Overview
The Associate Programme Monitoring Officer will provide grant and programme management support to the Humanitarian Financing Unit, focusing on HFU-related activities and contributing to the monitoring and reporting processes of funded projects.
Key Responsibilities
- Ensure grant and programme management support for HFU activities.
- Contribute to follow-up with OCHA HQ sections on humanitarian financing.
- Assist with allocation processes and ensure adherence to guidelines.
- Ensure implementation of HFU operational guidelines.
- Review and provide feedback on partner reports and audit reports.
- Support partner registration in the Grant Management System.
- Support CERF-related processes.
- Ensure partners' compliance with monitoring and reporting processes.
- Develop and update project monitoring and reporting tools.
- Conduct periodic field visits to monitor project implementation.
- Support drafting of HFU annual report and CERF final narrative reports.
- Support tracking of funding contributions.
- Ensure timely and effective financial reporting.
- Liaise with partners and contribute to their capacity building.
- Prepare updates on funded projects and humanitarian issues.
- Ensure research, analysis, and presentation of humanitarian financing data.
- Document and disseminate achievements, best practices, and lessons learned.
- Promote principled use of pooled funds.
- Assist in note-taking and preparing meeting minutes.
Required Experience
- Minimum Two (2) years with a master’s degree (or 4 years with a bachelor’s Degree) of relevant work experience in areas of grant and/or programme management, humanitarian affairs, humanitarian emergencies, donor relations, monitoring and evaluation, communication and reporting, budget management, and/or administration-financing are required.
- Experience in humanitarian financing, e.g., grant management, fundraising, and donor relations for humanitarian programmes is required.
- Experience in monitoring, reporting, and/or evaluation of projects or programmes is required.
- Experience with a UN agency and or an international NGO is desirable.
- Experience in humanitarian assistance, particularly in refugee contexts, is desirable.
- Experience in capacity building/training for national or international NGOs is desirable.
- Experience in working with community-based evaluation or accountability systems is desirable.
Qualifications
- An advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in project management, development studies, international relations, public administration, economics, accounting, or a related field is required.
- OR A relevant first-level university degree in the above fields, in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience, may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
