UN WOMEN Jobs - 113163- Local financial consultant to provide support to U

Local financial consultant to provide support to UN Women

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UN WOMEN

Lieu :

Chisinau, MOLDOVA

Type de contrat :

Individual Contract

Date de commencement :

Date limite de candidature :

17-Jul-23 (Minuit New York, États-Unis)

Niveau du poste :

National Consultant

Durée du contrat initial

Langues requises :

Durée prévue de la mission :

Le PNUD s’engage à recruter un personnel divers en termes de genre, de nationalité et de culture. Nous encourageons de même les personnes issues des minorités ethniques, des communautés autochtones ou handicapées à postuler. Toutes les candidatures seront traitées dans la plus stricte confidentialité. Le PNUD ne tolère pas l’exploitation et / ou les atteintes sexuelles, ni aucune forme de harcèlement, y compris le harcèlement sexuel, et / ou toutes formes de discrimination. Tous/tes les candidats/tes selectectionnes /ées devront ainsi se soumettre à de rigoureuses vérifications relatives aux références fournies ainsi qu’à leurs antécédents.

Historique

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 center of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates the United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world.

In response to the war in Ukraine, the Women’s Peace, and Humanitarian Fund (WPHF) is rapidly mobilizing to support local women activists responding to the urgent challenges facing women and girls affected by the conflict in Ukraine and Moldova. WPHF is actively supporting local women’s organizations in both countries with urgent institutional and programmatic financing – enabling them to provide essential humanitarian assistance to women refugees and IDPs and protect women and girls affected by the conflict against sexual and gender-based violence.

The UN Women-managed Women, Peace, and Security Trust Fund (WPHF) has opened a specific country window for Ukraine and Moldova. This window will initially focus on supporting civil society organizations with response efforts to immediate humanitarian needs of women and girls and efforts focusing on GBV services and protection. The fund aims at delivering results in three areas: (i) Enhanced role of civil society organizations in advocating for and ensuring accountability on WPS commitments (institutional funding); (ii) Enhanced inclusive and gender responsive humanitarian/crisis planning, frameworks, and programming; and (iii) Enhanced safety, security and mental health of women and girls’ and their human rights respected.

The overall goal of the WPHF’s theory of change is to contribute to peaceful and gender equal societies. Achievement of this goal will require that women are empowered to participate in, contribute to, and benefit from conflict prevention, crisis response, peacebuilding, and recovery.

Devoirs et responsabilités

Scope of work

The UN Women within WPHF funding seeks to contract the financial consultant (hereinafter “the Consultant”) to provide financial support to the WPHF project team and to undertake the monitoring of the implementing partners financial reporting, in terms of budgets, installments and reported expenses, including assistance to the project team and implementing partners.

The incumbent is expected to assess the implementing partners financial reporting, in full compliance of UN Women financial rules and regulations, policies, administrative rules, as well as internal instructions.

Implementing partners will continue to be a key consideration in the projects implementation, and appropriate practices and tools should be used for effective financial monitoring of partners agreements and accurate verification of financial reports.

The objective is to establish a systematic and generalized financial practice, related to the partner agreements implementation, for internal and external use, in accordance with UN Women rules and policies.

The consultant will work under the collection and mapping of the challenges, solutions, and the best practices, in consultation with UN Women staff, implementing partners and internal supporting documents.

It is expected to map the conclusions in two handbooks, one for internal use by staff and one for external use by implementing partners, and their dissemination through capacity building sessions and trainings, for sustainability of the results to be achieved.

The consultant will work under the supervision of WPHF Programme Coordinator and in close collaboration with the projects teams, particularly with WPHF team for effective achievements of results.

More specifically, the consultant will be responsible for the following main tasks:

Provide assessment and improvement of the process related to the implementing partners financial reporting:

Assess the implementing partners financial reporting, in full compliance of UN Women financial rules and regulations, policies, administrative rules, as well as internal instructions, through conducted informative
sessions with CO projects teams, partners and relevant documents;
Identify the main common and specific financial challenges of the UN Women and partners, related to the
implementation of the activities and budgets under partner agreements;
Collect the lessons learned and the best practices of the implementing partners financial reporting, and provide solutions for the found challenges;
Monitor the implementing partners financial reporting, in terms of budgets, installments and reported expenses;
Consult and assist the project team in terms of financial submissions for clearance of advances from implementing partners, including transactions, activities and documentation;
Provide advice to implementing partners on financial management and reporting;
Follow-up on audit recommendations to ensure their mapping among challenges;
Compile the conclusions and recommendations in two handbooks, one for internal use by staff and one for external use by implementing partners;
Disseminate the handbooks through capacity building sessions and trainings for UN Women staff and partners, for sustainability of the results to be achieved.

Provide financial support in full compliance of UN Women rules and regulations:

Perform duties in full compliance with UN Women financial regulations and rules, policies and standard operating procedures, including internal controls;
Advise on alignment of UN Women procedures, donor requirements and procedures applied by partners;
Take corrective actions on financial transactions as needed and reporting any unusual activities;
Draft reports on financial status costs and expenditures; prepares budget forecasts and monitor implementation;
Prepare documents for audits and verifications. Follow-up on audit recommendations to monitor implementation of corrective actions;
Maintain accurate budget reporting in both UN Women and donor standard templates; coordinate with UN Women HQ preparation of the financial reporting;
Prepare other recurring reports as scheduled and special reports as required for budget/financial preparations and audit;
Respond to queries from the UN Women and donors with respect to financial aspects of the programme, liaise with UN Women-appointed and external auditors wherever required;
Proactively communicate to partners and project teams on incompliance to processes and procedures;
Contribute to financial business operational practices and management innovations;
Undertake other financial tasks as required.

Compétences

Core Values

Cultural Sensitivity and valuing Diversity
Integrity
Professionalism

Core Competencies

Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Human Rights based Approach and Gender Issues
Ethics and Values
Accountability
Self-management and emotional intelligence
Creative Problem Solving
Effective Communication and Information Sharing
Continuous Learning and Knowledge Sharing
Work in teams
Leading by Example

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Core Values and Competencies: https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UN-Women-values-and-competencies-framework-en.pdf

Qualifications et expériences requises

Education:

University degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration or other related field.
Specialized national or international certification in accounting and finance is an asset.

Experience:

At least 6 (six) years of progressively responsible experience in finance/accounting.
Experience in the advanced usage of office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web-based management systems;
Experience of working with civil society organizations;
Experience of working with international organizations is an asset.
Previous experience with EU-funded programmes is a strong asset.
Experience in the use of ATLAS, Quantum or other ERP systems is an asset.

Language requirements:

Proficiency in Engllish and Romanian is required;
Working knowledge of one or more additional languages relevant for Moldova, including Russian, Bulgarian, Gagauzian, Romani, Ukrainian or sign language would be an asset.

Application procedure:

Interested applicants should apply to this announcement through UNDP jobs site: jobs.undp.org.

Interested individual consultants must submit the following documents/information to demonstrate their qualifications in one single PDF document:

All applications must include (as an attachment) the completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from https://www.unwomen.org/sites/default/files/Headquarters/Attachments/Sections/About%20Us/Employment/UN-Women-P11-Personal-History-Form.doc);
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;
Letter of Intent to include a brief overview of the consultant’s previous experiences makes the candidate the most suitable candidate for the advertised position. It should reflect the above-mentioned required skills and experience.
Financial proposal – specifying a total lump sum amount for the task specified in Terms of References.
The Financial proposal shall include a breakdown of this lump sum amount (daily rate).
Please see ANNEX I and ANNEX II - https://sc.undp.md/unjobs/jobdetailsdraft/2871
Applications received after the close date will not be accepted;
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.

The United Nations in Moldova is committed to workforce diversity. Women, persons with disabilities, Roma and other ethnic or religious minorities, persons living with HIV, as well as refugees and other non-citizens legally entitled to work in the Republic of Moldova, are particularly encouraged to apply.