This position is located within the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia (UNVMC) in Bogota, Colombia. The incumbent will be the head of the Recruitment team within the Human Resources Unit and will report to the Chief of Human Resources Officer (CHRO). **Responsibilities**: Recruitment and Staff Selection - Reviews job openings in consultation with hiring managers, ensuring that the evaluation criteria and responsibilities are in line with the approved or classified documents. - Conducts preliminary review, prepares and submits recruitment cases to Field Central Review Bodies (FCRB). - Participates in task forces and working groups identifying issues/problems, formulating policies and guidelines, and establishing new procedures on recruitment and staff selection. - Provides guidance to hiring managers on the use of the new recruitment and onboarding enhancement tools in Inspira. - Processes and coordinates all onboarding actions, including offers and release requests, medical clearance, reference checks, creation of travel requests and FSS profiles, visas, check-in, etc. - Ensures that all UN HR rules, regulations practices and procedures and UNVMC internal policies are applied and followed thoroughly across all processes, including adherence to UNVMC code of conduct and ethics, and integrates a gender-sensitive approach in all functions. Administration of entitlements and benefits - Advises the CHRO on the development, modification and implementation of United Nations policies and practices on entitlements. - Receives and reviews grievances and complaints related to entitlements and benefits, assessing and evaluating merit of each case and makes recommendation for resolution. - Reviews and recommends level of remuneration for consultants. - Represents the office in joint bodies and working groups relating to salaries and other conditions of service. - Monitors and evaluates the effectiveness of related guidelines, HR rules, regulations practices and procedures, and recommends revisions where necessary. Planning and Budget - Participates in the mission planning process throughout the mission lifecycle for determining staffing requirements and organizational structure; also conducts analysis and provides in on emerging capacity gaps in accordance with the mission's mandate. - Contributes to the budget development process by reviewing the drafts and providing input on the human resources requirements and organizational structure of all sections based on guidelines on budget review. - Reflects recommendations of the staffing reviews into the staffing requirements for purpose of budget preparation. - Reviews and monitors staffing related costs and expenditures in the ERP systems (Umoja) in line with funds allotment, ensuring that funds for staffing costs are available, and where necessary alerts the Chief Human Resources Officer to follow up with Finance and Budget Unit to deploy funds to any shortfall. - Monitors expenditures related to staffing and ensures they are within the budgeted staffing costs, coordinating with the Finance and Budget Units at both the mission and Headquarter levels to ensure availability of funds. - Advises hiring managers on loaning of posts between sections and movement of posts and staff between locations based on the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) on Staffing table and Post Management, ensuring the integrity of the staffing table as approved in the budget without discrepancy in sections and locations. - Reviews the documentation for submission of classification requests and contributes to the implementation of classification results. Performance Management - Supports the supervisor in the implementation of the performance appraisal system and monitors its compliance with the proper implementation of the performance management system, providing guidance and substantive support to mission components on standards the development of service, section, unit and individual work plans. - Liaises with the Training Unit to organize training/orientation programmes in performance management and supervisory skills as well as work plans. - Monitors the full compliance of Performance documents and provides input to the establishment of a Management Review Committee, Joint Monitoring Committee as well as Rebuttal Panel and acts as their facilitator and ex-officio member. - Counsels staff and managers in cases of underperformance and facilitates the implementation of a Performance Improvement Plan to improve performance. Staff Development - Identifies and analyzes staff development and career support needs and designs programmes to meet identified needs. - Prepares monitoring reports on staff development and career support programmes. - Advises staff on career development, giving particular attention to developing and implementing career development paths for national staff members. Administration of Justice - Researches and compiles the mission's responses to formal and infor