The Position:
The Organizational Culture & Institutional Transformation Analyst post is located in the Change Management Secretariat, Executive Office and reports to the Chief of Change Management Secretariat. S/he 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” .
Culture is the glue that keeps everything together, even if everything outside is changing. When the culture is widely shared, the organization has much more choices about how to operate: personnel are engaged, committed and capable of taking the lead.Changing the mindsets and inherent culture of the organization is a key component that is both an enabler and an outcome of institutional transformation.
Within the context, s/he will help on actions related to organizational culture scaling-up successful experiences, Within this context, the Analyst will provide support to UNFPA in work related to organizational culture, communication on institutional transformation and serve as the focal point for operational matters in the office.
Requirements:
Qualifications and Experience
Education:
Advanced university degree in international affairs, public management,public administration, social sciences, public health or other related field
Knowledge and Experience:
▪ At least 2 years of relevant experience in multilateral organizations or public institutions;
▪ Previous experience in the UN an advantage;
▪ Strong analytical skills and data competencies and visual presentation;
▪ Experience in concrete initiatives related to organizational culture;
▪ Ability to communicate, structure, curate, process and analyze data, including identifying trends;
▪ Ability to think logically and work with attention to detail;
▪ Initiative, sound judgment and demonstrated ability to work harmoniously with IDWGs, and colleagues from different national and cultural backgrounds;
▪ Strong interpersonal and organizational skills;
▪ Computer literacy - Word, Excel, Power-point, etc.;
▪ Good knowledge of Atlas / Peoplesoft;
▪ Good writing and communication skills.
Languages:
Fluency in English required, knowledge of an additional UN language an asset
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