Saturday, December 15, 2012

Required Operations Manager - UNDP in Kuwait

Education:
Advanced university degree (Master’s Degree or equivalent)  in Business Administration, Public Administration, Finance, Economics or related field. A first-level university degree in combination with qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Experience:
5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in providing management advisory services and/or managing staff and operational systems and establishing inter-relationships among international organization and national governments. Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages, experience in handling of web based management systems.

Language Requirements:
Fluency in the UN and national language of the duty station.

Corporate Competencies:
    Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards
    Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP
    Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability
    Treats all people fairly without favoritism

Functional Competencies:
Knowledge Management and Learning

    Promotes knowledge management in UNDP and a learning environment in the office through leadership and personal example
    Actively works towards continuing personal learning and development in one or more Practice Areas, acts on learning plan and applies newly acquired skills

Development and Operational Effectiveness
    Ability to lead strategic planning, results-based management and reporting
    Ability to lead formulation and monitoring of management projects
    Solid knowledge in financial resources and human resources management, contract, asset and procurement, information and communication technology, general administration
    Ability to lead business processes re-engineering, implementation of new systems (business side), and affect staff behavioral/ attitudinal change

Management and Leadership
    Builds strong relationships with clients, focuses on impact and result for the client and responds positively to feedback
    Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude
    Demonstrates good oral and written communication skills
    Demonstrates openness to change and ability to manage complexities
    Leads teams effectively and shows mentoring as well as conflict resolution skills
    Demonstrates strong oral and written communication skills

Summary of Key Functions:
    Ensuring strategic direction of operations
    Financial resources management and supervision of the Finance team
    Human Resources Management and supervision of the HR team
    Efficient procurement and logistical services and supervision of the Procurement team
    Information and communication management and supervision of ICT team
    Common services organization and management, establishment of partnerships with other UN Agencies

Application Deadline :    26-Dec-12

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