Portfolio Manager-UNOPS

Business Administration, Project Management
Ethiopia, Addis Ababa
March 7, 2025
Permanent Full Time
Urgent
Application deadline closed.

Job Description

Together, we build the future UNOPS – an operational arm of the United Nations – supports the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by successfully implementing its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian, and development projects around the world. Our mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve peace and sustainable development. We are proud of our people. The UNOPS family brings together approximately 160 nationalities, represented by over 5,000 UNOPS personnel as well as some 7,800 personnel recruited on behalf of our partners. Spread across 80 countries, our workforce is rich in diversity and culture – with inclusion at its core. We understand the importance of balancing professional and personal demands and offer several flexible working options. Explore what we offer

Duty station: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Functional Responsibilities

  1. Leadership, Team and Resource Management Leadership, Team and Resource Management
  2. Portfolio Monitoring and Performance Oversight
  3. Starting up Projects
  4. Project Closure
  5. Procedures and Assurance
  6. Stakeholder Engagement
  7. Planning, Knowledge Management, Good Practices, and Innovation

Leadership, Team and Resource Management

  • Lead, Motivate and Manage the pool of Project Managers and other members of the PM Team;
  • Ensure that behavioral expectations for Project Managers and their teams are established;
  • Actively contributes to the implementation and further refinement of the Resources Pool Management Strategy; promoting synergies across the MCO;
  • Develops strategies and approaches that foster a common vision for maturity, and strive towards harmonizing good practices across projects in the MCO;
  • Instill a culture of excellence, best practices, continuous improvement, and lesson learning in the delivery of projects in the Project Management Team;
  • Take a leadership role in the implementation of the Operational Excellence Agenda; ensuring KPIs are mainstreamed into all PMs performance metrics and monitored regularly;
  • Foster a positive work environment, respectful of both men and women, and ensure that the highest standards of conduct are observed;
  • Promote and support a learning culture by empowering individuals and teams to identify critical learning needs, and plan/ facilitate learning opportunities to maintain personnel competency and flexibility;
  • Exercise management of all staffing issues within the PM Team including recruitment taking into account gender parity and diversity objectives, on-boarding and staff performance reviews
  • Ensure that performance reviews are conducted fairly, accurately and timely;
  • Create, foster and role model a culture of respect and zero tolerance for discrimination, abuse of authority, harassment, sexual harassment and sexual exploitation and abuse. Ensure accountability for actions and perform duties in accordance with protection mechanisms and action plans, as expected by UNOPS policies, standards and commitments.

Education/Experience/Language requirements

Education

  • A Master’s Degree in Project Management, Business Administration,  International Relations  or related fields is required.
  • A combination of a Bachelor’s Degree in Project Management, Business Administration,  International Relations or related field  with an additional 2 years of relevant work experience may be accepted in lieu of the education requirements outlined above.

Certification

  • Prince 2 Foundation or equivalent is an advantage
  • Prince 2 Practitioner or equivalent an advantage

Experience

  • A minimum of seven (7) years of relevant and progressive professional experience, specifically in the field of Project Management is required;
  • A minimum of two (2) years experience leading multidisciplinary, multicultural teams is  required;
  • A minimum of two  (2) years experience managing; overseeing; and/or coordinating portfolio(s) of multiple projects program and projects is required;
  • Experience delivering training/ capacity building workshops in project management topics is a distinct advantage;
  • Previous experience of working Within a PMO environment is an advantage;
  • Experience working on infrastructure projects is highly desirable;
  • Previous experience in a UN Environment is highly desired;
  • Experience with project management, performance tracking tools, data analysis, and information management systems is highly desirable;
  • Experience working in post-conflict (or active conflict) environments is highly desirable;
  • Proven experience in planning and implementing change projects within a project-based organization;
  • Demonstrated experience working with Government MDAs on Donor-Funded projects is an asset;
  • Familiar with web-based applications and Google-Suite products, especially google docs, sheets, slides and forms is an asset;

Language

  • Fluency in written and spoken English is required
  • Fluency in Amharic is required.
  • Working knowledge of additional UN Official language is an asset.

Contract type, level and duration

  1. Contract type: Local Individual Contractual Agreement (IICA)
  2. Contract level: LICA-11 (ICS11)
  3. Contract duration: Ongoing Open-ended, subject to organizational requirements, availability of funds and satisfactory performance.

For more details about the ICA contractual modality, please follow this link:
https://www.unops.org/english/Opportunities/job-opportunities/what-we-offer/Pages/Individual-Contractor-Agreements.aspx

Application period: 06-Mar-2025 to 19-Mar-2025.

 

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