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The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) is a multilateral development finance institution established to contribute to the economic development and social progress of African countries. The AfDB was founded in 1964 and comprises three entities: The African Development Bank, the African Development Fund and the Nigeria Trust Fund. The AfDB’s missi...
Objectives
The Bank's Ten Year Strategy (TYS) 2013-2022 as refined by the Five Priority Areas (the Hi-5s delivery foci) aim to position the Bank 'at the center of Africa's transformation' and also transform the Bank into a Knowledge Broker and Learning Hub for Africa. To enhance staff engagement the Bank has a People's Strategy which guides the facilitation of Employee Engagement Index between the Management and Staff. The People Strategy has 4 pillars: i) Leadership; ii) Staff Engagement and Communications; iii) Performance and Accountability and iv) Workforce of Future. The People Strategy will ensure that the Bank maintains the work environment and cadre of top quality staff that has the necessary skills, focus training and commitment to deliver on the Bank's ambitious agenda for Africa as presented in its Long Term Strategy (LTS).
As staff are at the heart of the work carried out by the Bank, it aims to provide a coherent framework and an agenda that responds to the many people challenges that need to be addressed on an ongoing basis to allow the Bank to realise its people vision and its commitment to being the Employer of Choice in Africa. It aspires to create a gender-responsive and people friendly work environment which in turn will help it retain its highly productive workforce, and enable it to effectively discharge the development mandate, the enhancement of existing and introduction of new family friendly programs is imperative.
In this context, the Human Resources Employee Relations and Welfare Division ( CHRM4) of the Corporate Human Resources Department (CHRM) aims to engage an individual Employee Relations and Occupational Health and Safety consultant that will support the CHRM.4 Division Manager in the delivery of the staff welfare program.
The consultant will work closely with the Division Manager and CHRM.4 team members, the Bank's Medical Centre, the Business Continuity team, the Bank's Family Association, the Staff Council and external providers to ensure that there is seamless collaboration and interaction among the key stakeholders and staff.
The role requires strategic and strong skills in occupational health and safety issues, conflict resolution establishing family friendly programs, communication and teamwork. The consultant shall have the ability to deliver to expected defined quality, set time scales; and should operate a feed-back loop to enable him/her to track and report on activities undertaken and impacts achieved.
Duties and responsibilities
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Ability to:
Selection Criteria
Including desirable skills, knowledge and experience
Adherence to the Bank's Core Values and Code of conduct. Adherence to these Core Values and the Code of Conduct are necessary requirements for this job. If there is noticed diversion from these standards at any point in the engagement; the Bank will sever all relationship with the consultant without any encumbrances on the part of the Bank.
Applicants for this position, must be a national of any of AfDB Member Countries.
Applicants will only be considered if they submit a comprehensive Curriculum Vitae (CV) demonstrating relevant qualifications and experience and are registered in the AfDB's DACON System (www.afdb.org). Candidates should submit their applications, indicating the Vacancy Notice number "Consultant/CHRM.4/16/051" in the Subject line of their email to: The Principal Diversity Officer, CHRM.0: e.nwankwo@afdb.org copying n.ndiour-bella@afdb.org and r.sah@afdb.org No acknowledgement of e-mails will be made and candidates should not follow-up their applications.
To see more, visit AFDB Career Page
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