Senegal: Senior Programme Coordinator, P5, Dakar

Organizational Setting and Work Relationships

The Senior Programme Coordinator may work in a country operation, HQ or a Regional Bureau and typically heads a team coordinating programme planning and management. The incumbent has direct supervisory responsibility for a team of programme staff in HQ, the Bureau/Operation and may supervise other staff. The incumbent will also have direct working relationship/arrangement with the Head of UNHCR offices within the country operations in the region and provide advice, support and guidance towards substantive matters in Programme planning, needs assessment, implementation, monitoring, and reporting. S/he will link and liaise with UNHCR's Evaluation Service as needed.

The incumbent provides advice and guidance to senior management on all programme planning and management matters and accountabilities including related resource allocation processes.
The Senior Programme Coordinator is responsible for coordinating and guiding the programmatic part of the planning process including the assessment and analysis of programmes, reports, ensuring compliance with applicable rules in the design and implementation of country and Bureau programmes. S/he will ensure the coherency with multi-year protection and corporate priorities and matching plans with results of assessments, monitoring and evaluations and corresponding resource requirements. The incumbent ensures that programmes and resource allocation are results-based and designed in an age, gender and diversity sensitive manner.

For regional/operational offices, he/she maintains close working relations with senior programme staff in all countries in the region, regionally based UN entities, as well as with Divisions and other relevant entities. Where applicable, the incumbent will advise the Senior/Principal Situation Coordinator on programme planning and implementation and closely engage with the Senior Risk Management colleagues. S/he may receive indirect guidance from other units relevant to regional and country programme(s) or to global quality assurance standards. S/he will work in line with the overall UNHCR directions which may require working with partners, including with persons of concern, governmental institutions and the private sector where applicable, ensuring that programme management is approached as per UNHCR's Strategic Directions, Global Strategic Priorities (GSPs), Global Compact for Refugees (GCR) and corporate policies.

In the Regional Bureaux, the incumbent is responsible for ensuring, in an effective and efficient manner which supports the Organization's Mandate, overall quality assurance and managerial support of operations, in line with the Bureau's 2nd line function, within the three lines of defence conceptual framework for effective control and risk management adopted by the UN system.

S/he will, further, cover the full spectrum of managerial oversight, manage performance and monitor the adherence of Country Operations to UNHCR¿s rules and regulations, monitoring, identifying and addressing any emerging issues and risks as appropriate. The incumbent also promotes a culture that is results-oriented, efficient and based on trust and pursues measures to ensure that inclusion, gender balance and diversity are taken into due consideration in staffing, resource allocation and representation at all levels throughout the AoR.

As a key custodian of the organization¿s standards of conduct, s/he will proactively establish a working environment where all personnel feel safe, heard, equipped and empowered to speak up; demonstrate no tolerance for sexism, gender inequality, discrimination of any kind, abuse of power, harassment or sexual harassment; foster ongoing dialogue on those matters; take seriously all issues of inappropriate behaviour and actions reported, whether formally or informally; and seek guidance and support as necessary to ensure that appropriate follow-up is taken, working on the basis of zero tolerance for any form of misconduct.

The incumbent is expected to work in line with the multi-functional team (MFT) approach as defined within the Program Manual, ensuring the participation of relevant stakeholders in all phases of the Program Management Cycle.

All UNHCR staff members are accountable to perform their duties as reflected in their job description. They do so within their delegated authorities, in line with the regulatory framework of UNHCR which includes the UN Charter, UN Staff Regulations and Rules, UNHCR Policies and Administrative Instructions as well as relevant accountability frameworks. In addition, staff members are required to discharge their responsibilities in a manner consistent with the core, functional, cross-functional and managerial competencies and UNHCR's core values of professionalism, integrity and respect for diversity.

Duties

• Oversee coherent approaches in assessing and analysing needs of persons of concern and situations in a participatory manner, using an Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) perspective as basis for planning.
• Oversee coherent strategic planning processes, including annual planning and the development and monitoring of multi-year protection and solution strategies in line with organisational priorities (global, regional), and contribute to the annual evaluation planning processes.
• Promote a results based culture, guide offices in managing towards impact, outcomes and outputs and embrace and advice on forward-looking programming solutions.
• Oversee evidence based prioritisation and resource allocation in line with organisational protection and solutions priorities and established policies, guidelines, procedures and standards.
• Ensure that UNHCR senior management and offices have access to high-quality and timely analytical insights and advice for enabling evidence based strategic and programmatic decision-making and resource allocation.
• Provide guidance and advice on the formulation of programme planning and management adapting to the frameworks of the GCR and CRRF as well as understanding the UB Reforms, SDGs and UNDAF.
• Lead on fostering an evidence based organisation through regular analytical reviews of plans and strategies and appropriate monitoring systems, processes and deliverables, resulting in programmatic course-correction, as appropriate.
• Lead offices in managing a consultative process to ensure a consistent application of the framework for implementing with partners or selection and retention of partners, management of partnership agreements, risk-based project performance monitoring, and risk-based project audits, among others.
• Seek and manage partnerships to enable UNHCR's effective and collaborative programme delivery in multi-stakeholder processes and frameworks.
• Operationalise new UN processes and frameworks and UNHCR organisational directions, changes and priorities into coherent programming guidance and tools and enable their effective application.
• Steer offices in programming policies, approaches and tools, ensure consistent and context specific application of programming guidance.
• Lead offices in seeking innovative programming approaches, including on planning and monitoring and the sharing of experiences and lessons learned, including based on evaluation.
• Ensure linkages with evaluation, risk management and audit processes.
• Lead the establishment of, or collaboration within, regional appeals, HRPs, RRRPs, etc.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Minimum Qualifications

Years of Experience / Degree Level
For P5 - 12 years relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or 11 years relevant experience with Graduate degree; or 10 years relevant experience with Doctorate degree

Field(s) of Education
Operations Management; Socio-Economic Development; Political Science; Project Management; Organizational Development; or other relevant field.

Relevant Job Experience
Essential:
Experience in coordinating strategic planning processes in a results-oriented and consultative way in the field and at HQ or Regional Bureau level. Ability to translate organisational changes, strategies and policies into programmatic deliverables. Experience in guiding teams in designing and monitoring strategies translating them into programmes. Knowledge of results-based management (RBM) concepts and tools as well as programming policies and approaches, including planning, implementation and monitoring. Prior programme management experience with UNHCR or other UN organizations in the field and possibly at Headquarters or relevant working experience with non-UN international organizations in the field.
Desirable:
Familiarity of UNHCR's Operations Management Cycle, the Programme Manual and related procedures e.g. resource allocation and planning processes. Demonstrated experience in effective partnership management and multi-stakeholder coordination in humanitarian or development contexts. Experience in building and leading teams and coordinating consultative processes. Experience with organisational change processes. Experience with UNHCR and other UN programming and national development planning processes. Training in UNHCR's protection and management learning programmes.

Functional Skills

PG-Programme Management (project formulation, programme cycles and reporting standards)
PG-Programme Analysis
PG-Results-Based Management
PG-Experience with coordinating with Implementing Partners (Governmt/INGO/NGO/Corporate)
MG-Project Analysis/Development/Implementation/Management/Coordination
MG-Negotiation
MG-Organisational Development/Management
TR-Training/Coaching/Facilitation
CM-Strategic Communication
MS-Drafting, Documentation, Data Presentation
PG-Cash-based Programming/Managing/Planning

Interested applicants should submit their application online on the UNHCR Careers Page at https://www.unhcr.org/careers.html by clicking on "Vacancies".

Closing date for applications: 9 October 2019 (midnight Geneva time).

The UNHCR workforce consists of many diverse nationalities, cultures, languages and
opinions. UNHCR seeks to sustain and strengthen this diversity to ensure equal opportunities
as well as an inclusive working environment for its entire workforce. Applications are
encouraged from all qualified candidates without distinction on grounds of race, colour, sex,
national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation and gender identity.