South East Asia Multi-Country Office (EAPMCO)
The South East Asia and Pacific Multi Country Office (EAPMCO) supports, develops and oversees the UNOPS portfolio of projects in South East Asia and the Pacific. EAPMCO was established in January 2023 following the merger of the Thailand Multi-Country Office, which covered 20 countries across North East Asia, South East Asia and the Pacific, and the Cambodia Multi-Country Office, which covered 4 countries South East Asia - 3 countries in the Mekong Sub-region (Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam) and the Philippines. EAPMCO currently covers 24 countries across North East Asia, South East Asia and the Pacific. With its head office in Bangkok, the Multi-Country Office comprises nine business units: SEMCO Thailand, EAPMCO Indonesia, EAPMCO Pacific Operations Cluster, EAPMCO Papua New Guinea, EAPMCO China, EAPMCO Vietnam, EAPMCO Lao PDR, EAPMCO Philippines and EAPMCO Cambodia.
In 2022, the UNOPS EAPMCO implemented projects worth more than USD 95.7 million, in the areas of Energy Transition, Digital Transformations, Sustainable Environmental Management, Climate Change, Waste Management, Rule of Law and Access to Justice, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Post Conflict Reintegration, Emergency Relief, Post COVID19 Economic Transformations, and Health, through HR, procurement, construction, contract management, fund and program management services.
The Multi Country Office head office in Bangkok provides strategic direction, operational support, delivery oversight and assurance of the excellence of business processes and quality standards across all of the entire Multi Country Office locations. It is also responsible for developing, delivering and managing the portfolio of engagements in the country of the MCO location itself.
Background Information
The EAPMCO Pacific cluster, established in 2017, was formed to support the implementation of UNOPS projects across the Pacific, dealing with the challenges and constraints associated with a combination of Pacific Islands remoteness, availability of resources, demography, weather or a combination of all these factors. Many Pacific Islands continue to suffer from diseconomies of scale in production and exchange of goods and services, access to export markets, with the main economic activities remaining concentrated around tourism, fisheries, forestry and agriculture, with remittances still playing a significant role in the economy of several Pacific Islands. Currently UNOPS is working across 12 Pacific Island countries, implementing projects in the areas of health systems strengthening, digital transformations, climate change adaptation, sustainable energy, and WASH.
Against this background, UNOPS EAPMCO Pacific is hiring a portfolio manager to oversee a number of UNOPS projects in the Pacific region, out of Apia, Samoa.
The Portfolio Manager is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day implementation of a selected number of UNOPS infrastructure projects in the Pacific extending UNOPS management services to Government partners, donors, UN organizations and beneficiaries. The main responsibility of the Portfolio Manager is to ensure that project outputs are delivered within the specified project tolerances of time, cost, quality, scope, risk and benefits. He/she is expected to meet the organization’s performance and delivery goals.
The Portfolio Manager oversees Implementation Plans against Project Initiation Documents (PID), and Legal Agreements and is expected to have a thorough understanding of the terms, conditions, and the respective roles and responsibilities of partners/stakeholders to ensure that project (s) outputs are capable of meeting the business cases for both UNOPS and its partners .
The Portfolio Manager will work with UNOPS pacific based teams to ensure the delivery of infrastructure physical assets or technical outputs. She/he will oversee technical studies, reviews, designs, supervision or operation and maintenance services of one or several physical infrastructure assets, in one or multiple sites and countries. Projects may include large procurement volumes of goods, works and services including HR services. UNOPS operates in complex contexts where resources might be scarce, local capacity is low and where professional judgment and experience in these environments is of uttermost importance.
Portfolio Managers at this level are expected to manage infrastructure implementation projects that are of low to moderate complexity from a stakeholder management, financial management, risk management, governance, personnel and resources management and quality management perspective.