United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
JOB DESCRIPTION
Org. Setting and Reporting
The United Nations Setting Programme (UNEP) is the main international environmental authority that units the worldwide environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable improvement throughout the United Nations System and serves as an authoritative advocate for the worldwide setting. The general goal of UNEP’s Trade and Economic system Division is to encourage determination makers in authorities, native authorities and trade to develop and undertake insurance policies, methods and practices and applied sciences that promote sustainable patterns of consumption and manufacturing, make environment friendly use of pure sources, guarantee protected administration of chemical compounds and contribute to creating commerce and setting insurance policies mutually supportive. It promotes the event, use and switch of insurance policies, applied sciences, financial devices, managerial practices, and different instruments that help in environmentally sound determination making and the constructing of corresponding actions. This place is in Nairobi. It encompasses sub-functional specialties comparable to human useful resource administration, planning, programming/budgeting, and implementing, monitoring and analysis of enterprise capabilities. Beneath the direct supervision of the Chief Administration, the incumbent will probably be accountable for the next duties:
Obligations
HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT • Initiates and coordinates actions protecting the whole span of human useful resource actions, e.g., recruitment, placement, promotion, efficiency appraisal, vacancies, job classification critiques, separation of workers members, coaching, and many others., making certain consistency within the utility of UN guidelines and procedures. • Gives knowledgeable recommendation with respect to circumstances of service, duties and duties, and privileges and entitlements beneath the Employees Guidelines and Rules. • Represents the Division/Unit at Departmental Panels and appointment our bodies. • Critiques submit incumbency stories for functions of emptiness administration and staffing desk management. • Leads, oversees and coordinates the preparation and implementation of the work program and finances to make sure compatibility with work priorities and aims, considering the best use of sources. BUDGET AND FINANCE • Initiates and conducts research to enhance finances reporting programs and cost-effective utilization of program sources. • Screens and controls budgetary allocations via common critiques; drafts routine and advert hoc outputs; and gives efficient monitoring stories and knowledge. Identifies deviations from plans and proposes corrective measures. • Establishes and maintains a set of sound insurance policies, procedures, requirements and instruments that are in line with UN coverage and observe with the intention to guarantee correct accounting, monetary administration and management. GENERAL ADMINISTRATION • Implements and screens assist companies, together with procurement of provides and companies; transport, journey and visitors, communications, engineering and data expertise assist; and provision of native utilities and repair necessities. • Supervises a workers crew and/or present recommendation to others on human useful resource administration, monetary administration and administration info points and practices to colleagues. • Produces main/complicated stories for administration. • Gives knowledgeable steering and management to extra junior workers. • Performs different associated duties as required, e.g., critiques of Secretariat workplaces and departments at headquarters/missions, operational journey programme, adequacy of departmental area necessities, and expertise necessities. • Collects and analyzes knowledge to determine traits or patterns and supply insights via graphs, charts, tables and stories utilizing knowledge visualization strategies to allow data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting. • Performs different associated work as required as requested by the Chief for the mixed administration of the Trade & Economic system and the Local weather Change Divisions.
Competencies
PROFESSIONALISM: Information of administrative, budgetary, monetary and human sources insurance policies and procedures. Capability to use varied United Nations administrative guidelines and laws in work conditions. Conceptual analytical and evaluative expertise to conduct unbiased analysis and evaluation. Capability to determine points, formulate opinions, make conclusions and suggestions. The power to investigate and interpret knowledge in assist of decision-making and convey ensuing info to administration Exhibits delight in work and in achievements; demonstrates skilled competence and mastery of material; is conscientious and environment friendly in assembly commitments, observing deadlines and attaining outcomes; is motivated by skilled moderately than private issues; exhibits persistence when confronted with troublesome issues or challenges; stays calm in traumatic conditions. Takes accountability for incorporating gender views and making certain the equal participation of men and women in all areas of labor. TEAMWORK: Works collaboratively with colleagues to attain organizational targets; solicits enter by genuinely valuing others’ concepts and experience; is keen to study from others; locations crew agenda earlier than private agenda; helps and acts in accordance with ultimate group determination, even when such choices could not solely mirror personal place; shares credit score for crew accomplishments and accepts joint accountability for crew shortcomings. CLIENT ORIENTATION: Considers all these to whom companies are offered to be “shoppers” and seeks to see issues from shoppers’ perspective; establishes and maintains productive partnerships with shoppers by gaining their belief and respect; identifies shoppers’ wants and matches them to applicable options; screens ongoing developments inside and outdoors the shoppers’ setting to maintain knowledgeable and anticipate issues; retains shoppers knowledgeable of progress or setbacks in tasks; meets timeline for supply of services or products to consumer.
Schooling
Superior College diploma (Grasp’s diploma or equal) in enterprise administration, or a associated subject, is required. A primary degree college diploma together with two extra years of qualifying expertise could also be accepted in lieu of the superior college diploma. Profitable completion of each diploma and non-degree applications in knowledge analytics, enterprise analytics or knowledge science applications is fascinating.
Job – Particular Qualification
Not out there.
Work Expertise
A minimal of seven years of progressively accountable expertise in challenge / programme administration, finances and finance administration, is required. Expertise in human sources is required. Expertise throughout the UN system or different worldwide or public sector group is fascinating. Two (2) years or extra of expertise in knowledge analytics or associated space is fascinating
Languages
English and French are working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the place marketed fluency in English is required. Information of French is fascinating. Information of one other UN official language is fascinating. NOTE: “Fluency equals a ranking of “fluent” in all 4 areas (learn, write, communicate, perceive) and ” Information of” equals a ranking of” assured” in two of the 4 areas.
Evaluation
Analysis of certified candidates for this place could embody a substantive evaluation which will probably be adopted by a competency-based interview.
Particular Discover
Appointment towards this submit is for an preliminary interval of 1 (1) yr and could also be topic to extension. Employees members are topic to the authority of the Secretary-Basic and to project by her or him. On this context, all workers are anticipated to maneuver periodically to new capabilities of their careers in accordance with established guidelines and procedures. The United Nations Secretariat is dedicated to attaining 50/50 gender stability and geographical variety in its workers. Feminine candidates are strongly inspired to use for this place. Inside Candidates – When finishing the Candidate Profile type, guarantee ALL fields, ALL skilled expertise and call info are accomplished and updated. This info is the premise for the hiring supervisor to evaluate your eligibility and suitability for the place and to contact you. Particular person Contractors and Consultants who’ve labored throughout the UN Secretariat within the final six months, regardless of the administering entity, are ineligible to use for or be appointed to any skilled and better non permanent or fixed-term positions, inside six months of the top of their present or most up-to-date service. For such positions, no less than six months must have elapsed between the top of a consultancy or particular person contract and the time of utility and consideration for an appointment as a workers member beneath the Employees Guidelines and Rules of the United Nations. On the United Nations, the paramount consideration within the recruitment and employment of workers is the need of securing the very best requirements of effectivity, competence and integrity, with due regard to geographic variety. All employment choices are made on the premise of {qualifications} and organizational wants. The United Nations is dedicated to creating a various and inclusive setting of mutual respect The United Nations recruits and employs workers no matter gender id, sexual orientation, race, non secular, cultural and ethnic backgrounds or disabilities. Cheap lodging for candidates with disabilities could also be offered to assist participation within the recruitment course of when requested and indicated within the utility. All candidates are strongly inspired to use on-line as quickly as doable after the job opening has been posted and nicely earlier than the deadline acknowledged within the job opening. On-line functions will probably be acknowledged the place an e-mail tackle has been offered. If you don’t obtain an e-mail acknowledgement inside 24 hours of submission, your utility could not have been acquired. In such instances, please resubmit the applying, if obligatory. If the issue persists, please search technical help via the Inspira “Want Assist?” hyperlink.
United Nations Concerns
In accordance with article 101, paragraph 3, of the Constitution of the United Nations, the paramount consideration within the employment of the workers is the need of securing the very best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity. Candidates is not going to be thought-about for employment with the United Nations if they’ve dedicated violations of worldwide human rights regulation, violations of worldwide humanitarian regulation, sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, or sexual harassment, or if there are affordable grounds to imagine that they’ve been concerned within the fee of any of those acts. The time period “sexual exploitation” means any precise or tried abuse of a place of vulnerability, differential energy, or belief, for sexual functions, together with, however not restricted to, profiting monetarily, socially or politically from the sexual exploitation of one other. The time period “sexual abuse” means the precise or threatened bodily intrusion of a sexual nature, whether or not by power or beneath unequal or coercive circumstances. The time period “sexual harassment” means any unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature which may fairly be anticipated or be perceived to trigger offence or humiliation, when such conduct interferes with work, is made a situation of employment or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive work setting, and when the gravity of the conduct warrants the termination of the perpetrator’s working relationship. Candidates who’ve dedicated crimes aside from minor visitors offences will not be thought-about for employment. Due regard will probably be paid to the significance of recruiting the workers on as huge a geographical foundation as doable. The United Nations locations no restrictions on the eligibility of women and men to take part in any capability and beneath circumstances of equality in its principal and subsidiary organs. The United Nations Secretariat is a non-smoking setting. Cheap lodging could also be offered to candidates with disabilities upon request, to assist their participation within the recruitment course of. By accepting a letter of appointment, workers members are topic to the authority of the Secretary-Basic, who could assign them to any of the actions or workplaces of the United Nations in accordance with workers regulation 1.2 (c). Additional, workers members within the Skilled and better class as much as and together with the D-2 degree and the Discipline Service class are usually required to maneuver periodically to discharge capabilities in several responsibility stations beneath circumstances established in ST/AI/2023/3 on Mobility, as could also be amended or revised. This situation of service applies to all place particular job openings and doesn’t apply to non permanent positions. Candidates are urged to rigorously observe all directions out there within the on-line recruitment platform, inspira, and to consult with the Applicant Information by clicking on “Manuals” within the “Assist” tile of the inspira account-holder homepage. The analysis of candidates will probably be performed on the premise of the data submitted within the utility in accordance with the analysis standards of the job opening and the relevant inner legislations of the United Nations together with the Constitution of the United Nations, resolutions of the Basic Meeting, the Employees Rules and Guidelines, administrative issuances and pointers. Candidates should present full and correct info pertaining to their private profile and {qualifications} in accordance with the directions offered in inspira to be thought-about for the present job opening. No modification, addition, deletion, revision or modification shall be made to functions which have been submitted. Candidates beneath critical consideration for choice will probably be topic to reference checks to confirm the data offered within the utility. Job openings marketed on the Careers Portal will probably be eliminated at 11:59 p.m. (New York time) on the deadline date.
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