Overview
Leads the United Nations Development Coordination Office's (UNDCO) regional coordination support to Resident Coordinators in the Asia Pacific region, advancing collaboration across regional mechanisms and providing field-facing support.
Key Responsibilities
- Leads Regional thought leadership on strategic regional issues pertinent to SDG acceleration.
- Convenes and provides strategic direction at the regional level.
- Strengthens collaboration and partnership with Regional Economic Commissions and other regional mechanisms.
- Leads the development of regional, multi-country and special partnerships.
- Leads the integration of development approaches, taking account of conflict and crises, prevention and peacebuilding, human rights, humanitarian needs as well as other complexities.
- Leads in influencing stakeholders on appropriate actions, deploying UN 2.0 skills.
- Coordinates communications and strategic messaging for RC system at regional level.
- Supports RC efforts for joint resource mobilization and investment.
- Engages in and facilitating links to global and regional joint funding mechanisms.
- Works to translate partnership and engagement opportunities into co-created initiatives.
- Supports the Chair of the Regional UNSDG in providing leadership and quality assurance for UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Frameworks (UNSDCFs) and joint program development.
- Supports country delivery of UNSDCFs, integrating lessons, and integrated approaches across UNCTs.
- Provides strategic guidance to Resident Coordinators (RC) and UN Country Teams (UNCT).
- Provides regular reporting on regional results and oversees backstopping support to RCs, UNCTs, and RCOs.
- Supports, tracks and reports on implementation of UN reform and efficiency initiatives.
- Provides a facilitating role with host Governments, donors and counterparts; chairs meetings and seminars; represents the Organization at international, regional, inter-agency meetings.
- Directs, manages and is accountable for the UNDCO Regional office.
- Supports day-to-day operations of the RC system in the region.
- Demonstrates the adoption of systems thinking and integration of UN 2.0 competencies.
- Leads on the integration of risk management and foresight into all aspects of DCO's work at regional level.
- Identifies and advocates for surge support as appropriate across countries in the region.
- Role models and promotes matrix linkages across functions.
- Contributes to strategic senior leadership talent identification and management.
- Supports the performance management of Resident Coordinators and contributes to performance management of Heads of Resident Coordinators' offices.
- Ensures compliance with UN policies on gender equality, disability and youth inclusion, staff well-being, safety and duty of care requirements.
- Supports RCs, UNCTs and Resident Coordinator Offices (RCO) on Business Innovations.
- Contributes to the formulation of UNDCO strategies and policies.
- Co-ordinates, oversees and contributes to the preparation of regional reports.
- Oversees the recruitment of staff for the Regional Office; manages, guides and trains staff under his/her supervision.
- Performs other related duties as requested by the senior management of the Organization.
Required Experience
- A minimum of fifteen (15) years of progressively responsible experience in development cooperation coordination is required.
- Including at least ten (10) years in senior leadership roles in international settings involving interagency and/or inter-organizational collaboration.
- A minimum of five (5) years of field experience in development cooperation is required.
- Demonstrated experience in leading strategy and/or policy formulation in the area of development coordination.
- Substantive international development experience is required, including demonstrated engagement with public-private sector interfaces, SDG financing, and innovation.
- Experience in leading organizational reform and/or change management is required, including performance management of senior managers in multicultural environments and integrating gender equality/inclusion.
- Experience in overseeing both programmatic and administrative functions necessary for the effective operation of a large and complex organizational unit is required.
- Experience in managing budgets in a development cooperation context, with demonstrated risk awareness and exposure to complex, humanitarian and/or conflict settings, is desirable.
- Experience as a United Nations Resident Coordinator or demonstrated substantive knowledge of the UN Resident Coordinator system, the United Nations system more broadly, or a comparable international organization, is desirable.
- Experience working in the Asia Pacific Region is an advantage.
- Experience in the application of digital, data, foresight, and/or behavioral science tools and approaches in development contexts is desirable.
- Experience in strategic resource mobilization and partnership-building, including with governments, the private sector, international financial institutions, and/or civil society, is desirable.
- A minimum of five (5) years of experience in a regional or sub-regional capacity, coordinating development actions across multiple countries and involving interagency and/or inter-organizational collaboration, is desirable.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in international relations or public administration, law, social sciences or related area. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
