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Join UNDRR in 2025: Programme Management Officer Role Now Open – Apply Today!
Join UNDRR in 2025: Programme Management Officer Role Now Open – Apply Today!
- Job Opening ID: 260227
- Job Network : Economic, Social and Development
- Job Family : Programme Management
- Category and Level : Professional and Higher Categories, P-4
- Duty Station : BRIDGETOWN
- Department/Office : United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction
- Deadline : Aug 2, 2025
Looking to make a real impact in the world? UNDRR is hiring a Programme Management Officer for 2025. This is your chance to support global disaster risk reduction efforts. Don’t miss this opportunity—apply now! This project position is based in Bridgetown, Barbados. The Programme Officer reports to the Chief of the UNDRR Regional Office for America and the Caribbean, who is based in Panama City, Panama.
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Responsibilities
- Develops, implements and evaluates assigned programmes/projects in the Caribbean region, etc.; monitors and analyzes programme/project development and implementation; reviews relevant documents and reports; identifies problems and issues to be addressed and initiates corrective actions; liaises with relevant parties; hire and supervise staff and consultants, built and sustain partnerships, ensures follow-up actions.
- Performs consulting assignments, in collaboration with the client, by planning facilitating workshops, through other interactive sessions and assisting in developing the action plan the client will use to manage the change.
- Provides substantive support to intergovernmental processes dealing with risk reduction by: preparing inputs for reports /processes of intergovernmental bodies; following intergovernmental meetings and preparing summary reports; preparing inputs to statements by members of the bureau and Secretariat staff to such meetings; assisting in the organization of panels, round tables, etc. on risk reduction and resilience.
- Researches, analyzes and presents information gathered from diverse sources.
- Coordinates policy development, including the review and analysis of issues and trends, preparation of evaluations or other research activities and studies,
- Generates survey initiatives; designs data collection tools; reviews, analyzes and interprets responses, identifies problems/issues and prepares conclusions.
- Organizes and prepares written outputs, e.g. draft background papers, talking points, analysis, sections of reports and studies, inputs to publications, etc.
- Provides substantive backstopping to consultative and other meetings, conferences, etc., to include proposing agenda topics, identifying participants, preparation of documents and presentations, etc.
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Requirements
Education
- Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in sustainable development, disaster risk reduction, climate change or a related field is required.
- A first-level university degree in combination with an additional two (2) years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
Work Experience
- A minimum of seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience in project or programme management, administration or related area is required.
- At least three (3) years of experience in disaster risk reduction, resilience building, or climate change adaptation is required.
- At least two (2) years of experience in the English-speaking Caribbean region is desirable.
