Overview
Lead corporate performance and accountability to advance organizational effectiveness and efficiency. Provide strategic leadership for corporate performance management, ensuring alignment between strategic planning, organizational performance monitoring, risk management, accountability mechanisms, and corporate priorities.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the implementation of the Organizational Effectiveness and Efficiency (OEE) component of the UN Women Strategic Plan and provide strategic direction for the development and implementation of the Entity’s OEE strategy.
- Provide strategic leadership for corporate performance management, ensuring alignment between strategic planning, organizational performance monitoring, risk management, accountability mechanisms, and corporate priorities.
- Lead the Quarterly Business Review (QBR) process and annual OEE reporting, strengthening management oversight, organizational learning and evidence-based decision making.
- Promote organizational approaches that strengthen institutional effectiveness, management practices, and cross-functional collaboration across headquarters, regional and country offices.
- Provide strategic advice to senior management, regional offices and country offices on matters relating to corporate performance, accountability, enterprise risk management, internal governance, and organizational effectiveness.
- Coordinate and strengthen the integration of key second-line functions across the organization, promoting coherence among relevant functions to reinforce governance and institutional effectiveness.
- Oversee corporate follow-up to internal audit recommendations and other oversight findings, ensuring timely implementation, systematic monitoring and reporting, while identifying opportunities for organizational improvement.
- Support the incorporation of findings from audits, oversight bodies and assurance mechanisms into corporate performance management, strategic planning, and organizational decision-making.
- Oversee the corporate governance of UN Women’s global network of presences, including the review of office typologies, functional reviews, and organizational structures, while monitoring strategic performance metrics to inform decisions on the organization’s global footprint and operating model.
- Foster a culture of accountability, transparency, and continuous improvement by strengthening governance frameworks, management practices, and institutional learning.
- Provide strategic direction and oversight for the further integration of enterprise risk management into strategic planning, performance management, internal governance, and organizational decision-making.
- Guide and support the continued strengthening of UN Women’s enterprise risk management function, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities, accountability frameworks and the UN Women Strategic Plan.
- Promote the systematic use of corporate risk information to inform strategic planning, the QBR, resource allocation and other senior management decision-making processes.
- Promote coherence across enterprise risk management, audit follow-up, internal policy management, and other second-line functions to strengthen institutional assurance and organizational resilience.
- Advise senior management on emerging strategic and organizational risks and their implications for corporate performance, governance, and organizational effectiveness.
- Lead strategic initiatives that strengthen organizational effectiveness, management innovation and corporate performance in support of UN Women’s evolving operating model.
- Provide strategic advice on organizational design, internal governance arrangements, business processes and institutional effectiveness, ensuring alignment with the UN Women Strategic Plan and broader UN reform initiatives.
- Provide demand-driven support to offices and divisions in conducting functional analyses and designing and implementing restructuring and organizational change processes to optimize structures and the use of resources in line with strategic objectives and available funding.
- Promote innovative approaches, business analytics, and organizational learning to strengthen corporate performance and support continuous improvement.
- Provide substantive support the Director, SPRED on management and leadership related issues.
- Provide quality assurance on relevant management responses and submissions.
- Support the Director, SPRED in managing the human and financial resources of the Division, including: monitoring the Divisional budget; managing and providing guidance to relevant colleagues, consultants and other internal stakeholders.
- Provide advice and hands-on support on leadership, management, human resources, budget and administrative matters.
- Represent the SPRED Director in internal and external meetings, as required.
- Create a culture of collaboration and co-creation withing SPRED.
- Undertake any other tasks as requested by the SPRED Director.
- The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organisation.
Required Experience
- At least 10 years’ experience in business transformation / change management and/or organizational development efforts in a large and/or international institutions is required.
- Experience in strategy development / business transformation processes for a global organization required.
- Experience in management, administration, business processes, accountability or related fields, preferably at the United Nations.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree or equivalent in business administration, management computer science, economics, international development, or a related field is required.
- A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
- Business Transformation / Change Management Certification is an asset.
