The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is an operational arm of ...
The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners' peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Mandated as a central resource of the United Nations, UNOPS provides sustainable project management, procurement and infrastructure services to a wide range of governments, donors and United Nations organisations. With over 6,000 personnel spread across 80 countries, UNOPS offers its partners the logistical, technical and management knowledge they need, where they need it. By implementing around 1,000 projects for our partners at any given time, UNOPS makes significant contributions to results on the ground, often in the most challenging environments.
On 24 February 2022, the military of the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine, with strikes across the territory of Ukraine. Since then, Russia’s invasion imposes a severe humanitarian and socio-economic toll, global energy and food crisis, large-scale destruction of the country's infrastructure, and disruptions in the provision of critical services and degradation of social fabrics and communities’ ties, triggering one of the world’s most significant forced displacements.
Severe attacks on energy and critical infrastructure facilities leave millions of people without electricity, water or heating supply, struggling to access water, food, health services, materials to repair homes, among others. The continued attacks cause substantial damage to the country’s economy and agricultural production, and also affect the poorest countries worldwide.
UNOPS support to partners spans the humanitarian-development nexus from emergency response to building back better, across the housing, health, education, transport, energy and mine action sectors, through infrastructure, procurement and technical assistance / project management interventions, with the ultimate aim of supporting the country on its EU accession and in its achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.
The war in Ukraine has led to the catastrophic failure of functioning communities, an associated loss of lives and displacement of people. Infrastructure which is vital for the functioning and protection of communities has been severely damaged or destroyed resulting in a partial or total loss of services that the infrastructure was previously providing. The effects of this on human lives and livelihoods is self-evident. UNOPS, as the UN agency with a core mandate in infrastructure, is well positioned to support the efforts in Ukraine, not only to minimise immediate impacts but also to consider the longer-term infrastructure development needs of the country. In alignment with UNOPS’ core mandate, the infrastructure portfolio covers development, relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts. UNOPS’ infrastructure delivery spans across multiple sectors such as water and sanitation, health, education, agriculture, transport, other social infrastructure and justice.
Reporting to the Head of Programme (HOP), the Senior Portfolio Manager (Infrastructure) is delegated to be overall responsible for strategic planning, implementation, and closing of all UEMCO infrastructure projects, and provides strategic guidance, partnership support, and technical oversight to the development of further initiatives in the UNOPS Ukraine portfolio.