Director, Country Office
Overview
The Director, Country Office role is responsible for directing and managing all delivery and operations within the Country Office's scope, including liaison, engagement development, and delivering services for sustainable results. The role also represents UNOPS in the country.
Key Responsibilities
- Create, foster and role model a culture of trust, empowerment and accountability.
- Plan, recruit, manage and develop a flexible and diverse workforce.
- Develop the strategy for the entire Country Office, establish priorities and oversee the implementation of the portfolio.
- Guide, endorse and oversee proposals and project document agreements.
- Monitor implementation, oversee progress toward annual objectives and make decisions to ensure the delivery of results.
- Plan, propose to the Regional Director and allocate resources.
- Manage overall HSSE performance across the entire CO.
- Consult with the UNOPS Chief of Security and act as the UNOPS Security Focal Point (SFP).
- Assess the needs of national governments and other UNOPS partners.
- Build and strengthen strategic partnerships.
- Keep the Regional Director informed/advised on opportunities and/or challenges and risks.
- Ensure appropriate arrangements for building excellence of business processes and quality standards.
- Build capability and ensure direct operational support for the units within the CO.
- Monitor and supervise the overall timely and cost-effective delivery of the Country Office portfolio(s).
- Take overall responsibility for financial decisions, and exercise financial control.
- Provide advice to the Regional Director, peers and Country Managers.
- Ensure internal performance and quality management for the Country Office.
- Evaluate performance to measure efficacy and alignment of the Country Office.
- Represent UNOPS in relevant inter-agency and external meetings/bodies.
- Represent UNOPS in the UN Country Team (UNCT), and support the UNCT programming and advocacy activities.
- Participate actively and effectively in UNCT meetings.
- Is accountable to the Resident Coordinator for actions as part of the UNCT.
- Participate in UNCT initiatives to strengthen UN coherence.
- Keep the UN Resident Coordinator abreast of UNOPS activities within the country.
- Drive high-quality, well-informed decisions.
- Ensure corporate reporting, information flow and appropriate escalation of awareness of emerging risks and topics.
- Champion risk management.
- Lead the development and introduction of innovation.
- Ensure the dissemination and sharing of best practices and lessons learned.
- Lead the planning, implementation and organization of capacity building of personnel, partners and stakeholders.
- Establish priorities, in consultation with the Regional Director, for targeted investments in growth and innovation.
- Share knowledge with peers in other regional/country teams and corporate practice groups.
Required Experience
Relevant experience is work in strategic and managerial leadership in public affairs, management, business development planning and operations in a large corporate or international organization, or related area. Desired Experience of working in multicultural environments or UN system organizations in a developing country is desired. Experience in development or humanitarian contexts is desired.
Qualifications
Required Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in any discipline with 12 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree (or equivalent) in any discipline with 10 years of relevant experience is required.