Senior Programme Management Officer

The Senior Programme Management Officer leads UNEP's environmental response and recovery interventions in fragile and crisis-affected countries, coordinating rapid response activities, managing programmes, and overseeing teams. The role involves strategic partnership development, resource mobilization, and ensuring gender mainstreaming in all activities.

Responsibilities

• Takes the lead and directs UNEP’s environmental response and recovery interventions in fragile and crisis-affected countries and regions in close collaboration with the other parts of the Disasters and Conflicts Branch and with wider UNEP teams.
• Leads and coordinates rapid response in environmental emergencies to address Member States’ requests for the provision of environmental assistance and recovery in areas affected by crises—including rapid deployments, environmental assessments, environmental recovery planning and implementation.
• Plans and oversees the management of activities undertaken by the response and recovery team; carries out programmatic/administrative tasks, including programme planning, implementation and evaluations, preparation of budgets, reporting on budget/programme performance.
• Identifies programmatic priorities, problems, and issues to be addressed and proposes corrective actions in consultation with relevant UNEP offices; liaises with relevant parties, including crisis-affected countries and UN partners; identifies and initiates follow-up actions.
• Leads field missions to crisis-affected countries, including provision of guidance to external consultants, government officials and other parties and drafting mission summaries and coordinates technical reports, including provision of recommendations on remedial actions.
• Ensures implementation of gender mainstreaming guidelines by assessing the implications for men and women of any planned action, including legislation, policies or programmes, in all areas and at all levels.
• Directs research on the environmental impacts of conflicts and disasters and the design and trialing of recovery interventions, programme evaluation and presents information gathered from diverse sources.
• Lead strategic partnership development and resource mobilisation efforts for the Response and Recovery Unit.
• Undertakes survey initiatives; guides design of data collection instruments; reviews, analyzes and interprets responses; identifies problems/issues and prepares conclusions.
• Supervises preparation of various written outputs, e.g. background papers, analysis, substantial sections of reports and studies, and inputs to publications.
• Directs substantive support to consultative and other meetings and conferences, including proposing agenda topics, identifying participants, and preparing documents and presentations.
• Manages outreach activities; designs and conducts training workshops, seminars, makes presentations on assigned topics/activities.
• Coordinates activities related to budget and funding (programme/project preparation and submissions, progress reports, financial statements) of the response and recovery portfolio and ensures preparation of related documents /reports (pledging, work programme, programme budget).
• Leads team members' efforts to collect and analyze data and provides insight to identify trends or patterns for data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation, and reporting. Ensures that everyone can discover, access, integrate, and share the data they need.
• Serves as an effective spokesperson in crisis response situations and establishes collaboration and partnerships with key officials at all levels inside and outside the organization.
• Ensures effective utilisation, supervision, and development of staff; guides, evaluates, and mentors staff.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree (Masters degree or equivalent) in environmental science and management, political science, international development, law, economics or a related field is required.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two (2) qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Successful completion of both degree and non-degree programs in data analytics, business analytics or data science programs is desirable.
• A minimum of ten (10) years of progressively responsible experience in programme management in environmental management is required.
• A minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in political analysis, environment security, or international relations in conflict or disaster affected situations is required.
• A minimum of five years of experience in United Nations field operations, special political missions, or similar international organizations or non-governmental organizations or contexts in an emergency, conflict, disaster, post-disaster or post-conflict setting is required.
• Experience supervising and managing diverse teams is required.
• Work experience at international level or within the United Nations System in assessing and responding to environmental issues in complex crisis-affected situations is desirable.
• Experience in data analytics or related area is desirable.
• English is required at UN Level II for reading, writing, listening and speaking.
• French is desirable at UN Level II for reading, writing, listening and speaking.

Skills

• Programme Management
• Environmental Management
• Political Analysis
• Environment Security
• International Relations
• Conflict and Disaster Response
• United Nations Field Operations
• Team Supervision
• Data Analytics
• Resource Mobilization
• Strategic Partnership Development
• Gender Mainstreaming
• Environmental Response Coordination
• Crisis Management
• Emergency Response
• Post Conflict Recovery
• Disaster Recovery

Languages

English, French