Senior Programme Management Consultant (Archives, Digitization, and Research)

Supports UNRWA's digital archive initiative by coordinating delivery, managing risks and dependencies, tracking progress and advising senior management on implementation priorities.

Department: Relief and Social Service Department

• Review archive initiative workplans, deliverables, timelines, risks, contracts and stakeholder roles
• Maintain delivery plans, schedules, risk registers, issue logs, dependency trackers and reporting tools
• Coordinate RSSD stakeholders, project teams, consultants, vendors and service providers
• Track priority tasks, blockers, dependencies and pending decisions
• Identify delays, resource gaps and delivery risks and recommend corrective action
• Support archive digitisation, validation, verification, metadata and research activities
• Advise senior management on implementation priorities, risks, resources and governance
• Prepare progress reports, donor inputs, briefing notes, presentations and recommendations

• Advanced university degree in a relevant field, or a bachelor's degree with two additional years of relevant experience
• At least ten years of progressively responsible experience managing complex archive, research, information management, digitisation, knowledge management or records management programmes
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams, external service providers, vendors and consultants
• Experience managing programme integration, dependencies, risks, delivery tracking, budgets, contracts, reporting and stakeholder engagement
• Experience supporting donor-funded projects and complex multi-stakeholder initiatives
• Strong programme and project management skills
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and project management tools
• Excellent command of written and spoken English

• Total remuneration: USD 120,000 per year
• Assignment expected for 12 months, with possible extension subject to programme requirements, satisfactory performance and funds
• Work location is to be negotiated