division or office. The main focus of Director positions is strategic leadership, innovation and management. Most typically as a member of a departmental management team, they are responsible for managing and supervising the delivery of a division's programme of work within an allocated budget.

The Director, HRD is a member of the Senior Management team and provides strategic direction for the HR Division in a dynamic environment by planning, co-ordinating and directing human resources activities. Furthermore, the incumbent is a member of IFAD’s Operations Management Committee and other select Working Groups.

Position Specifics: The Director, HRD will play a critical role in attracting, developing and retaining a diverse and high-performing workforce, leading on workplace culture practices and providing expertise and support in the areas of Talent Acquisition, Performance Management, Employee Relations, Employee Engagement, Learning and Development, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Policy and Procedure Development, and HR Compliance.

**Key Functions and Results**:
1.VISION & STRATEGY: Directors develop and promote a strategic vision for translating IFAD’s corporate and departmental mandates; strategies, goals and objectives into a divisional programme of work and for ensuring evolving divisional programme activities are integrated in the evolution of departmental goals and objectives. They participate in the design of IFAD’s and departmental strategic approaches and ensure that corporate strategies are fully integrated in the design of assigned activities. Directors set and communicate clear strategic and operational objectives and are held accountable for the division being seen as a credible and trusted partner in managing for results and as an innovator in its field.

2. POLICY DEVELOPMENT & ADVICE: Directors provide leadership in the development and interpretation of major policies, regulations and rules, and systems that govern the work of a division and ensure they support divisional goals and objectives within the overall Fund mandates and strategies. Directors also serve as a trusted business/programme advisors with a significant role in authoritative policy advice within the Fund at the senior management level as well as in policy dialogue in their representational activities.

3.PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT: Directors provide leadership in
(a) all phases of the division’s medium term planning and management, including operational requirements such as (i) establishing annual work plans, (ii) ensuring regular programme assessment and (iii) identifying opportunities for innovation and implementation of best practices generated within the Fund as well as in peer organizations, both private and public;
(b) reviewing and innovating core processes of the division in order to achieve better efficiency and effectiveness, as well as financial sustainability, of operations;
(c) enhancing synergy among divisional staff and holding staff accountable for results and (d) ensuring the preparation of all divisional publications, repo