Job Description
Dutystation: Islamabad, Pakistan
Functional responsibilities
Programme Management/Implementation and monitoring. - Establish and execute the Programme implementation plans in collaboration with the programme team and partners, including setting objectives, performance KPI´s, standards, and results expected to ensure timely delivery and client-oriented services.
- Contribute to creating the strategy to effectively implement the Programme´s objectives in a smooth, timely, and cost-effective fashion.
- Track the implementation of the Programme work plan according to the Programme Objectives and partner expectations, following UNOPS rules and regulations.
- Ensure proactive Programme and project risk identification, assessment, and implementation of mitigation measures.
- Lead, mentor, and assist Programme Officers in planning, executing, and delivering projects, ensuring incorporation of best practice project management processes.
- Facilitate timely and accurate project tracking, analysis of outputs, and reporting.
- Create an efficient framework for Programme´s performance tracking and reporting.
- Manage and oversee the preparation of Programme documents (including business cases/strategies, policy briefs, Programme plans, and risk assessments.
- Support the monitoring and impact analysis for environmental projects.
- Develop baselines, indicators, results frameworks/KPIs & benefits tracking.
- Maintain risk/issue/assumption/dependency logs.
- Lead & support stage boundary/end‑stage/closure reviews and related reports.
- Establish QA/QC plans, stage gates, technical/design reviews and readiness checks.
- Ensure compliance with UNOPS quality management systems, HSSE and applicable national/international standards.
- Implement corrective actions stemming from audits/reviews.
Team Leadership and Resource Management - Manage Programme resources following UNOPS standards of ethics, integrity and accountability framework, and financial sustainability.
- Understand and map the Programme´s needs to recruit the most suitable talent to comply with the Donor’s expectations.
- Actively participate/lead regular capacity-building sessions to continuously update and upskill the team´s competencies and to ensure scaling performance as a regular practice.
- Foster a positive work environment, respectful of every individual, and ensure that the highest standards of ethics and behaviors are observed within the team.
- Ensure a quality and comprehensive execution of the performance management processes (PER´s, Feedbacks, etc).
- Manage and track resource management (Budget/People/tools), ensuring respect and follow UNOPS processes.
- Workload planning, task allocation and day‑to‑day supervision spelled out.
- Onboarding, mentoring, wellbeing/duty of care included.
- Oversight of timesheets, leave plans and individual capacity development plans
Partnerships & networking - Build a solid working relationship with the Programme´s key stakeholders.
- Lead communications with stakeholders to ensure they are aware of the Programme´s activities, progress, and news.
- Advise its stakeholders on issues that may impact achieving the expected outcomes.
- Support business development by identifying and developing new business and partnership opportunities.
- Convene/participate in technical working groups in addition to the Project Board.
- Manage expectations, resolve conflicts and ensure transparent escalation.
- Align engagement with resilience, digitalization and sustainability agendas.
Knowledge Management & Innovation - Identify, capture, synthesize, and share lessons learned to develop knowledge and build stakeholders’ capacity.
- Apply innovative approaches to support the implementation and delivery of effective and efficient initiatives.
- Participate in capacity-building sessions to enhance the stakeholder´s capacity development.
- Participate in the relevant Communities of Practice.
- Provide feedback to Practice Groups on policy, supporting guidance with an aim towards continuous improvement of UNOPS policies.
- Promote digital tools, data use and innovation to enhance efficiency/transparency.
- Embed continuous improvement loops (plan–do–check–act) across projects/partners
Education/Experience/Language requirements
Education
Certification
Experience
Language Requirements - Fluency in English required
About the Organization
TOGETHER, WE BUILD THE FUTURE
UNOPS – an operational arm of the United Nations – supports the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by successfully implementing its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world.
Our mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve peace and sustainable development.
We are proud of our people and embrace diversity and are committed to equal employment opportunities. Our workforce brings together approximately 160 nationalities, represented by over 5,000 UNOPS personnel as well as some 7,800 personnel recruited on behalf of our partners. Spread across 80 countries from a range of backgrounds, and languages and have different gender identities, sexual orientations, and abilities.
We encourage women and candidates from underrepresented groups in UNOPS to apply. These include candidates from racialized and/or indigenous groups, members of minority gender identities and sexual orientations, and people with disabilities.