Programme Management Officer, P3

The Programme Management Officer is responsible for managing results-based planning, monitoring, and reporting of the Corruption and Financial Crime Branch's overall programme, including donor relationship management, preparing agreements with implementing partners, and contributing to extrabudgetary activities in countering corruption. The role supports strategic planning, data analysis, and fund-raising efforts within the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Vienna.

Responsibilities

• Ensure that information management and reporting processes support the elaboration of accurate, transparent, and timely high-quality inputs, reports, and documentation.
• Gather and organize relevant documentation, data, and evidence to support the reported activities and outcomes, ensuring transparency and traceability.
• Maintain and/or enhance knowledge, structure, and methodology for monitoring, reporting and evaluation on results and impact.
• Collect data, including through surveys, and conduct data analysis in support of results-based management and reporting as well as strategic priority setting, and provide methodology guidance on data collection and analysis to relevant staff.
• Ensure timely results-based narrative reporting in response to corporate reporting requirements and to donors.
• Enhance CFB’s internet-based monitoring and reporting application, and contribute to the development of data collection and analysis tools in the area of countering corruption and financial crime.
• Contribute, in consultation with relevant staff and stakeholders, to the development and/or review and revision of theories of change and logical frameworks in the area of countering corruption and financial crime.
• Provide substantive input to CFB’s strategic planning and reporting.
• Contribute to the development of CFB’s project related costed work plans, monitor their implementation, identify problems and issues to be addressed and propose corrective actions.
• Contribute to preparing and conducting various forms of evaluations of CFB’s work in cooperation with UNODC’s Independent Evaluation Section.
• Participate in the development and implementation of assigned projects, in particular the area of countering corruption.
• Prepare agreements with implementing partners, oversee and manage their implementation.
• Contribute to fund-raising in relation to assigned projects and programmes by preparing materials and participating in donor meetings and fund-raising missions.
• Maintain and foster relationships with assigned donors.
• Provide substantive support to meetings, conferences, etc., to include proposing agenda topics, identifying participants, preparation of documents and presentations, etc.
• Prepare various written outputs, e.g. draft background papers, analysis, sections of reports and studies, inputs to publications, etc.
• Collect and analyze data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting.
• Perform other work-related duties as required.

Requirements

• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in public administration, international relations, law, criminology, economics, international relations, programme/project management, data analytics, statistics, social sciences, development studies, or a related discipline is required.
• A first-level university degree in similar fields in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• Specialization in anti-corruption and governance, rule of law, or Results-based management (RBM) is desirable.
• A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible professional experience in project or programme management, including results-based planning, monitoring, evaluation, reporting, in the fields of rule of law or anti-corruption, or a similar field is required.
• At least three (3) years of demonstrated experience in data collection, data management, as well as advanced data analysis is required.
• At least three (3) years of relevant professional experience preparing, negotiating, and managing agreements with implementing partners, including overseeing implementation, monitoring performance and ensuring compliance, is required.
• At least three (3) years of relevant professional experience in the implementation, monitoring, and reporting of projects or programmes focused on preventing and combating corruption is required.
• Experience developing, enhancing, or managing digital monitoring and reporting applications is desirable.
• At least three (3) years of experience in donor relationship management is desirable.
• Experience within the United Nations System or in a similar international organization is desirable.
• English language proficiency at UN Level II in reading, writing, listening, and speaking is required.

Skills

• Programme Management
• Project Monitoring
• Result-Based Management
• Data Collection
• Data Management
• Advanced Data Analysis
• Agreement Negotiation
• Partner Management
• Compliance Monitoring
• Project Implementation
• Donor Relationship Management
• Digital Monitoring Applications
• Reporting
• Strategic Planning
• Fundraising
• Anti-Corruption Expertise
• Rule of Law
• Data Analytics
• Monitoring and Evaluation

Languages

English