Support Services Senior Associate

Job categories Administration, Project Management
Vacancy code VA/2021/B5316/21116
Department/office AFR, GHMCO, Nigeria
Duty station Maiduguri ( Borno State), Nigeria
Contract type Local ICA Support
Contract level LICA-7
Duration Open-ended
Application period 26-Jan-2021 to 09-Feb-2021


Applications to vacancies must be received before midnight Copenhagen time (CET) on the closing date of the announcement.

Please note that UNOPS will at no stage of the recruitment process request candidates to make payments of any kind.

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Background Information - Ghana Multi Country Office (GMCO)

UNOPS Ghana Multi Country Office (GMCO), located in Accra, spans across West Africa, covering Ghana, Gambia,Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.

GMCO is responsible for managing strategic and operational risks associated with a subset of the regional 
portfolio of engagements, developing and ​ delivering​ cost effective services contributing to partners’ sustainable results and achievements of UNOPS management results.  

The core functions of the Operational Hub are to:

● Liaise and develop engagements, and deliver services responding to partner needs. 
● Leverage advice and integrate delivery modalities of the three Delivery Practices and the Global
Partner Service Office. 
● Maintain appropriate arrangements and capacity for direct transactional support for delivery of the
sub-regional portfolio. 


Background Information – Country Specific

The Nigeria Duty Stations are managed by the Nigeria Country Office based in Abuja, Nigeria.

Nigeria is considered a key player in the West African region, with an estimated population of 200 million and accounts for about 47% of the total population of West Africa. Nigeria is considered a High Priority Country for UNOPS GMCO; being a fragile country with a complex development profile and possessing a high risk of humanitarian emergencies and disasters. Likewise with high donor interest and demand for implementation support, Nigeria is viewed as a country in which UNOPS can add value and scale-up efforts by its partners to deliver on the Sustainable Development Goals, particularly the Government of Nigeria.

The last donor-funded project implemented by UNOPS ended in June 2018. The office was reopened in April 2019 and high-level efforts are ongoing to secure donor funded projects. Our objective for 2021 is to consolidate the implementation of our Strategy 2018-2021 - to become Known, Recognized and a Resource for our development partners on the ground, delivering on our mandate of infrastructure, procurement and project management. 

Building on our global experience successfully delivering projects in complex operating environments, a healthy pipeline of engagements are at various stages of discussion with our priority partners  including international financial institutions, UN agencies, bilateral and multilateral donors focusing on the North East region.  The North-East region of Nigeria (NE) is currently in a complex protracted crisis with considerable humanitarian and developmental needs along with extensive damages to social and physical infrastructure.  Likewise, the unanticipated COVID-19 pandemic has further impaired the already fragile health system.  

The capacity of the entire country's health system to address the possible impact of the pandemic remains limited.  Critical resources such as trained health workers and medical supplies are being diverted to respond to the pandemic, thus leaving other essential services heavily under-resourced and dysfunctional


Background Information – Job Specific

The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is looking for a Support Services Senior  Associate to offer operational support to the team in the Nigeria Country Office to deliver a project to Strengthen the health system of conflict- affected and hard-to-reach areas of Borno State.

The Support Services Senior  Associate will maintain a close eye on the operational performance, identify probable issues that may need attention, support in problem analysis and solution identification as necessary, coordinate resolution as per action-items assigned. The Support Services Senior  Associate may  be required to work in complex and challenging environments with limited resources.


The Support Services Senior Associate will be responsible for the following summ...

A.  Education A minimum of Secondary School certification  is req...

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