Senior Programme Management Assistant

About the role

The United Nations Global Service Centre (UNGSC) provides supply chain, geospatial, information and telecommunications technologies services and training to UN entities, peacekeeping and special political missions, agencies, funds and programmes. This position is in the Coordination and Support Services Unit (CSSU) of the SGITT office at the UNICTF in Valencia, Spain, reporting to the Chief CSSU or another designated officer. It is a full-time post open for an initial one-year period, with possible extension depending on funds, and is filled locally.

Key responsibilities

• Provide full programme and project management and implementation assistance across the project cycle, independently, for a large and complex part of the department's initiatives.
• Research, compile, analyse and present programme and project data, and track resolutions and legislative decisions affecting programmes.
• Review and revise submissions for compliance with guidelines and objectives, and work with funding agencies on financing modalities and monitoring systems.
• Draft ICT budgets and forecasts, prepare monitoring checklists, review budgetary commitments in Umoja, and reconcile accounts.
• Prepare documentation, reports, briefings and correspondence, and act as focal point for coordination, monitoring and implementation.
• Support project closure, including budget revision and final financial reports.
• Manage internal databases, supervise office support staff, and assist with ICT financial and results-based budgeting analysis.

Required profile

• At least 10 years of experience in programme or project administration, technical cooperation or a related field (8 years if holding a first-level university degree in a related area).
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• English at UN Level II in reading, writing, listening and speaking; French is the other working language of the Secretariat.
• Desirable: ITIL 4.0 Foundation certification and experience in cost control, monitoring and preparing technology-related budgets.