Programme Management Officer serving as product manager for ReliefWeb, requiring a Master’s degree in business administration or related field with 7+ years progressively responsible experience in project or programme management, in an international humanitarian environment, on-site role.
Responsibilities
Within
delegated authority, the Programme Management Officer will be responsible for
the following duties:
- Serves as product manager for ReliefWeb providing strategic
leadership of the platform, defining the long-term roadmap and ensuring
delivery aligns with organizational priorities and user needs of
humanitarians.
- Develops, implements and evaluates assigned programmes/projects,
etc.; monitors and analyzes programme/project development and
implementation; reviews relevant documents and reports; identifies
problems and issues to be addressed and initiates corrective actions;
liaises with relevant parties; ensures follow-up actions.
- Facilitates workshops and other interactive sessions and assists in
developing quarterly workplans, product roadmaps and action plans to
manage the change, balancing stakeholder priorities, user needs, technical
feasibility, and organizational capacity
- Builds relationships with the product managers of other OCHA
platforms including the Humanitarian Data Exchange to inform the
development of common data standards, schemas and AI integration to ensure
a coherent approach in line with agreed strategy.
- Researches, analyzes and presents information gathered from diverse
sources.
- Coordinates policy development, including the review and analysis of
issues and trends, preparation of evaluations or other research activities
and studies,
- Generates survey initiatives to understand user needs for relevant
platform; designs data collection tools; reviews, analyzes and interprets
responses, identify problems/issues and prepares conclusions.
- Organizes and prepares written outputs, e.g. draft background
papers, analysis, sections of reports and studies, inputs to publications,
etc.
- Initiates and coordinates outreach activities; conducts training
workshops, seminars, etc.; makes presentations on assigned
topics/activities.
- Coordinates activities related to budget funding (programme/project
preparation and submissions, progress reports, financial statements, etc.)
and prepares related documents/reports (pledging, work programme,
programme budget, etc.).
- Supervises teams involved in collecting, verifying and cataloging
information and data.
- Liaises with technical teams and service providers on software
development, cybersecurity, infrastructure and platform requirements.
- Collects and analyzes data to identify trends or patterns and
provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data
visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making,
presentation and reporting
- Performs other duties as required.
Education
- Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in
business administration, management, economics, information management,
social sciences or a related field.
- A first-level university degree in combination with two (2)
additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the
advanced university degree.
Work Experience
- A minimum of seven years of progressively responsible experience in
project or programme management, administration or related area is
required.
- A minimum of three years within the last seven years of experience
managing digital or data products is required.
- Experience in using agile methodologies for technical product
development is desirable.
- Experience in a humanitarian context within the UN Common System or
other comparable international organization is desirable.
- A minimum of three (3) years in the past seven (7) years of
international field experience (actual setting where a mission or project
is being implemented) in aid operations (complex emergency or natural
disaster) is desirable.
How to Apply
