Project Management Support - Officer

The Project Management Support Officer will support the day-to-day implementation and coordination of the National Criminal Intelligence and Strategic Communications Platform (NCISCP) project in Albania. The role involves project management, monitoring, administrative and coordination support to ensure timely, coherent and results-oriented delivery of project activities, working closely with UNODC, national institutions, technical experts, and other stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support project planning, implementation and monitoring, including preparation and updating of work plans and project documents.
• Coordinate, liaise and follow up on project activities with national counterparts and other stakeholders, including the United Nations Country Team, the Resident Coordinator’s Office, Joint Programme Coordination mechanism of the SDG Acceleration Fund, technical experts and service providers, and maintain records of decisions and agreed actions.
• Support implementation of the NCISCP platform-related activities, including institutional and data-mapping exercises, collection and organization of institutional inputs, coordination of consultations, requirements gathering, development/testing follow-up and user capacity-building, in coordination with relevant technical experts.
• Monitor project milestones, deliverables, indicators, expenditures and risks, identify delays or implementation bottlenecks and provide timely information to project management to support corrective action.
• Support procurement, contracting and financial processes, including preparation of ToRs, procurement requests and supporting documentation, and monitoring of expert/service-provider deliverables and project expenditures.
• Support organization and delivery of technical assistance and capacity-building activities, including workshops, consultations, training and knowledge exchanges related to criminal intelligence, strategic analysis, anti-corruption analytics, information sharing and evidence-based strategic communications.
• Support project reporting, data/information management and knowledge management, including maintaining project databases and dashboards and preparing progress reports, briefs, presentations, monitoring information and other project documentation.
• Compile, validate and analyse project monitoring data and institutional inputs and support the preparation of analytical, monitoring and reporting products.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) preferably in project management, public administration, political or social sciences, international relations, law, economics, business administration or another relevant field, with 2 years of relevant professional experience; OR Master’s degree (or equivalent) in one of the above or another relevant field with 0 years of relevant professional experience.
• Additional training or certification in project management, monitoring and evaluation, data/information management, public administration, governance, or related areas is an asset.
• Relevant professional experience in project/programme management, project implementation, coordination, monitoring or a related area.
• Experience in coordinating activities involving multiple institutional stakeholders.
• Experience in project monitoring, preparation of implementation plans, tracking of deliverables and/or results reporting.
• Demonstrable proficiency in the use of MS Office applications and web-based management, collaboration and information-management tools.
• Experience supporting projects in the fields of rule of law, crime prevention and criminal justice, organized crime, anti-corruption, public administration reform, governance and/or institutional capacity development is an asset.
• Experience working with Albanian public institutions, particularly institutions in the justice, internal affairs, law-enforcement, anti-corruption or public-administration sectors, is an asset.
• Experience supporting digitalization, information-management, data-governance or ICT-enabled institutional projects is an asset.
• Experience working with international organizations, the United Nations system and/or EU-funded or other international cooperation programmes is an asset.
• Knowledge of Albania's institutional framework relating to organized crime, anticorruption and EU accession Chapters 23 and 24 is an advantage.
• Fluent proficiency in English is required.
• Fluent proficiency in Albanian is required.

Skills

• Project Management
• Programme Management
• Project Implementation
• Project Coordination
• Project Monitoring
• Implementation Planning
• Results Reporting
• Stakeholder Coordination
• Microsoft Office Suite
• Web-based Collaboration Tools
• Information Management
• Data Governance
• Public administration reform
• Governance
• Institutional Capacity Building
• Rule of Law
• Crime Prevention
• Criminal Justice
• Anti-Corruption
• Digitalization Initiatives
• ICT-enabled Projects
• International Cooperation
• UN System Experience
• EU Funded Programmes

Languages

English, Albanian