Overview
Provides senior-level management support and advice to the Director of the Division for Treaty Affairs to promote UNODC's mandates and corporate policies. Develops, coordinates, operationalizes, and monitors the Division's programme of work.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide policy advice and strategic guidance to the Director.
- Lead and ensure consultations and coordination meetings with UNODC divisions and field offices.
- Represent the Division for Treaty Affairs in interdivisional meetings and Task Force activities.
- Lead, organise and participate in programme coordination missions to UNODC field offices.
- Represent the organization and participate in consultative and other meetings.
- Lead the preparation and submission of funding proposals for the Division.
- Act as First Reporting Officer for staff in the Office of the Director.
- Oversee the management of human and financial resources of the Office of the Director and the Division.
- Supervise and guide staff responsible for key divisional financial/administrative tasks.
- Oversee the management of Office-wide human rights activities.
- Advise the Director in preparing the work programme of DTA.
- Lead the preparation, coordination and submission related to DTA’s Programme and Consolidated Budget submissions.
- Provide overall guidance and technical inputs in the conceptualization, preparation and coordination of strategic frameworks.
- Coordinate, organize and provide programmatic and substantive inputs to the formulation and development of technical cooperation programmes.
- Conduct managerial oversight and quality assurance in the Direct Approval of Programmes.
- Provide leadership to enterprise risk management activities in the division.
- Lead the coordination and consolidation of programmatic and substantive policy documents.
- Lead the preparation and coordination of Division-level contributions and written outputs.
- Coordinate and lead the response to requests for briefing materials and background documentation.
- Interact with relevant actors within the Secretariat and UN agencies, as well as with Member States.
- Represent the Office of the Director/Organization in international, regional or national events.
- Take part in donors assessments, oversight engagements/evaluations and audits.
- Lead the monitoring, analysis and evaluation of technical reports and other relevant materials.
- Lead team members efforts to collect and analyze data.
- Perform other work-related duties as assigned.
Required Experience
- A minimum of ten years of progressively responsible and directly relevant professional experience in project or programme management, administration or related area is required.
- Experience in mainstreaming human rights and gender sensitive approaches in the development and implementation of programmes and policies relating to UNODC mandates is required.
- Relevant experience in the coordination of policy-orientated substantive documentation and inputs to reports is required.
- Experience in dealing with United Nations’ or with a similar international organization’s policies, procedures and operations, including budgetary policies and practices, financial regulations and rules is required.
- Experience in handling complex organizational issues at the international level is desirable.
- Experience as a certifying officer and in working with enterprise resource planning software (ERP) including project cycle approvals is desirable.
- Experience in managing teams in an international setting is desirable.
- Experience in data analytics or related area is desirable.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in business administration, economics, social sciences or a related field is required. A first-level university degree in similar fields in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
