Business Function Specialist, IPSA-, Homebased

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.

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) of UN Women is to integrate corporate strategy, resources and performance measurement to improve decision-making to manage for results while increasing transparency and accountability to its governing bodies and stakeholders.

The Division formulates corporate strategies aligned to the corporate objectives, ensures internal controls and risk management are fully in place, and that resources from all sources to budget plans and the organization priorities.

The Strategic Planning Unit (SPU) in SPRED is the custodian of Results-Based Management (RBM) and leads and manages the implementation of the Planning, Monitoring and Reporting (PMR) Policy and associated procedures associated with the Strategic Plan, Strategic Notes, and Work Plans. As the business owner of strategic planning and results management workstream, together with the Programme Support Management Unit (PSMU) and the Information Systems and Telecommunications (IST), SPU co‑leads the development and enhancement of UN Women’s corporate online platform, the Planning, Reporting and Information System for Management (PRISM), ensuring it remains fit‑for‑purpose for planning, monitoring, reporting, dashboards, and data visualization.

After the planning modules of Strategic Plan, Strategic Notes and workplans were rolled out during the 4th quarter of 2025, followed by the roll‑out of monitoring functionalities in mid‑2026, the remaining reporting functionalities as well as search and dashboards functions will be developed and implemented in late 2026 to early 2027. These functions are crucial to allow all Country Offices, Regional Offices and HQ Divisions/Independent Offices to start using PRISM to monitor and report on the implementation of their respective Strategic Notes and Workplans from 2026 under the UN Women Strategic Plan 2026‑2029.

The priorities in 2027 will be further enhancement of PRISM in key functionalities based on the updated version of the PMR Policy and associated procedures in order to simplify workflows, improve the user experiences and data quality.

SPU also contributes to broader corporate system integration in close collaboration with other business owners, IST, and end‑users, under the overall guidance of UN Women's Digital Board. Strengthening the integration of PRISM into other corporate systems (including Quantum) is a crucial element of UN Women's corporate transparency agenda, as PRISM provides the main source of data for the UN Women Transparency Portal, showcasing results and financial data against Strategic Notes and the Strategic Plan.

Under the guidance and direct supervision of the chief of the Strategic Planning Unit, the Business Function Specialist will manage planned PRISM enhancements in 2027 by working closely with colleagues from SPU, PSMU, IST, other Business Owners and various colleagues from HQ, Regional and Country Offices in order to ensure the joint ownership of PRISM enhancement work.

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