United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
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Responsibilities
Within delegated authority, the Programme Management Officer will be responsible for the following duties:
Serves as product manager for ReliefWeb providing strategic leadership of the platform, defining the long-term roadmap and ensuring delivery aligns with organizational priorities and user needs of humanitarians.
Develops, implements and evaluates assigned programmes/projects, etc.; monitors and analyzes programme/project development and implementation; reviews relevant documents and reports; identifies problems and issues to be addressed and initiates corrective actions; liaises with relevant parties; ensures follow-up actions.
Facilitates workshops and other interactive sessions and assists in developing quarterly workplans, product roadmaps and action plans to manage the change, balancing stakeholder priorities, user needs, technical feasibility, and organizational capacity
Builds relationships with the product managers of other OCHA platforms including the Humanitarian Data Exchange to inform the development of common data standards, schemas and AI integration to ensure a coherent approach in line with agreed strategy.
Researches, analyzes and presents information gathered from diverse sources.
Coordinates policy development, including the review and analysis of issues and trends, preparation of evaluations or other research activities and studies,
Generates survey initiatives to understand user needs for relevant platform; designs data collection tools; reviews, analyzes and interprets responses, identify problems/issues and prepares conclusions.
Organizes and prepares written outputs, e.g. draft background papers, analysis, sections of reports and studies, inputs to publications, etc.
Initiates and coordinates outreach activities; conducts training workshops, seminars, etc.; makes presentations on assigned topics/activities.
Coordinates activities related to budget funding (programme/project preparation and submissions, progress reports, financial statements, etc.) and prepares related documents/reports (pledging, work programme, programme budget, etc.).
Supervises teams involved in collecting, verifying and cataloging information and data.
Liaises with technical teams and service providers on software development, cybersecurity, infrastructure and platform requirements.
Collects and analyzes data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting
Performs other duties as required.
Education
Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in business administration, management, economics, information management, social sciences or a related field.
A first-level university degree in combination with two (2) additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
Work Experience
A minimum of seven years of progressively responsible experience in project or programme management, administration or related area is required.
A minimum of three years within the last seven years of experience managing digital or data products is required.
Experience in using agile methodologies for technical product development is desirable.
Experience in a humanitarian context within the UN Common System or other comparable international organization is desirable.
A minimum of three (3) years in the past seven (7) years of international field experience (actual setting where a mission or project is being implemented) in aid operations (complex emergency or natural disaster) is desirable.