Overview
This role provides expertise in organization design, workforce planning, and job analysis to support UNOPS' strategic priorities. The incumbent will partner with leaders and colleagues to redesign organizations and build capabilities for sustainable development impact.
Key Responsibilities
- Undertake analytical and technical activities across the organization design lifecycle, including diagnosis, design option development, and implementation planning.
- Conduct organizational diagnostics by analyzing current- and future-state organization structures, operating models, governance arrangements, workforce data, business processes and stakeholder feedback.
- Facilitate workshops, interviews, and stakeholder consultations.
- Develop organizational visualizations, models, and presentation materials.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of organization design tools, templates, guidance materials, and methodologies.
- Track and report on implementation of recommended organization design solutions.
- Partner with the Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team to model financial scenarios.
- Translate organizational design policies into practical toolkits, templates, processes and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- Support the development and implementation of UNOPS’ Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) framework.
- Conduct periodic and on-demand analyses of workforce composition, organizational capacity, capability requirements, workforce trends, and position data.
- Collaborate with Regional People Business Partners, in-country HR practitioners, and operational leaders on workforce planning approaches.
- Partner with the Process Innovation & Digitalization (PID) team to explore, pilot, and support the adoption of emerging technologies.
- Collaborate with Talent Acquisition & Outreach (TAO) to advance a skills-based approach to talent acquisition.
- Collaborate with Learning and Development (L&D) to translate skills mapping insights into targeted learning pathways.
- Prepare and review job descriptions/terms of reference (ToRs).
- Serve as a member of the classifiers’ panel for job classification and reclassification requests.
- Evaluate and classify positions in line with the UN System/ International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) classification standards.
- Escalate complex or precedent-setting classification cases.
- Share insights and best practices for ensuring the currency, consistency and overall alignment of contents of the global Standard ToR Library.
- Contribute ideas and solutions for building and governing a globally distributed approach to classifying and reclassifying positions.
- Manage multiple concurrent organization design assignments.
- Establish effective working relationships with supervisors, HQ HR Manager, Regional People Business Partners, Finance colleagues, People Analytics, and other stakeholders.
- Contribute to change management activities associated with organization design initiatives.
- Support the organization, facilitation and delivery of training and learning sessions on organization design, workforce planning, and job analysis and evaluation topics.
- Participate in knowledge-sharing initiatives and Communities of Practice (CoPs).
- Conduct research on topics related to organization design, workforce planning, and job analysis and evaluation and contribute to the drafting of reports, summaries and briefing notes.
Required Experience
- Progressively responsible experience in organizational diagnostics, organization design, operating model reviews, and supporting organizational restructuring and transformation initiatives.
- Experience applying quantitative and qualitative analytical methods to strategic workforce planning, including collaboration with Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) teams on annual and multi-year workforce planning, modelling, forecasting and budgeting.
- Experience in job design, job analysis, and job evaluation across all organizational levels.
- Experience using or assessing emerging technologies, including AI-enabled tools, advanced HR analytics, and automation solutions, to support organization design, strategic workforce planning, job analysis and evaluation, or broader people analytics initiatives.
- Experience of working in matrixed, geographically dispersed, multicultural organizations.
- Experience in development or humanitarian contexts (desired).
- Experience of working in UN system organizations (desired).
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Human Resources, I/O Psychology, Behavioural Science, Business Administration, Management, or any other discipline with 7 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree (or equivalent) in any of the above disciplines with 5 years of relevant experience is required.
- Certified training in globally recognized job evaluation methodologies, e.g. Hay Guide Chart & Profile Method, Mercer IPE, ICSC Master Standards, etc, is required.
- Professional certification in Organization Design, Workforce Planning, Change Management, or Project Management is desired.
