Overview
Lead UNOPS’ global infrastructure and project management function, setting strategy, standards, and partnerships that deliver complex, high-impact infrastructure and development programmes around the world.
Key Responsibilities
- Serve as a senior organizational leader contributing to UNOPS’ corporate strategy, advising on emerging global trends, risks and opportunities in infrastructure and project management.
- Lead the development, implementation and continuous evolution of global standards, policies, governance structures, and risk frameworks that define UNOPS’ infrastructure and project management practice.
- Drive leadership development and talent pipelines, ensuring the cultivation of the next generation of infrastructure and project management leaders.
- Build and sustain strategic partnerships, networks and coalitions that bring expertise, visibility and resources to UNOPS’ mandate.
- Lead the development of UNOPS’ knowledge agenda for infrastructure and project management, ensuring the organization remains at the forefront of global best practice and technological innovation.
Required Experience
- Relevant experience is work in strategic and managerial leadership of project management in large international organizations or corporations.
- Demonstrated executive leadership and accountability for successfully designing, influencing and delivering multi-million dollar, multi-year portfolios of infrastructure and/or technical projects in complex, cross-regional or global settings.
- Proven senior-level experience overseeing large-scale operations and strategic technical delivery in fragile, conflict-affected, or high-risk development/humanitarian environments.
- Demonstrated senior-level capacity to exercise thought leadership and influence the strategic design, development and execution of major multi-million dollar programmes and projects by establishing, advocating for, and securing adoption of global technical standards and policy frameworks across inter-agency or sector-wide platforms.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in any discipline with 12 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree (or equivalent) in any discipline with 10 years of relevant experience is required.
- Project management certification (e.g. PRINCE2, PMI, PEng, AIPM, MSP, CEng, etc) is desired.
