Programme Management Officer

The Programme Management Officer is responsible for developing and implementing programmes and projects aligned with OHCHR strategic objectives and UN-wide reform initiatives. The role includes monitoring programme effectiveness, facilitating workshops, coordinating policy development, and managing budget-related activities.

Responsibilities

• Develops and implements assigned programmes/projects, including organizational change initiatives aligned with OHCHR strategic objectives and UN-wide reform initiatives such as the UN 2.0 Quintet for Change and UN80.
• Monitors and analyzes programme/project development and implementation, including measurable change objectives, monitoring effectiveness, feedback, and lessons learned.
• Reviews relevant documents and reports; identifies problems and issues to be addressed and initiates corrective actions; liaises with relevant parties; ensures follow-up actions, including organizational change workplans and Organizational Effectiveness Action Plans.
• Performs assignments by planning and facilitating workshops, assisting in developing action plans for managing change, including stakeholder engagement and participatory approaches.
• Researches, analyzes, and presents information gathered from diverse sources to support organizational alignment.
• Coordinates policy development, including review and analysis of issues and trends, preparation of evaluations or other research activities and studies.
• Generates survey initiatives; designs data collection tools; reviews, analyzes, and interprets responses; identifies problems/issues and prepares conclusions and recommendations for organizational change initiatives.
• Organizes and prepares written outputs such as draft background papers, analysis, sections of reports and studies, inputs to publications.
• Provides substantive backstopping to consultative and other meetings, conferences, including proposing agenda topics, identifying participants, preparation of documents and presentations.
• Initiates and coordinates outreach activities, including communication on the benefits of organizational change; conducts training workshops, seminars; makes presentations on assigned topics/activities.
• Leads and/or participates in large, complex field missions, including provision of guidance to external consultants, government officials and other parties and drafting mission summaries.
• Coordinates activities related to budget funding and prepares related documents/reports.
• Collects and analyzes data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation, and reporting.
• Performs other duties as required.

Requirements

• An advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in business administration, management, economics or a related field is required.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying work 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 an advantage.
• A minimum of seven years of progressively responsible experience in project or programme management, administration or related area is required.
• At least 5 years of experience in project or programme management, strategic planning; or organizational change management within the United Nations Common System, or similar international organization is required.
• Experience with the application of results-based management (RBM) and the human rights based-approach (HRBA) programming principles is required.
• Experience in delivering results-based management (RBM) training is required.

Skills

• Project Management
• Programme Management
• Strategic Planning
• Organizational Change Management
• Result-Based Management
• Human Rights Approaches
• RBM Training Delivery
• Data Analytics
• Business Analytics
• Data Science
• Budget Management
• Policy Development
• Workshop Facilitation

Languages

English, French