Overview
The Chief Field Office (CFO) is accountable for managing and leading the total programme commitment of a field office within a country programme. The CFO represents UNICEF in their Area of Responsibility, leads and oversees program sectors and operational service teams ensuring the delivery of quality results.
Key Responsibilities
- Effective management of UNICEF presence, staff and assets in the Area of Responsibility
- Effective knowledge management systems adopted and utilized to strengthen area/country programme management.
- Situation Analysis prepared and updated; critical programme intervention points and measures identified; and programme work plans, recommendations and reports prepared.
- Effective program planning, implementation and monitoring of programs at the sub-national level, ensuring effective, high-quality results
- Programme funds optimally used.
- Programme monitoring and evaluations effectively conducted to improve programme performance, and programme status reports timely prepared. Gender/sex disaggregated data and inputs relevant to the country programme are provided as an integral part of programming.
- Rights based and results-based programming approach fully incorporated into all phases of programme and project processes.
- Timely management of emergency preparedness and response as well as durable solutions, recovery and resilience initiatives.
- Representation at key state level for fora a such as Area Security Management Team and Inter-Cluster Coordination Group and Area Based Coordination and lead UNICEF clusters and sector responsibilities as required
- Commitment and institutional capacities of the national and local partners effectively gained and established.
- Rights perspective and advocacy at the sub-national national, community and family levels incorporated in policy analysis for establishing and elevating UNICEF’s credibility in national and international policy debates.
- Effective partnerships and collaboration achieved and maintained for advocacy, technical cooperation, programme development/management/coordination, information sharing and networking.
Required Experience
- A minimum of eight years of professional work experience in programme management, planning, monitoring and evaluation, project administration or another relevant area is required.
- Experience working in a developing country is considered as an asset.
- Relevant experience in a UN system agency or organization is considered as an asset.
- Familiarity/ background with emergency is considered as an asset.
- Developing country experience, UN system experience, Emergency background, Local language proficiency.
- Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts.
Qualifications
An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: social sciences, international relations, public administration, government and public relations, public or social policy, sociology, social or community development, or another relevant technical field.
