Programme Manager

Leads a major resilience programme in north-east Nigeria, coordinating planning, implementation and partnerships across humanitarian and development actors. The manager oversees monitoring, evaluation, donor reporting and a large multi-sector budget while representing UNICEF and driving timely results.

• Coordinate the resilience programme’s planning, implementation and administration
• Monitor delivery, evaluate results and prepare programme and donor reports
• Coordinate UNICEF teams and humanitarian and development partners
• Represent UNICEF in programme coordination and partnership forums
• Lead partnership communication and delivery against workplans, budgets and deadlines

• Advanced university degree in international development, international relations, peacebuilding, political science or social sciences
• At least eight years of international experience in programme or project development, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and administration
• Experience working in emergency or humanitarian settings
• Fluency in written and spoken English

• Specialised training or experience in resilience, nexus or durable-solutions programme management
• Experience with joint United Nations initiatives
• Country-level experience in fragile and humanitarian settings
• Prior experience in a comparable programme-management role

• Programme Management
• Project Coordination
• Results-Based Management
• Monitoring and Evaluation
• Donor Reporting
• Budget Management
• Team Leadership
• Humanitarian Programming
• Partnership Management
• Strategic Communication

• Results-Based Management

• Temporary appointment for 364 days
• Appointment is subject to medical clearance and issuance of a host-country visa