Background Information – UNOPS
The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the implementation of its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our mission is to help people build better lives and countries to achieve sustainable development.
UNOPS areas of expertise cover infrastructure, procurement, project management, financial management and human resources.
UNOPS has operated as a self-financing entity within the UN system since 1994. Throughout this time, UNOPS has successfully delivered services to other UN entities as well as a variety of partners. UNOPS has, over the years, undertaken the delivery of increasingly complex engagements such as project implementation services for large physical infrastructure projects, multifaceted public health projects, and highly complex procurement assignments.
UNOPS is navigating a period of transformational change internally across all areas of the organization. Together with the steadily increasing size of UNOPS portfolio, UNOPS leadership structures, management practices, oversight mechanisms, as well as UNOPS ability to collaborate and manage knowledge, are being reshaped and improved through this process.
Working with us
UNOPS offers short- and long-term work opportunities in diverse and challenging environments across the globe. We are looking for creative, results-focused professionals with skills in a range of disciplines.
Diversity
With over 4,000 UNOPS personnel and approximately 7,000 personnel recruited on behalf of UNOPS partners spread across 80 countries, our workforce represents a wide range of nationalities and cultures. We promote a balanced, diverse workforce — a strength that helps us better understand and address our partners’ needs, and continually strive to improve our gender balance through initiatives and policies that encourage recruitment of qualified female candidates.
Work life harmonization
UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands.
Process Innovation and Digitalisation Programme (PID)
UNOPS is embarking on a Process Innovation and Digitalisation journey. The Programme aims to ensure UNOPS delivers the highest quality projects - sustainably, on time, and within budget - for partners and beneficiaries.
The Programme is expected to last four years. It will enhance UNOPS’ operational efficiency, effectiveness, and agility, overhauling processes and leveraging digital technologies and solutions. It will improve UNOPS’ collection and use of data, capacity for foresight, capacity for planning, knowledge management, and reporting.
A programme team is being established to provide business driven leadership for and support to UNOPS process innovation and digitalisation. Each UNOPS functional unit (Procurement, Human Resources, Finance, Project Management and Infrastructure, Partnerships, and Legal), will be represented by a Business Process and Change Manager (BPCM) and a Process Redesign Specialist that will act as representatives of the functional entity within which they are embedded.
In the Project Management and Infrastructure Unit (IPMG), UNOPS is seeking a highly skilled and experienced
Project-process redesign specialist who, under the guidance of and reporting to the Business Process and Change Manager (IPMG), can support UNOPS with the implementation of this ambitious programme. This role has a secondary reporting line to the Director of the Process Innovation and Digitalization Programme.
Role of the Project-Process Redesign Specialist
This role necessitates a strong understanding of process mapping methodologies, a consultative approach to process re-engineering, and proficiency in leveraging digital technologies.
The key functions of the role include: