Associate Programme Officer

Overview

The Associate Programme Officer provides programmatic guidance and support for the implementation of protection and solutions strategies within available resources. The role coordinates with other sections/units to ensure harmonized programmatic approaches.

Tasks Summary

• - Support in assessing and analysing the needs of forcibly displaced and stateless persons.
• - Provide support on programmatic aspects of developing multi-year protection and solutions strategies and annual plans.
• - Support Results Based Management and programme capacity.
• - Assist the planning process in compliance with planning parameters.
• - Support the revision and analysis of plans, mid-year and year-end reports.
• - Assist in the provision of overall direction to broaden partnerships with key stakeholders.
• - Provide support to ensure a consistent application of the framework for implementing with partners.
• - Contribute to ensure consistent and coherent monitoring approaches, tools and systems.
• - Actively contribute to UNHCRs programming of community of practice.
• - Oversee a timely and effective follow-up of internal and external audits observations and recommendations.
• - Support the identification and management of risks and seek to seize opportunities impacting objectives.
• - Perform other related duties as required.

Experience Requirements

3 years relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or 2 years relevant experience with Graduate degree; or 1 year relevant experience with Doctorate degree. Demonstrated experience in programme management including familiarization with the OMC and sound knowledge of Results Based-Management. Demonstrated experience in field operations, sound knowledge on the centrality of protection in programming, Joint Needs Assessments and the principles of targeting. Desirable: Demonstrated experience in coordination within an inter-agency context and other actors, in a refugee or humanitarian context. Sound experience in program management training and capacity building activities.

Qualification Requirements

Undergraduate degree; or Graduate degree; or Doctorate degree. Field(s) of Education: Economics; Business Administration; Social Sciences; or other relevant field. Certificates and/or Licenses: Programme Management, Certification Programme in Programme Management (CP-PM).

Other Details

Languages Required: Knowledge of English and UN working language of the duty station if not English.

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Contract Duration:

Work Modality: on-site

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