Start Date
Immediate
Expiry Date
28 Aug, 25
Salary
0.0
Posted On
28 May, 25
Experience
0 year(s) or above
Remote Job
Yes
Telecommute
Yes
Sponsor Visa
No
Skills
Role Model, People Management, Performance Management, Finance, Ethics, Communications, Anticipation, Partnerships, Change Management, Corporate Governance, Economics, Organizational Development, Stakeholder Management, Strategic Vision, Reform, Diplomacy
Industry
Financial Services
KEY FUNCTIONS AND RESULTS
(i) discussions on IFAD’s strategic direction;
(ii) IFAD’s corporate knowledge management agenda.
They strategically lead and assume ownership of ensuring and managing appropriate internal control mechanisms for mitigating risks in line with the applicable organizational framework and policies for risk management, and in line with the mandates of the Department.
2. ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE AND POLICY STRATEGY: The AVP acts as a champion for change, promoting and endorsing solutions to intractable challenges and has an entrepreneurial and creative approach to developing new, innovative ideas that will stretch the organization and push the boundaries within the industry. They encourage evidence-based knowledge generation and its dissemination in all activities and contribute to resource mobilization activities and to evidence-based policy making at the international, national, and local level to advocate for the extreme poor and food insecure in rural areas. Furthermore, the AVP mobilises and manages supplementary funds to finance activities relevant to IFAD’s mandate. The AVP advocates the Organization’s policy positions and communicates IFAD’s messages at HQ and regional level. In order to promote organizational change and keep abreast of technology advancement they set clear priorities for the Department and lead by example.
3. CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT AND RESULTS BASED MANAGEMENT: The AVP leads and contributes to the corporate development effectiveness agenda and plans, monitors and controls IFAD’s collaboration with its member countries and institutional partners, in accordance with agreed priorities, approved programme/budgets, strategic objectives and corporate policies. They promote the development of rigorous evaluations, reviews, analysis, and lessons to inform IFAD’s lending and non-lending portfolio (including country programme strategies, policy engagement initiatives, etc.), particularly on issues surrounding food security, agriculture, and rural development. The AVP oversees the development and implementation of the annual programme and budget of the Department in the context of IFAD’s Strategic Framework and IFAD Replenishment Commitments and provides guidance in the assessment and reporting of corporate impacts of IFAD’s funded projects.
4. PARTNERSHIPS, REPRESENTATION, AND INFLUENCE: The AVP develops and maintains good collaboration with strategic partner organisations, which among other partnership priorities, can help drive mobilisation of resources from the financial sector and private sector as desirable. They participate in IFAD public relations and outreach with the public, other donors, and client countries. They closely collaborate with other Departments in discussions and dialogue on development policy issues and leads the prioritization of IFAD’s work in close consultation with global and regional development organizations. Furthermore, they advance, with Government and the other IFI and UN Country Team and relevant regional entities, regional knowledge-sharing and collaboration, south-south and triangular exchanges, multi-country, and transboundary initiatives in pursuit of greater system-wide results and impact on the implementation of IFAD’s mandate. Together with the other UN development system entities, they engage, convene and forge strategic partnerships at the national and regional level with diverse entities including with civil society, trade unions and employers’ organizations, networks of young people, the private sector, parliamentarians, academia, media and think tanks, and the broader development community. They promote ideas and optimal service practice to a multi-cultural, diverse audience and set clear and challenging goals while committing the organization to improved performance; tenacious and accountable in driving results while being comfortable with ambiguity and uncertainty.
5. MANAGEMENT OF RESOURCES: AVPs are accountable for integrity, transparency, and equity in the management of IFAD resources, human, financial and material in their Department.
The key responsibilities of the Associate Vice President, CSD include:
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JOB ROLE
The AVP, as a member of the executive management team, heads the designated Department of IFAD. They have the responsibility to lead their divisions to achieve IFAD’s vision and mission; organizational change, policy implementation and corporate development by ensuring the technical quality of IFAD’s programme of work and encouraging a focus on outputs, outcomes and results whilst encouraging innovation. As the Head of the Department, the AVP provides leadership to approximately 100 staff in the Department and ensures that high morale is maintained, paying particular attention to staff located outside headquarters. In this regard, the AVP has the overall responsibility to ensure the Department is adequately staffed with the requisite competencies and skills to deliver its annual programme. The AVP is also responsible for the prudent and efficient management of the financial resources made available to the Department annually.
As a member of the senior management team of IFAD, internally, the AVP is expected to contribute to corporate and operational policy discussions and decisions of the Executive Management Committee (EMC), chaired by the President of IFAD, the Operations Management Committee (OMC) and Enterprise Risk Management Committee (ERMC), chaired by the Vice President. Externally, the AVP CSD is an active contributor in Member State proceedings at all levels, including the Governing Council, Executive Board, Audit Committee of the Executive Board, and other Governing Body meetings.
In particular, the AVP CSD leads the work of IFAD’s Corporate Services Department (CSD) and is a member of the United Nations High Level Committee on Management (HLCM).
While the majority of CSD staff are based in IFAD Headquarters in Rome, as part of IFAD’s efforts to decentralization, some services in CSD have also been decentralized with staff based in IFAD regional offices and further structural changes within the CSD divisions are ongoing to identify service functions moving to field offices.
The key responsibilities of the Associate Vice President, CSD include: