Apply: ILO National Project Officer

Deadline: 29 October, 2021

Location: Pretoria, South Africa

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) is seeking to fill the role of National Project Officer.

The mission of the ILO is to promote rights at work, encourage decent employment opportunities, enhance social protection and strengthen dialogue on work-related issues.

Responsibilities

  • Engage and consult with constituents and external partners including UN agencies as well as ILO technical units and DWT backstopping specialists in the preparation of project activities, ensuring the timely delivery of activities and outputs by implementing partners and raise any areas of concern regarding progress with the programme manager and backstopping specialists
  • Coordinate sector selection studies and gender-responsive market system analyses of selected sectors
  • Review reports and ensure technical quality, and present findings in national dialogue events with constituents and other stakeholders
  • Provide technical advisory services to implementing partners and beneficiaries of the project on sustainable enterprise development, SME productivity and working conditions, with the objective of building capacity and local ownership of supporting functions available to SMEs
  • Establish effective partnerships and coordination with the ILO constituents, bilateral and multilateral donors, NGOs, private sector organisation as well as sister UN agencies in support of building a support environment for improvements to SME productivity and working conditions
  • Undertake missions to project locations to monitor and report on project implementation, identifying issues and proposing corrective actions to the programme manager and to the backstopping technical specialists
  • Organise and support the delivery of seminars, workshops, training sessions and meetings in line with project activities
  • Brief ILO specialists, experts and visiting officials and provide relevant information on project matters and support additional resource mobilisation efforts with the backstopping technical specialists
  • Develop project information and communication materials and knowledge products in collaboration with the communication officer located in the project global team in the ILO headquarters in Geneva
  • Liaise with ILO constituents and partners for effective dissemination of project results to enhance project visibility
  • Perform other related duties as may be assigned by the programme manager

Requirements

  • University degree (bachelor’s degree) in Industrial Engineering, Economics, Social Sciences or Business Management
  • Two years, minimum, of professional work experience at the national level related to enterprise development and/or employment creation programmes
  • Experience in market systems development will be a plus
  • Understanding of the ILO, the United Nations system, and experience in working with officials of government ministries, employers and workers’ organisations will be a plus
  • Excellent command of written and spoken English
  • Knowledge of programme and budget, project administration and evaluation, concepts and procedures
  • Knowledge of office-wide activities and objectives
  • Ability to interpret project information and to identify and analyse problems with implementation
  • Good drafting skills
  • Ability to communicate effectively (orally and in writing)
  • Ability to clarify information
  • Good computer application skills
  • Organisational skills
  • Ability to work on own initiative as well as a member of a team
  • Ability to deal with people with tact and diplomacy
  • Ability to work in a multicultural environment and to demonstrate gender-sensitive and non-discriminatory behaviour and attitudes

To apply and for more information, click here.

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