Senior Programme Adviser (Part-time)

UNOPS is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve sustainable development.

UNOPS areas of expertise cover infrastructure, procurement, project management, financial management and human resources.

Working with us

UNOPS offers short- and long-term work opportunities in diverse and challenging environments across the globe. We are looking for creative, results-focused professionals with skills in a range of disciplines.

Diversity

With over 4,000 UNOPS personnel and approximately 7,000 personnel recruited on behalf of UNOPS partners spread across 80 countries, our workforce represents a wide range of nationalities and cultures. We promote a balanced, diverse workforce — a strength that helps us better understand and address our partners’ needs, and continually strive to improve our gender balance through initiatives and policies that encourage recruitment of qualified female candidates.

Work life harmonization

UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands.

UNOPS offers a variety of arrangements that enable women to excel in their careers, including flexible working hours for work-life balance, maternity leave, childcare facilities, and career coaching. UNOPS ensures a safe and inclusive working environment for women and men through field security training and measures to provide secure working arrangements  on-site and in the office.

UNOPS Nepal

The UNOPS Nepal country office implements projects in post-earthquake reconstruction (owner-driven housing, schools), security and justice (construction of police stations and capacity building of Nepal Police) as well as field monitoring and coordination. The Nepal office also hosts the innovation team responsible for the development of FieldSight, a field monitoring app, and data visualisation tools used by UNOPS offices worldwide.

Position’s objectives

1. Country office strategy development
2. Government liaison
3. UN coordination
4. Partnerships development

1.    Country office strategy development

• Stakeholder analysis: The Senior Programme Manager is expected to understand and monitor key UNOPS partners in Nepal, including key ministries and government agencies, provincial governments, donors and implementing agencies.
• Stakeholder engagement strategy: The incumbent will propose and implement a plan to engage stakeholders to enhance mutual understanding, coordinate ongoing activities and envisage joint programming.
• Business development strategy: The Senior Programme Manager will take an active role in the formulation and revision of the country office’s business development strategy in close coordination with the Country Director and Partnerships team.
• Communication strategy: The Senior Programme Manager will take an active role in the definition and implementation of the Nepal office’s communication strategy. She/he/they will ensure that the communication strategy and stakeholder engagement strategy are aligned.
• Gender action planning: The Senior Programme Manager will take an active participation in the implementation and regular revision of the office-level gender action plan, providing inputs regarding stakeholders and ensuring external coordination on the matter.
• Knowledge management: The Senior Programme Manager will make sure that key stakeholder information is documented and shared within the office to facilitate the work of the partnerships, projects, communication and support teams. This includes hosting onboarding sessions for new personnel and orientation sessions for visitors from other UNOPS offices.

• Leadership Skills
• Stakeholder management
• Good understanding of resilience issues
• Gender Mainstreaming
• Excellent interpersonal skills

• Master or Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, International Development, Engineering, Political Science, Communications, International Relations or other relevant discipline.

• Seven (7) years of relevant experience in combination with a Master’s degree or nine (9) years of relevant experience in combination with a Bachelor’s degree.

Contract type: Local Individual Contractor
Contract level: L-ICA 11
Contract duration: Ongoing ICA- " Open-ended, subject to organizational requirements, availability of funds and satisfactory performance". 

• Position called for qualified female as preference
• Qualified male candidates are strongly encouraged to apply
• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• Work life harmonization - UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands. We have a progressive policy on work-life harmonization and offer several flexible working options. This policy applies to UNOPS personnel on all contract types
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS. 

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns.Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.