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Data: 27/04/2011
Job Title: Chief Training Officer, P5
Department/ Office: DEPARTMENT OF PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS
Duty Station: NEW YORK
Posting Period: 20 April 2011-19 June 2011
Job Opening number: 11-HRE-DEPT PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS-18385-R-NEW YORK
United Nations Core Values: Integrity, Professionalism, Respect for Diversity
Org. Setting and Reporting
This post is located in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), Policy, Evaluation and Training Division (PETD), Integrated Training Service (ITS). The Chief Training Officer reports to the Chief of ITS.
Responsibilities
Within delegated authority the Training Officer will be responsible for the following:
Support the Chief ITS in ensuring coordination and harmonization among all forms of peacekeeping training within the Secretariat and missions.
Oversee the effective management of training needs identification, development, delivery, and evaluation for all forms of peacekeeping training in line with policy guidelines on peacekeeping training for all United Nations personnel. Coordinate the preparation and review of annual training plans by missions and ITS. Coordinate the content and delivery of programmes, courses, and training modules within the overall peacekeeping training architecture and approved priorities.
Develop, maintain, promulgate, and monitor the implementation of all peacekeeping training policy and standards, ensuring their compatibility with Organization-wide training standards.
Provide policy advice to the Director of the Division on conceptual strategy development, and on management of the implementation of overall strategies, policies and procedures with respect to peacekeeping training.
Provide technical training guidance, advice, and oversight with respect to job-specific and technical training activities under the responsibility of DPKO and DFS.
Manage outreach activities to Member States, national and regional training institutions, United Nations system partner organizations, and external non-governmental organizations and institutions of learning and research.
Coordinate activities related to DPKO/DFS-wide budget and funding for peacekeeping training, including provision of guidance to programme/project managers for budget preparation and projections, and to peacekeeping missions on budgeting for training. Coordinate and monitor training budgets of DPKO and DFS.
Support fundraising and liaison with donor Governments and organizations for extra-budgetary support for specific activities.
Plans and oversees the management of activities undertaken by the Team. Manages, supervises and carries out the work programme of the Team, ensuring that the work programmes and programmed activities are carried out in a timely fashion and coordinating the diverse projects in the Team.
Competencies
Professionalism: Demonstrates overall knowledge of multi-dimensional peacekeeping, including the roles of mission components, civilian disciplines, and United Nations and other partners; Shows knowledge of training management and training budget processes; demonstrates knowledge of policy development and project management; demonstrates knowledge of training course development and delivery; takes responsibility for incorporating gender perspectives and ensuring the equal participation of women and men in all areas of work.
Planning & Organizing: Develops clear goals that are consistent with agreed strategies; identifies priority activities and assignments; adjusts priorities as required; allocates appropriate amount of time and resources for completing work; foresees risks and allows for contingencies when planning; monitors and adjusts plans and actions as necessary; uses time efficiently.
Client Orientation: Considers all those to whom services are provided to be “clients” and seeks to see things from clients’ point of view; establishes and maintains productive partnerships with clients by gaining their trust and respect; identifies clients’ needs and matches them to appropriate solutions; monitors ongoing developments inside and outside the clients’ environment to keep informed and anticipate problems; keeps clients informed of progress or setbacks in projects; meets timeline for delivery of products or services to client.
Leadership: Serves as a role model that other people want to follow: empowers others to translate vision into results; is proactive in developing strategies to accomplish objectives; establishes and maintains relationships with a broad range of people to understand needs and gain support; anticipates and resolves conflicts by pursuing mutually agreeable solutions; drives for change and improvements; does not accept the status quo; shows the courage to take unpopular stands.
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