This position is located in the Partnership Section in the Office of the Controller, Office of Programme Planning, Finance and Budget in the Department of Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance. The Partnership Section within the Office of the Controller acts as Secretariat wide advisor and provides expertise on all aspects of global partnerships, donor relations, resource mobilization and implementing partnerships. The Section provides continuous and sustained support to all Secretariat entities, establishes guidelines, defines procedures and provides policy guidance, direction and corporate analysis related to Funding Partnerships and Implementing Partner arrangements. The Programme Management Officer reports to the Special Assistant.

Within delegated authority, the Programme Management Officer will be responsible for the following duties: • Develops, implements and evaluates organizational methodologies and mechanisms governing acceptance of voluntary contributions, and standardization of donor requirements, instruments, reporting, and reviews and establishes principles for partnerships with public and private sector, UN System organizations, governmental, non-governmental, intergovernmental, not-for-profit, and multilateral organizations; assigned programmes/projects, etc.; in collaboration with other stakeholders participates in the negotiation of contractual instruments with donors; maintains effective relationships with the key partnerships; monitors and analyzes programme/project development and implementation; reviews and drafts relevant and reports; identifies problems and issues to be addressed and initiates corrective actions; liaises with relevant parties; ensures follow-up actions. • Performs organizational capacity building activities, in collaboration with the client, through workshops, training and other interactive sessions and issues written guidance with regards to the management of partnership arrangements, project formulation, substantive and financial reporting, evaluations and donor contract management. • Researches, analyzes and presents information gathered from diverse sources across the Organization and the UN System organizations, with regards to donor relations and the acceptance of voluntary contributions and coordinates responses on key issues • Coordinates policy development, implementation, enhancement, and integration of technological systems with regards to fundraising and donor relations, 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, identify problems/issues and prepares conclusions and shares best practices across the Organization. • Organizes and prepares written outputs, e.g. draft background papers, 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 and presentations, etc. • Initiates and coordinates outreach activities; conducts training workshops, seminars, etc.; makes presentations on assigned topics/activities. • Leads and/or participates in large, complex field missions and capacity building initiatives, including provision of guidance to external consultants, government officials and other parties and drafting mission summaries, etc. • Coordinates activities related to budget funding (programme/project preparation and submissions, progress reports, financial statements, etc.) and prepares related /reports (pledging, work programme, programme budget, etc.). • Collects and analyzes data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting. • Performs other duties as required.