Overview
The Programme Officer (Governing Bodies Servicing) role focuses on financial planning, monitoring, and divisional budget management, providing guidance and support for the implementation of divisional strategies.
Tasks Summary
- Plans and develops annual work plans to achieve divisional targets.
- Collaborates in strategic thinking and related plans to monitor and facilitate financial and budget plan implementation.
- Ensures support to the Director CSG in the mobilization of divisional resources.
- Organizes and finalizes written outputs, such as draft background papers, analyses, sections of reports and studies, and inputs to publications.
- Monitors and analyses the status of financial work plans, reviews relevant documents, identifies problems, and initiates corrective actions.
- Provides substantive backstopping to consultative meetings regarding Governing Bodies and Statutory meetings.
- Facilitates payments, consolidates records, and pools chargeback lists for Interpretation Services.
- Coordinates the review and data collection for the Preparation of Budgetary Report.
- Prepares business plans for language services.
- Prepares and analyses periodic financial reports for senior management.
- Provides comparative analysis on cost recovery.
- Monitors financial performance indicators and adjusts budget and expenditures.
- Ensures support to headquarters and Regional Offices in processing invoices and refunds.
- Acts as a Focal point for the division on Budgetary and Financial matters.
- Prepares statistical data for senior management.
- Performs other duties as required.
Experience Requirements
- Seven years of relevant experience in coordination, decentralization, reform and programme matters.
- Work experience in more than one location or area of work, particularly in field positions, is desirable.
- Relevance and extent of experience related to coordination, decentralization, reform and programme matters in large national/international organization(s).
- Knowledge and understanding of rules, regulations, statutory and legal instruments of FAO, in particular, those pertaining to the establishment, functioning and procedures of Governing Body meetings, is considered an asset.
- Extent of understanding of the functioning of the United Nations system, and in particular of FAO’s structure, policies, and procedures related to decentralized activities, is desirable. Experience with UN agencies and the UN system is considered a strong asset.
Qualification Requirements
• Advanced University degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in public/business administration, political or social sciences or related fields.
