The Position:
The Institutional Transformation Specialist post is located in the Change Management Secretariat, Executive Office and reports to the Chief of Change Management Secretariat. The Institutional Transformation Specialist will work with internal partners including OED, DHR, DMS, Regional Offices, Country Offices and Technical staff to ensure coherent work of Office. External partners include UN agencies, donor and programme countries in order to maintain and foster collaboration and exchange, build and consolidate internal capacity, accelerate action and promote transparency and accountability.
In all activities, s/he fosters collaboration within field units, particularly Regional and Country
Offices and, with other HQ Divisions, ensuring the timeliness, adequacy, relevance and quality of institutional transformation offices.
How you can make a difference:
UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.
In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.
UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.
Job Purpose:
CMS acts as a governance mechanism, working under the DED-M towards facilitating institutional insight, ensuring the substantive and operational coherence of the various change initiatives and processes within UNFPA. CMS has overall responsibility in coordinating and providing oversight of change internally and externally in the organization. The complexity and scale of the Change Agenda requires a best practice governance structure and a dedicated team to support a participatory process, monitor design and implementation of initiatives. Institutional transformation is designed to “actively prepare the organization at all levels to implement the upcoming and subsequent strategic plans to deliver on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development” .
Within this context s/he will provide technical, managerial and coordination support to achieve the change objectives by collaborating with different UNFPA business units, gathering strategic information, providing input in creating change plans and repository of information on different transformation processes impacting UNFPA Strategic Plans.
The Institutional Transformation Specialist will also support the work of CMS by providing technical input as needed to the overall coordination of institutional transformation at UNFPA.
Requirements:
Qualifications and Experience
Education:
Advanced university degree in public administration, business administration, international affairs, social sciences, public health or other related field.
Knowledge and Experience:
● At least 7 years of increasingly responsible professional experience in project management;
● Experience in change management and reorganization projects;
● Experience of managerial processes and programmatic activities;
● Demonstrated programme management skills;
● Proven ability to produce demonstrable results;
● Hands on experience in writing work plans and handling international cooperation projects;
● Experience in partnership building with governments, private sector, civil society organizations and donors in pursuing development objectives;
● Substantive knowledge on, understanding of, and practical experience in population and development, sexual and reproductive health, and gender;
● Field experience is an asset.
Languages:
Proficiency in English is required. Knowledge of an additional UN language an asset.
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