People & Culture Associate, (G-6), Belize City, Belize #1345161 [Temporary Appointment]

UNICEF Belize Country Office is seeking a People & Culture Associate (G-6, Temporary Appointment) to help foster a positive, inclusive, and values-based workplace culture. The position plays a key role in strengthening staff engagement, wellbeing, and organizational culture, ensuring that every team member feels supported, connected, and empowered to contribute to UNICEF’s mission for every child. The incumbent will support HR administration processes, drive system and process improvements, and coordinate initiatives that promote teamwork, respect, and wellbeing across the office. This role offers an opportunity to make a meaningful impact by enhancing the staff experience and embedding UNICEF’s core values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability in everyday work. Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree and at least seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience in human resources, staff engagement, or related administrative functions. Experience in a UN organization is an advantage. Fluency in English is required; knowledge of another UN language is an asset. Join us in making UNICEF Belize an inspiring, inclusive, and supportive workplace — where people and culture drive impact for every child.

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.

For every child, the right to learn

www.unicef.org

How can you make a difference? 

As the People & Culture Associate (G-6), you will play a vital role in creating an engaging, inclusive, and supportive workplace culture within the Belize Country Office. You will help ensure that staff feel valued, empowered, and connected to UNICEF’s mission to deliver results for every child.

You will support the office’s people and culture priorities by:

• Promoting staff wellbeing and engagement: coordinating activities such as team retreats, staff recognition events, and office-wide engagement initiatives that foster trust, collaboration, and morale.

• Strengthening workplace culture: advancing initiatives that reflect UNICEF’s core values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability, while promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion.

• Enhancing HR processes and systems: providing expert administrative and system support to ensure that HR operations are efficient, accurate, and aligned with UNICEF policies.

• Building staff capacity: supporting training, onboarding, and knowledge-sharing to enhance staff understanding of HR systems and wellbeing tools.

Your contribution will directly influence how the office operates, ensuring that UNICEF Belize remains a place where people thrive and where a strong, values-driven culture supports impactful results for children and young people.

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here:  People & Culture Associate_Advertise.docx

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Minimum requirements:

• Education: Completion of bachelor’s degree, related to the field of work.
• Work Experience:

  A minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience in human resources, organizational culture, staff engagement, or related administrative functions.

  Experience coordinating staff engagement or wellbeing initiatives is an asset.

  Prior experience with UNICEF or another UN organization is an advantage.
• Language Requirements:

  Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

The UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships

(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness

(3) Drive to achieve results for impact

(4) Innovates and embraces change

(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity

(6) Thinks and acts strategically

(7) Works collaboratively with others 

Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels.

UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.

UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station is required for IP positions and will be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be selected for a position with UNICEF, you either must be inoculated as required or receive a medical exemption from the relevant department of the UN. Otherwise, the selection will be canceled.

Remarks:

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.

UNICEF is committed to fostering an inclusive, representative, and welcoming workforce.

Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason. 

UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants’ bank account information.

Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF’s Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.

All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. An internal candidate performing at the level of the post in the relevant functional area, or an internal/external candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, may be selected, if suitable for the post, without assessment of other candidates.

Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found here.