UN Women Regional Strategic Planning Officer, NOD, Panama City, Panama. FTA

UN Women•Panama City, FL

2d•Onsite

About The Position

UN Women is seeking a Regional Strategic Planning Officer to enhance strategic planning and results-based management (RBM) across its Americas & Caribbean Region. This role is crucial for improving the organization's ability to manage for results, communicate impact, and ensure effective monitoring and reporting. The position will provide strategic guidance and technical support to the Regional Office in Panama City and its Country Offices, ensuring alignment with UN Women's Strategic Plan and corporate standards. The officer will lead the preparation of regional and country-level strategic planning documents, including Strategic Notes and workplans, and support collaboration with UN inter-agency processes. A key focus will be on supporting the achievement of gender equality, women's empowerment, and ending violence against women and girls in the region.

Requirements

At least an advanced university degree (master’s or equivalent) in development-related disciplines, Social Sciences, Political Science, Development Studies, Public Administration, Gender, or a related field is required. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
At least 7 years of progressively responsible development experience that combines strategic and managerial leadership in development cooperation, international relations, public administration or a related field is required.
At least 3 to 5 years of experience in Results-Based Management (RBM) and strategic planning, including managing and coordinating the development of strategy, multi-year planning documents, work plans, and/or programme documents at the country, regional and/or international levels is required.
Experience in providing guidance and technical support to Country Offices, or diverse teams for development of Theory of Change, results frameworks, logical frameworks and indicators for programmes/projects, to ensure the minimum standard of RBM is required.
Experience in inter-agency strategic planning, Joint UN programmes, UN to UN agreements development or work related to UNSDCFs at the country, regional or international level is required.
Experience in monitoring gender equality policies, strategies, programmes, projects or initiatives in Latin America and the Caribbean is required.
Experience in the use of computers, office software packages (MS Word, Excel, Power Point, etc.), spreadsheet and database packages is required.
Fluency in English and Spanish are required.

Nice To Haves

Experience in regional offices, programme or regional similar structures is desired.
Experience in conducting PM or RBM training, as a trainer, to personnel and/or external partners to support results-based planning, monitoring and reporting is desirable.
Experience in developing RBM, PM or corporate/regional oversight resources and tools is desirable.
Experience in the use of a modern web-based results management system is desirable.
Knowledge of another official UN language is desirable (French, Arabic, Chinese or Russian).

Responsibilities

Provide strategic planning and RBM-related guidance and technical support to UN Country Teams (UNCTs) and UN Women COs in the region for development of UNSDCFs through the inter-agency regional mechanism.
Substantively support and contribute to the inter-agency strategic planning processes at the regional and country levels.
Review draft Roadmaps, Common Country Assessment (CCA) and UNSDCFs from the perspective of strategic planning, RBM and monitoring/reporting.
Provide additional technical support to UNCTs and Results Groups, upon request, in relation to UNSDCFs, joint work plans, RBM capacity development, monitoring and reporting.
Provide guidance and technical support to UN Women COs in the areas of strategic planning, RBM, monitoring and reporting related to UNSDCFs, Joint Workplans and the UN Info platform.
Provide guidance, technical support and quality assurance to UN Women Country Offices in the region to ensure the quality and timely submission and finalization of Strategic Notes.
Provide guidance, technical support and quality assurance to UN Women Country Offices in the region to ensure the quality and timely submission and finalization of workplans, monitoring and annual reports.
Lead and manage the regional level review and appraisal process of workplans and annual reports from COs.
Provide guidance and support to COs to ensure amendments of Strategic Notes and workplans are completed in a timely manner.
Provide guidance, technical support and training to strengthen the capacity of COs in the areas of RBM in relation to strategic planning, monitoring and reporting.
Provide guidance and technical support, upon request, when a CO conducts Mid-Term Review (MTR) of their Strategic Note.
Provide guidance and technical support to COs to ensure the effective use of PRISM for management and implementation of SNs, workplans and projects.
Lead and manage the overall processes and coordinate within RO and with COs in the region to develop a new Strategic Note of RO.
Lead the overall processes and coordinate within the RO to develop and finalize workplans of the RO.
Ensure engagement of Programme Partners at strategic level of results during the CO planning and implementation.
Lead and manage the amendment process of Strategic Note and workplan of RO.
Lead and manage the overall processes and coordinate within RO for monitoring and reporting exercises against RO SN and workplans.
Ensure the quality of planning and reporting data against RO Strategic Note before publishing in UN Women’s Transparency Portal.
Provide RBM-related guidance and technical support to RO personnel to improve strategic planning, results monitoring and reporting in RO.
Provide guidance and technical support to personnel in the RO to ensure the effective use of PRISM for RO’s planning, monitoring and reporting processes.
Advise the Regional Operations Manager on strategic planning dimensions of the QBR, regional risk management, and office typology decisions.
Supervise ACRO PSMU team to ensure program quality control and identify potential challenges.
Analyze and ensure the alignment of project budgets with logical framework matrices and work plans.
Provide strategic and specialized technical advice on the development of systems, processes, and support mechanisms for planning, implementation, monitoring, and reporting on program progress.
Review and evaluate CN and proposals and supervise the preparation of proposals and reports for donors.
Provide technical support in the preparation of Assurance activities and follow up on the implementation of Assurance findings.
Second line functions to provide oversight information including for Quarterly Business Review in line with the Programme, Project and Programme Partner Management Procedures.
Develop, coordinate, and deliver training on results-based management to staff in the Regional Office and country offices.
Provide technical support to the regional office and country offices in Programme, Project and Programme partner management and results-based management.
Provide technical support and supervise the technical implementation of program activities with partners.
Undertake capacity assessment and strengthening of UN Women personnel as well as partners on Programme Partner implementation and coordinate and facilitate technical/programmatic support and training as needed.
Maintain relationships and liaison with country offices and headquarters on project/program and programme partner management issues.
Undertake or participate in missions, as necessary, to support specific projects and programs throughout all stages of the project management cycle.
Develop in coordination with ROM oversight joint missions, as well as acceleration plans for delayed programs/projects and propose back on track solutions for COs and ROs programs effective and impactful implementation.
Lead the regional input into corporate level strategic planning exercises associated with UN Women Strategic Plan.
Leads the regional input into corporate level reporting exercises, including the Executive Director’s Annual Report (EDAR) to the Executive Board.
Leads the regional input into development, revision and roll-out of relevant corporate policies, procedure and guidance in the areas of strategic planning, RBM and PM.
Leads the regional input into development/revision of corporate RBM/PM capacity development resources and tools.
Advise HQ on regional operational requirements and field-level usability considerations to inform the development and enhancement of corporate systems.
Leads the timely submission and quality assurance of results and financial data and results stories from the region are published in UN Women’s Transparency Portal.
Ensure Strategic Notes and workplans. Programme, Project documents, Programme Partner documents, and annual reports of RO and COs in the region are fully updated in the corporate systems and appropriately documented.
Serves as the regional focal point for internal and external audits, corporate and regional evaluations, and other assessment processes.
Performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organisation.