Overview
This assignment supports the implementation of early recovery and resilience projects in Northeast Nigeria, focusing on quality assurance, financial integrity, compliance, and effective delivery.
Key Responsibilities
- Support preparation and implementation of Annual Work Plans (AWPs) and budgets
- Track progress against outputs, milestones, and timelines
- Liaise with implementing partners, government counterparts, Community Service Centers (CSCs), UN agencies, and private sector actors
- Support coordination of meetings, missions, and stakeholder engagements
- Facilitate follow-up on implementation bottlenecks
- Promote synergies and integrated implementation across the two projects.
- Ensure project outputs meet United Nations Development Programme (UNDP ) standards and donor requirements
- Review technical reports, outputs, and partner submissions
- Monitor risks and implementation challenges and propose corrective actions
- Maintain risk registers, issue logs, and quality assurance (QA ) trackers
- Support results-based management (RBM ) and compliance with environmental and social standards
- Document lessons learned and best practices
- Support financial oversight in line with UNDP rules and the Programme and Operations Policies and Procedures (POPP )
- Review budgets, expenditures, and financial reports
- Conduct budget monitoring, forecasting, and variance analysis
- Verify implementing partner financial reports (FACE forms, liquidations)
- Support donor financial reporting and audits
- Conduct spot checks and field verification missions
- Strengthen partner financial management capacity
- Support preparation of quarterly, annual, and donor reports
- Ensure timely and accurate reporting to management
- Support data management and reporting systems
- Contribute to documentation and communication of results
Required Experience
- 3 years of relevant experience
- Experience in financial management, programme support, or quality assurance
- Experience with donor-funded projects or international organizations
- Familiarity with Results-Based Management (RBM)
- Experience working in fragile or humanitarian contexts is an advantage
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Project Management, Development Studies, Public Administration, or a related field.
