Project Manager – Electricity

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.

Jerusalem Office – UNOPS Project Management and Infrastructure Centre of Excellence

Since the opening of the Jerusalem Office in 2006, UNOPS has significantly strengthened its operations in Palestine. Our expert knowledge, skills and management systems contribute to the sustainable development of public infrastructure in Gaza and the West Bank, including Area C and East Jerusalem.

In recognition of its ability to affect and lead positive change, the Jerusalem Office  has been named the UNOPS Project Management and Infrastructure Centre of Excellence.

The Jerusalem Office is the first UN office to receive the Level 4 P3M3 Maturity Model certification in project management by APMG. This certification demonstrates the well-structured, standardized and defined project management processes and methodologies applied to projects, generating the best results desired by our partners.

This achievement is part of a broader agenda to increase the Office’s impact on development projects, by improving our services and adding value to the outcomes of our partners’ works. The office has benchmarked its capabilities against international industry level standards and through this has achieved several prestigious certifications, including ISO 9001 (Quality Management), ISO 18001 (Occupational Health and Safety), ISO 14001 (Environment Management) and Level 4 P3M3.

The mandate of the Office of the Quartet is to increase Palestinian economic and institutional development and empowerment, as a support towards achieving a two-state solution. In the event of a resumption of final status negotiations the OQ would support Quartet members in their efforts to realize a successful outcome.  The following strategic principles will guide the OQ’s work (in the areas of energy, water, rule of law, movement and trade and information/communication technology as well as economic mapping), to support the parties and ensure alignment with the strategic objectives of the Quartet members and donors to the Office.

1. Playing a catalytic role in working towards sectoral solutions in partnership with other actors, while taking on direct responsibility for specific elements of those solutions (when the office is well positioned and requested to do so). Particular attention is paid to policies and projects that have a multiplier effect – that is an outcome which extends beyond the narrow output of the policy or project; 
2. Focusing on implementation of agreements reached and announcements made by the parties, to ensure that they are translated as quickly as possible into results that have a positive impact in people’s lives; 
3. Bridging between the parties and providing creative solutions that enable progress on the ground; 
4. Maintaining the vertical depth of our work from the most granular, technical level to the strategic and political level while engaging the broad array of actors required to make progress, including the parties, members of the international community and others;
5. Ensuring complementarity of the OQ’s work with that of other key actors, including those which also play a convening role, including UNSCO, the Netherlands, Norway, the World Bank and the Local Aid Coordination Secretariat more broadly;
6. Continuing support to the Quartet Envoys, including their work to enable greater Palestinian sovereignty over its own affairs and to realize a final status agreement.

Specifically, the PM will contribute to the following areas:

1. Project management and delivery;
2. Stakeholder engagement;
3. Project communication and outreach;
4. Sector monitoring, research and analysis.

Project Management and Delivery:

• Closely support implementation of one or more OQ Electricity projects.
• Provide guidance on project strategy and direction and adapt this guidance as necessary in response to changing information.
• Propose and maintain a detailed project plan and agree on outputs and deliverables with the Director of Energy.
• Ensure that the project goals are met within acceptable tolerances from the perspective of project timeline, cost, quality and scope using a variety of tools including the OQ Electricity Agreement Tracker; take corrective action where necessary.
• Identify, mitigate and manage risks associated with the delivery of project work streams, in liaison with the Director or Energy and the rest of the Energy Team.
• Lead the production of internal and external project outputs on a day-to-day basis, including: presentations, written documents, background research, Gantt charts and other tasks relevant to the project.
• Support procurement of external service providers, in coordination with relevant OQ staff.

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive overview of electricity stakeholders at various levels.
• Establish solid working relationships with stakeholders at the appropriate level to ensure continued cooperation on the Electricity Agreement project, access to relevant information and to coordinate outputs. This requires the PM to travel regularly to Ramallah and Jerusalem.
• Ensure stakeholders are aware of project activities, progress and risks.
• Manage and facilitate the engagement of external service providers by maintaining effective communication with them; facilitating meetings, access to data and contacts as required; providing input to their work and ensuring an acceptable quality of delivered services.

Project Communication and Outreach:

• Prepare a range of written communication documents (such as reports, letters, emails and presentations) for internal and external project stakeholders as needed.
• Assist with the organization and facilitation of meetings relating to the project.
• Contribute to the Office fundraising efforts for the different energy projects, including the Electricity Agreement project, by engaging with potential and existing donors and drafting fundraising proposals.

Sector Monitoring, Research and Analysis:

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of the Palestinian energy sector by identifying challenges, opportunities for further engagements and key players.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of regional energy developments, particularly in the natural gas field.
• Support data and information gathering relevant to energy sector work streams.

Sector Monitoring, Research and Analysis:

• Develop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of the Palestinian energy sector by identifying challenges, opportunities for further engagements and key players.
• Develop and maintain a comprehensive understanding of regional energy developments, particularly in the natural gas field.
• Support data and information gathering relevant to energy sector work streams.

• 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.