Deputy Representative Operations (P-4) Fixed Term, Monrovia, Liberia

## Deputy Representative Operations (P-4) Fixed Term, Monrovia, Liberia - Organization:UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund - Office:UNICEF Liberia Deputy Representative Operations, (P-4) Fixed Term, #71972, Monrovia, Liberia, WCAR Position type:Fixed Term Appointment Division/Equivalent:Dakar (WCAR), Senegal Department/Office:Monrovia, Liberia Categories:Operations UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children's lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence. At UNICEF, 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. UNICEF is a place where careers are built: we offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package. Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF. For every child, the right to a future UNICEF's core mission is to advance the rights of every child worldwide, embedding this commitment across all programs, advocacy efforts, and operational activities, particularly in challenging contexts like Liberia. Central to this is the equity strategy, which prioritizes the most marginalized and excluded children and families, translating the promise of children's rights into actionable outcomes. Equity ensures that every child can survive, thrive, and reach their full potential without discrimination, bias, or favoritism, even in a post-conflict nation where rural-urban disparities, climate vulnerabilities, and fragile infrastructure present significant hurdles. When any child faces unequal opportunities across social, political, economic, civic, or cultural dimensions compounded by historical conflict and entrenched social norms, their fundamental rights are violated. The UNICEF Liberia Country Programme emphasizes integrated, decentralized approaches to support vulnerable groups, with a special focus on adolescent girls, amid risks from epidemics, economic inequality, and environmental shocks. This context requires resilience, cultural sensitivity, and a steadfast commitment to equity in a resource-constrained environment, where UNICEF collaborates with government, UN agencies, and civil society to enhance Public Financing for Children (PF4C) and advance child rights. Strategic shifts toward education prioritization, community empowerment, and decentralized service delivery are driving efforts to empower the most disadvantaged, while emerging evidence highlights that investments in education, health, and protection for vulnerable groups not only unlock children's potential but also promote long-term national growth and stability, vital for Liberia's ongoing recovery and development. To learn more about our country programme visit UNICEF in Liberia How can you make a difference? As a strategic business partner, Deputy Representative Operations and a member of the senior management team, the incumbent will be responsible for leading the operations functions to achieve results, drive change, provide risk informed, solution-focused analysis, advice and services and contribute to programme and management decisions for delivering results for children in all operational contexts. Strategic Operations will accomplish this by: - Leading by example and supporting the Representative on managing the office. - Acting as Officer-in-Charge in the absence of the Representative. - Oversight of the Operations function to ensure effective and efficient management of all the functions under operations: Administration, Budget, Finance, Digital Impact, Suppl - Convener and contributor to Risk Management ensuring compliance, including on safety and security. - Drive a risk culture, ensuring effective fiduciary risk management with particular focus on country-office financial performance, fraud exposure, procurement, asset management and the effectiveness of management actions to address identified weaknesses. - Ensuring processes are in place to identify, promote and empower the potential in staff through career development, opportunities for stretch assignments and succession planning. - Acting as member of the Country and Senior Management Teams, representing the organizational risk, governance systems and policies perspective in management discussions, and promoting results-based management. - Understanding business needs for the Country Programme, to anticipate challenges, propose viable solutions, provide creative and innovative ideas aimed at a solution- focused approach to include value for money strategies, all underpinned by quality assurance measures. - Providing key contributions to CPD, CPMP, AMP and support to Results Based Management and implementation using Value for Money criteria; - Drive Innovations by leveraging technology to support delivery of results for children, making effective adoption of tools and promoting the fundamentals of Digital Impact Management. - Lead external and internal audit reviews and respond to audit observations and monitor implementation of recommendations. - Guiding Supply and Logistics strategies and interventions to meet programmatic needs while ensuring Value for Money (VfM), including procurement of fit for purpose products and services, and providing advisory support to governments, national systems and partners on supply chain management; - Leveraging governance, systems, and tools to provide regular feedback on risks and achievements of operations functions in the country; - Leading on facility management with a specific focus on inclusive accessibility, eco sustainability and common premises; - Overseeing business transactions processed by GSSC from a perspective of Efficiency, Performance, Risk Management and Fraud prevention; - Supporting the management of PSFR operations and promoting efficiency across systems and processes, where applicable; - In fragile context and humanitarian contexts, ensure that UNICEF offices are fit for purpose to enable the timely delivery of humanitarian assistance by UNICEF and its partners - in compliance with the commitments and standards enshrined in the Core Commitments for Children in Humanitarian Action - and of its role as CLA (where clusters are activated). This includes ensuring the mandatory use and application of the Emergency Procedures, as applicable. The Deputy Representative, Operations will be entrusted with the following five pillars, the core focus of all operations functions: Valuing People, Valuing Money, Valuing Risk Management, Valuing Systems and Structures, Valuing Partners. If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here:Job Description.pdf To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have... Minimum requirements: - Education:An Advanced University Degree (equivalent to a Master's or higher) in one of the following areas is required: Business management; Financial management; Accounting; Public Finance; and related operations function (Supply Chain, Human Resources, Information Technology, International Business, Project management, etc.) or a full professional accounting designation (CA, ACA, ACCA, CPA, CIMA, CPFA, Expert Comptable) from an internationally recognized institute/body of accountancy with valid membership in good standing is required. An Advanced University Degree (equivalent to a Master's or higher) in one of the following areas is required: Business management; Financial management; Accounting; Public Finance; and related operations function (Supply Chain, Human Resources, Information Technology, International Business, Project management, etc.) or a full professional accounting designation (CA, ACA, ACCA,