Project Management Support Officer

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Description

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To respond to these challenges, UNFPA has secured multi-year funding from the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) to implement a project from 2024 – 2027 focused on life-saving and early recovery services. To ensure effective project implementation, monitoring, and reporting, UNFPA is recruiting a qualified Project Management Support Officer. The consultant will be based in Nairobi, Kenya, but will be part of the South Sudan Country Office.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate quarterly planning of activities and budgets in collaboration with implementing partners.
• Prepare regular situation updates, quarterly progress reports, and donor briefings.
• Contribute to the drafting of concept notes, inter-agency plans, and project proposals supporting humanitarian preparedness and response.
• Provide technical guidance and ongoing support to implementing partners and stakeholders.
• Participate in (virtual) review meetings and present key lessons learned.
• Support the preparation of annual work plans, budgets, and other programmatic documents.
• Design and implement a comprehensive M&E plan aligned with UNFPA and KOICA requirements and project log-frame.
• Develop standardized M&E tools and templates for use across project sites to measure the project results and satisfaction of beneficiaries with project results.
• Lead routine monitoring of project implementation against targets and key performance indicators.
• Coordinate and support regular field monitoring visits to assess project quality and progress, document lessons learned from the visits and track the implementation of outcomes from monitoring visits. 
• Support mid-term and end-of-project evaluations, and performance review exercises.
• Lead data collection, validation, and analysis to inform project adjustments and learning.
• Document lessons learned and integrate them into planning and reporting cycles.
• Represent UNFPA in relevant coordination meetings, workshops, and relevant fora, as assigned.

Education:  

• Advanced university degree (Master’s or equivalent) in Project/Programme Management, Monitoring and Evaluation, Public Health, Statistics, Demography, Social Sciences, or a related field.
• A first-level degree combined with additional relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced degree

Work Experience: 

• Minimum of 3 years of relevant experience in project management and M&E in humanitarian or development contexts.
• Strong proficiency in data collection, analysis, and visualization using tools such as SPSS, Stata, R, or Power BI.
• Demonstrated experience supporting SRH and GBV programming is highly desirable.
• Familiarity with donor reporting standards, particularly KOICA, is a strong asset.

Languages: 

Fluency in written and spoken English and Korean is required.

Source: https://estm.fa.em2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_2003/job/26500

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