Apply: UNOPS Senior Project Manage

Deadline: 24 August, 2021

Location: Djibouti

The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) has opened applications for the role of Senior Project Manager.

UNOPS’ 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.

Responsibilities

  • Ensure routine and effective capacity building activities are conducted
  • Actively interact with other project managers and the wider community of project managers to share case studies, lessons learnt and best practices
  • Ensure that lessons learnt are shared in a timely and appropriate manner
  • Participate in the relevant communities of practice
  • Ensure research and documentation of lessons learnt throughout the project period
  • Work with internal stakeholders to ensure projects comply with audit requirements
  • Work with procurement/purchasing staff to ensure effective interface with suppliers’ quality systems
  • Coordinate quality reviews of project documents and deliverables
  • Provide quality control for management outputs
  • Develop stakeholder profiles and facilitate the formulation of stakeholder engagement strategies
  • Establish solid working relationships with the project, clients and key stakeholders
  • Enable the formulation of project communications plans
  • Monitor the effectiveness of project communications
  • Coordinate stakeholder engagement and communication, ensuring effective timing and interdependency management of communications
  • Ensure stakeholders are aware of project activities, progress, exceptions and are in a position to accept handover outputs
  • Ensure donor visibility as stipulated in the approved project document/legal agreement
  • Prepare for and participate in project steering committee meetings
  • Analyse, monitor, and review key economic indicators on commercial trade in Yemen including, but not limited to, statistics, economic projections and trends received

Requirements

  • Master’s degree in Project Management, Business Administration, International Relations, Law, Political/Development Studies, or a related discipline
  • Bachelor’s degree in Project Management, Business Administration, International Relations, Political/Development Studies, Law, or a related discipline may be accepted in lieu of the advanced degree
  • Seven years, minimum, of progressive experience in project development and management, with a focus on monitoring, reporting, development and coordination in either public or private sector organisations
  • Three years, minimum, of experience in the humanitarian/post-conflict/development context in the Middle East and/or Africa
  • Experience with an international/humanitarian organisation and/or UN agencies
  • Fluency in English
  • Fluency in Arabic (desirable)

To apply and for more information, click here.

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