Project Management Support - Senior Officer

Supports UNODC’s Forensics Investigation Enhancement Project and Gambia operations. The officer plans and monitors delivery, coordinates missions and stakeholders, tracks scope, budget, schedule and quality, prepares financial and narrative reports, assures deliverables and audits, and develops project-management knowledge.

Department: UNODC Gambia Programme Office

• Develop and update implementation plans covering outputs, budgets, schedules and quality
• Coordinate logistical and operational support for missions, workshops and dialogues
• Integrate sustainability, social inclusion and gender equality considerations
• Monitor scope, cost, schedule, quality indicators and corrective actions
• Coordinate narrative and financial reporting and maintain dashboards
• Quality-assure deliverables, reports and audit documentation
• Build relationships with authorities, donors, partners and grantees
• Organise steering committees, consultations and project-management learning sessions
• Conduct field monitoring and project-management research

• Bachelor’s degree in law, political science or a related discipline with two years of relevant experience, or relevant master’s degree with no experience requirement
• Relevant project-management or related experience
• Proficiency with collaboration and productivity tools and web-based management systems
• Fluent English

• UNOPS local individual contractor assignment supporting UNODC
• Four-month contract with possible extension
• The role supports the Forensics Investigation Enhancement Project and Gambia programme-office operations