Senior Management and Programme Analysis Assistant

About the role

The Business Transformation and Accountability Division (BTAD) of the Department of Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance (DMSPC) supports a results-oriented, data-driven, agile organization. This position is in the Business Transformation and Project Management Section, within the Analytics and Project Management Service, and reports to the Senior Change and Project Management Officer (P-5). It focuses on supporting the section's work of guiding business transformation initiatives and change management activities across the Secretariat.

Key responsibilities

• Provide full assistance for the section at all phases of business transformation project cycles.
• Research, compile, analyse, summarize and present data on business transformation and project management, highlighting key trends.
• Review and revise project submissions, identify issues, seek clarification from clients and prepare summaries for the manager.
• Set up monitoring systems through scheduled reporting, review meetings and missions, and prepare monitoring checklists.
• Draft communication material, reports, briefings and correspondence, and act as focal point for coordination and implementation monitoring.
• Handle administrative matters such as recruitment, travel, training, payment authorizations, procurement and project closure.
• Provide secretariat services: draft agendas, assemble background documents, draft minutes and track follow-up actions.
• May carry out field missions, set up internal databases, support office support staff, assist with data analysis and event planning, and help update web pages and brochures.

Required profile

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Minimum of ten years of progressively responsible experience in project and programme management, administration or a related area; two years less for a first-level university degree.
• Experience researching, compiling and analysing data, and drafting reports and correspondence.
• English at UN Level II reading, writing, listening and speaking; French is the other working language of the Secretariat.

Required skills

• Microsoft 365 (SharePoint, Excel, Word, PowerPoint).
• Desirable: experience supporting business transformation and change management, change communications and stakeholder engagement, multimedia communications, and data analytics.