Project Management Expert
Category | Grade:Professional | CONDeadline:9 Sep 2026Job ID:2601615Posted on:29 Jul 2026
Overview
Joins FAO's roster of project-management specialists for assignments across headquarters or decentralized offices. The expert leads day-to-day project delivery, budgets, workplans, risks, personnel and partners while maintaining results frameworks, reporting and closure readiness.
Department: Project Support Division – Project Cycle Team
Languages
Required: FAO language
Minimum Experience
10 years
Estimated Salary
Not available
Responsibilities
- Lead day-to-day implementation and supervise affiliate project personnel
- Prepare, monitor and update workplans, budgets and corporate project-management tools
- Maintain logical frameworks and monitor project results
- Manage personnel, goods, services, implementing partners and service providers
- Manage risks, stakeholder relations, reporting, deliverables and project closure
Requirements
- Advanced university degree in public or business administration, finance, accounting, economics, social sciences or another relevant field
- Ten years of relevant project and programme management experience
- Bachelor's-degree holders require two additional years of relevant experience
- Working knowledge of at least one FAO language
Skills
Project and programme managementBudget managementRisk managementResults-based managementPartner managementOperational coordinationReportingStakeholder engagement
Tools
Logical Framework MatrixFAO corporate project-management toolsOPIMHACT
Additional info
- This call supports a roster deployable to FAO headquarters or decentralized offices according to operational need. The posting does not establish a remote work arrangement or a single finite duty station.