Project Control Officer

Responsibilities

• Participate in the annual assessment and planning cycle.
  
• Participate in the development and implementation of partnership management objectives aligned with UNHCR’s strategy and priorities.
  
• Participate in the development of the direct implementation monitoring plan in collaboration with the Programme Unit and other relevant functions.
  
• Support Programme and other relevant functions in the selection of implementation modalities.
  
• Support a coherent approach in the application of the Enhanced Framework for Implementing with Partners and compliance with its policies, principles, and procedures to ensure effective partnerships, as well as sound stewardship and accountability for the funds entrusted to partners.
  
• Pursue high-quality partnerships and integrity culture in UNHCR, among partners and UNHCR’s contractors to mitigate misuse and wastage of resources, fraud and corruption, sexual abuse and exploitation, and other forms of misconduct; including recommendations to put in place safeguarding mechanisms and measures for detection, prevention, reporting, and addressing fraud, and other forms of partnership/ contractors misconduct.
  
• Ensure UNHCR management (country/bureau/global) and offices have access to high-quality and timely analytical insights and advice for enabling evidence-based operational decisions and accountability on project control, partnership and direct implementation management.
  
• Provide first-line support for project control, external and internal audit, evaluation, and other reviews pertaining to partnership and direct implementation management, and assist in gap analysis, establishing, measuring, and taking appropriate actions for addressing queries, recurrent weaknesses, and other findings.
  
• Ensure coherent practices of analysis and critical reviews of risk exposure and establishment of linkages of risk management with monitoring, financial management, project control, audit, and other processes related to partnership management and direct implementation to enhance effective delivery and optimum use of funds through partnerships or through direct implementation.
  
• Foster constructive dialogue and consultations with partners, UNHCR’s contractors and other stakeholders to strengthen partnerships, interagency collaborations, and harmonisations.
  
• Contribute to strengthening the capacity of UNHCR and partners on partnership and direct implementation management.
  
• Seek innovative approaches in enhancing partnership and direct implementation management, gathering experiences, and sharing best practices and lessons learned among operations and partners.
  
• Contribute with inputs on reviews and enhancements of policies, procedures, and practices governing the framework for Implementing with Partners and the management of direct implementation.
  
• Support the identification and management of risks and seek to seize opportunities impacting objectives in the area of responsibility. Ensure decision making in risk based in the functional area of work. Raise risks, issues and concerns to a supervisor or to relevant functional colleague(s).
  
• Perform other duties related to financial management as required.
  

Requirements

• Years of Experience / Degree Level: For P3/NOC – 6 years relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or 5 years relevant experience with Graduate degree; or 4 years relevant experience with Doctorate degree
  
• Field(s) of Education: Accounting, Business Administration; Economics; Finance, Public Administration, Management or other relevant field.