Jun
18, 2025
09:00 - 10:00 CET
English
This session will cover the benefits of inter-agency mobility for both staff and organisations. It will further discuss the modalities of loan, secondment and transfers, clarify the practicalities of inter-agency moves and provide you with a checklist of questions to consider when changing organisations.
Cornelia Griss is an experienced HR professional with over two decades in talent acquisition, strategic HR partnerships, and programme management across global health and development organizations. She currently serves as Coordinator, Resourcing at the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva, where she leads global talent acquisition programmes and oversees global recruitment.
Prior to joining the ILO, Cornelia held several senior HR roles at the World Health Organization (WHO), managing HR partnerships programmes with Member States and other UN agencies, and led talent initiatives such as the Junior Professional Officer programme and the WHO internship programme. Her work further included gender and diversity, mobility, and outreach.
Cornelia started her international career as an intern in UNHCR and with Médecins du Monde in Germany, where she managed national operations and donor relations. She holds a Master of Science in Development Studies and a degree in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics. She also holds certifications in executive leadership and fundraising management.
Emanuela Goerick is the Head of the UN OHCHR Talent Management and Career Support Unit. She holds a master’s degree in Organizational Psychology from the University of Trier, a Mediation certification from Harvard Law School, a professional coach accreditation from the Internation Coach Federation (ICF) and most recently a postgraduate certification in data science in Human Resources management from the University of Cambridge.
Emanuela has more than 15 years of Human Resources management experience both in the public and private sectors in New York (USA), Munich (Germany), Budapest (Hungary), Bogota (Colombia), Nicosia (Cyprus) and Geneva (Switzerland). She focuses on providing strategic guidance to all her UN clients at headquarters and in the field. She facilitates retreats, internal and external outreach, manages in-house coaching groups to enhance excellence in management practices and supports innovation and change with internal and external stakeholders in talent management for OHCHR. In 2017 she won the Peacekeeper of the year award of the German Center for Peace Operations and in 2021 she won the Secretary-General award.
