Deputy Country Representative

The Deputy Country Representative is responsible for the day-to-day management of the UN Women Country Office in South Africa, contributing to the design, implementation, management and oversight of the country programme and supporting operations to ensure effective delivery of results aligned with UN Women’s Strategic Plan and the Country Office plans.

Responsibilities

• Manage the day-to-day work of the programme teams, including finalizing the team’s annual workplan.
• Manage the process of programme conceptualization, planning, implementing and monitoring; and the management of material and financial resources.
• Lead the process of preparing programme implementation progress reports and identifying areas for UN Women Country Representative’s action and/or decision.
• Technically support the development of the Office security strategy and plan, as required.
• Advise and guide the Country Representative on strategic areas.
• Provide specialized technical and strategic support in managing all aspects of the programme design and related activities and for ensuring compliance and accountability in programme monitoring, reporting and evaluation.
• Develop policy documents, briefs and other strategic papers/materials for use in the development and presentation of innovative and coherent policy and programmatic positions.
• Serve as a senior member of the management team.
• Represent UN Women in the United Nations Country Team (UNCT) to collaborate with the Resident Coordinator and UN system on interagency coherence, collaboration, cooperation, resource mobilization, advocacy, common services, and operations.
• Ensure UN Women’s participation in UN system thematic and other working groups to advance UN Women’s mandate.
• Provide substantive research and inputs in the formulation and implementation of the country resource mobilization strategy.
• Establish and maintain relations with government, partners, stakeholders and donors to achieve active collaboration, cooperation and alliances on programme development and implementation and resource mobilization.
• Represent and advocate for UN Women in organizational, regional, global, public information/ relations events and key meetings, as delegated.
• Develop and implement advocacy and public communication strategies.
• Manage the process of collecting and sharing lessons learned on gender equality and women’s empowerment to build knowledge and capacity of partners and stakeholders.
• Oversee the design and implementation of capacity building training activities to enhance skills and knowledge.
• Manage the performance of personnel under supervision; provide managerial direction, guidance and leadership to staff and provide performance feedback and coaching to personnel supervision, ensure performance assessment are implemented on time and ensure personnel are fully aware of UN Women workplace relations policies.
• Create an enabling work environment.
• Identify learning and development opportunities.
• Perform other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organisation.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in international development, public administration, public policy or other relevant social science fields is required.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• A project/programme management certification (such as PMP®, PRINCE2®, or MSP®) would be an added advantage.
• At least 7 years of progressively responsible professional experience that combines strategic and managerial leadership in development programmes with a strong focus in the area of gender equality and women’s empowerment at the international level, preferably in developing countries within the UN system, Agencies, Funds or Programmes is required.
• Field based experience working with multi-cultural teams is required.
• Experience leading and coaching staff in international settings is required.
• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web-based management systems is required.
• Experience in the use of a modern web-based ERP System, preferably Oracle Cloud, is desirable.
• Fluency in English is required.
• Knowledge of another official UN language is desirable (French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish).

Skills

• Project Management
• Programme Management
• Gender Equality
• Women’s Empowerment
• Strategic Leadership
• Managerial Leadership
• International Development
• Field Experience
• Multicultural Team Leadership
• Team Coaching
• Office Applications
• Spreadsheet Management
• Database Management
• Web-based Management Systems
• ERP Systems
• Oracle Cloud

Languages

English