Jun
20, 2025
09:00 - 10:00 CET
English
Exploring the evolving landscape of talent acquisition, this session highlights trends and challenges shaping the future of recruiting seen from the perspective of UNDP and UNOV/UNODC recruiters. The session will provide insights into career development opportunities and pathways within these organizations, offering participants a deeper understanding of professional growth and advancement in the UN system.
Sophie Macé has been the Staffing Team Lead at UNOV for the past four years, managing with her great team all staff recruitments for UNOV, UNODC and other clients offices. Her current work spans across 90+ field offices with several hundred recruitments per year. Over the past 10 years she held various human resources and leadership roles in the UN System including in recruitment, benefits and entitlements, classification and org. design, budget, reporting as well as outreach and diversity. Prior to her career at the UN, Sophie worked in the private sector including at McKinsey and Company for several years. She holds an MSc. in International Human Resources from the London School of Economics, and two Bachelor degrees as well as a Maîtrise from the Sorbonne University in Paris.
Rana has two decades of experience in international human resources management extending from talent acquisition, onboarding and off-boarding, contract management, and in-depth knowledge of policy development and implementation. Her current role as the head of the UNDP Recruitment Secretariat offers her both strategic and operational insight into the recruitment and selection activities across multiple contexts. She has undertaken several field missions and short-term deployments to country and regional offices, as well as serving as an HR Business partner with WIPO, Geneva.
Before joining the UN, Rana worked as course designer and instructor with Eriksson and has experience in the field of architecture both from Denmark and Jordan.
Rana holds a degree in Architecture from the University of North Carolina, USA, with postgraduate studies in Building Archaeology and Restoration from the Danish Royal Academy, Copenhagen. She also holds a Master of Science degree in International Human Resource Management from the University of Manchester, UK.
