UNIDO Country Representative - NO-D, Pakistan

The UNIDO Country Representative (UCR) leads the UNIDO Country Office in Pakistan, representing the organization to promote industrial development and sustainable growth. The role involves managing the country office, coordinating technical cooperation projects, resource mobilization, and fostering partnerships with government, private sector, and UN entities.

Responsibilities

• Represent UNIDO in Pakistan to promote the Organization as an effective partner for development and maintain close contacts with local stakeholders including government institutions, development partners, donors, and UN entities.
• Lead the activities of the Country Office and contribute to the delivery of national development goals, identifying donors’ technical and funding priorities.
• Identify emerging development needs and resource mobilization opportunities and support alignment of UNIDO's programmes with national priorities and donor strategies.
• Contribute to and/or lead the identification, development, implementation, resource mobilization, monitoring and evaluation of integrated technical cooperation projects and programmes at national level, including Programmes for Country Partnership (PCPs).
• Lead, coordinate and report on UNIDO's activities in Pakistan, contribute to regional strategies and policies to ensure strategic and programmatic coherence, and support engagement with UN Resident Coordinator Offices, UN Country Teams, Common Country Assessments, UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Frameworks, and joint UN programmes.
• Strengthen dialogue and partnerships with government counterparts, private sector, other UN organizations, and bilateral and multilateral partners including Development Finance Institutions.
• Advocate and highlight the relevance and work of UNIDO and ensure dissemination of communication and media content to governments and stakeholders.
• Manage the Country Office’s financial and human resources in coordination with relevant divisions ensuring compliance with staff security, safety, safeguarding of assets, property and information, including contingency planning in line with UNDSS guidance.
• Develop a results-oriented and gender-mainstreamed yearly business plan, periodically report on progress, and use results and performance data for evidence-based decision-making and adaptive management.
• Apply Results-Based Management in work planning, implementation, and reporting.
• Carry out other tasks and functions as assigned by the supervisory structure.

Requirements

• A first-level university degree (bachelor’s or equivalent) in economics, business administration, international relations, public administration, or other relevant field with specialization in development economics is required.
• An advanced university degree (master’s or equivalent) or Doctorate in the same fields are accepted with a reduced requirement for years of professional experience.
• A minimum of professional experience aligned with the educational level is required: at least 10 years of relevant professional experience for Bachelor's degree holders; at least 7 years for Master's degree holders; at least 5 years for Doctorate holders.
• Progressively responsible professional experience at national level in economic development involving technical cooperation at senior level is required.
• Experience in evaluating the needs, conditions and problems of the country is required.
• Demonstrated experience in supervising/managing both technical and non-technical teams in project cycle aspects (formulation, design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation) is required.
• Demonstrated experience in collecting, analysing, and using performance and results data to support evidence-based decision-making and adaptive management is required.
• Experience in representational functions and working closely with policymakers as well as in or with the UN system is required.
• Experience in working with intergovernmental bodies, leading strategic partnerships, and resource mobilization is desirable.
• Prior experience working in technical cooperation in Pakistan and other countries in the region is desirable.
• Fluency in written and spoken English and Urdu is required.
• Knowledge of other official languages of the United Nations is desirable.

Skills

• Development Economics
• Economic Development
• Technical Cooperation
• Project Cycle Management
• Project Formulation
• Project Design
• Project Implementation
• Project Monitoring
• Project Evaluation
• Performance Data Analysis
• Result-Based Management
• Evidence-Based Decision Making
• Adaptive Management
• Team Supervision
• Representational Functions
• Policy Engagement
• UN System Collaboration
• Strategic Partnerships
• Resource Mobilization
• Fluency in English
• Fluency in Urdu

Languages

English, Urdu