Overview
This position supports the integration of enterprise risk management and insurance as complementary risk management approaches within UNOPS. The role aims to foster a risk-aware culture, exercise risk management oversight, and support effective risk management across the organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the review and strengthening of risk management capabilities, providing strategic advice and implementation support.
- Integrate risk into planning, decision-making, and performance across organizational levels.
- Lead assigned workstreams and engage with relevant stakeholders.
- Review existing risk management policies, processes, performance indicators, and role definitions.
- Provide advice on the development, enhancement, and institutionalization of the ERM framework.
- Contribute to the development of risk management principles, systems, and processes.
- Analyze complex and/or systemic risk exposures across the global UNOPS portfolio or focused regions/themes.
- Provide high-level advice to senior management on risk-informed decision-making, trade-offs, and prioritization of strategic risks.
- Develop and roll out threshold-based risk escalation protocols and map them to performance metrics.
- Contribute to the review and optimisation of traditional risk transfer mechanisms and evaluation of alternative solutions.
- Lead and/or contribute to strategic initiatives that mitigate key organizational risks.
- Develop and provide risk management training, coaching, and facilitation support.
- Contribute to and support internal awareness-raising and capacity building efforts.
- Conduct risk data analysis and contribute to the production of risk reports and dashboards.
- Advise on cross-functional solutions to address systemic risks and issues.
Required Experience
- A minimum of seven (7) years (or more depending on academic credentials) of experience in the design, development, and deployment of risk management programs.
- Experience in working with senior leadership to support risk-informed decision-making, and driving cultural change in risk management.
- Experience in managing complex programmes or projects.
- Experience in risk analysis.
- Experience in facilitating cross-functional collaboration and managing projects.
- Experience in the UN system, Multilateral Development Banks, or developing country contexts is a strong asset.
- Familiarity with multicultural and multilingual environments is desirable.
- Experience in embedding risk management into functional Policies on program and project management, procurement, investments and financial management, HR and IT.
- Experience in using enterprise systems for risk management.
- Experience in evaluating and experimenting with artificial intelligence-based solutions to problem-solving.
- Field experience in globally operating development and/or project-based organizations.
Qualifications
- A Master's degree preferably in risk management, engineering, law, international relations, business administration, finance and accounting, or a related field is required.
- A Bachelor's degree combined with two (2) additional years of relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of a Master’s degree.
- Certifications in risk management (such as IRM or RIMS) and decision quality (such as SDRM Certificate) are considered an advantage.
