Project Manager-UNOPS

Civil Engineering, Construction Engineering
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: https://bit.ly/3fpqivR

Duty station: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Functional Responsibilities

  1. Project Delivery and Performance
  2. Procedures
  3. Monitoring and reporting
  4. Stakeholder engagement
  5. Quality assurance
  6. Knowledge management and innovation
  7. Leadership and Personnel Management

Project Delivery and Performance

  • Develop, complete and update implementation plan(s)
  • Implement the approved plan (including the establishment of milestones) within tolerances set by the Project Board.
  • Embed sustainability dimensions including social and gender inclusion, environmental and economic aspects into project life span.
  • Manage the production of the required outputs, taking responsibility for overall progress and use of resources and initiating corrective action where necessary.
  • Ensure that quality of work packages and deliverables complies with the quality requirements defined in the Implementation Plan.
  • Liaise with any external suppliers or account managers
  • Manage acceptance and delivery of work packages
  • Monitor project progress ensuring that work packages are being executed properly
  • Control project and work packages changes
  • Accept goods, services or works delivered by suppliers.
  • Lead contract management duties including supplier performance evaluation.
  • Act as the Employer’s Representative within the FIDIC works contracts.
  • Identify, and anticipate in a timely manner, potential risks and issues and advises mitigating measures to senior management/ Project Board so that maximum benefit to partner(s) and other stakeholders is achieved
  • Identify and report to the supervisor potential business opportunities for UNOPS

Procedures

  • Comply with all organizational policy and specifically the Project Management Manual
  • Prepare/adapt all relevant plans for approval by the Project Board.
  • Manage the reporting obligations defined in the Legal Agreement(s) and in the Implementation Plan
  • Draft the requirements definitions for procurement processes. Approving requisitions and requests for non-purchase order payments; Evaluating submissions received, if appointed to the evaluation team.

Education/Experience/Language requirements

Education

  • An Advanced University (Masters) Degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management or other related technical discipline is required.
  • A combination of a Bachelor’s Degree  in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management or other related technical discipline 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 five (5) years’ progressively responsible experience in complex Infrastructure Projects is required;
  • At least  one (1) year experience implementing international norms in Health and Safety is required;
  • A minimum of two (2) years in a Management role is required;
  • A minimum of two (2) years demonstrated experience leading multidisciplinary, multicultural teams is required;
  • Experience implementing Health and/or Education Sector infrastructure is highly desirable;
  • Knowledge and experience with procurement of goods/services/works is an asset;
  • Experience managing projects with Multiple construction sites and complex logistical arrangements in remote locations is an asset;
  • Experience developing and implementing Environmental and Social Management Plans (ESMP) and/or World Bank Safeguard Frameworks is an advantage;
  • Experience working in development sector is a distinct advantage;
  • Knowledge of the UN system and familiarity with UNOPS procedures is a distinct advantage;
  • 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;
  • Strong writing and reporting skills are an asset.
  • Experience in risk management is an asset.
  • Strong problem-solving skills are 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-10 (ICS10)
  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.