Planning overview
Human resources should be an integral part of our strategic and operational plans.
You will need the right staff recruited and deployed in the right time to meet programme objectives.
Key questions
What team do you need? See assessing staffing needs
What type and length of contract, and terms and conditions are you going to offer for each post? See recruitment-essentials
What staff do you already have? Do the additional team members you need to recruit actually exist? How can you access them and how long will it take? See sourcing staff
Do you have the financial resources to employ, manage, support and train them?
How will you manage high staff tunover especially among international staff?
Are you going to compete or collaborate with other organisations?
How will you account to stakeholders?
Assessing staff needs
| Key questions | Aim | Risks in getting it wrong |
| What team do you need? | Sufficient positions at appropriate levels are created within a workable organisational chart
There are sufficient positions, especially within HR but also finance and administration, to support programme staff. See HR function |
Workloads are excessive, staff burn out and are unable to deliver on programme objectives
Staff are unsure of their responsibilities and to whom they report Tasks are left undone or more than one person. |