Institutional Analyst, Organizational Transformation and Culture, Innovation and Transformation Branch (ITB), Office of the Executive Director, New York, P-2

The Position:

The Institutional Analyst is located in the Innovation and Transformation Branch (ITB), which plays a pivotal role in guiding UNFPA towards a future of heightened efficiency, impact, and relevance by shaping and executing strategic initiatives through cultivating innovation and cultural change. The post reports to the Chief, Innovation and Transformation Branch. S/he will work with internal partners, including OED, DHR, DMS, and Regional and Country Offices to ensure synergy and alignment of workstreams. Work with external partners, including UN agencies, donor and programme countries, in order to maintain and foster collaboration and exchange, build and consolidate internal capacity, accelerate action and promote transparency and accountability.

In all activities, s/he fosters collaboration within field units, particularly Regional and Country Offices and, with other HQ Divisions, ensuring the timeliness, adequacy, relevance and quality of institutional transformation initiatives. 

How you can make a difference:

UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled.  UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.

In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.

UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.

Job Purpose:

Institutional transformation is designed to “actively prepare the organization at all levels to implement the upcoming and subsequent strategic plans to deliver on the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.” Within this context, the Institutional Analyst helps ensure the substantive and operational implementation and coherence of the various change initiatives and processes within UNFPA, in support of and in alignment with the wider UN transformation and reform efforts such as the UN80 initiative. 

Changing the mindsets and inherent culture of the organization is a key component that is both an enabler and an outcome of institutional transformation. As part of the efforts to modernize and strengthen UNFPA, the Institutional Analyst, therefore, also supports the organization’s work related to organizational culture. 

You would be responsible for:

• Support the identification, implementation, and coordination of strategic change activities to ensure that UNFPA is future-fit and strategically positioned to deliver on its mandate, in support of and in alignment with the wider UN transformation and reform efforts such as the UN80 initiative; 
• Strategically communicate on institutional transformation and related initiatives with both key internal and external stakeholders; 
• Identify sources, gather, compile and analyze data and information needed for institutional transformation and foresight streams;
• Review internal work processes to identify operational needs and ensure increased efficiency;
• Foster and facilitate a conducive environment for a continued dialogue on institutional transformation across the organization;
• Contribute to the organization’s efforts to promote culture change and even stronger alignment with UN values, by supporting the focal point for organizational culture with tasks related to the design and implementation of culture change activities, measurement of culture change, and integration of various culture-related workstreams, including in the context of UN 2.0;  
• Serve as operational focal point for the team;
• Perform any other activity as required by the supervisor in order to assure the success of the work team in support of the UNFPA’s transformative mandate.

Qualifications and Experience: 

Education:  

An advanced university degree in international a