Job Vacancy: Project Management Officer

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Job Vacancy: Job title: Project Management Officer

Job description: Details:Mission and objectives:Dedicated to the well-being of all people and guided by science, the World Health Organization leads and champions global efforts to give everyone, everywhere an equal chance to live a healthy life.Context:The mission of WHO’s Health Emergencies Programme (The Programme) is to build the capacity of Borno State to manage health emergency risks and, when state capacities are overwhelmed, to lead and coordinate the international health response to contain outbreaks and to provide effective relief and recovery to affected populations.Task description:Under the overall guidance of Incident Manager and with a view to achieve the expected results set, the incumbent will have the following responsibilities in his/her assigned area of work:A. WHO Health Operational Planning and Monitoring
i. Support the development of WHO’s workplans and associated budgets outlining the required response activities and resources (staffing, equipment).
ii. Coordinate data collection and analysis to monitor progress against plans according to established key performance indicators. Regularly report on response activities across all partners.
iii. Monitor the implementation of WHO’s projects and grants, ensuring that implementation, expenditure and reporting are consistent with plans and projects. Analyze risks for implementation and bring them to the attention of the responsible officers.
iv. Provide guidance on project management, promote best practices on the development of work breakdown structures, project plans, timelines, etc.
v. Collaborate, with technical leads and other teams, in the development, implementation and monitoring of the technical, operational and HR work plans.
vi. Undertake regular planning reviews, with HQ teams and the relevant regional office when necessary, to provide periodic estimates and forecasts on response requirements based on technical needs.B. Health Sector Response Planning and Monitoring
i. Facilitate development of a systematic collection of information pertaining to the joint operations plans, from relevant WHO offices and key operational partners, to generate a consolidated overview of needs and requirements.
ii. Collaborate with relevant internal WHO teams and key operational partners in the development of a strategic response framework and joint operations plan to outline the response strategies to the emergency incident.
iii. Facilitate monitoring of the implementation of health sector response plan and performance indicatorsC. Analysis and Reporting
i. Coordinate the analysis, consolidation and dissemination of information on programme management.
ii. Actively participate in internal and external communication activities and support resource mobilization efforts through providing overall analyses of needs and technical contributions to the development of project proposals and identifying budget needs.
iii. Liaise with resource mobilization officer to secure rapid funding for immediate needs; with sustainable, predictable financing for programme activities.
iv. Contribute to the preparation of monitoring and progress reports, briefings, proposals, reports, communications and advocacy documents required for strategic decision making.D. Human resource
i. The incumbent will be responsible for managing and supervising the work of the Monitoring and Evaluation officer
ii. Perform any other related incident-specific duties, as required by the functional supervisor.Requirements:Public Health, Business Administration, Social Science or equivalent.
– Experience in health planning, monitoring and evaluation and project management is highly desirable.
– Experience working in WHO, the UN and/or International Organization, Health Cluster Partners and recognized Humanitarian Organizations including at the Regional/Country level. Knowledge of WHO or other UN agencies’ governing mechanisms, procedures, planning and programme management.
– Extensive experience in strategic and operational planning, including formulating logical frameworks and budgets for large public service interventions.
– Proven knowledge of project management, budgetary and financial practices and ability to develop improved systems that support these processes.
– Demonstrated knowledge and skills in reporting on large budgets and financial resources especially with respect to large operations at country level.
– Experience in program monitoring and evaluation.
– Ability to clearly and articulately present concepts and strategies on a broad range of issues.
– Ability to perform and adapt to complex and changing political, social, and economic contexts.Competencies and values:i. Teamwork.
ii. Respecting and promoting individual and cultural differences.
iii. Communication
iv. Producing results
v. Moving forward in a changing environment.Area(s) of expertise:

• Health
• Administration
• Development programmes

Required education level:Bachelor degree or equivalentOther information: Maiduguri is the capital and the largest city of Borno State in North-Eastern Nigeria. Spoken languages are English (official), Hausa, Fulani, and others. The prevailing climate in Maiduguri is known as a local steppe climate with little rainfall during the year. Temperatures are generally between 25 and 38 °C. Driest month is January, and May is warmest one. Security environment in the Northeast continues to be a cause of concern due to ongoing armed conflict between security forces and insurgents. Despite some recent gains by security forces, Boko Haram insurgent group remains resilient and continues to resort to asymmetrical warfare resulting in collateral damage among civilian population. UN Security Level-3 is currently in place in Maiduguri, and it is non-family duty station. This implies that official and private road travel by staff is limited as per the MOSS and all official missions in this region should not begin before 07:00 and be in a secure location no later than 18:30. Security escort is not required for travel within the city. However, police escorts are required as per MOSS for travel by road for most of the directions outside Maiduguri city. Most of the areas of responsibilities are accessible by
UNHAS helicopters. Manual security clearance as well as TRIP system clearance should be obtained from UNDSS for all travels by road/air within North-East of Nigeria. Traveling from Maiduguri to major cities (Abuja, Lagos, Yola, etc.) can be on several UN cleared
commercial air carriers, as well as UNHAS.
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Location: Maiduguri, Borno State

Job date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 22:19:27 GMT

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