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Project Management Expert

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Category | Grade:Professional | CONDeadline:9 Sep 2026Job ID:2601615Posted on:29 Jul 2026
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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.