Project Support Officer

UNOPS is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve sustainable development.

UNOPS areas of expertise cover infrastructure, procurement, project management, financial management and human resources.

Working with us

UNOPS offers short- and long-term work opportunities in diverse and challenging environments across the globe. We are looking for creative, results-focused professionals with skills in a range of disciplines.

Diversity

With over 4,000 UNOPS personnel and approximately 7,000 personnel recruited on behalf of UNOPS partners spread across 80 countries, our workforce represents a wide range of nationalities and cultures. We promote a balanced, diverse workforce — a strength that helps us better understand and address our partners’ needs, and continually strive to improve our gender balance through initiatives and policies that encourage recruitment of qualified female candidates.

Work life harmonization

UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands.

UNOPS Hub in Amman

The UNOPS Hub in Amman implements projects in Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen, in partnership with bilateral donors, national governments, and other UN agencies.  With an established presence across the region, the office runs operations including large-scale procurement, project development, and technical management, and provides financial, human resources, and infrastructure-related services. The functional objective of UNOPS Hub in Amman is to deliver its projects in an efficient and effective manner and in line with the principles, rules and regulations of UNOPS, in order to support the response to the current needs and national priorities in the region.

The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.

UNOPS is committed to achieving a fully diverse workforce.

Summary of functions:

1.       Project Implementation

2.       Project monitoring and reporting

3.       Stakeholder management, coordination and liaison

4.       Knowledge management and innovation

1. Project Implementation

·         Maintain thorough knowledge of the project, as well as an understanding of how that impacts the other stakeholders

·         Monitor, coordinate, and communicate strategic objectives of the project to EU

·         Facilitate communications between UN and EU for project related issues

·         Work with project staff members to develop a greater understanding of the project and any issues that arise

·         Develop and foster relationships between UN and EU, stakeholders, and other entities

·         Collect, analyze, and utilize data and feedback to identify opportunities to improve the relationship between EU and UN

·         Compile reports about particular incidents, events, or updates about important issue for the project

·         Proactively solve conflicts and address issues that could occur between parties

·         Act as a representation to the EU

Carry out any other duties and projects as required by the Project Manager

2. Project monitoring and reporting

·         Provide substantive inputs to assist the Project Manager in the preparation of project reports and documents.

·         Assist the Project Manager in the preparation of project completion reports and ensure compliance with contractual obligations.

3. Stakeholder management, coordination and liaison

·         Support the coordination and management of communications.

·         Liaise and build relationships between UNOPS and EU for the purposes of facilitating activities and improving the quality and relevance of information analysis.

·         Liaise and build relationship with EU delegations in the Red Sea region, in particular with the EU delegation in Yemen. Participate in meetings with EU delegations as required.

Participate in meetings with UN agencies, NGO’s and other Stakeholders as required.

4. Knowledge management and innovation

·         Support the compilation of lessons learned as per defined reporting format.

·         Ensure that Local capacities are built at every level and opportunity for Project Support.

·         Contribute to the dissemination and sharing of best practices and lessons learned for planning and knowledge building.

Contribute to expertise in tools and techniques

·         A Master’s Degree in a relevant field (e.g. Business Administration, Logistics, Crisis Management, International Relations).

·         PRINCE2® Foundation/Practitioner an asset

·         A minimum of 5 years relevant and progressive professional experience, specifically in the field of Project Management and Operations Management with focus on monitoring, reporting, development and coordination.

·         Experience in humanitarian emergency operating contexts, including humanitarian coordination mechanisms, donors, security, and operations management.

·         Experience and demonstrated knowledge of UN rules and procedures in Procurement, Finance, HR Management and administrative rules and regulations will be an advantage.

·         Knowledge of EU institutions, particularly related to the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), will be an advantage.

·         A combination of Bachelor’s degree with an additional 2 years of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of the education requirements outlined above.

·         Full working knowledge of English is essential.

·         Fluency in one or more additional official UNOPS languages is an advantage.

1. Contract type: International ICA
2. Contract level: IICA 2
3. Contract duration: Ongoing ICA – ‘Open-ended, subject to organizational requirements, availability of funds and satisfactory performance.

• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• Work life harmonization - UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands. We have a progressive policy on work-life harmonization and offer several flexible working options. This policy applies to UNOPS personnel on all contract types
• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns. Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.