Overview
The Deputy Country Representative is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Nepal Country Office, contributing to the design, implementation, management, and oversight of the country programme and its supporting operations.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage the day-to-day work of programme teams, including finalizing annual workplans.
- Manage programme conceptualization, planning, implementation, and monitoring, including material and financial resources.
- Lead the preparation of programme implementation progress reports and identify areas for action.
- Finalize quarterly, annual, and donor reports, focusing on results, outputs, and outcomes.
- Lead programme/project implementation monitoring of activities and finances using results-based management tools.
- Provide oversight of field presence and ensure coherence with thematic areas.
- Advise and guide the Country Representative on strategic areas.
- Provide specialized technical and strategic support in programme design and related activities, ensuring compliance and accountability.
- Develop policy documents, briefs, and strategic papers.
- Serve as a senior member of the management team.
- Represent UN Women in UN system coordination, including the UN Country Team and Humanitarian Country Team.
- Ensure UN Women’s participation in UN system thematic and working groups.
- Provide substantive research and inputs for the country resource mobilization strategy.
- Establish and maintain relations with government, partners, stakeholders, and donors.
- Represent and advocate for UN Women in organizational, regional, global, public information/relations events and key meetings.
- Develop and implement advocacy and public communication strategies.
- Manage the collection and sharing of lessons learned on gender equality and women’s empowerment.
- Oversee the design and implementation of capacity building training activities.
- Manage the performance of personnel under supervision, providing direction, guidance, and leadership.
- Create an enabling work environment and identify learning and development opportunities.
- Perform other duties as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organisation.
Required Experience
- At least 7 years of progressively responsible professional experience combining strategic and managerial leadership in development programmes with a strong focus on gender equality and women’s empowerment at the national or international level, preferably in developing countries within the UN system, Agencies, Funds or Programmes.
- Field based experience working with multi-cultural teams.
- Experience leading and coaching staff in international settings.
- Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and spreadsheet and database packages.
- Experience in handling of web-based management systems.
- Experience in the use of a modern web-based ERP System, preferably Oracle Cloud, is desirable.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in international development, public administration, public policy or other relevant social science fields 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.
- A project/programme management certification (such as PMP®, PRINCE2®, or MSP®) would be an added advantage.
