Programme Officer (Budget and Quality Assurance)

Job Overview:
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Duties and Responsibilities:
Develop and review proposal budgets and financial projections to ensure alignment with the overarching Nutrition and Child Development Section’s strategy and resource mobilization needs. Track and manage effective and efficient utilization of budgets ensuring compliance with results-based principles and standards, UNICEF guidelines as well as donor conditionalities. Develop high quality financial reports and analysis and input into internal and external financial reports and communication products. Track and manage timely development of partnership agreements and recruitments. Track and manage timely completion of office-wide key performance indicators for financial and risk management (HACT).

Required Qualifications:
A minimum of one year of relevant professional work experience in managing donor funded projects and financial management or related field. Demonstrable experience of planning and managing high value budgets, multi-year grants and diverse donors. Excellent knowledge of and hands on experience in excel, PowerPoint and PowerBI is critical. Demonstrable problem solving, quantitative and analytical skills; strategic and creative thinking. Strong organizational, planning and coordination skills. Exceptional project management skills with attention to detail. Ability to articulate and present ideas both in written presentation and orally to team as well as external audience. Knowledge of the UN rules, procedures and regulations and/or working experience for the UN or other international development organization would be an asset. Developing country work plan and budget and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.

Educational Background:
A university degree (minimum Bachelor) in one of the following fields is required: Finance / Accounting / Business Administration / and or Economics or another relevant technical field.

Experience:
A minimum of one year of relevant professional work experience in managing donor funded projects and financial management or related field.

Languages:
Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of a local language is an asset.

Additional Notes:
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