Overview
Provide on-demand technical services for programme quality assurance and oversight, including appraisal support, field documentation reviews, capacity assessments for Delegation of Authority, and capacity building initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical support to assess and strengthen programme quality assurance and oversight mechanisms, focusing on appraisal processes.
- Deliver quality assurance feedback and recommendations to improve submissions.
- Support the strengthening and standardisation of appraisal processes.
- Develop an oversight strategy to detect delays and gaps in partner monitoring.
- Conduct systematic quality assurance reviews of field-level documentation and partner monitoring processes.
- Collaborate with regional programme teams and country offices to ensure alignment with corporate quality assurance requirements.
- Support implementation and monitoring of capacity assessment plans for field offices.
- Conduct capacity assessments and formulate evidence-based recommendations to support decision-making on increasing Delegation of Authority (DoA).
- Design and deliver targeted capacity-building initiatives, including training and advisory support.
- Provide ad hoc technical advisory support to programme and operations teams.
Required Experience
- Minimum 5 years of progressively responsible experience in project and programme management, quality assurance and oversight, including risk monitoring and mitigation at national and international levels.
- Proven track record of quality assurance of programme design and reporting, performance monitoring and implementing partner oversight across multi-project or multi-country portfolios in development and/or humanitarian contexts.
- Technical expertise in all aspects of project management, including planning, financial management, budget management, risk management, communications and stakeholder engagement.
- Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling web-based management systems.
- Experience in data analysis, knowledge management, or reporting to inform decision-making and track the impact of digital or AI-related initiatives is an asset.
- Prior relevant experience in the UN System and understanding of UN accountability frameworks and compliance standards is desirable.
- Prior relevant experience in the Asia-Pacific region is desirable.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree or equivalent in Business Administration, Social Sciences, International Relations, Political/Development Studies, or other relevant discipline is required.
- A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
- PRINCE2® Practitioner and/or Project Management Professional (PMP®) and/or Managing Successful Programmes (MSP®) Practitioner certification is an asset.
