Reporting Officer (Re-advertised)

UNOPS supports the successful implementation of its partners’ peace building, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our mission is to serve people in need by expanding the ability of the United Nations, governments and other partners to manage projects, infrastructure and procurement in a sustainable and efficient manner.

Working in some of the world’s most challenging environments, our vision is to advance sustainable implementation practices, always satisfying or surpassing our partners’ expectations.

With over 7,000 personnel spread across 80 countries, UNOPS offers its partners the logistical, technical and management knowledge they need, wherever they need it.

A flexible structure and global reach means that we can quickly respond to our partners' needs, while offering the benefits of economies of scale. 

THOH

Thailand Operations Hub (THOH) is a UNOPS business unit under the UNOPS Asia Regional Office and it was established to better support, develop and oversee the UNOPS portfolio of projects in South East Asia and the Pacific.

The Hub comprises three main portfolios –THOH Thailand, THOH Indonesia and THOH Pacific and provides a wide range of services including Project Management, Transactional HR, Financial, and Procurement to clients that include other UN entities, INGOs and governments/government agencies donors.

BRG Results Enabling Facility (BRG REF)

Seasonal peatland fires are now compromising Indonesia’s economic and social development by creating considerable threats to health, the environment, and the economy. In 2015 peat fires and their related haze resulted in the hospitalization of more than half a million people due to acute respiratory infections. These fires that raged through 2.6 million hectares of forest and peatland areas in the islands of Kalimantan and Sumatra released 1.6 Gts of CO2e, surpassing the annual CO2 emissions of advanced industrialized nations such as Germany, France, and others. Direct and indirect damages cost the Indonesian national economy an estimated USD 16 billion, about 2% of its annual GDP.

In recognition of the importance of peatlands for biodiversity conservation, water resource management, reducing forest and land fires, livelihood support for local communities and carbon storage, the Government of Indonesia through Presidential Regulation No 1/2016 constituted the Peatland Restoration Agency (BRG). BRG has an important mandate: prevent forest fires, especially in peatland areas, as well as restore 2 million hectares of peatlands devastated by forest and land fires. The Agency identified 7 target provinces for peatland restoration and fire prevention activities in Riau, Jambi, South Sumatra, West Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan, South Kalimantan and Papua.

Since its establishment in 2016, Norway has been supporting BRG, as current support to the BRG by the Norwegian Government falls within the wider partnership between Norway and Indonesia established in 2010 through the Letter of Intent (LOI) to reduce emissions from deforestation and land degradation of forests and peatlands with USD 1 billion over the next few years. The USD 1 billion support is part of an international climate mitigation initiative (UNFCCC) supported programme that uses international aid to counter forest degradation in various parts of the world, and this is one of the largest ever contribution made to reduce deforestation.

In the framework of this background, Norway and BRG have asked UNOPS to develop a flexible multiyear administrative support mechanism for managing Norway’s financial support to BRG through the establishment of the BRG Results Enabling Facility (BRG REF). The mechanism has within its scope a back-office management component and a service, procurement, grants management and a delivery component.

UNOPS THOH is hiring for the position of Reporting Officer. Reporting to the Programme Support Officer, the Reporting Officer shall have the primary responsible of ensuring that reporting on all aspect of the BRG REF is well coordinated and reports are issued in a timely fashion and using correct formats and templates. 

Functional Responsibilities

Reporting to the Programme Support Officer, the Reporting Officer is responsible for the following:

• Coordinate inputs to and draft reports related to project activities.
• Develop appropriate reporting formats to meet all reporting requirements of the Project.
• Work closely with the Programme Support Officer to support his reporting functions.
• Establish a reporting schedule and ensure the timely submission of reports as identified;
• Provide quality assurance, including data verification, on all reports and information products produced by the project by editing and consolidating all reports prepared by the project;
• Draft  briefing notes, talking points and other correspondence related to the project;
• Produce and update information products such as maps, charts and info-graphics by turning data into graphical products to convey messages and a storyline as well as support strategic and operational decision-making
• Act as a focal point/central instrument for the collection, analysis and dissemination of information relevant to verification, monitoring and inspection activities.
• Understand, document and ensure the quality of high-value data for accuracy, consistency and comparability
• Conduct other duties as required by the Programme Support Officer

Impact of Results

Sustainability is an integral part of UNOPS project management practice. Successful implementation of sustainability activities throughout the project life cycle is critical to prevention of adverse impact of the project and ensuring long term benefits of the programme.

Education:

• Advanced university degree (master's degree or equivalent) in Journalism, Communications, Social Sciences, Economics, Development Economics, International Relations, Public Policy Studies, Public Administration or related field required.
• First university degree (bachelor's degree or equivalent) in the above-mentioned areas of specialization in combination with two (2) additional years of experience shall be considered equivalent to advanced degree.

Experience:

• Minimum two (2) years of progressively responsible experience in political and/or donor reporting, communications or public relations in an international organization required.
• Excellent skills and hands-on experience in data analysis, data visualization and/or report writing required.
• Conceptual analytical and evaluative skills to conduct independent research and analysis, including familiarity with and experience in the use of various research sources, including electronic sources on the internet, intranet and other databases.
• Previous experience in reporting within the UN system.
• Experience in the usage of computers and in office software packages (MS Office 2010 and/or newer versions) is required.

Language:

• Fluency in English and Bahasa Indonesia is required.

Certification:

• PRINCE2 Foundation certification is desired.

• This is a local position, therefore only nationals of duty station or applicants who are legally entitled to be employed in the duty station will be considered.
• 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.
• 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.