Chief, Operations and Resource Management

Directs UNVMC’s cross-cutting mission-support operations, aligning human resources, finance, technology, training, logistics and regional administration with mandate priorities while overseeing planning, forecasting, performance, risk, service quality and resource allocation across the mission.

Department: Operational Resource Management Section

• Direct human resources, financial performance, field technology, training and mission-support functions
• Set strategic direction and coordinate workplans across operational resource units
• Forecast staffing, financial, logistics and technology requirements
• Align mission planning and resource allocation with United Nations headquarters guidance
• Oversee technology services, information security and incident-response planning
• Coordinate logistics support and regional administrative operations
• Lead business-continuity, service-improvement and other special projects
• Monitor performance, risk and resource use across mission-support services

• Advanced university degree in business or public administration, management, human resources management, finance, accounting, information technology or a related field, or a first university degree with two additional years of qualifying experience
• At least ten years of progressively responsible and diversified experience in public or business administration, human resources, finance, accounting, information technology or a related area
• Fluency at UN Level III in reading, writing, listening and speaking in English and Spanish

• Initial one-year fixed-term appointment, subject to post and funding availability