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.
Project Manager is responsible for the day-to-day operations of the project(s) and provides services to the different donors, partners and beneficiaries. Project Manager acts on behalf of the Project Board to manage the project on an ongoing basis during the Implementation Stage. The main responsibility of a Project Manager is to ensure that the 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.
Project Manager has the authority to assign, as per the Project Plan, work packages to Team Managers and approve deliverables produced by them.
Project Manager is responsible for creating the Implementation Plan, using the Project Initiation Document (PID), Legal Agreement and having a thorough understanding of the terms, conditions, and the respective roles and responsibilities of the partners/stakeholders, to ensure the project(s) outputs are capable of meeting the business cases for both UNOPS and the partner(s). Success of the project(s) and hence of the Project Manager will be based on the defined Success Criteria.
In the agricultural sector, UNOPS will support several programmes such as the ones described below:
DEFIS (Programme de Développement des Filières agricoles Inclusives): funded by IFAD (International Fund for Agricultural Development) aims to improve the sustainability and resilience against climate change of hydro-agricultural infrastructure as well as feeder roads. UNOPS will support mainly 3 activities in order to help increase smallholder farmers production in a sustainable manner and provide a better access to local markets and export possibilities:
AD2M (Projet d’Appui au Développement du Menabe et du Melaky): funded by IFAD, aims to improve food security in the targeted regions and to increase overtime the livelihood of farmers in the corresponding irrigation schemes. UNOPS is to support the promotion of productions systems that are more sustainable and resilient to climate change through several activities:
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Construction of emergency boreholes
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Technical studies for hydro-agricultural infrastructure
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Technical assistance and capacity building for the planning and implementation of hydro-agricultural infrastructure