Programme Officer

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Description

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The United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities. UN-Habitat is the focal point for all urbanization and human settlement matters within the UN system.  

Responsibilities

• Participates in the development, implementation and evaluation of assigned programmes/projects; monitors and analyzes programme/project development and implementation; reviews relevant documents and reports; identifies problems and issues to be addressed and proposes corrective actions; liaises with relevant parties; identifies and tracks follow-up actions.
• Performs consulting assignments, in collaboration with the client, by planning facilitating workshops, through other interactive sessions and assisting in developing the action plan the client will use to manage the change.
• Researches, analyzes and presents information gathered from diverse sources.
• Assists in policy development, including the review and analysis of issues and trends, preparation of evaluations or other research activities and studies.
• Undertakes survey initiatives; designs data collection tools; reviews, analyzes and interprets responses, identifies problems/issues and prepares conclusions.   
• Prepares various written outputs, e.g. draft background papers, analysis, sections of reports and studies, inputs to publications.
• Provides substantive support to consultative and other meetings, conferences, to include proposing agenda topics, identifying participants, preparation of documents and presentations.
• Undertakes outreach activities; conducts training workshops, seminars; makes presentations on assigned topics/activities.
• Participates in or lead field missions, including provision of guidance to external consultants, government officials and other parties and drafting mission summaries.
• Coordinates activities related to budget and funding (programme/project preparation and submissions, progress reports, financial statements) and prepares related documents/reports (pledging, work programme, programme budget).
• Collects and analyzes 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.
• Ensures that requirements, background information used for data analysis are documented.
• Performs other duties as required as Programme Management Officer (Country Programme Manager) for India.

Education:

• 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 (2) additional years of 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.

Work Experience:

• A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in project and programme management in the fields of urban or human development, basic service delivery and climate change with international partners is required.   
• A minimum of three (3) years of responsible experience as a team leader or deputy team leader, or in another significant role, of major projects funded by development partners is desirable.   
• A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience serving within a senior advisory or senior team leadership role in an international organization, the United Nations, or a governmental institution is required.   
• Experience in sustainable urban development is required.   
• Experience in resource mobilization is required. 
• Two (2) years or more of experience in data analytics or related area is desirable.

Languages:

• English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat.
• For this position, fluency in English is required.
• Knowledge of Hindi is desirable.
• Knowledge of another official United Nations language is desirable.

Source: https://careers.un.org/jobSearchDescription/257964?language=en

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