Associate Programme Officer

Provides programme-management support to UNHCR’s Pemba Sub Office, translating protection and solutions strategies into coordinated plans, partnerships and monitoring. The officer applies results-based management, supports planning and reporting, strengthens partner arrangements and follow-up, and promotes coherent programming for refugees, displaced people and other persons of concern.

• Assess and analyse the needs of persons of concern using an age, gender and diversity perspective
• Support multi-year protection and solutions strategies and annual plans
• Strengthen results-based management and programme capacity
• Assist planning processes in line with the Programme Manual and planning instructions
• Review plans and reports to ensure compliance with policies, procedures and standards
• Broaden partnerships to strengthen protection and solutions responses
• Support partner selection, agreements, performance monitoring and project audits
• Follow up internal and external audit observations and recommendations on programme issues

• Three years of relevant experience with an undergraduate degree, two years with a graduate degree or one year with a doctorate
• Programme Management certification
• Demonstrated programme-management experience and familiarity with the Operations Management Cycle
• Sound knowledge of results-based management
• Experience in field operations, the centrality of protection in programming, joint needs assessments and targeting principles

• Coordination experience in inter-agency, refugee or humanitarian contexts
• Experience in programme-management training and capacity building
• Portuguese language knowledge

• Programme Management
• Results-Based Management
• Strategic Planning
• Partnership Management
• Project Monitoring
• Risk Management
• Needs Assessment
• Capacity Building
• Audit Follow-up
• Data Management

• UNHCR Programme Manual

• Hardship level D and non-family duty station with residential location
• Individual Contractor Agreement at IICA-I level
• Contract runs from 15 October 2026 to 31 December 2027