Partnerships Officer (Mission Coordination)

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.

UNICEF is the leading United Nations agency on child rights (www.unicef.org).  It works in 190 countries around the world and it advocates for children, mothers and their well-being. The global strategy of UNICEF focuses on supporting child survival and development, basic education, child protection and policy advocacy. In countries affected by crises, UNICEF leads humanitarian effort to help children and women living in challenging circumstances and provides support to help them survive and thrive.

Since 2011, the Syrian crisis has been putting children lives at risk. Over 650,000 people fled their homes in Syria and registered as refugees in Jordan. Around half of all displaced Syrians are children and adolescents, who face interruption of schooling, limited access to basic services, and psychosocial distress caused by witnessing violence and displacement.

UNICEF has been operating in Jordan since 1962 and has scaled up its operations to respond to the needs of the most vulnerable children, adolescents and youth in the following priority areas: child rights advocacy, education and child protection, water, sanitation and hygiene services, in line with the ‘Core Commitments to Children’, a global document which highlights the humanitarian action for children undertaken by UNICEF and its partners (find out more here http://goo.gl/2Wn2Zc). In order to ensure continuous resource mobilization and accountability to its donors, UNICEF participates in and/or facilitates over 150 donor visits per year to its different programme areas, in host communities and refugee camps, requiring high levels of planning and coordination.

• University degree in business administration, public relations, journalism or a related science
• Two years of experience in the field of development and/or humanitarian programming, from the on-going Syria crisis or from another emergency context, with a focus on coordination or communication.
• Computer skills (Microsoft Office, social media, graphic design)
• Fluency in spoken and written English and Arabic

Contract type: ICA

• 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.
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• 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
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• 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.