Overview
The Programme Officer (Special Assistant to Director) will coordinate various services within the division for presentations, briefing notes, reform initiatives, innovation projects, budgets, and work programmes.
Key Responsibilities
- Coordinate with relevant teams to prepare written reports, background papers, briefing notes/talking points.
- Provide substantive backstopping to meetings and conferences.
- Monitor and coordinate programmes/projects/tasks across the division.
- Assist in developing and following up on departmental strategy and reforms.
- Monitor, coordinate, and track reform-related initiatives.
- Monitor and coordinate the preparation and implementation of the work program and budget.
- Research, analyze, and present information gathered from diverse sources.
- Ensure compliance of the Division with UN rules, regulations, and policies.
- Ensure knowledge sharing of lessons learned/best practices.
- Coordinate activities and review budget funding.
- Provide monitoring and analysis of the Division, timely readjustment of priorities, advice on legal considerations and risk assessment.
- Facilitate meetings within the division.
- Perform other work-related duties as required.
Required Experience
- A minimum of seven years of progressively responsible professional work experience at international level in providing support to senior leaders in office coordination, advisory functions and operational processes is required.
- Demonstrated work experience supporting clients and stakeholders in coordination and programme management is required.
- Work experience coordinating large teams and managing cross-cutting initiatives in an international setting is required.
- Proven work experience evidencing expert-level skills in the practical use of Microsoft Office applications, particularly PowerPoint and Excel, is required.
- Work experience with the policies, procedures, and operational frameworks of the United Nations or a similar international organization is desirable.
- Relevant experience addressing complex organizational issues or implementing change management processes in international organizations is desirable.
- Work experience with SAP/Umoja or Inspira is desirable.
- Work experience with the United Nations or another large international organization is desirable.
- Work experience with multiple United Nations organizations is desirable.
- Experience in data analytics or related area is desirable.
Qualifications
An advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in public or business administration, accounting, finance, economics or similar relevant field is required. A first-level university degree in similar fields in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
