Senior Advisor on Business Modernization in Complex Humanitarian Contexts
Organizational Context
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential. We are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.
Job Purpose
UNICEF seeks a senior individual consultant to facilitate a focused analytical exercise with a selected group of humanitarian country offices and key regional and headquarters stakeholders. The purpose of this assignment is to better model and address the nature, drivers, and measurement of programme management and operational overhead costs. The consultant will work towards agreeing on an evidence-based framework to disaggregate and analyze operational and programme support costs in complex humanitarian country offices, and their implications for business model design and organizational efficiency. This will involve identifying practical approaches to improve the transparency, consistency, and comparability of how such costs are understood, measured, and reported within existing organizational systems and cost structures.
Responsibilities
The consultant will be responsible for facilitating a focused analytical exercise involving humanitarian country offices, regional offices, and headquarters stakeholders. This includes designing and implementing methodologies to model and analyze the nature, drivers, and measurement of programme management and operational overhead costs. A key responsibility will be to develop and propose an evidence-based framework for disaggregating and analyzing these costs in complex humanitarian country offices. The consultant will also assess the implications of these costs for business model design and organizational efficiency. Furthermore, the role involves identifying practical approaches to enhance the transparency, consistency, and comparability of cost understanding, measurement, and reporting within UNICEF's existing systems and structures. This will require strong engagement with senior stakeholders across various functions and the ability to translate complex operational issues into actionable recommendations.
Work Experience
A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience is required in organizational performance and efficiency analysis, public sector or international organization reform, humanitarian operations, cost analysis and business model design, and facilitation of senior stakeholder consultations.
Skills
Strong analytical skills, Strong facilitation skills, Ability to engage senior stakeholders, Excellent writing skills, Excellent presentation skills, Ability to translate complex issues into practical recommendations, Organizational performance analysis, Public sector reform, Humanitarian operations, Cost analysis, Business model design