Junior ‎Project ‎Officer – LP1

Functional Overview
The Junior Project Officer contributes to the implementation of activities throughout the project(s) life cycle ensuring alignment with the regulatory framework, standard administrative practices and operating procedures of ICMPD. The focus is on supporting project cycle implementation, ensuring that the project(s) plan(s) and scheduled activities are fully implemented, and in providing substantive inputs to the design and formulation of project proposals. S/he provides logistical and administrative support to project activities.

Key Results

Project Cycle Implementation: To support the work of the Project Manager and Project Officer, an overview of project activities developed and maintained with potential bottlenecks identified and followed up with relevant stakeholders. A regular review of expenditures and disbursements similarly undertaken, flagging any potential increase to budget allocation. Contributions provided to the drafting of financial and project reports to relevant stakeholders. Project activities implemented as distributed and assigned by the Project Officer and the Project manager.

Project Operations and Resource Utilisation: Draft inputs provided to the Terms of Reference, specifications and recruitment process of experts, consultants and/or service providers, with an overview of the respective contracts maintained. Regular interaction and communication undertaken with the project team members with regard to the project(s) progress and related project activities.

Contributions to Stakeholder Management: Project events, meetings, workshops and outreach activities supported by the drafting of talking points, background and presentation material and oversight of logistics, in close coordination with project team members.

Project Development: Contributions provided to the Project Officer and Project Manager with regard to the development of new project concepts and potential resources based on a review of project results and recording of best practices and lessons learned. Support provided to knowledge gathering, dissemination and knowledge building through the project activities.

Application Procedure:

Interested candidates are requested to submit their application in English through the ICMPD online
recruitment system at Careers at ICMPD by midnight (CET) of the closing date specified above. For this purpose, candidates will first need to register with the ICMPD
website. Once the relevant data has been entered, candidates will be able to apply for vacancies.
Please note that in the course of the online application, the motivation letter and personal CV must be uploaded
All applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible after the vacancy has been posted and well
before the deadline stated above. Applications received after the published deadline, and offline
applications submitted via email, fax or post, will not be considered.
Due to the high volume of applications, only short-listed candidates will be contacted and applicants
are expected to be available for a personal/telephone interview.
In the event of a technical issue with your application, please email recruitment@icmpd.org.

General Information:
ICMPD retains the discretion to re-advertise the vacancy, to offer a different contract type and/or duration, or to cancel the recruitment.