Job Title: Programme Officer (Budget, Supply Management and
Quality Assurance)
Organization: UNICEF
Job no: 563959
Contract type: Temporary Appointment
Duty Station: Abuja
Level: NO-1
Location: Nigeria
Categories: Nutrition
UNICEF works in some of the world's toughest places, to
reach the world's most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend
their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every
Child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
UNICEF Nigeria is one of the largest UNICEF Country Offices
globally - click the link to learn more about UNICEF in Nigeria: https://www.unicef.org/nigeria/.
For every Child, access
The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights
of every child, leaving no one behind. In Nigeria, the nutrition situation of
children under five has recorded minimal change, and currently, Nigeria is off
track to achieving the World Health Assembly 2025 and the Sustainable
Development Goals 2030. Approximately one in three children under five in
Nigeria is stunted, while one of every ten children is wasted. Consequently, Nigeria
has the second-highest number of malnourished children in the world and the
highest in Africa.
Malnutrition, in all its forms, is a violation of a
children’s right to adequate nutrition. To change the narrative, UNICEF
in partnership with the government and other stakeholders, aims to deliver good
quality prevention and treatment services at scale to build resilience and
protect the most vulnerable, particularly during the First 1000 Days of Life.
The focus, in keeping with UNICEF Nigeria’s new Country Programme Strategy
(2023-2027), is to (i) strengthen the enabling environment, including data, to
inform policy and programming; (ii) strengthen systems, especially the health,
food and social protection system to deliver high-quality services; and (iii)
address social and behavioral practices that influence diets and practices.
To deliver on these three critical output level results,
UNICEF has planned to operationalize an estimated USD 250 million nutrition
programme from 2023 – 2027, about 60 percent of which is spent on supplies and
commodities alongside associated contractual services and partnership
development. Resources are mobilized from both the government as well as
different donors, each of whom has varying requirements and conditionalities.
How can you make a difference?
To enable UNICEF to deliver results for children while
complying with different conditionalities, the office is seeking a Programme
Officer (NOA) TA on Temporary Assignment. The candidate will report to the
Nutrition Manager and work closely with the Nutrition Section as well as other
internal stakeholders to ensure efficient and effective budget, financial and
supply chain management. Specifically, the Programme Officer will be
responsible for the following:
- Develop
and review proposal budgets and financial projections to ensure alignment
with the overarching Nutrition Section strategy and resource mobilization
needs
- Track
and manage effective and efficient utilization of budgets ensuring
compliance with results-based principles and standards, UNICEF guidelines
as well as donor conditionalities.
- Develop
high-quality financial reports and analysis and input into internal and
external financial reports and communication products
- Track
and manage an effective and efficient supply chain for life-saving
nutrition commodities in partnership with UNICEF’s Supply Team and Supply
Division
- Track
and manage timely development of partnership agreements and recruitments
Key functions/accountabilities:
- Support
to programme development and planning
- Develop
budgets, forecast financial and supply needs to inform proposal
development and resource mobilization
- Analyze
expenditures and supply chain needs, recommend and execute appropriate
adjustments, enable supply chain management and movement of commodities.
- Manage,
maintain and communicate user-friendly information (through dashboards),
summaries and data on budgets, financial expenditure and supplies on an
ongoing basis to inform programme planning and review
- Track
resource mobilization opportunities and ensure timely submission of
proposals and donor reports
- Identify
and track development of partnership agreements and recruitments
- Programme
management, monitoring and quality assurance
- Facilitate
regular Nutrition Section Meetings, maintain minutes/records and track
follow-up
- Provide
analytics and summaries for weekly, monthly Country Management Team and
other review meetings on budgets/finance, supplies, partnerships and
recruitments
- Ensure
allocation of resources and fund release in a timely manner in accordance
with the strategy and organizational standards
- Ensure
optimal utilization of resources complying with UNICEF standards and donor
conditionalities
- Maintain
an incident tracker for supplies, update the risk register and ensure all
supply incidents are addressed appropriately
- Capacity
development and management of information systems
- Enhance
programme and associate staff capacities for financial monitoring and
commodity/supply flow
- Provide
oversight and mentorship to Program Associates on finance, administration,
payment processing, liquidations, etc.
- Enhance
use of electronic shared spaces for storage and use of data and knowledge
management
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Education: University degree in Business
Administration / Finance/ Accounts Management / Supply Chain Management.
Training in Nutrition, pharmaceutical or other health-related course will be an
added advantage.
Experience:
- A
minimum of five years of relevant professional work experience with at
least two years of experience in planning and managing high-value budgets,
logistics and quality assurance.
- Excellent
knowledge of and hands-on experience in Excel, PowerPoint and PowerBI is
critical
- Working
with the private sector and experience in managing multi-year grants and
diverse donors will be an added advantage
- Knowledge
of the UN rules, procedures and regulations and/or working experience for
the UN or other international development organization would be an asset.
Language Requirements: Fluency in English is
essential.
For every Child, you demonstrate...
- UNICEF's
values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and
core competencies: Builds and maintains partnerships (II);
Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (II); Drive to achieve
results for impact (II); Innovates and embraces change (II); Manages
ambiguity and complexity (II); Thinks and acts strategically (II) Works
collaboratively with others (II) Nurtures, leads and manages people (II
The functional competencies required for this post are:
- Leading
and supervising (I)
- Formulating
strategies and concepts (II)
- Analyzing
(III)
- Applying
technical expertise ((III)
View our competency framework at
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its
workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality,
religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities,
to apply to become a part of the organization.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is
incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF,
including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority
and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding
principles. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference
and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and
principles.
"UNICEF only considers higher educational
qualifications obtained from an institution accredited/recognized in the World
Higher Education Database (WHED), a list updated by the International
Association of Universities (IAU) / United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to
the next stage of the selection process.
Advertised: 12 Jul 2023 W. Central Africa
Standard Time
Deadline: 26 Jul 2023 W. Central Africa Standard Time
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