View Vacancy – Senior Policy Adviser, International Appointments – UK Mission to the UN

The British Authorities’s Mission to the United Nations in New York has an thrilling alternative for a dynamic, proactive, agile and enterprising particular person to affix the Administration Reform and Finance Part because the Senior Coverage Adviser – Worldwide Appointments. It is a rewarding function, which helps and advances UK’s priorities within the United Nations by way of implementation of the UK Authorities technique on Worldwide Appointments throughout worldwide organisations. As a secondary perform this function additionally helps negotiations within the UN Basic Meeting’s Fifth Committee (Administrative and Price range).

That is alternative to drive implementation of the UK Worldwide Appointment’s technique that helps high-quality management on the UN, facilitates acceptable British illustration at senior ranges and encourages UN leaders with aligned values and priorities. There are additionally linked duties to help work on British illustration and total gender stability at entry, mid and senior ranges throughout the United Nations.  The jobholder will lead work on senior appointments, together with constructing and sustaining a community of contacts, offering coverage recommendation and written/oral updates, together with briefing to the UK Everlasting Consultant and/or Deputy Everlasting Consultant on appointments and subjects of their portfolio, supporting and advocating for UK candidates for UN jobs in any respect ranges, particularly Director degree and above. The jobholder can even characterize the UK in Fifth Committee negotiations on a variety of points.

The perfect candidate will have the ability to reveal their talents in working with others, delivering outcomes at tempo, speaking and influencing, strategic consciousness, drawback fixing and judgement. There could also be scope for the portfolio to develop because the jobholder positive factors expertise within the function.  You’ll work in a fast-paced and altering setting and should be keen to help different crew members and priorities as wanted. You may be a proactive networker – in a position to construct relations throughout the entire UN system to collect info and preserve updated on inner UN appointments developments. There’s vital scope for innovation and creativity on this function and you may be anticipated to be an issue solver and a doer, in a position to work each independently and as a part of the FCDO Appointments crew which works throughout 4 places. 

The UK Mission to the United Nations presents a singular profession enhancing alternative and is dedicated to supporting its employees by way of a wide range of advantages together with beneficiant depart, insurance coverage packages and a extremely aggressive 401k programme.  It additionally promotes a tradition of flexibility, which allows individuals to raised keep wellness by way of a wonderful work/life stability method that encompasses hybrid working, together with distant working and versatile hours, the place potential.  On this function you’d be working in a various worldwide setting working with UK diplomats and different country-based employees, armed forces personnel, UK authorities officers primarily based within the UK and throughout the UK abroad community, overseas diplomats, and UN officers. 

Roles and duties:

• Implementing an Appointment’s technique that helps high-quality management, facilitates acceptable British illustration at senior ranges and encourages UN leaders with aligned values and priorities
• Sustaining and growing relationships with senior contact factors in UN Human Sources departments and with senior decision-makers on Appointments for all UN entities primarily based in New York.
• Gathering info and suggestions from throughout the UN system, Member States and associated entities on Senior Appointments growth and alternatives.
• Establishing a sturdy system to establish job openings, mapping appointments arising within the close to future and dealing with coverage groups to establish UK precedence positions.
• Conserving UK Authorities updated on details about appointments selections all through the recruitment course of.
• Supporting efforts to proactivity establish appropriate candidates for vacancies in worldwide organisations in New York.
• Organize actions and occasions to construct contacts between British Nationals within the UN system and the UK Mission.
• Present help and advocate for UK candidates for UN system job in New York in any respect ranges, however significantly on the Director degree and above as wanted.
• Handle the UK Authorities’s Junior Skilled Officer Programme in New York.
• Advance UK work on UN reform and effectiveness, together with by representing the UK in Fifth Committee negotiations on a variety of points.
• Ship Mission-wide aims, for instance, main programmes for senior guests through the UN Basic Meeting Excessive-Stage week and serving on employees committees.

Sources managed (employees and expenditure):

The jobholder will probably be answerable for managing UK-funded programme actions in help of the Secretary-Basic’s gender parity technique and the UK Authorities’s Junior Skilled Officer Programme.

• Prior substantive expertise in an analogous function.
• Expertise of labor in a fast-paced, skilled workplace setting.
• Information of the United Nations System.
• Wonderful written and oral communication, significantly with senior individuals.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Workplace.
• Sturdy organizational, challenge and time administration abilities, with excellent consideration to element.
• Wonderful networking abilities with the power to develop and keep long-lasting and load-bearing relationships in any respect ranges.
• Versatile and resilient beneath stress, and decisive, with a confirmed observe document of delivering outcomes to a excessive normal inside tight deadlines.
• Willingness to work further hours as obligatory, particularly throughout peak durations in March, Might and December.

Language necessities: 

Language: English
Stage of language required: fluent

Please word: Beneath US State Division necessities, the UK Authorities within the US could solely make use of, as non-diplomatic employees, individuals who’re US residents, US Everlasting Residents, A and NATO visa holders with EAD playing cards, and L2 visa holders with an up-to-date I-94 type.

Visa sponsorship for this function could also be thought of however can’t be assured. Please be clear in your software if you happen to do not need the best to work within the US and/or would require visa sponsorship to undertake this function. The UK Mission to the UN (UKMIS) could sponsor a G visa in distinctive circumstances.

You might seek advice from our web site for added info:  https://www.gov.uk/steering/living-in-the-usa. All chosen candidates are topic to background checks and would require a safety clearance previous to beginning work.