United Nations (UN) Senior Investment Officer Vacancy in New York for 2025. Apply Today!

Senior Investment Officer Details
- Position(s): Senior Investment Officer (Quantitative Strategy)
- Organization: United Nations
- Job Opening ID: 250226
- Job Network : Management and Administration
- Job Family : Investment Management
- Category and Level : Professional and Higher Categories, P-5
- Duty Station : New York
- Department/Office : United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund – Office of Investment Management
- Deadline: Feb 8, 2025
Program Details
United Nations (UN) Senior Investment Officer Vacancy in New York for 2025. The United Nations Secretary-General is responsible for the investment of the assets of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF). The Secretary-General has delegated this responsibility to the Representative of the Secretary-General for the investment of the assets of the UNJSPF (RSG). The RSG heads the Office of Investment Management (OIM), which manages a $95+ billion multi-asset class, global investment portfolio, about 85% of which is actively managed in-house. Asset classes under management comprise global equities, fixed income, foreign exchange, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, timber, and commodities. OIM’s staff are all based in New York but come from over 40 countries. For more information, please visit OIM’s website at https://oim.unjspf.org/. The Senior Investment Officer (Quantitative Strategy) reports to the Deputy Chief Investment Officer (DCIO, D-1).
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Responsibilities
Within delegated authority, the Senior Investment Officer will be responsible for the following duties:
1) Support the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) and DCIO in investing and managing the assets of the Fund to produce the optimal investment return that avoids undue risk, balancing long-term strategies effective over an investment cycle and short-term tactics to achieve results superior to the benchmarks:
- Support the Chief Investment Officer (CIO) and DCIO in establishing the asset allocation and investment strategies through quantitative analysis in fundamental and technical factors in global economy, capital markets, responsible investing and any other relevant factors.
- Develop and implement a quantitative investment strategy for the portfolio in the assigned assets including, but not limited to, public equity and fixed income in seeking superior performance over the benchmark by leveraging statistical models, algorithmic trading, and data analysis techniques to identify investment opportunities and manage portfolios across global equity markets.
- Conduct due diligence in selecting the external managers for the quantitative strategies and monitoring the portfolios in comparison with the respective benchmark. Evaluate the managers periodically and make recommendation to the CIO and DCIO on rebalancing of the managers.
- Minimizing probability of significant under performance versus the benchmark and achieving high information ratios: over calendar year, rolling 3-year and longer time periods;
- Integrating Sustainable Investing principles into investment considerations.
2) Contribute actively to discussions and decisions in the Internal Investment Committee (IIC) on tactical asset allocation.
3) Participate in Investments Committee meetings when requested and prepares the required inputs; Ensure that the DCIO, Chief Investment Officer of OIM and the Representative of the Secretary-General (RSG) for investments of UNJSPF have accurate and timely reports on investments and related matters for the UNJSPB, the ACABQ and the General Assembly.
4) Manages, supervises and carries out the work programme of the unit under his/her responsibility by: Complying with the Investment Policy, investment and risk guidelines, and all of the UN rules and regulations;
- Ensuring that the investments are in line with the OIM investment policy;
- Promotes a high standard of transparency and accountability in all aspects of the management of the assets of the Fund through accurate record keeping;
- Directs production of investment data that is accurate and timely;
- Ensures the highest quality financial resource management and seeking best value for money in use of the resources including, but not limited to, advisors, research providers, database, travel and consultants; interacting effectively with internal and external auditors to ensure that assets are fully protected.
5) Ensures that OIM maintains a high level of professional investment expertise and knowledge by:
- Exploring published economic and investment material provided by investment banks, brokers, government sources and financial analysts; Participating in seminars on investment topics;
- Carrying out administrative tasks necessary for the functioning of the unit, including budgets, conducting evaluation of staff performance (e-PAS), interviews of candidates for job openings and evaluation of candidates;
- Managing effectively underperformance, discipline and conduct issues, as well as fostering mobility and career pathing of staff.
6) Perform other duties as assigned.
- Initiate and lead special projects designed to improve the work programme at OIM and enhance performance.
- Collects and analyzes data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting.
Competencies
Professionalism: Ability to identify key strategic issues, opportunities and risks. Ability to generate and communicate broad and compelling organizational direction. Ability to communicate clearly links between the Organization’s strategy and the work unit’s goals. Demonstrated ability to provide innovative technical leadership by performing and/or overseeing the planning, development, and management of operation. Demonstrated ability to negotiate and apply good judgment. Shows pride in work and in achievements; demonstrates professional competence and mastery of subject matter; is conscientious and efficient in meeting commitments, observing deadlines and achieving results; is motivated by professional rather than personal concerns; shows persistence when faced with difficult problems or challenges; remains calm in stressful situations. Able to analyze and interpret data in support of decision-making and convey resulting information to management.
Communication: Speaks and writes clearly and effectively; listens to others, correctly interprets messages from others and responds appropriately; asks questions to clarify and exhibits interest in having two-way communication; tailors language, tone, style and format to match audience; demonstrates openness in sharing information and keeping people informed.
Teamwork: Works collaboratively with colleagues to achieve organizational goals; solicits input by genuinely valuing others’ ideas and expertise; is willing to learn from others; places team agenda before personal agenda; supports and acts in accordance with final group decision, even when such decisions may not entirely reflect own position; shares credit for team accomplishments and accepts joint responsibility for team shortcomings. Managerial Competencies
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. Provides leadership and takes responsibility for incorporating gender perspectives and ensuring the equal participation of women and men in all areas of work; demonstrates knowledge of strategies and commitment to the goal of gender balance in staffing.
Building Trust: Provides an environment in which others can talk and act without fear of repercussion; manages in a deliberate and predictable way; operates with transparency; has no hidden agenda; places confidences in colleagues, staff members and clients; gives proper credit to theirs; follows through on agreed upon actions; treats sensitive or confidential information appropriately.
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Requirements
Education
- Advanced university degree (Master’s or equivalent degree) in Business Admin. (MBA), Finance, Economics or related field is required.
- A first level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) certification is desirable.
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Work Experience
- A minimum of ten years of progressively responsible experience and a proven track record of quantitative strategies in portfolio management and quantitative investment analysis is required.
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in quantitative investments as a portfolio manager is required.
- Experience showing an in depth understanding of financial markets, investment strategies and risk management principles is required.
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in quantitative analysis of asset allocation is desirable.
- Experience with in-house portfolio management in institutional investment managers or asset owners of a similar or larger size, to the assets to UNJSPF is desirable.
- Experience in integrating Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors in portfolio decision making is desirable.
- Experience with financial modelling and programming languages such as Python, financial software and databases is desirable.
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