Program Management Officer at United Nations

Programme Management Officer Job Responsibilities

Task Manage the GEF climate change Enabling Activity Portfolio by:

• Participate in project inception meetings and Steering Committee meetings with a view to ensure project implementation readiness and sound and timely project implementation;
• Regularly monitor project progress and performance and troubleshooting projects at risk. Informing management of any significant risks or project problems and taking action and following up on decisions made;
• Analyze the quality of the projects outputs and coordinating support to improve their quality when necessary;
• Provide oversight to project execution and in doing so ensuring that all UN Environment and the GEF criteria rules and regulations are adhered to by project partners;
• Monitor reporting by project executing partners and provide rompt feedback on the contents of the report and consolidate progress reports, terminal reports and participate in evaluation for projects;
• Maintain adequate project-related documentation;
• Apply adaptive management principles to the supervision of the project;
• Assist with the preparation of project revisions, ensuring that project revision documentation is complete and in accordance with the GEF requirements;
• Take responsibility to ensure that project is financially closed in a prompt manner after completion of project activities;
• Provide administrative, operational, and technical advice to governments on the GEF climate change enabling activity projects;
• Supervise consultants by designing their terms of reference, setting objectives, standards and monitoring and appraising their performance;
• Ensuring coordination as appropriate of project activities with the activities of other relevant projects;
• Provide guidance to consultants and support staff, setting objectives and standards, monitoring and appraising their performance, identifying training needs and facilitating and environment of team work and high productivity;