Project Management Support- Monitoring and Communications Associate

Pristina

Under the overall guidance, direction and supervision of the Project Manager (PM), the Monitoring and Communications Associate (MCA) will contribute to ensuring that the project activities are in compliance and up to date and that reporting requirements to stakeholders are in line with defined project objectives. The MCA will be responsible to provide support for outreach and stakeholder coordination in close consultation with the relevant colleagues.

Specific responsibilities and duties include, but are not limited to:

• Provide effective support to the PM on all issues relating to project operations and implementation.

• Ensure accuracy, consistency, filing and record-keeping of all project documents in an efficient manner.

• Support PM in work plan development, update, and monitoring.

• Provide input for the narrative progress reports and other reporting/outreach products as requested by the PM.

• Collect and maintain electronic files  of the project related  documents.  

• Assist in designing  project monitoring and evaluation and  plan.

• Assist in drafting project progress reports as per the project milestones.

• Coordinates   and monitors the work of communications and outreach components of the project.

• Contribute to draft  the detailed work plan and strategy on communications and outreach components.

• Provide meaningful assistance in monitoring the project implementation of the CSO’s  and coordinate project  outreach activities.

• Support the Project Managers’ in preparing press releases and articles on the Projects’ for both internal and external publications.

• Liaise with Reporting focal points of other offices.

• Support communications activities of Pristina Office.

• Assist by developing concepts and approaches and any other activities required for effective lessons learned and sharing within the organization.

• Facilitate execution of any and all project issues as may be required for efficient implementation.

• Secondary school diploma is required.

• A Bachelor degree in communications, journalism media relations or relevant discipline is desirable.

• Certification in communications, monitoring and reporting desirable.

• Six years of relevant experience in administrative support services in combination with a secondary school diploma is required. Bachelor’s degree may substitute for years of experience.

• Experience in work with the international aid development sector, including the UN system, international NGOs and International Donors is desirable.

• Previous UNOPS experience is desirable.

• Fluency in English and Albanian or Serbian is  required.

• 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.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• 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
• 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