Overview
The Programme Officer (Organizational Resilience Support) role focuses on coordinating organizational resilience and overseeing business continuity management, ensuring compliance with policies and best practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Participates in the development, implementation and evaluation of assigned programmes/projects.
- Monitors and analyses programme/project development and implementation.
- Reviews relevant documents and reports; identifies problems and issues to be addressed and proposes corrective actions.
- Assists in policy development, including the review and analysis of issues and trends.
- Prepares various written outputs, e.g. drafts background papers, analyses, sections of reports and studies.
- Undertakes outreach activities; conducts training workshops, seminars, etc.
- Coordinates activities related to budget and funding and prepares related documents/reports.
- Supports coordination of the activities related to the Organizational Resilience Management System (ORMS).
- Collaborates with stakeholders in strategic thinking and supports development and implementation of planned activities for all ORMS areas.
- Supports development and delivery of activities for strengthened business continuity management.
- Contributes to policy development, review and compliance.
- Collects, analyses and provides written inputs and prepares background papers and reports for high level events.
- Supports the coordination of cross-cutting activities, with specific focus on Decentralized Offices business continuity support.
- Contributes to content development and supports delivery of facilitated sessions for testing business continuity plans and after-action review steps.
- Performs other related duties as required.
Required Experience
- Five years of relevant experience in project or programme management and business operations including organizational resilience management.
- Work experience in more than one location or area of work, particularly in field positions is desirable.
- Extent and relevance of experience in business operations and operational resilience management.
- Extend of experience in interagency collaboration, including engagement in operations management teams (OMT) at the country office or regional level.
- Extent and relevance of experience in business continuity management, policy formulation, analysis, planning and implementation.
- Extent of experience in business impact analysis, mapping of critical functions for effective business continuity management, Maintenance, Exercise and Review (ME-R) for Business Continuity improvements.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in business administration or public administration, social science, political science, international development, international relations or a related field.
- Professional certification in business continuity management is an asset.
