UNOPS

The Asia Pacific Regional Office, based in Bangkok, Thailand, provides strategic leadership and oversight for UNOPS operations across 17 countries, ensuring high performance, operational excellence, and alignment with organizational goals. Operations currently span Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Myanmar, Nepal, Papua New Guinea, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, and the Pacific Islands. Across these countries, we work closely with key stakeholders to strengthen partnerships and maximize impact through five main operating units: Afghanistan (AFCO), Myanmar (MMCO), South Asia Multi-Country Office (SAMCO), East Asia and Pacific Multi-Country Office (EAPMCO), and the Asia Regional Health Cluster (ARHC). Through these entities, we provide agile, client-focused service delivery across diverse sectors - including infrastructure, health, procurement, and project management - supporting the implementation of sustainable development solutions across the region.

Based in Bangkok, the Asia Pacific Regional Office (APR) supports UNOPS’ offices throughout the region, providing programme, project, partnerships, management and oversight support, and managing human resources. The Asia Pacific Regional Office helps ensure that programmes and projects are executed to the highest standards, providing a shared knowledge base and ensuring that best practices and lessons learned are disseminated between projects across the entire region. 

The Management and Oversight Senior Advisor reports to the Regional Director (RD) who provides broad supervision and guidance. The role is responsible for providing strategic advice to the Regional Director, with particular focus on business performance, portfolio analysis and corporate results reporting.

The role acts as Officer in Charge in the case of absence of the RD. 

The role is responsible for, amongst others: 

● Providing strategic advice to the RD, with particular focus on financial stewardship, operational excellence, effective and productive workforce management and delivery of results across the region; 

● Providing advice to the RD related to regional performance improvement and knowledge sharing across the region; 

● Coordinating and monitoring of implementation progress for the strategic corporate initiatives across the region; 

● Supporting the RD to monitor and update the regional business plan; 

● Leading the regional operations management group and 

● Coordinating improvement and knowledge sharing initiatives and overseeing their implementation.

Required:

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in Business Administration, Finance, Political Science, International Relations, International Development, Social Sciences or a related discipline with 12 years of relevant experience OR 

• Master’s degree (or equivalent) in the above mentioned fields with 10  years of relevant experience is required.

Required:

• Relevant experience is work in management and advisory/coordination roles

• A minimum of 3 years experience working in project and programme management, international development, postdisaster and/or emergency contexts is required. 

• Field work experience is required. 

Desired:

• Proven ability to collaborate with and oversee diverse and senior teams

• Experience in an international organization is an asset. 

• Demonstrated experience in strategic planning and change management is desirable. 

• Demonstrated understanding of development issues and current donor and sectoral trends is an asset.

•  Prior work experience in Asia is desirable. 

• Strategic planning experience is an asset

• Chartered Accountant (CA) or Certified Public Accountant (CPA) or equivalent is desirable. 

• PRINCE2® Foundation and/or Practitioner Certification or equivalent is desirable

• Please note that UNOPS does not accept unsolicited resumes. 
• Please note that UNOPS will at no stage of the recruitment process request candidates to make payments of any kind.
• Applications to vacancies must be received before midnight Copenhagen time (CET) on the closing date of the announcement. Applications received after the closing date will not be considered. 
• Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process, which involves various assessments. 
• UNOPS embraces diversity and is committed to equal employment opportunity. Our workforce consists of many diverse nationalities, cultures, languages, races, gender identities, sexual orientations, and abilities. UNOPS seeks to sustain and strengthen this diversity to ensure equal opportunities as well as an inclusive working environment for its entire workforce. 
• Qualified women and candidates from groups which are underrepresented in the UNOPS workforce are encouraged to apply. These include in particular candidates from racialized and/or indigenous groups, members of minority gender identities and sexual orientations, and people with disabilities. 
• We would like to ensure all candidates perform at their best during the assessment process. If you are shortlisted and require additional assistance to complete any assessment, including reasonable accommodation, please inform our human resources team when you receive an invitation.

• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post. 
• For retainer contracts, you must complete a few mandatory courses (they take around 4 hours to complete) in your own time, before providing services to UNOPS. Refreshers or new mandatory courses may be required during your contract. Please note that you will not receive any compensation for taking courses and refreshers. For more information on a retainer contract here. 
• For more details about the contract types, please click here.
• All UNOPS personnel are responsible for performing their duties in accordance with the UN Charter and UNOPS Policies and Instructions, as well as other relevant accountability frameworks. In addition, all personnel must demonstrate an understanding of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a manner consistent with UN core values and the UN Common Agenda. 
• It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential personnel. Recruitment in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.