Requirements

Education (Required)

• A master's degree or equivalent in development studies, economics, public policy or another social science field.

• A first university degree plus two extra years of qualifying experience may be accepted instead of a master's.

Experience (Required)

• At least 10 years of growing responsibility in humanitarian and development work, with strategic and management leadership at the international level.

• Experience in gender and women's rights programming in humanitarian and conflict settings at the international level.

• Field experience working with teams from many cultures.

• Experience leading and coaching staff in international settings.

• Experience using risk management frameworks, internal controls or enterprise risk management in development or UN work.

• Experience managing programme, financial, reputational and safeguarding risks.

• Experience with computers, office software, spreadsheets, databases and web-based management systems.

Language (Required)

• Fluency in English.

Preferred (Desirable)

• Working knowledge of Arabic.

• Knowledge of another official UN language (French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish).

• UN system experience, preferably in developing countries.

• Experience responding to audit findings and improving controls.

• Experience with a modern web-based ERP system, preferably Oracle Cloud.

• A project or programme management certificate such as PMP, PRINCE2 or MSP.