Position: Senior Human Resources Management Consultant, Canada-based, Bilingual (English/Spanish)
Location: Canada-based with travel to Peru
Status: Part-time, Dec-Nov 2025 LOE: 99 days
Salary: Competitive & Commensurate with Experience
Language requirement: Fluent in English and Spanish
Deadline: Dec 6, 2024. Candidates are encouraged to apply as soon as possible. We are reviewing Applications on a rolling basis.
Application Instructions:
- Read the Required Qualifications carefully to ensure your CV best matches the specified requirements outlined below.
- Click the Apply now link to submit your application and CV.
- Successful candidates will be contacted. No phone calls please.
At Alinea International, we value equity, diversity, inclusivity and belonging in everything we do. We are an equal opportunity employer opposed to all forms of discrimination. We actively seek and encourage applications from people of diverse backgrounds recognizing that an inclusive workforce enriches our organization and achieves smarter, more innovative results.
Alinea is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. Given the nature of our work, candidates will be subjected to due diligence checks and to enhanced background checks as appropriate.
About Alinea International
Alinea is an international development consultancy providing technical and management expertise that helps people improve their lives. We work with governments, investors, companies, and communities to create lasting change. With nearly 40 years of experience, Alinea has successfully delivered more than 1,000 projects worldwide.
About the Project
The Modernization of Peru’s Civil Service Project (MODSERV) supports SERVIR in its efforts to improve the civil service. The ultimate outcome is to improve national, regional, and local civil services in Peru, particularly in the regional governments of Piura and La Libertad in the north, and Cusco and Arequipa in the south.
This is accomplished by:
- Strengthening the institutionalization of a gender-sensitive and inclusive Human Resources Management System (HRMS) within SERVIR and across all three levels of government; and
- Improving the implementation by SERVIR of a gender-sensitive and inclusive HRMS within targeted ministries chosen to pilot the implementation at the national level and within targeted regional and local governments.
MODSERV works in an integrated manner with SERVIR to support civil service reforms, (CSR) and strengthen gender sensitive and inclusive HRMS in four ministries, proposed National Ministries are: the Ministry of Environment, the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Economy and Finances, and the Ministry of Women and Vulnerable Population. Through this project, technical assistance is provided through a range of Canadian bodies, such as: federal and provincial government departments; non-government organizations, universities, and the private sector; all of these can provide leading CSR and/ or HRMS practices in Canada.
Role Description: The Senior Human Resources Management Specialist will be based in Canada and will be required to travel to Lima, and other regions throughout Peru, to provide inputs and support in the field as required. This specialist will report directly to the Project Director.
Specific responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Support and work in close collaboration with the Local Human Resources Specialist and Canadian ad-hoc specialists on any HR related issues to MODSERV such as, but not limited to:
- Assist SERVIR to design and implement an inclusive and gender-sensitive Human Resources (HR) development strategy,
- Assist SERVIR to design and implement, HRMS policies and tools (such as manuals, guidelines, plans, compensation structures, salary scales, selection and promotion rules and procedures) based on Peru’s Civil Service Law and other related laws, decrees and regulations;
- Produce and provide inputs to the design and development of HR training frameworks, programs and training modules aimed at the managerial staff, and assist SERVIR in the implementation of the training;
- Assist SERVIR in the development and implementation of an inclusive and gender sensitive HRMS in Peru;
- Provide inputs, completing and giving coherence to all relevant deliverables related to their subject matter of expertise (such as handbooks, manuals, training guides, etc.);
- Identify HR related risks and challenges for the execution of MODSERV and developing solutions as they arise;
- Produce and provide inputs to the Local Human Resources Specialist for the Project baseline, Logic Model (LM), PMF, Project Implementation Plan (PIP), technical and narrative reports, monitoring and communications tools, evaluations, plans, strategies and other reports as required.
- Assist the PD in developing TORs for the recruitment of Canadian ad hoc technical specialists.
- Share Canadian expertise with SERVIR, when relevant within the Peruvian context, in order to support the development of the HR related activities in the field.
Qualifications:
- Post-graduate degree in a discipline related to human resources, public administration or other area specifically related to the management or Capacity Development of the human resources, organizational staff or training, teaching, and pedagogy in the workplace.
- 10 years in a human resources management role at an international development organization/firm.
- 7 years of experience designing and implementation an inclusive and gender-sensitive HR development Strategy
- 7 years of experience designing and implementing HRMS policies and tools
- 7 years of experience producing and providing inputs for the development of HR training frameworks, programs and training modules aimed at managerial staff of a private and public entity
- Experience in Peru and/or Latin America
- Language: English (Advanced Professional, Level 4) and Spanish (General Professional, Level 3)
