Overview
This role involves leading, managing, and developing people resources, championing strategic resources for organizational goals, enhancing risk management, ensuring operational centralization and optimization, and strengthening partnerships.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead, manage and develop people resources to promote technical competence and foster career progression and retention.
- Provide proactive solutions and expert advice to senior management on people management and office culture.
- Foster operations behaviors that focus on delivering results for children.
- Coordinate human resource development and resourcing strategies.
- Keep abreast of industry standards in management and finance.
- Promote and support Excellence in Operations.
- Optimize identification and use of resources in various concrete Value for Money (VfM) areas.
- Support Business Units on options to generate greater VfM.
- Lead the financial oversight management, monitoring and reporting of all the country programme budget.
- Advise various modalities of valuing resources through financing modalities.
- Oversee Supply outcome results related to Supply and Logistics Management.
- Ensure the office is equipped with the right skills and tools and up-to-date information to make operational and programmatic risk informed decisions.
- Maintain UNICEF organizational resilience and enhance staff safety and security.
- Review internal controls and policies/guidance.
- Implement mandatory anti-fraud systems, processes and actions.
- Facilitate mitigation of risks of engagement with external partners.
- Review key Operations processes to minimize cost, simplify and reduce duplication of work.
- Facilitate compliance with systems by building awareness and capacity of users.
- Provide key contributions to CPMP and review operational structures.
- Provide technical expertise and recommendations on HACT implementation.
- Partner with Programme by providing advice and recommendations on programme budgeting.
- Support UNICEF Office resource mobilization partners from donor negotiation and formulation of partnership agreements.
- Foster a positive and enabling operations environment that supports Private Sector Fundraising.
- Engage as effective stakeholders in the UN Reform.
Required Experience
- A minimum of 8 years of professional experience, at the national and international level, is required, specifically in implementing strategic organizational initiatives in one or more operations management area including budget; financial management and reporting; facilities management; administration; supply and logistics management; information and communication technology; human resources.
- Prior experience in the development sector or UN system/ International NGOs would be an asset.
- For Country Offices with a significant Private Sector Fundraising operation, prior experience working with or in the private sector, and supporting Private Sector Fundraising, is desirable.
- Additional experience in one or more of the following areas would be desired: Audit and investigations, Safety and security, Grant Management, Enterprise Risk Management.
- Experience in a UN system agency, large Private or Public Company, or experience working in a developing country and/or humanitarian/ emergency context is an asset.
- Experience in working with corporate ERPs (Enterprise Resource Planning) and IPSAS (International Public Sector Accounting Standards) is highly desirable.
- Experience in Results Based Management is a requirement.
- Experience in supporting successful client-oriented work units is an asset.
- Previous hands-on experience in strategic operations is a strong asset.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office applications is required.
Qualifications
An Advanced University Degree (Master’s and above) in one of the following areas is required: Business management; Financial management; Accounting; Public Finance; and related operations function (Supply Chain, Human Resources, Information Technology, International Business, Project management, etc.) or a full professional accounting designation (CA, ACA, ACCA, CPA, CIMA, CPFA, Expert Comptable) from an internationally recognized institute/body of accountancy with valid membership in good standing is required.
