UN WOMEN Jobs - 56366- Consultant - UN Women: Enterprise Risk Management

Consultant - UN Women: Enterprise Risk Management Specialist

Advertised on behalf of

UN WOMEN

Location :

New York, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

01-Jun-2015

Application Deadline :

25-May-15 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

International Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

8 months

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Background

The UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women's rights at the centre of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. UN is expected to provide strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States' priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

UN-Women officially started its operation on 1 January 2011. In 2012 UN-Women initiated the implementation of its new Regional Architecture. This architecture consists, in summary, of: the establishment of six regional offices, six multi-country offices and forty-eight country offices; the evolution of UN Women’s previous Sub-Regional Offices into regional offices, multi-country offices or country offices; greater decentralization of authority to the field, including moving of mid and lower level oversight functions from Headquarters to Regional Offices; the transfer of some technical and operations functions from Headquarters to field; and corresponding changes in Headquarters to reflect changed roles. This transition and the development of increased capacity at the field offices are still on-going.

To support the global operations of UN-Women under this new architecture, the UN-Women Internal Control Framework, Delegation of Authority Framework and Legal Framework were all issued on the last quarter of 2012. The Business Continuity Framework for UN-Women has been developed. It is together with all these corporate-wide initiatives that a UN-Women Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Framework is envisioned to be likewise developed and integrated. To effectively embrace ERM as an important component of UN-Women strategic business model, the ERM approach and processes to be introduced to manage risks has to be highly-efficient, pragmatic, not cumbersome and can be intuitively embedded in UN-Women’s daily operational work.

Under the joint supervision of the Chief of Staff of Executive Director’s Office and Director, Management and Administration Division the Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Specialist Consultant will provide technical leadership and coordinate the implementation of an Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) at UN-Women. The assignment duration is estimated at 8-12 months.

Duties and Responsibilities

Main deliverables

The ERM Specialist Consultant is expected to provide the following main deliverables for this project after conducting a situational analysis:

a) Proposed work plan with timeline and deliverables as the UN Women ERM implementation guide;
b) Review of the following and proposed changes for improvement, if any:
a. UN Women ERM Policy and guidelines;
b. UN Women ERM Road-Map and Maturity Indicator;
c. UN Women ERM Framework;
c) Draft Statement of UN Women Risk Appetite and Risk Tolerance;
d) A proposed ERM approach and methodology to be adopted for UN-Women, taking into consideration UN Women’s organizational needs, capacity and resources. Draft detailed guidelines to implement proposed ERM approach and methodology;
e) An ERM communication and training strategy plus materials.

Summary of Duties and Responsibilities:

Analyze the available risk data submitted by different offices with UN-Women strategic objectives and key business processes;
Review the risk categories used and the appropriateness thereof;
Determine and define the Risk Universe and Risk Units/ Entity for UN-Women;
Complete the UN Women risk register including clarifying risk/ issue ownership;
Prepare a Risk Heat Map for each Risk Unit where data is available, as well as for global UN-Women;
Define and draft the Statement of UN-Women Risk Appetite and Risk Tolerance;
Assist in the formulation of an ERM implementation strategy for UN-Women especially in the establishment of a criteria for selecting pilot HQ, RO, MCO and CO for phased ERM implementation and training;
Improve UN Women’s risk management capacity for example - review and improve on the UN-Women ERM training materials and assist in the planning, organization and conduct of ERM trainings carried out in person or through webinars;
Assist in the design of a management information system (MIS) that will support the proposed ERM approach and methodology for UN-Women, taking into consideration UN-Women resources and capacity.

Where the system will:

Serve as a repository of the UN-Women Catalogue for Risks and Control;
Capture the risk identified by each risk unit;
Serve as the risk register for each risk unit;
Serve as a repository of risk action plan for each risk unit.

Develop a risk management monitoring and evaluation system with indicators that can be tracked on a sustained basis as part of UN Women’s management framework.

Competencies

Core values / Guiding principles:

Integrity:

Demonstrating consistency in upholding and promoting the values of UN Women in actions and decisions, in line with the UN Code of Conduct.

Cultural Sensitivity / Valuing diversity:

Demonstrating an appreciation of the multicultural nature of the organization and the diversity of its staff. Demonstrating an international outlook, appreciating differences in values and learning from cultural diversity.

Core Competencies:

Ethics and Values:

Demonstrating / Safeguarding Ethics and Integrity.

Organizational Awareness:

Demonstrate corporate knowledge and sound judgment.

Developing and Empowering People / Coaching and Mentoring:

Self-development, initiative-taking.

Working in Teams:

Acting as a team player and facilitating team work.

Communicating Information and Ideas:

Facilitating and encouraging open communication in the team, communicating effectively.

Self-management and Emotional intelligence:

Creating synergies through self-control.

Conflict Management / Negotiating and Resolving Disagreements:

Managing conflict.

Knowledge Sharing / Continuous Learning:

Learning and sharing knowledge and encourage the learning of others.

Appropriate and Transparent Decision Making:

Informed and transparent decision making.

Functional Competencies:

Excellent conceptual and analytical abilities, including the preparation of clear and concise reports;
Capacity to efficiently and effectively analyze complex information and to abstract general conditions from specific information;
Capacity to contact and interact openly, honestly and professionally with individuals and in teams from a wide range of cultures;
Able to communicate effectively through speech and written work. Able to present issues and ideas in a manner that leads to their acceptance and adoption by management and staff alike;
Excellent organizational skill, sound judgment and attention to detail;
Strong sense of initiative and ability to prioritize and work independently.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Post graduate university degree in one or more of the following disciplines: economics, social sciences, business or public administration/management, or other field related to international development;
Risk management certification is a distinct advantage.

Experience:

At least 8-10 years of proven international professional work experience in organizational planning and strategy, and risk management;
Proven experience in Enterprise Risk Management development and implementation and organizational change management, particularly business process review;
Excellent project management skills. Ability to anticipate the needs of the project and to take proactive steps.

Language:

Fluent in English;
Any additional UN language is an advantage.

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment.

All applications must include (as an attachment) the completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/employment. Kindly note that the system will only allow one attachment, please combine all your documents into one (1) single PDF document. Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment.