Background
United Cities and Local Governments Asia Pacific (UCLG ASPAC) is the biggest regional section of the United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) in which its Secretariat is based in Jakarta, Indonesia and hosted by the Provincial Government of Jakarta. UCLG is a worldwide association of local governments and the officially recognised voice of local governments by the United Nations. UCLG ASPAC has linkages to more than 7,000 local governments. It represents well over 3.76 billion people – more than half of the world population – and incorporates economically fast developing countries such as China, India, and Indonesia.
UCLG ASPAC is the key knowledge management hub on local government issues in the Asia-Pacific region. It promotes democratic local government, supports cooperation between cities, local governments and their associations, and facilitates programmes, network and partnerships to develop the capacity of local governments and the associations. Moreover, UCLG ASPAC represents local governments politically within the international community, and with the United Nations and its agencies. It also promotes inclusive societies which safeguard equality, social and economic justice, and sustainable community development. UCLG ASPAC is engaged in all relevant thematic fields for nurturing sustainable development comprising poverty alleviation, climate change, disaster resiliency, culture, strategic planning, decentralisation, local finance, gender equality, women leadership and empowerment as well as good governance.
Following the expansion of its Secretariat and to support the increased cooperation of cities and local governments, UCLG ASPAC is inviting professional and dynamic people to fill in the opened positions. UCLG ASPAC is recruiting the Operations Manager for one year (1) period with possibility of extension, based on satisfactory performance. The Post is assigned to lead an Administrative function of UCLG ASPAC Programme/Projects under the Bureau of Secretary General and to foster collaboration among the divisions to ensure the achievement of vision and mission of UCLG ASPAC.
The Operations Manager is a strong person, able to build a solid team and work cohesively with other departments for the operations department. The Operations Manager contributes to strategic decision-making and problem solving including but not limited to the operations department. The Operations Manager will build a culture of excellence through elaborating context informed operational, security and IT strategies in line with UCLG ASPAC donors’ standards and protocols; developing regional management plans and standard operating procedures to ensure effective systems that support healthy, robust and integrated functions of programmes/projects and support activities are in place in all offices; putting in place reporting and accountability mechanisms to guarantee the efficient/appropriate use of UCLG ASPAC resources.
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