UN Women: Management Specialist to Chief Finance Officer P4 FTA

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. Placing women’s rights at the center 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.

The Division of Finance and Administration (DFA) is responsible for the planning, allocation and management of financial and administrative resources including information communications and technology, procurement and travel, security and safety, facility and general operational management. The DFA is responsible for the effective and efficient delivery of essential operations services in UN Women, continuous development and improvement in operations, policies, procedures and guidance to align with UN Women and stakeholders' evolving business needs, and technical and advisory support to the Executive Director in the formulation and implementation of the UN Women overall mission.

Under the supervision of the Chief Finance Officer (CFO) and Director Finance and Administration, and working closely with the Division’s leadership, the Management Specialist to the CFO provides senior-level coordination, advisory and executive decision-support to enable the effective functioning of the CFO Office, and effective implementation of key decisions. The incumbent helps ensure that priorities, processes, submissions, decisions and follow-up actions move efficiently across DFA and with corporate counterparts and within and outside the organization;

identifies bottlenecks and dependencies; escalates issues requiring CFO attention; and supports the CFO in advancing financial, administrative, and operational priorities, governance commitments and cross-organizational initiatives that require timely coordination and executive judgment.

• Lead the CFO’s support team, and manage and coordinate the planning, implementation, monitoring and reporting on CFO Office’s priorities and workplans.
• Coordinate the CFO Office’s executive workflow by helping prioritize incoming requests, submissions, decisions and follow-up actions requiring CFO attention.
• Identify bottlenecks, delays, dependencies or unclear accountabilities in high-priority processes, and recommend timely action to keep matters moving.
• Assess incoming matters for strategic significance, urgency, reputational sensitivity and institutional impact, and advise on sequencing and escalation.
• Support the CFO in preparing for senior-level discussions by framing key issues, decision points, risks, stakeholder positions and actions needed to unblock progress.
• Translate follow-up from high-level engagements into clear direction, next steps and ownership for DFA leadership and relevant corporate counterparts.

• Coordinate development of high-quality strategic briefs, policy notes, speeches, talking points and decision papers for the CFO’s engagement with senior management, governing bodies, oversight actors and United Nations system counterparts.
• Provide coordination-oriented analysis that clearly identifies required decisions, responsible offices, timelines, risks, dependencies and escalation points.
• Anticipate emerging institutional, financial, administrative and operational issues that may delay…