Friday, 18 October 2013

Operations Manager - UNDP

Education:
    Master’s Degree or equivalent in Business Administration, Public Administration, Finance, Economics, Accounting, HR, Audit and / or suitable accounting qualifications from an accredited University or related field is required;
    PRINCE 2 and UNDP Certification on Procurement are required.

Experience:
    Substantial work experience (minimum 5 years) in the implementation of  UNDP administrative and operations management at the national and international level in providing management advisory services and/or managing staff and operational systems and establishing inter-relationships among international organization and national governments; Of the minimum experience requirement, five years should be as an Operations Manager in CO or HQ Unit or should have hands-on experience in at least two UNDP operational streams (e.g. HR, Finance, Procurement, ICT, Administration, etc.);
    Supervisory experience with adequate knowledge of UNDP performance review and reporting system is required ;
    Experience in Financial and management audit in and experience working on audits of UN organizations or UND and expert level hands-on experience in ATLAS and web based systems  (UNDP ERP systems) preferably PeopleSoft would be an advantage;
    Experience of accrual accounting, IPSAS or IFRS is highly desirable.

Functional Competencies:
Building Partnerships
Identifying and building partnerships
    Effectively networks with partners seizing opportunities to build alliances;
    Identifies needs and interventions for capacity building of counterparts, clients and potential partners;
    Displays initiative, sets challenging outputs for him/herself and willingly accepts new work assignments.

Promoting Organizational Learning and Knowledge Sharing:

Developing tools and mechanisms
    Makes the case for innovative ideas documenting successes and building them into the design of new approaches;
    Develops and/or participates in the development of mechanisms, including identifying new approaches to promote individual and organizational learning and knowledge sharing using formal and informal methodologies.

Job Knowledge/Technical Expertise:
In-depth knowledge of own discipline
    Understands advanced aspects of primary area of specialization as well as the fundamental concepts of related disciplines (financial resources and human resources management, contract, asset and procurement, information and communication technology, general administration);
    Continues to seek new and improved methods and systems for accomplishing the work of the unit;
    Keeps abreast of new developments in area of professional discipline and job knowledge and seeks to develop him/herself professionally;
    Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of information technology and applies it in work assignments;
    Demonstrates comprehensive understanding and knowledge of the current guidelines and tools and utilizes these regularly in work assignments.

Application Deadline :    23-Oct-13

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