Chief, Corporate Performance and Accountability Unit (CPAU), Bonn, Germany, P5 FTA

Job Description

Background: 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.

The Strategy, Planning, Results, and Effectiveness Division (SPRED) leads the integrated management of UN Women’s corporate strategy. Within SPRED, the Corporate Performance and Accountability Unit (CPAU) brings together key second line functions—risk management, internal audit follow‑up, internal policy management, organizational performance, and business transformation—into one integrated team. The Chief, CPAU is responsible for providing integrated leadership of these functions and for driving the implementation of the Organizational Effectiveness and Efficiency (OEE) component of the UN Women Strategic Plan.

• Lead the implementation of the OEE component of the UN Women Strategic Plan and provide strategic direction for the development and implementation of the Entity’s OEE strategy.
• Provide strategic leadership for corporate performance management, ensuring alignment between strategic planning, organizational performance monitoring, risk management, accountability mechanisms, and corporate priorities.
• Lead the Quarterly Business Review (Q ) process and annual OEE reporting, strengthening management oversight, organizational learning and evidence‑based decision making.
• Promote organizational approaches that strengthen institutional effectiveness, management practices, and cross‑functional collaboration across headquarters, regional and country offices.
• Provide strategic advice to senior management, regional offices and country offices on matters related to corporate performance, accountability, enterprise risk management, internal governance, and organizational effectiveness.

• Coordinate and strengthen the integration of key second‑line functions across the organization.
• Oversee corporate follow‑up to internal audit recommendations and other oversight findings.
• Support the incorporation of findings from audits, oversight bodies and assurance mechanisms into corporate performance management, strategic planning, and organizational decision‑making.
• Oversee the corporate governance of UN Women’s global network of presences, including the review of office typologies, functional reviews, and organizational structures.
• Foster a culture of accountability, transparency and continuous improvement by strengthening governance frameworks, management practices, and institutional learning.

• Provide strategic direction and oversight for the further integration of enterprise risk management.
• Guide and support the continued strengthening of UN Women’s enterprise risk management function.
• Promote the systematic use of corporate risk information to inform strategic planning, the Q , resource allocation and other senior management decision‑making processes.
• Advise senior management on emerging strategic and organizational risks and their implications for corporate performance, governance, and organizational effectiveness.

• Lead strategic initiatives that strengthen organizational effectiveness, management innovation and corporate performance.
• Provide strategic advice on organizational design, internal governance arrangements, business processes and institutional effectiveness.
• Provide demand‑driven support to offices and divisions in conducting functional analyses and designing and implementing restructuring and organizational change processes.
• Promote innovative approaches, business analytics and organizational learning to strengthen corporate performance and support continuous improvement.

• Provide quality assurance on relevant management…