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Regional People Business Partner
UNOPSUnited NationsHuman ResourcesSenior LevelICA - IICA - Regular
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**Job Highlight**
Contribute to shaping the future of HR business partnering and service-line excellence at UNOPS.
**Job Specific Context**
UNOPS is transitioning to a service line-driven operating model, strengthening its ability to deliver high-quality, efficient, and scalable solutions to partners across diverse operational contexts. This model reinforces accountability for delivery and results; operational excellence and efficiency; scalable and sustainable project implementation; and, stronger alignment between strategy, resources, and impact.
Within this context, Regional People Business Partners play a critical role in ensuring that workforce strategies directly enable service line performance, delivery capacity, and organizational effectiveness. The role operates as a core business partner, embedding people strategies into service line planning and execution, and ensuring that talent, structures, and culture support UNOPS’ mandate to deliver timely, cost-effective, and high-impact solutions.
People Business Partners further serve as the primary HR interface for regional and country leadership, partnering with leaders to ensure that people strategies, practices and processes are embedded in regional planning and execution. They facilitate the effective implementation of HR processes and decisions while integrating solutions from across PCG’s centres of expertise to deliver high-quality workforce solutions which enhance organizational agility, strengthen HR service-line excellence, and reinforce regional and cross-regional ownership of people-related decisions.
**Role Purpose**
The Regional People Business Partner reports to the Head of People Business Partnering and serves as the trusted senior strategic HR partner to Regional and Country leadership, co-owning the people agenda to enable effective service line delivery, operational performance, and sustainable growth.
As the most senior HR professional in the region, the Regional People Business Partner ensures the ongoing alignment of people management practices with organizational goals and objectives, ensuring that workforce strategies, organizational design, and leadership practices directly support UNOPS’ strategic priorities, including delivery excellence, partner satisfaction, and sustainable development impact.
Operating at the intersection of strategy and implementation, and in close partnership with in-country HR practitioners and dedicated IICA-1 support personnel, the Regional People Business Partner translates business priorities into integrated, forward-looking people solutions that strengthen delivery capacity, enhance accountability, and support UNOPS’ ability to deliver efficient, scalable, and high-quality services across regions.
Driven by high levels of professionalism, the Regional Business People Partner also builds strong working relationships with senior leaders in challenging, multi-country operating environments, enabling them to navigate complex people challenges, remove barriers, and apply effective people strategies that enhance organizational capacity.
The Regional People Partner may be required to travel across the region from time to time and flexible for short term deployment to support projects’ delivery.
**Functions / Key Results Expected**
1. Strategic People Partnering for Delivery and Impact
• Co-own the regional people agenda, ensuring alignment between workforce strategies and service line priorities, delivery targets, operational plans, and the Integrated People Strategy (IPS)
• Participate in key decision-making fora at regional and country levels, e.g. regional leadership meetings. Contribute to decisions which enhance delivery effectiveness and impact by embedding people considerations into business planning and governance.
• Translate service line demand into workforce strategies that ensure readiness to deliver projects efficiently and at scale
• Maintain strategic partnerships with key stakeholders including Personnel Associations, Staff Council, Legal Group, Ethics Office, Ombudsman office and other functions, to ensure integrated people support
• Serve as the primary bridge between HQ and the region, adapting and scaling global strategies to regional and country operational realities and partner needs.
• Contribute practical advice and hands-on support to organizational change initiatives of varying scale, including workforce transitions and restructuring efforts, which enhance efficiency, scalability and delivery excellence.
2. Workforce, Talent and Performance Management
• Align workforce planning with service line pipelines and demand forecasts, ensuring timely and effective mobilization of talent.
• Strengthen talent acquisition and deployment strategies to support high-quality, timely, and cost-effective delivery
• Use workforce analytics to generate insights that strengthen performance, productivity, and resource optimization
• Drive a culture of performance, accountability, and cont
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