Overview
The Project Management Support - Senior Officer will support the Project Manager in the development, delivery, and performance of the project, ensuring effective implementation of project plans, monitoring progress, and maintaining quality assurance. The incumbent will also contribute to knowledge management and innovation within the project.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop, complete and update implementation plans.
- Implement the approved plan (including the establishment of milestones) within tolerances set by the SPAK Working group.
- Manage the development/delivery of the required outputs, taking responsibility for overall progress and use of resources and initiating corrective action where necessary.
- Manage testing and acceptance of delivered system functionalities.
- Monitor project progress ensuring that work packages are being executed properly.
- Control project and work package changes.
- Identify, and anticipate in a timely manner, potential risks and issues and advises mitigating measures to senior management/and SPAK working group Project Board.
- Undertake project closure activities in close cooperation with relevant internal and external stakeholders.
- Prepare/adapt all relevant plans for approval by the Project Board.
- Manage the reporting obligations defined in the SPAK Chief prosecutor implementation order, in the Implementation Plan.
- Ensure proper documentation of all processes and functionalities including user manuals for all categories of end users.
- Prepare and issue regular project reports in accordance with reporting standards.
- Regularly review project status, evaluating performance criteria (scope, schedule and quality).
- Provide routine oversight and analysis of delivery data within the dashboard system.
- Coordinate quality reviews of project documents and deliverables.
- Provide quality control for management outputs (project documents, reports, etc.).
- Encourage routine and effective capacity building activities are conducted in order to build the long-term and sustainable capacity of staff.
- Research and logging of lessons learned throughout the project life span.
- Provide feedback to Practice Groups on policy, supporting guidance with an aim towards continuous improvement of UNOPS policies.
Required Experience
A minimum of 2 years of relevant working experience in combination with a Masters Degree and 4 years of experience in combination with a Bachelor's Degree. Relevant experience is defined as progressive experience in programme/project development or management related to the international development sector in either public or private sector organizations; Experience in implementing and delivering projects for international organisations. Experience with coordinating multiple stakeholders, ideally in an international setting is an advantage.
Qualifications
Advanced University Degree (Master's degree or equivalent) preferably in Project Management, Finance, Economics, Human Resources, Business Administration, Supply Chain management, International Relations, Social Sciences and/or any other relevant field of study in combination with two (2) years' relevant experience is required; First-level University degree (Bachelor’s degree or equivalent) combined with two additional years of relevant professional experience may be accepted in lieu of the Master’s degree.
