Business Technical Associate (HR)

The UNOPS Management Support Centre (MSC) acts as the technical front office and works in close collaboration with the regions and partners on operationalizing best practices, towards global and other tailored agreements around management services.

MSC gains insights into specific needs of partners, through technical experts, in the areas of Project management, Infrastructure, Administration, Procurement, Human Resources and Financial management services, and tailors solutions at the corporate level, ensuring appropriate skills, products and services can be sourced, internally and externally, to support such engagements.

MSC supports the maintenance of global engagements with partners, in close coordination with regions and practices, and provides advice on communication and branding of such services.

MSC has the following key responsibilities:

At Corporate level:

·       Lead the development of the strategic focus on Management Services and contributes to positioning UNOPS as the global partner in the provision of Management Services to partners

·       Oversee and house the hosting strategy, develop hosting frameworks to manage business and risks, and ensure new potential hosted entity engagements are reviewed as per corporate standards.

·       Oversee and house the global agreements with global partners on management services and maintain a steady line of communication with the partners on service performance

At the Regional level:        

·       Support the regions with packaging of management solutions as a service line to be provided to partners, whether as local partners or under global partnership agreements.

·       Support the Regions with hosted entities Management Services, including assessing global operational risk and leading corporate knowledge management on the topic.

The Business Associate (HR) will report to the Business Technical Specialist, who will work alongside other peers of Business Technical Specialists, each within their area of specialization (HR, Procurement, Finance, Administration, Project Management and Infrastructure). Each business technical team will manage his/her own category and contribute to the overall cross-operational management services catalogues of services, their oversight, operational capacity, innovation, solutions, and product/service development and marketing.

• Support to relationship management
• Operational support, including preparation of corporate reporting and submissions
• Escalate suggestions to the Business Technical Specialist on potential business growth with current partners into other management services areas 

Other general corporate responsibilities: Ensures facilitation and promotion of knowledge building and knowledge sharing, focusing on achievement of the following results:

• Contribution to implementation of training for operations/ programme personnel
• Sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice.
• Synthesis of lessons learnt and best practices in administration.

Takes control over his/her own performance management and career development

• Secondary education/High school diploma is required.
• University degree (Bachelor’s or Master’) will be considered an asset and may substitute for some of the required years of experience. 

• 6 years of relevant experience in HR with international exposure.
• Experience in the field (non-HQs) is a strong asset.

• Fluency in written and oral English is required. 
• Knowledge of French, Spanish or Arabic is an asset.

• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns. Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.