UNOPS operates a global delivery organization for the UN system, built on an enterprise SAP stack (Datasphere, BTP, HANA, Analytics Cloud, BW) paired with Databricks for analytics and Atlassian tools for collaboration. The hiring velocity is accelerating across ops-heavy roles (40 open), engineering (22), and support (12), with senior-level positions dominating the mix — reflecting an organization scaling implementation capacity across 25+ countries while grappling with procurement streamlining, HSSE compliance, and cost-control challenges on active hospital and school infrastructure projects.
Notable leadership hires: Director
UNOPS is the operational arm of the United Nations, providing implementation services in infrastructure, procurement, project management, and financial administration to UN agencies and partner governments. The organization manages large-scale capital projects—hospital construction, school builds for indigenous communities, digital infrastructure rollouts—across fragile and developing regions. With 5,001–10,000 employees headquartered in Copenhagen and staff distributed across Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, UNOPS operates under UN principles while adopting private-sector project discipline. Current work spans COVID-19 response, gender and diversity initiatives, HSSE (health, safety, security, environment) systems implementation, and broader public administration modernization efforts.
UNOPS runs SAP Datasphere, SAP BTP, SAP HANA, and SAP Analytics Cloud for enterprise resource planning and business intelligence. Databricks handles advanced analytics. Atlassian Cloud (Jira, Confluence, JSM) and GitHub support team collaboration and development.
UNOPS has active hiring across 25 countries: Uzbekistan, Spain, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Japan, Senegal, Ghana, Denmark, Nepal, Kenya, Bangladesh, Mexico, Pakistan, Brazil, Iraq, South Africa, and others—reflecting its geographic footprint in UN operations.
Core pain points include ensuring HSSE compliance, streamlining procurement processes, closing infrastructure gaps, delivering projects on time and within budget, and reducing cost overruns—priorities for an organization managing large-scale global implementation work.
Other companies in the same industry, closest in size