Overview
Provide senior strategic advisory services to UNOPS-managed funds and programmes, focusing on fund management, programme design, governance, donor alignment, risk management, and operational performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Work with fund boards, programme boards, governance bodies, donors, UN agencies and other stakeholders to promote good practice and effective fund governance.
- Support funds and programmes in establishing platforms for coordination and policy engagement.
- Advise on strategic and operational issues including funding allocations, project selection, budgets, cash flow, expenditure, delivery performance and risk.
- Participate in donor engagement and negotiations related to fund design or adaptation.
- Develop or quality assure concept notes, project proposals, budgets, theories of change, governance models and financing mechanism designs.
- Develop or review fund-related documentation, including operational guidelines, governance arrangements, safeguards provisions, risk frameworks, allocation processes, reporting frameworks and strategy documents.
- Support offices in designing fund or programme structures, organograms, management arrangements and terms of reference.
- Advise on innovative, context-appropriate financing approaches.
- Provide senior surge capacity to UNOPS offices in Myanmar, Asia-Pacific and elsewhere, including temporary senior fund or programme leadership.
- Conduct diagnostic assessments of ongoing funds or programmes and provide recommendations.
- Provide assurance, peer review and senior advisory support to active funds and programmes.
- Advise on strategies to strengthen fund positioning, donor confidence, resource mobilization and future funding opportunities.
- Coordinate or contribute to quality reviews of programme documents, governance papers, reports, proposals, operational guidelines and other key deliverables.
- Provide quality assurance for management outputs.
- Prepare or review reports in accordance with funding partner requirements and UNOPS procedures.
- Lead, design or review grant-making strategies and advise on grant management processes.
- Identify and advise on risks to delivery, governance, compliance, safeguarding, fiduciary management, partner performance and stakeholder confidence.
- Advise on programme performance, work planning, resource mobilization, monitoring and evaluation, and programmatic operations.
- Undertake other related tasks across the programme and fund management cycle, as agreed through specific task notes.
- Advise on the application of UNOPS pricing policy, cost recovery and related corporate charges.
- Contribute to CFM publications, tools, guidance, case studies and knowledge management initiatives.
- Support UNOPS Myanmar and the Asia-Pacific Centre for Fund Management in strengthening fund management practice and advisory capacity.
- Share case studies, lessons learned and good practices through UNOPS communities of practice and other relevant knowledge platforms.
Required Experience
- Relevant experience in responsible programme implementation/fund management is required.
- A minimum of 5 years’ experience in design or management or turnaround of single or multi-donor fund is required.
- Experience working with the UN, donors, non-governmental organizations, the public sector, and/or civil society is required.
- Knowledge of aid architecture, donor coordination, and grant-making or partner-financing models is required.
- Experience of managing, or having worked in a senior position with a large multi-donor fund or programme, is desirable.
- Experience in strategic and development planning and implementation in governance, institutional capacity building, stakeholder and partner management will be considered as asset.
- Experience managing programmes at a strategic level with financial oversight is desirable.
- A proven track record of humanitarian programming and/or context analysis in a fragile state(s) and complex/protracted crisis is desirable.
- Working experience and knowledge in Myanmar conflict-affected areas are strong assets.
- Previous experience in South and/or South-East Asia is also an asset.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) preferably in law, human rights, social science, international development, political /security/development studies, business administration, public administration, international relations, finance, economics or related areas with 12 years of relevant experience OR Master’s degree (or equivalent) in above mentioned discipline with 10 years of relevant experience is required.
- PRINCE2® Foundation/Practitioner is an asset.
