Senior Advisor, Impact Management

The Senior Advisor, Impact Management, plays a central role in advancing UNOPS' strategic commitment to measure and manage for impact, leading the development and implementation of frameworks, policies, and systems to meet institutional targets. The role involves leadership, change management, and collaboration across the organization to enhance impact management capabilities and outcome-based reporting.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and continue to evolve the global impact management agenda, integrating guidance from the Executive Board, senior leadership and oversight functions.
• Monitor performance, recommending adaptive actions to maintain effectiveness.
• Develop and implement the team's work plan; identify and manage risks; advise the Director, STG on mitigation measures.
• Represent the impact management agenda in dialogue with the Executive Board, Management Team, and other stakeholders to ensure strategic alignment and support.
• Advise STG leadership and contribute to key Group deliverables.
• Lead, mentor and foster a high-performing team that collaborate well with others.
• Foster a culture of curiosity, evidence-based decision-making, and accountability.
• Cultivate and uphold respect and zero tolerance for discrimination, abuse of authority, harassment, sexual harassment, sexual exploitation and abuse.
• Develop stakeholder engagement strategies tailored to HQ, transformation programmes, and regional needs.
• Manage stakeholder partnerships and expectations, ensuring active participation across HQ and regional teams.
• Implement change management activities in dialogue with the Transformation Office, and in line with UNOPS approach to managing change.
• Lead systematic engagement with colleagues to create awareness, desire, knowledge, ability and reinforcement of impact management practices, including by nurturing and shaping a community for impact management practitioners.
• Coordinate with regional offices, HQ groups, and leads of transformation programmes to align, build consensus and manage interdependencies.
• Formulate corporate policy and global standards for impact management. Serves as the corporate authority on compliance, ensuring effective integration across all regions and portfolios.
• Formulate integrated policies, standards, processes, guidance and methodology for impact management, and outcome-based reporting across the UNOPS portfolio.
• Liaise with the Development Coordination Office and agencies, funds and programmes in the UN development system to collaborate and align practices, as appropriate, considering the mandate, role and operating model of UNOPS.
• Engage and collaborate with funding partners, and international financial institutions to harmonize impact management and reporting practices, and meet external expectations.
• Enhance capabilities and digital systems to systematically capture, analyze, and synthesize outcome-based evidence and contributions to impact across global operations.
• Develop and maintain a catalogue of impact focused project case studies.
• Develop and implement an approach for assessing UNOPS portfolio impact management readiness to understand impact management capabilities across the organization.
• Reinforce efforts to strengthen impact management and demonstrate UNOPS impact management capabilities to the Executive Board.
• Collaborate to develop, introduce and implement an enhanced approach for internal self-evaluation of projects, programmes and/or the offices through which they are managed.
• Collaborate to develop the concept and application of impact dashboards for senior-management oversight and reinforcement.
• Accountable for the integrity and quality of corporate-level outcome reporting to the Executive Board.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree (Master’s or equivalent) in Public/Business Administration, International Development, Political Science, International Relations, or related field is required.
• A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s) with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu.
• Formal certification/training in project management (e.g., PRINCE2), impact assessment, strategic planning, policy development, leadership, or change management is desired.
• A minimum of ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience in strategic management, transformation, and/or corporate governance, with a demonstrated track record of leading institution-wide policy changes at an international level.
• Demonstrated expertise and practical experience from the operationalization of the UNOPS mandate as a non-programmatic, demand-driven service provider.
• Substantiated experience from engaging with senior stakeholders and personnel in multicultural environments.
• Experience for development, humanitarian or peace contexts is desired.
• Experience for working in UN system organizations is desired.
• Fluent proficiency in English is required.
• Fluent proficiency in French is desirable.
• Fluent proficiency in Spanish is desirable.

Skills

• Project Management
• Impact Assessment Design
• Strategic Planning
• Policy Development
• Leadership
• Change Management
• Strategic Management
• Transformation Management
• Corporate Governance
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Multicultural Environment Experience
• UNOPS Mandate Operationalization
• Outcome-Based Reporting
• Framework Development
• System Implementation

Languages

English, French, Spanish