Portfolio Analyst

Based in Geneva, the Europe and Central Asia Regional Office (ECR) supports UNOPS offices throughout the region through: management, financial and programmatic oversight of global and country-specific portfolios, clusters and operations centres, including hosting services; fund and management advisory services; project implementation; procuring goods and services; and managing human resources.

ECR ensures that projects are executed to the highest standards, providing a shared knowledge base and ensuring that best practices and lessons learned are disseminated between business units and projects across the entire region.

ECR operates global portfolios from offices in Geneva, Brussels and New York, and country-specific programmes from its operations and project centres located in Eastern Europe and Central Asian countries.

The Portfolio Analyst is responsible for day to day implementation and operational support to various UNOPS Geneva based partners.   He/she works in close collaboration with the operations, programme and project teams in Geneva Office and ECR, UNOPS HQ and partner UN agencies’ and Government officials for successful service delivery.

The Portfolio Analyst will perform the following functions:

• Assist in design and formulation of the work-plan for portfolio management, setting goals, targets and performance standards for the portfolio under his/her responsibility.
• Initiation of a project into OneUNOPS, support in finalization of funding agreement; determination of required revisions; coordination of the mandatory and budget re-phasing exercises, closure of projects through review;
• Assist  in drafting of TORs for subcontractors and consultants; proposals of suitable firms or institutions and individual consultants; evaluation of proposals received; recommendations for contract awards; negotiations with successful bidder, for Portfolio Manager’s approval.
• Support in drafting of contract documents and letters of agreement with institutions and UN agencies; administration of contracts and agreements and processing amendments, if required, for Portfolio Manager’s approval.
• Monitor compliance of procurement activities with UNOPS rules, regulations, policies and strategies; implementation of the effective internal control, analysis of parameters in support of proper design and functioning of a client-oriented procurement management system.
• Within delegated responsibility perform financial and substantive monitoring and evaluation of the projects, identification of operational and financial problems, development of solutions.
• Monitoring and evaluation of performance of service providers, suitable firms or institutions.
• Supervision, certification and approval of service payments, purchase orders and other disbursements for the projects under his/her management (to be certified by Portfolio Manager and Finance)
• Follow up on audit recommendations and observations. All exceptions are timely reported.
• Aggregate reports regularly prepared on activities, outputs and outcomes. Preparation of donor reports.
  • Identification of sources of information related to policy-driven issues. Identification and synthesis of best practices and lessons learnt directly linked to programme/project management.
  • Contribution to organization and client capacity-building of high performance delivery through coaching and mentoring of internal clients and partners.
  • Focus on clients’ services, keeping them informed of the status of project activities. Oral and written periodic reports.
  • Active interaction with clients to solicit feedback and gauge client satisfaction.
  • Interaction with internal clients and regional portfolio managers to integrate and harmonize approaches.
• Demonstration of professional and personal ethics, transparency and openness to encourage respect and similar behaviour from colleagues.
• Perform other related duties as instructed by supervisors.

• Participation in the organization and conduct of training for the operations/ projects personnel.
• Contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice

Master’s Degree or equivalent in Business Administration, Public Administration, Economics, Environment, Political Sciences, International Relations, Social Sciences or related field.  A first-level university degree (bachelor’s) in combination with required qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

• 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.
• 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
• 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.

This position is based in Switzerland and the contract fee is not exempt from Swiss laws, including but not limited to laws regarding taxation, social security, accident and health insurance.

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.