This place is situated within the Inter-organizational and Inter-institutional Help Department (IISB), Workplace for Intergovernmental Help and Coordination for Sustainable Growth (OISC), Division of Financial and Social Affairs (DESA). The incumbent experiences to the Chief of the Department. Extra data will be discovered on our web site:https://www.un.org/ecosoc/en.Tasks
Inside delegated authority, the Senior Financial Affairs Officer shall be chargeable for the next duties:
ECONOMIC OR SECTORAL ANALYSIS:
Leads or participates within the formulation, group and administration of mandated programmes of financial evaluation and the formulation of potential financial methods, insurance policies and actions for adoption by the worldwide group, together with in relation to the interlinkages between peace and growth.
Leads or participates within the identification of recent or rising growth problems with potential concern to the worldwide group, significantly these of a regional or world nature, and brings them to the eye of the Financial and Social Council.
Displays the implementation of institutional mandates emanating from the Financial and Social Council and the Basic Meeting and evolution of the UN method to peace and growth, together with gender concerns.
Commissions quite a lot of research and analyses that can’t be undertaken internally in relation to peace and growth.
Conceives, plans and manages knowledgeable group conferences, seminars and comparable consultations that contribute to the finalization of the work unit’s outputs.
Finalizes experiences on growth for issuance by the United Nations.
Prepares speeches and speaking factors for senior workers UN Officers and the ECOSOC Bureau and makes displays on financial points for specialist or non-specialist audiences.
INTERGOVERNMENTAL SUPPORT:
• Gives direct substantive help on growth points, together with peace and growth, to intergovernmental our bodies (such because the Basic Meeting, the Financial and Social Council, in addition to the excessive degree political discussion board for sustainable growth (HLPF) by providing strategic recommendation, giving technical steerage and
aiding in creating a consensus.
• Manages the work unit’s contribution to the preparation and administration of conferences of intergovernmental our bodies, together with ECOSOC’s Advert Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti.
• Represents the organizational unit at worldwide, regional and nationwide conferences on peace and growth points.
PROGRAMME SUPPORT:
Contributes to the formulation of the medium-term plan, the programme of labor and the funds of the unit and take part within the formulation of the group’s total programme of labor and different comparable endeavours.
Attends to numerous administrative issues in regards to the Department and Workplace.
Performs different associated duties as required.
Competencies
PROFESSIONALISM: Potential to use financial theories and ideas in numerous sectors of financial and sustainable growth. Potential to conduct unbiased analysis on financial subjects, decide suitability, validity and accuracy of information supplied by totally different sources. Potential to develop financial insurance policies and make suggestions on their implementation. Exhibits pleasure in work and in achievements; demonstrates skilled competence and mastery of material; is conscientious and environment friendly in assembly commitments, observing deadlines and reaching outcomes; is motivated by skilled somewhat than private considerations; exhibits persistence when confronted with troublesome issues or challenges; stays calm in anxious conditions.
PLANNING AND ORGANIZING: Develops clear targets which are in step with agreed methods; identifies precedence actions and assignments; adjusts priorities as required; allocates applicable period of time and assets for finishing work; foresees dangers and permits for contingencies when planning; displays and adjusts plans and actions as vital; makes use of time effectively.
ACCOUNTABILITY: Takes possession of all duties and honours commitments; delivers outputs for which one has accountability inside prescribed time, price and high quality requirements; operates in compliance with organizational laws and guidelines; helps subordinates, offers oversight and takes accountability for delegated assignments; takes private accountability for his/her personal shortcomings and people of the work unit, the place relevant.
VISION: Identifies strategic points, alternatives and dangers; clearly communicates hyperlinks between the Group’s technique and the work unit’s targets; generates and communicates broad and compelling organizational path, inspiring others to pursue that very same path; conveys enthusiasm about future potentialities.
JUDGEMENT/DECISION-MAKING: Identifies the important thing points in a posh state of affairs, and involves the center of the issue shortly; gathers related data earlier than making a choice; considers optimistic and adverse impacts of selections prior to creating them; takes choices with an eye fixed to the affect on others and on the Group; proposes a plan of action or makes a advice based mostly on all accessible data; checks assumptions towards information; determines the actions proposed will fulfill the expressed and underlying wants for the choice; makes robust choices when vital.
Superior college diploma (Grasp’s diploma or equal) in economics or associated area is required. A primary-level college diploma together with two extra years of qualifying work expertise could also be accepted, in lieu of the superior college diploma.Work Expertise
A minimal of ten years of progressively accountable expertise in financial analysis and evaluation, coverage formulation, software of financial rules in sustainable growth programmes or associated space is required.
Expertise in evaluation of the interlinkages between peace and growth is fascinating.
Expertise in servicing UN intergovernmental our bodies within the space of sustainable growth is fascinating.
Expertise in working with Everlasting Representatives and Ambassadors, in addition to, with UN entities is fascinating.
Languages
English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the place marketed, fluency in oral and written English is required; and data of the opposite is fascinating. Information of one other UN official language is a bonus.Evaluation
Analysis of certified candidates might embrace an evaluation train which can be adopted by competency-based interview.Particular Discover
The United Nations Secretariat is dedicated to reaching 50/50 gender stability and geographical variety in its workers. Feminine candidates are strongly inspired to use for this place.
Employees members of the United Nations Secretariat should fulfil the lateral transfer necessities to be eligible to use for this emptiness. Employees members are requested to point all qualifying lateral strikes of their Private Historical past Profile (PHP) and canopy letter.
For this place, candidates from the next Member States, that are unrepresented or underrepresented within the UN Secretariat as of 31 July 2022, are strongly inspired to use: Afghanistan, Andorra, Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahrain, Belize, Brunei Darussalam, Cabo Verde, Central African Republic, China, Comoros, Cuba, Cyprus, Democratic Individuals’s Republic of Korea, Djibouti, Dominica, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Grenada, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Israel, Japan, Kiribati, Kuwait, Lao Individuals’s Democratic Republic, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya, Liechtenstein, Malta, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Monaco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nauru, Norway, Oman, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Samoa, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Saudi Arabia, Solomon Islands, South Sudan, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, United Arab Emirates, United States of America, Vanuatu.United Nations Issues
In accordance with article 101, paragraph 3, of the Constitution of the United Nations, the paramount consideration within the employment of the workers is the need of securing the best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity. Candidates won’t be thought of for employment with the United Nations if they’ve dedicated violations of worldwide human rights legislation, violations of worldwide humanitarian legislation, sexual exploitation, sexual abuse, or sexual harassment, or if there are cheap grounds to imagine that they’ve been concerned within the fee of any of those acts. The time period “sexual exploitation” means any precise or tried abuse of a place of vulnerability, differential energy, or belief, for sexual functions, together with, however not restricted to, profiting monetarily, socially or politically from the sexual exploitation of one other. The time period “sexual abuse” means the precise or threatened bodily intrusion of a sexual nature, whether or not by pressure or below unequal or coercive situations. The time period “sexual harassment” means any unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature which may moderately be anticipated or be perceived to trigger offence or humiliation, when such conduct interferes with work, is made a situation of employment or creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive work setting, and when the gravity of the conduct warrants the termination of the perpetrator’s working relationship. Candidates who’ve dedicated crimes apart from minor site visitors offences is probably not thought of for employment.
Due regard shall be paid to the significance of recruiting the workers on as extensive a geographical foundation as potential. The United Nations locations no restrictions on the eligibility of women and men to take part in any capability and below situations of equality in its principal and subsidiary organs. The United Nations Secretariat is a non-smoking setting.
The paramount consideration within the appointment, switch, or promotion of workers shall be the need of securing the best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity. By accepting a proposal of appointment, United Nations workers members are topic to the authority of the Secretary-Basic and project by her or him to any actions or workplaces of the United Nations in accordance with workers regulation 1.2 (c). On this context, all internationally recruited workers members shall be required to maneuver periodically to discharge new capabilities inside or throughout responsibility stations below situations established by the Secretary-Basic.
Candidates are urged to comply with rigorously all directions accessible within the on-line recruitment platform, inspira. For extra detailed steerage, candidates might discuss with the Handbook for the Applicant, which will be accessed by clicking on “Manuals” hyper-link on the higher proper facet of the inspira account-holder homepage.
The analysis of candidates shall be carried out on the premise of the data submitted within the software based on the analysis standards of the job opening and the relevant inner legislations of the United Nations together with the Constitution of the United Nations, resolutions of the Basic Meeting, the Employees Rules and Guidelines, administrative issuances and pointers. Candidates should present full and correct data pertaining to their private profile and {qualifications} based on the directions supplied in inspira to be thought of for the present job opening. No modification, addition, deletion, revision or modification shall be made to purposes which have been submitted. Candidates below critical consideration for choice shall be topic to reference checks to confirm the data supplied within the software.
Job openings marketed on the Careers Portal shall be eliminated at 11:59 p.m. (New York time) on the deadline date.No Charge
THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.
Official web site
