- Country: Tehran, Iran
- No of vacancies: N/A
- Salary: N/A
- Organization: UNICEF
- Gender: Both
- Deadline: 2024-01-14
For every child, A Champion
Title: International Consultant for Business Operations Strategy (BOS) to support the BOS 2.0 agenda, notably to carry out the 2023 BOS reporting and 2024 Planning and dynamize the cost-efficiency agenda in the UNCT Iran.
BACKGROUND
A core element of implementation of the UN General Assembly resolutions in relation to the repositioned UN development system is the Secretary-General’s efficiency agenda. The agenda aims to achieve improvements in the coherence, efficiency, and cost-effectiveness of the UN development system with a focus on both the Headquarters and country level. On this basis, the Business Operation Strategy (BOS) as one of the strategic elements is a joint, common approach for a select range of operational support services to harmonize and/or provide jointly services as a group of agencies, rather than providing these services as individual agencies to improve programme and business operations at country level.
The BOS facilitates strategic planning, management, and monitoring by eliminating duplicate processes in business operations, utilizing UN joint purchasing opportunities, and enhancing the quality of services to achieve effectively as well as sustainable results through the following six possible joint service lines:
1) common procurement services;
2) common information and communication technology (ICT) services;
3) common human resources (HR) services;
4) common logistics services;
5) common finance services, and;
6) common facility services including common premises as an important component of the UN
Reform Programme to build closer ties among United Nations staff and promote a more unified presence at the country level in a cost-effective manner.
In the Islamic Republic of Iran, the United Nations is represented by 20 resident and non-resident entities that carry out their respective activities. The UN Country Team (UNCT) is made up of representatives of the agencies, funds and specialized programmes. As the head of the country team (UNCT), the UN Resident Coordinator (RC) guides and supports the work of the UNCT, ensuring effective coordination and cooperation within the mandates of each UN entity.
The UN Resident Coordinator’s Office (RCO) is the main support structure for the activities of the RC and the UNCT, to help strengthen the joint activities of the United Nations system in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Its mission is to maximize, in a coordinated manner, the work of the United Nations to ensure that the system provides a collective, coherent and integrated assistance to national priorities and needs, within the framework of the Global Goals and other international commitments.
Against this backdrop, the Operations Management Team provides leadership on the implementation of a coordinated, efficient, and effective common operational support agenda at the country level. As an accountable entity to the UNCT, the OMT is responsible for identification, assessment, prioritization and planning for common operations in support of programme delivery. Since 2020, the OMT worked to develop the Business Operations Strategy 2.0, which the UNCT endorsed annually.
This position will support the RCO and the OMT in implementing the critical work areas.
Under the leadership of the OMT, the Business Operations Strategy (BOS). BOS is a mandatory framework that focuses on joint business operations with the purpose of business process harmonization for improved delivery efficiency and reduced transaction cost. It allows UNCTs to take a strategic and results-oriented approach to planning, management and implementation of harmonized business operations at a country level aligning operational activities to programme activities as outlined within the United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF).
How can you make a difference?
OBJECTIVE / SCOPE OF WORK
The key objectives for this consultancy are:
1. Review the 2023 common services implementation status
2. Ensure the completion of Quality Analysis (QA) and CBA
3. Prepare end year report
4. Organize planning meetings with 6 WGs and prepare 2024 planning activities, and contribute to boost cost-efficiency and further harmonise shared services.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Qualification #1- A master’s degree with 5 years’ work experience in Operations, finance, Human Resources, Procurement.
(A bachelor’s degree with 8 years of experience in lieu of advanced university degree. This can be combined with other relevant academic qualifications and experience).
Qualification #2 – Minimum 3 years of experience in the implementation of BOS to provide the guidance required to the Operations Management Team (OMT)
Fluency in English is required
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