Associate Programme Officer

The Associate Programme Officer will provide programmatic guidance and support for the implementation of protection and solutions strategies within available resources. The role involves coordinating with other sections to ensure harmonized programmatic approaches and working with partners including persons of concern, governmental institutions, and the private sector.

Responsibilities

• Support in assessing and analyzing the needs of persons of concern in a participatory manner, using an Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) perspective as basis for planning.
• Provide support on programmatic aspects of developing multi-year protection and solutions strategies and annual plans with corresponding priorities taking into account corporate priorities.
• Support Results Based Management and programme capacity in light of evolving requirements, programming approaches and gaps.
• Assist the planning process in compliance with planning parameters outlined in the Programme Manual and the planning instructions.
• Support the revision and analysis of plans, mid-year and year-end reports of UNHCR office(s) in the Area of Responsibility (AoR), ensure quality assurance and compliance with established policies, guidelines, procedures and standards.
• Assist in the provision of overall direction to broaden partnerships with key stakeholders in order to maximize the protection and solutions response for persons of concern.
• Provide support to ensure a consistent application of the framework for implementing with partners, including the effective implementation of the policy on selection and retention of partners, management of partnership agreements, risk-based project performance monitoring, and risk-based project audits, among others.
• Contribute to ensure consistent and coherent monitoring approaches, tools and systems across the region, in line with global standards and policies.
• Actively contribute to UNHCRs programming of community of practice and continuously contribute to improvements of programming tools and processes.
• Oversee a timely and effective follow-up of internal and external audits observations and recommendations that relate to programmatic issues.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Requirements

• For P2/NOB - 3 years relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or 2 years relevant experience with Graduate degree; or 1-year relevant experience with Doctorate degree.
• Programme Management Certification Programme in Programme Management (CP-PM) is essential.
• Demonstrated experience in programme management including familiarization with the Operations Management Cycle (OMC) and sound knowledge of Results Based-Management.
• Demonstrated experience in field operations, sound knowledge on the centrality of protection in programming, Joint Needs Assessments and the principles of targeting.
• Demonstrated experience in coordination within an Inter-agency context and other actors, in a refugee or humanitarian context is desirable.
• Sound experience in program management training and capacity building activities is desirable.
• Knowledge of Portuguese is desirable.

Skills

• Programme Management
• Project Management Certification
• Operation Management Cycle
• Result-Based Management
• Field Operations Experience
• Protection in Programming
• Joint Needs Assessments
• Targeting Principles
• Inter-agency Coordination
• Humanitarian Experience
• Program Management Training
• Capacity Building