Risk Specialist Planning & Reporting

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• Perform trend analysis, scenario planning, stress testing and other horizon-scanning activities in collaboration with other teams across UNOPS headquarters and its regional offices.
• Support the development and deployment of decision analysis methodologies to foster high-quality partnership, engagement and investment commitments.
• Consolidate, analyze, visualize, quality assure and contribute to the interpretation of quantitative and qualitative information on UNOPS quarterly performance across different areas (e.g., finances, partnerships, operations, people and culture and risk management).
• Collaborate closely with key information owners from multiple units across UNOPS headquarters to facilitate a thorough, efficient and interactive flow of information; and jointly develop forward-looking insights to inform senior management.

• Perform analyses of complex portfolio-wide risk exposures; develop risk scenarios ranging from strategic to operational themes; and model risk probability distributions based on historical information and in the absence of such.
• Support risk reporting from all angles (e.g. portfolio exposure, reputational, third-party, global risks) through data consolidation, analytics and visualization; dashboard development; expert and field interviews; and secondary research. 
• Assist in developing and rolling out bespoke risk escalation protocols and map those to performance metrics. 
• Conduct reviews of UNOPS risk policies, processes, taxonomies, dashboards and assessment criteria. 
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of UNOPS risk management by tracking the latest risk identification, assessment, evaluation and communication methods and techniques; staying up-to-date with relevant trends; and applying best practices. 

• Contribute to develop and provide risk management training, coaching and facilitation support to UNOPS and its regional offices.
• Ensure full documentation of risk management approaches and activities to enhance knowledge-sharing and transfer within the Risk Unit and across UNOPS.
• Help establish and promote a risk management network (i.e., Community of Practice) for effectively transferring knowledge, sharing innovative solutions and capturing lessons learned across UNOPS globally.

• Establish priorities and develop work plans for supervisor approval.
• Provide regular updates on progress of priority initiatives agreed with the supervisor(s) and demonstrate accountability for effectively carrying out the appointed duties.
• Support the Risk Unit’s management activities, to help ensure the effort is well coordinated and coherent across key functional domains. 
• Collaborate with key stakeholders within and outside the Risk Unit to ensure continuous on-the-job learning and harvesting of internal benchmarks.

• An advanced university degree (Master’s degree or PhD) preferably in risk management, economics, finance, statistics, physics or related fields
• A first-level university degree (Bachelor’s degree or equivalent) with a minimum of two (2) additional years of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree

• A minimum of five (5) years of professional experience in risk management, corporate strategy or performance management (required) 
• Experience working in an international context (e.g., global company, international organization, international consultant) (required)
• Experience in quantitative and qualitative risk analysis (required)
• Experience in data management, analytics and visualization (required)
• Experience in strategic foresight and horizon scanning (required)
• Experience in developing information dashboards (required)
• Experience working with big data and/or risk models using Python, R or SAS (desirable)
• Experience in community development and relationship management (desirable)
• Experience in project-based organizations (desirable)

• Certifications in risk management (from IRM, RIMS or similar) and/or decision quality (such as an SDRM certificate) are considered an advantage.

• Fluency in English is required
• Fluency in Spanish and/or French is considered an advantage

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