United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Recruitment Application Form Portal

 

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees is recruiting for the position of Programme Officer. See below for information on how to apply for the Job Vacancy in UNHCR. Before you apply, please make sure you are eligible using the guidelines below. The deadline this year is contained at the bottom of this page.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Recruitment Application Form Portal

 

Brief Summary About UNHCR

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) was created in 1950, during the aftermath of the Second World War, to help millions of Europeans who had fled or lost their homes. We had three years to complete our work and then disband. Today, over 65 years later, our organization is still hard at work, protecting and assisting refugees around the world.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Programme Officer

Location: Maiduguri, Borno
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Duties and Responsibilities

• Support in assessing and analysing the needs of persons of concern in a participatory manner, using an Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) perspective as basis for planning.
• Provide support on programmatic aspects of developing multi-year protection and solutions strategies and annual plans with corresponding priorities taking into account corporate priorities.
• Support Results Based Management and programme capacity in light of evolving requirements, programming approaches and gaps.
• Support the planning process in compliance with planning parameters outlined in the Programme Manual and the planning instructions.
• Review and analyse plans, mid-year and year-end reports of UNHCR office(s), ensuring quality assurance and compliance with established policies, guidelines, procedures and standards.
• Support in the provision of overall direction to broaden partnerships with key stakeholders in order to maximize the protection and solutions response for persons of concern.
• Oversee a timely and effective follow-up of internal and external audits observations and recommendations that relate to programmatic issues.
• 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).
• Provide support to ensure a consistent application of the framework for implementing with partners, including the effective implementation of the policy on selection and retention of partners, management of partnership agreements, risk-based project performance monitoring, and risk-based project audits, among others.
• Contribute to ensure consistent and coherent monitoring approaches, tools and systems in line with global standards and polices.
• Actively contribute to UNHCRs programming of community of practice and continuously contributing to improvements of programming tools and processes.
• Identify potential gaps and problems and in cooperation with other relevant sections recommend appropriate solutions to ensure the efficient implementation of programme activities.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications

To be considered for job openings, you must first understand the qualifications and requirements for applying for UNHCR Recruitment.

Education & Professional Work Experience

• 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

• Economics, Business Administration, Social Sciences or other relevant field.

Essential:

• Demonstrated experience in programme management including familiarization with the OMC and sound knowledge Results Based-Management. Demonstrated experience in field operations, sound knowledge on the centrality of protection in programming, Joint Needs Assessments and the principles of targeting.

Desirable:

• Demonstrated experience in coordination within an inter-agency context and other actors, in a refugee or humanitarian context. Sound experience in program management training and capacity building activities.

Functional Skills:

• PG-Programme Management (programme cycles and reporting standards)
• PG-Results-Based Management
• PG-UNHCR’s Programmes.

How to Apply for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) 

Interested and qualified candidates should note, there is no fee associated with the UNHCR application process, and individuals can apply at the official website: https: //unhcr.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/

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