Deadline: 22 February 2016
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is currently seeking applications from the eligible applicants for the post of Chief of Operations in Beijing, China.
The Chief of Operations will be responsible to provide leadership and guidance in operations to a gender-balanced, multidisciplinary team of professionals to identify and correct gender balances.
UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS.
Key Jobs Responsibilities
The Chief of Operations will perform the following functions-
- Manage and ensures the effective, equitable and efficient operations of the office’s finance, human resource and administrative systems to support and facilitate the attainment of programmatic goals and objectives by meeting changing operational requirements.
- Ensure effective operations that promote gender sensitivity and gender parity. Advises management and assists in establishing new offices.
- As technical professional and senior manager, provides accurate and social policy interpretation and organizational policies and procedures in the management of finance and administrative functions through the provision of technical leadership and operational guidance to the country office.
- Contribute to global and regional strategic planning and policy changes/formulation on operational matters as necessary.
- Provide technical input to contribute to the establishment of operational guidelines in close coordination with the head of office, the Regional Operations Officer and DFAM.
- Accountable for fiduciary integrity/responsibility for funds and assets taking decision on all operational and financial transactions, disbursement of funds, and administrative arrangements.
- Ensure efficient, cost-effective and transparent utilization of resources through knowledge and technology transfer between offices and consistency of approaches.
- Negotiate cost effective contractual arrangements with service providers as well as with implementing partners as required.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicants must have-
- An advanced university degree (Master’s) in Accounting, Audit, Business Administration, Financial Management, Economics, or a directly-related technical field(s) is required.
- A valid professional certification (CA; CPA; etc.) from an accredited chartered accountancy institution, in conjunction with a relevant first-level (Bachelor’s) university degree in a directly-related technical field (as identified above), may be taken in lieu of an advanced university degree.
- A minimum of eight (8) years of relevant experience, at the national and international levels in office management, finance, budget, accounting, ICT, human resources, supply and/or administration is required.
- Prior hands-on experience in Private Sector Fund Raising (PSFR) is considered an asset.
- Prior experience in a supervisory/managerial capacity is required.
- Previous work experience in an emergency duty is considered an asset.
- Fluency in English (verbal and written) is required.
- Knowledge of an additional UN Language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, and Spanish) is considered an asset.
How to Apply
Applicants must submit their applications through online process.
For more information, please visit UNICEF.
