Senior Advisor on Business Modernization in Complex Humanitarian Contexts

UNICEF seeks a senior individual consultant to facilitate an analytical exercise with humanitarian country offices and stakeholders to model and address programme management and operational overhead costs. The assignment aims to develop an evidence-based framework to analyze operational and programme support costs in complex humanitarian contexts and improve organizational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate a focused analytical exercise with selected humanitarian country offices and key regional and headquarters stakeholders.
• Develop an evidence-based framework to disaggregate and analyze operational and programme support costs in complex humanitarian country offices.
• Identify practical approaches to improve transparency, consistency and comparability of cost understanding, measurement and reporting within organizational systems and cost structures.
• Support business model design and organizational efficiency improvements.

Requirements

• Masters degree in Public administration, Economics, Public policy, Organizational effectiveness, International development, Business administration, or related field.
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in organizational performance and efficiency analysis, public sector or international organization reform, humanitarian operations, cost analysis and business model design, facilitation of senior stakeholder consultations.
• Strong analytical and facilitation skills.
• Ability to engage senior stakeholders across functions.
• Excellent writing and presentation skills.
• Ability to translate complex operational issues into practical recommendations.
• Experience working with UN organizations (desirable).
• Familiarity with UNICEF programme and operations functions (desirable).
• Experience in operating model reviews, shared services or programme management cost analysis (desirable).

Skills

• Organizational Performance Assessment
• Efficiency Analysis
• Public Sector Reform
• International Organization Reform
• Humanitarian Operations Liaison
• Cost Analysis
• Business Model Design
• Multi-Stakeholder Facilitation
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Analytical Skills
• Facilitation Skills
• Report Writing
• Presentation Skills
• Operational Issue Translation
• Operating Model Reviews
• Shared Services Analysis
• Programme Management Cost Analysis

Languages

English