UN WOMEN CONSULTANT: ENTERPRISE RISK MANAGEMENT (ERM) SPECIALIST

Background

Organizational Context: On July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, to be commonly known as UN-Women. Building on the important work of promoting the rights of women by four previously distinct parts of the UN system, i.e., UNIFEM, DAW, OSAGI and INSTRAW, their operations were merged to be under a single UN Agency, i.e. UN-Women, mandated to be the UN Agency focused exclusively on gender equality and women’s empowerment.  UN-Women officially started its operation on 1 January 2011. In 2012 UN-Women initiated the implementation of its new Regional Architecture. This architecture consists, in summary, of: the establishment of six regional offices, six multi-country offices and forty-eight country offices; the evolution of UN Women’s previous Sub-Regional Offices into regional offices, multi-country offices or country offices; greater decentralization of authority to the field, including moving of mid and lower level oversight functions from Headquarters to Regional Offices; the transfer of some technical and operations functions from Headquarters to field; and corresponding changes in Headquarters to reflect changed roles. This transition and the development of increased capacity at the field offices are still on-going.  To support the global operations of UN-Women under this new architecture, the UN-Women Internal Control Framework, Delegation of Authority Framework and Legal Framework were all recently issued on the last quarter of 2012. The Business Continuity Framework for UN-Women is presently being developed. It is together with all these corporate-wide initiatives that a UN-Women Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Framework is envisioned to be likewise developed and integrated. To effectively embrace ERM as an important component of UN-Women strategic business model, the ERM approach and processes to be introduced to manage risks has to be simple / light, pragmatic, not cumbersome and can be intuitively embedded in UN-Women’s daily operational work. The Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Specialist Consultant will provide support towards the development and implementation of an Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) at UN-Women, under the guidance and supervision of the Audit Coordinator, National Implemented Project Audits. Main Deliverables:  Leveraging from the expertise and extensive work experience of the ERM Specialist Consultant on ERM development and implementation, after her/his thorough situational analysis of UN-Women, the ERM Specialist Consultant is expected to provide the following main deliverables for this project: A proposed work plan with timeline and identified deliverables to initiate and complete the development and implementation of this ERM Project for UN-Women which should include the training of UN-Women staff; A proposed overall Road-Map for UN-Women for an effective implementation of ERM with a buy-in from managers across UN-Women; A proposed ERM Framework for UN-Women.

Duties and Responsibilities

Summary of Duties and Responsibilities:  Gather risk information and map / align with strategic objectives and key business processes. Define UN-Women’s Risk Universe and Risk Categories. Deliverable: Inception report that defines and outlines the ERM Framework for UN-Women. This should include but not limited to the following: Coverage; Risk appetite or risk criteria; Governance and policies; Risk data and system infrastructure; Risk measurement and evaluation methodology; Risk monitoring and reporting Identified UN-Women Risk Universe, Risk Units and Risk Categories. Review draft UN-Women Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) Policy that contains UN-Women’s philosophy and principles for ERM: List of comments and proposed changes to the draft UN-Women ERM Policy or a re-drafted UN-Women ERM Policy. Design of an ERM approach and methodology applicable for UN-Women that may be embedded in existing business processes of UN-Women. Such approach and methodology must be compliant with ISO 31000 International Standard and/or Enterprise Risk Management – Integrated Framework, Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission whichever is best applicable to UN-Women. Deliverable: Structure of UN-Women ERM Governance; UN-Women ERM Implementation Methodology. Based on initial information gathered, draft a Risk and Control Catalogue considering inputs from UN-Women business process owners. Deliverable: Risk and Control Catalogue applicable to UN-Women. Design a management information system (MIS) that will support the proposed ERM approach and methodology for UN-Women, taking into consideration UN-Women resources and capacity. Deliverables: Propose MIS for UN-Women ERM:  Serve as a repository of the UN-Women Catalogue for Risks and Control; Capture the risk identified by each risk unit; Serve as the risk register for each risk unit; Serve as a repository of risk action plan for each risk unit. Prepare a plan to organize ERM training workshops for UN-Women. Proposed UN-Women ERM Implementation Strategic Training Plan; UN-Women ERM Implementation Training Outline; Training materials and deliver training to HQ and Country Offices. Perform other duties as required.

Competencies

Core Competencies: Excellent conceptual and analytical abilities, including the preparation of clear and concise reports; Capacity to efficiently and effectively analyze complex information and to abstract general conditions from specific information; Able to communicate effectively through speech and written work to present issues and ideas in a manner that leads to their acceptance and adoption; Excellent organizational skill, sound judgment and attention to detail; Strong sense of initiative and ability to prioritize and work independently; Capacity to contact and interact openly, honestly and professionally with individuals and in teams from a wide range of cultures; Ability to anticipate the needs of the project and to take proactive steps.

Required Skills and Experience

Education: Advanced university degree in one or more of the following disciplines: economics, social sciences, business or public administration/management, or other field related to international development. Experience: At least five years of proven international professional work experience in organizational planning and strategy, and risk management; Proven experience in Enterprise Risk Management development and implementation and organizational change management, particularly business process review . Language:  Fluency in written and spoken English. Note: In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment. All applications must include (as an attachment) the completed UN Women Personal History form (P-11) which can be downloaded from http://www.unwomen.org/about-us/employment. Kindly note that the system will only allow one attachment. Applications without the completed UN Women P-11 form will be treated as incomplete and will not be considered for further assessment.

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